What: Hedley with Classified, Karl Wolf and My Name Is Kay

When: Saturday night

Where: Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre

Rating: Four stars (out of five)

You can't say that Hedley doesn't work for their fans.

The Vancouver-based pop-punk outfit delivered everything their admirers could ask for Saturday night at the Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre, the second stop on the Canadawide Shipwrecked Tour, which kicked off Friday night in Kelowna.

From the moment the rockers tore onto the stage with 2005's Street Fight to the more sedate eight-minute love song I Won't Let You Go (Darling) and crowd-pleasing Perfect in the finale, the black-clad, tattooed bad-boys-that-your-parents-like were playing to the young ladies' hearts and rising tween angst.

There were the heartfelt piano ballads, like Beautiful and 2007's For the Nights I Can't Remember — a song written for frontman Jacob Hoggard's now-ex-wife.

There certainly were theatrics, whether in the form of exploding smoke machines and

T-shirt cannons or all four bandmates squeezing into a prop boat on stage to play an acoustic song in yellow rain gear.

And even more to their credit, the band bolstered their connection with their fans with videos and slideshows that, you know, let you get to know the real Jake, Chris, Dave and Tommy. Like that photo of them in the cheesy sweaters. Remember that one?

Not that there weren't a few boys there too (and of course, chaperones).

"Where all the boys at?" A dull hoo-ah. "Girls?" The shrill joy of being acknowledged by an idol.

"This is a great room to be a boy. Get out there boys." — Hearthrob Hoggard.

If you think about it, the cards have been stacked against Hedley's survival in many ways. Though the group wouldn't likely have had the success it did without Hoggard's 2005 Canadian Idol run, there also aren't too many Idol-ers who manage to stay in the spotlight longer than a year or two.

And more notably, Hedley obviously catered to the tween and teen-girl audience from the beginning. Those early fans? Not there last night. At least not in a big way. Instead, the stadium was filled with today's young-uns and their chaperones.

Hedley has not only survived, but thrived — putting out three multiplatinum albums before November's Storms, which has already earned four Juno nominations, adding to the band's 15 earlier nods.

Fans loved the latest hits, including Invincible, the band's fastest-selling digital track to date, as well as Stormy, produced with hip-hop artist Babyface.

But again, Hedley is good to all of their fans. The loyal ones who have hung in there for the eight or so years of the band's existence would have been pleased with the set, which spanned all four of the band's albums.

They been called many things — "cartoonishly punk" by the Toronto Star and "pop muppets" by the Vancouver Sun. But from the moment they stepped on stage in a ball of enormous energy to the sweat-soaked end of the show, Hedley was committed.

asmart@timescolonist.com