Down With Webster can best be described as a party on wheels.

Their reputation for live shows that are more like house parties than concerts –– and come complete with red cups –– has been steadily working in their favour. And the power of word-of-mouth promotion has been bringing out increasingly larger crowds every time they appear in London.

The band’s stop at London Music Hall on Saturday had all the elements longtime fans of their concerts have come to know and love, and most likely helped them pick up some new followers.

The show marked another stop on the WINtour, the band’s first go as a headlining act.

Two Crown King were a good selection to start off the opening acts. Like Down With Webster, they mix hip-hop and rock only at a slower pace and with a more soul-focused sound.

Opening band We Are The Take made for easy listening, but their sound was somewhat out of place at a Down With Webster show.

Inward Eye, the third band to take the stage, definitely took the energy up another level and seemed to make a better connection with the concertgoers, just in time for the main event.

London Music Hall was the perfect sized venue, allowing the more intense Down With Webster fans to have their fun without affecting those who wanted to hang back and avoid a rogue crowd surfer or an elbow in the eye.

Most of Down With Webster’s songs are rallying cries for going out and having a good time, and are most effective when performed live. Lead vocalists Cameron Hunter and Bucky Buck, when not yelling into the mic, spent most of their time onstage revving up the crowd.

Even drummer Andrew Martino, in a role that typically gets ignored in favour of singers and guitarists, did his part to keep the momentum going with a drum solo that relied on crowd participation. As an observer, you couldn’t help but feed off the energy this band had onstage.

Down With Webster played most of the material off of their latest release, Time To Win, Vol. 1, but in an interesting move saved their lead single “Rich Girl$” for their encore. They may have been trying to make the point that their talent runs deeper than the pop chart-friendly single, which has a clean and somewhat generic video to go along with it.

The band walks a fine line between being an under-the-radar gem, or the latest in a long series of pop-rock bands to be relegated to the Top 40.

Industry opinion is looking up though, as music moguls as varied and diverse as Gene Simmons and Timbaland have tried to sign the band to their respective labels.

Despite signing with Universal Motown, Down With Webster will still be going on tour with Timbaland as soon as the WINtour wraps up in early February.

Looks like the “Time to Win” is now.