Sandy in their suits

With a name like Sandy and a co-billing with Casey Comeau and the Centretown Wilderness Club, I was honestly expecting a lady folk-singer type. Then I checked out their website and saw a picture of a guy in a cowboy hat and decided they were probably some type of country-rock outfit. Well, they're neither. In fact the band plays pop rock with a debt to bands like The Knack and The Romantics. They've got lots of on-stage energy, and are snappy dressers to boot. There was enough running around from frontman Darius Murphy to make me try all sorts of shutter speed fidgeting, much of which did not work out. They also did a reggae song.

Murphy in a rare moment of restraint.



Eric Wennerwald - love those Super Swedes.



Hans Levac sings a tune.



Brian Dupuis, playing "his first real gig" with the band.



And now some of that camera-speed buffoonery.







A good show, but I still can't figure out why the band is called Sandy.

• Show reminder: The Fiftymen play Barrymore's tonight with Rhume and Konflit Dramatik.