You have to give the Barenaked Ladies credit. Having just been in Calgary in April, they could have coasted through their first Coke Stage appearance. Instead they performed a different set: still a blend of songs off their new album All In Good Time, but with hits from their extensive back catalogue.

Kicking off the show with Who Needs Sleep and The Old Apartment, singer Ed Robinson couldn't help but comment on the scary rides that were skyrocketing upwards on the midway.

"I'm really frightened of that really fast ride. Spinning around 3 kilometres an hour - faster than I would ever do," Robertson freestyled.

As is often the case with BNL, the banter and ongoing jokes made the show. After Robertson joked about eating a cat, the group started rambling off their pets. Kevin Hearn tried to make up his own, and stumbled through his delivery. This became a constant theme, including in the song If I Had $1,000,000 where Robertson said he would buy an exotic pet.

"Like a platypus named plickity plicky plack."

It is amazing that after 22 years together, Barenaked Ladies had never previously played on the coke Stage, when just about every other Canadian artist has. They made the most of it, and anyone who hadn't seen them before likely walked out knowing why they have long been known as one of Canada's most entertaining bands.