Judging by the audience reaction, you’d think the Beatles were at Bully’s, Apri 26. But it was Toronto based pop band Down With Webster playing to several hundred screaming teenage and pre-teen fans crowded in front of the 
massive stage.
Their parents stood at the back of their rooms or hung out in the cordoned off beer gardens.
Everyone seemed to be recording their high energy show on their cell phone cameras in between screams.
It was tough to capture the energy on film. All of the members ran all over the stage, jumped from the right to the left, blasting bass and keyboard heavy grooves and thunderous drums. Their sunglassed and afro wearing drummer sat dwarfed behind a massive kit he smashed with reckless abandon.
The two MCs leaned into the crowd had shouted at them, though you could barely hear what they were saying due to extreme amounts of reverb on their voices.
“How many of you follow us on Facebook, ” one of them screamed as they played a brand new song they had just released online called TFO. The crowd screamed in approval and shouted along with them.
“That’s amazing,” he answered back.
Their first big radio hit, a revamped version of the Hall and Oates’ ’80s nugget “Rich Girl” came early in the set.
“Back of My Hand,” was a crowd favourite which the band prefaced by telling a story about coming home from tour and calling his girlfriend, only to hear some other dude in the background.
The lighters came out for one of the few slower numbers, but it was back to the energy right after that. There was a even a drum solo, with the drummer rattling his tubs, pounding out some odd synth squeals with his drumstick as well. They sang some appealing boy band style pop melodies throughout.
Calgary rapper Transit got the crowd pumped up with set of what sounded like original raps, though there was samples of the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “Scar Tissue” used for one of them. He brought 17-year old rapper on stage to do one of his songs.
He got the crowd chanting “I Say Down With, you say Webster,” and shouted at them to jump.
I missed the first opening act Rise.
