Now I get it

A couple of years ago it seemed like their was a surge band membership ... it wasn't enough to have a couple of guitarists, a bassist and a drummer; you had to have a pianist, violinists and if you could manage it a cello player or hammered percussionist. Locally you had Jetplanes of Abraham and Amos the Transparent (still do in the latter case), and there was also Broken Social Scene down in T.O. and Ohbijou among others. Halifax's The Got To Get Got also rock like it's 2007, and like the aforementioned bands sound good and put on a fun show.

The Got To Get Got got a lot of members; here's some but not all of them: Mark Mullane vocalizes, guitarist Brad Lahead and Adam Hartling rock the back-to-back action, Rob Shedden drums (he's now also playing drums for Dog Day, who will be in town tomorrow), a somewhat obscured Rachel Schwartz plays cello and Haley Thomas is on violin.



.... and over on the left, Rhodes wrangler and mistress of the glockenspiel Eleanor King.



Barefoot drumming action!



Stringed action!



Singalong action!



More strings.



Eleanor rocks the glock.



TGTGG, now with 100% less flash.



Eleanor approaches!



You can check my Flickr account for all my attempts to get an unobscured Rachel photo.



Rob puts his sandals back on, picks up bass.



A shouty bit.



Knee-knocking action!



Back-to-back action!



It was quite a satisfying show, and once again I recommend their debut album Sahalee.

• Show reminder: Speaking of big bands, Saskatoon's seven-member Slow Down, Molasses packs into Raw Sugar with Olenka and The Autumn Lovers; Hotel Royal bring scuzzy, bluesy rock to The Rainbow.