Beam High Baby is a new pun-laden sci-fi stunt act that takes a joke so far it sings. Their inaugural set Saturday as opening act for the non-Blats reunion show at the Bullfinch went well beyond wordplay.

BHB was borne in a bar game. Their set came from an addled-brainstormed list of song titles with the word “high” (or a reasonable homonym thereof) in them. Only the ones where the sense of “high” as it’s usually perceived, say, in the Bullfinch parking lot over by the vans, was MOST unlikely made the cut. For instance, songs where people are just saying a form of hello. Or laughing—Hee, hee, high. Or saying “Hey,” or “Ha!” or “Hoi!”

(We were at the inebritated powwow ourself, and am embarrassed to have contributed the pun which became the band’s name.)

You’d think that the fun in watching such renditions would be over as soon as the joke was detected. But Beam High Baby had an attention span even shorter than that that of its audience. The band filled the set with even more and greater puns, and singer Sass Backley sang them such as they could clearly be heard. There were even musical puns. The two guitarists, Ace Stitch and Army Antell, one-upped each other on high-note solos whilst drummer Burt Beat slammed his Hi-Hat.

Having said “Hi” and hit one, Beam High Baby is not laying low. Even the busiest members of the band have cleared their calendars for a planned Hallowe’en weekend special.