Poison Control Center opens 80/35 Saturday

Poison Control Center opened the main stage Saturday with its trademark explosive brand of indie-power-pop goodness.

Frontman Patrick Fleming sported a bright orange Michael Jackson T-shirt. He also (as you'll see in this photo grabbed from some of my Flip video camera footage) spent plenty of time leaping around stage and in and out of the crowd. (This shot shows him in mid-BACKWARDS leap.)

"When I moved here 10 years ago, we didn't have anything like this," the Sibley, Ia., native said from stage. Then he sketched an imaginary scene in which festival organizer Amedeo Rossi employed a giant crane Saturday morning to reach into the sky and pull the rain clouds apart.