Exclusive | I saw Mumford and Sons live for the sixth time. Theyre better than ever. Get tickets before the tour ends

Mumford & Sons went big for the ‘Prizefighter Tour.’From Aug.11-13, the English folk rockers took over NYC’s Madison Square Garden for three nights complete with pyrotechnics, a more rock-driven stage production, exciting special guests and a live show unlike anything I’ve ever seen from them before.

And as someone who has now seen the band in concert six (!) times — with shows five and six being nights two and three at MSG — it’s safe to say this was their biggest, boldest production yet.Night three especially felt like a love letter to New York.Marcus Mumford came out sporting two Knicks jerseys, ripping off the top one and yelling that he was wearing the same jersey he wore to Game 4 of the NBA Finals.

The band may not be made up of native New Yorkers, but they’ve spent years living, working and writing music here, and you could tell playing three nights at the Garden meant just as much to them as it did to the New Yorkers in the crowd.There was even exclusive Mumford merch made up like Knicks gear, with sweatshirts, shirts and hats sold throughout the arena.

They may be transplants but they’re good ones.To kick off the show, the band opened with “Run Together,” which immediately felt like exactly the right song to bring an arena that size together.“When we run, we run together” hits a little differently with thousands of people singing it back at once, although we definitely weren’t running with Marcus when he later made his way through the crowd and up into the stands.The band wasted no time getting into some of their biggest songs shortly after, launching into “Little Lion Man” by song two.

Hearing all of MSG scream “I really f—ed it up this time, didn’t I, my dear?” is the kind of thing that never really gets old; neither does watching Marcus absolutely go at the guitar.Then came “White Blank Page,” a song that somehow still carries the same anger and desperation it did upon release in 2009.And that’s the...