Last night Umphrey’s McGee returned to New York for its sold-out show at Brooklyn Bowl. The band had announced the gig from the stage of the Best Buy Theater on Friday and tickets were scarfed up next morning. The first set, which was bookended by the band’s own “Mantis,” included a version of the Clash’s “London Calling” as well as a special guest bassist from the UK. Percy Jones, who appeared with Phil Collins and Robin Lumley in the 1970’s fusion group Brand X (Jones and John Goodsall later reformed the band in the 1990’s), joined in for a jam that emerged out of “Got Your Milk (Right Here).” The show later included the group’s mash-up of Tears for Fears’ “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” and Michael Jackson’s “The Way You Make Me Feel,” as well as a version of “Cemetery Walk” that led into a one of the band’s “Jimmy Stewart” sequences before heading back into “Cemetery Walk.” The second set concluded with a version of “Pay the Snucka (part III)” that contained a jam built around Rage Against The Machine’s “Bulls On Parade.”

Next up for the group is a show on Wednesday at the State Theatre in State College, Pennsylvania.