Last night at the Hard Rock Vancouver there was a most excellent concert by the supremely talented Bend Sinister.

If you haven’t listened to this fine prog-indie band yet, be sure to grab one of their amazing albums, like Animals (2014) or Small Fame (2012).

The top-notch show featured a terrific selection of cuts from these jaw-dropping albums, plus some super-fun covers of Foreigner’s “Cold as Ice” and Queen’s “We Are the Champions” (and the band even doodled around with Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin” during sound check as they jokingly played along with the canned tunes piped in on the casino’s house music system).

As a special treat, they added an extra band member to play trumpet for the evening and to add her voice to the gratifyingly thick mix of vocal harmonies.

The band said they were currently working on new material to record. We can all look forward to their next release and the subsequent tour.

Recently they have been touring Canada, the US, and Europe in support of Animals. Check out the epic prog-length opening track from the Animals disc, “Best of You,” with which they closed last night’s show (before doing Queen as the encore).