High timber

Toronto's The Wooden Sky are one of those many bands on the indie rock scene that have risen to prominence while I've been out devoting my attention to bands more dedicated to headbanging. Despite a joking claim online to be black metal, folk rock is more their thing. The like it in both electrified and acoustic styles and put on a good show for their dedicated fans.

Gavin Gardiner sings!



Andrew Kekewich shakes it.



Simon Walker slings some Telecaster.



Singalong action with bassist Andrew Wyatt  - I should note that while the band is frequently joined by others, this time it was down to the core four.



Simon sings!




He also multitasks on piano.



Andrew hits! This is a well-signed band.



The other Andrew basses!



Wooden action! Actually, very un-wooden action - these guys do like to jump about.



Dog-eared action!



Melodica action!



Xylophonic action!



The whole over-exposed lot!



Simon shouts!



Feedback action!



The Yukon Blonde guys joined them on stage for a few tunes.



Percussion action!



Working the substantial crowd ....



Meanwhile, back on stage.



And now it's time to take things outside ...



Hmm, a bit too gloomy to not use flash.



Banjo action!



More singalong action!



There's one thing you can't do indoors ...



Brushed action!



The end!



Hopefully they'll get down to a full-length soon.

• Show reminder: Street Meat, Those Gulls and The Big Muffs get the year-end shows started early at Zaphod's; The Maria Hawkins band does the same at the Rainbow; The Black Donnelly Sisters (aka Lynn Miles and Rebecca Campbell) are at Irene's.