In less than a couple of years, the San Francisco alt-rock band Here Here have played enough big shows to make veteran rock groups jealous. After just one gig at a small venue, San Francisco’s Edinburgh Castle Pub, the seven-piece Here Here made a huge jump when they were invited by Live 105 to perform at the Bay Area alternative-rock radio station’s 2007 Holiday Party along with New York City’s A Place to Bury Strangers and San Francisco’s Film School.

Since then, they have performed at some of S.F.’s most revered venues while opening for some of alt-rock’s biggest acts, including Bottom of the Hill with the Fleet Foxes and Blitzen Trapper, the Great American Music Hall with the Super Furry Animals and the Fillmore Auditorium with The Bravery. Here Here reached an even bigger audience when the band played the Live 105 BFD Festival’s Soundcheck Local Music Stage at Shoreline Amphitheatre last summer. On the main stage, hugely popular outfits Cypress Hill, Moby, MGMT and Alkaline Trio performed the same day. This Friday, Here Here will anchor a triple bill at Jose’s in New Monterey.

Their meteoric rise can be attributed in no small part to the intricate sound of their 2007 EP, The Boy with an Orange. The eight-song outing is full of eclectic instrumentation not found on typical rock releases: accordion, violin, banjo, trumpet and mandolin. On songs including “You Sold Your Shadow,” the violin parts allow the number to reach dramatic peaks that other rock songs aspire to but fail to attain. With the almost-six-minute-long “All Hail Ye Fellow Sleepwalkers,” the music moves like ocean waves, cresting, breaking, settling and reforming.

Drummer Carlos Martinez says that The Boy With an Orange was almost solely created by vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Christian Lyon, who later recruited the rest of the band’s members to play the numbers live.

“[Lyon] basically created this epic record himself,” Martinez says. “We learned all his material.”

Martinez joined Here Here because he was impressed by the EP’s use of instruments and its honesty. “It was very organic,” he says. “I heard the songs, and I thought this is really, really good.’’

Currently, all seven members of Here Here are crafting a follow-up to The Boy with an Orange even though they are employing a different methodology to songwriting. “All the new material is being written by everyone,” Martinez says. “For a band with so many people, I think we are pretty concise with our songs.”

Hoping to have the CD out by this summer or fall, Martinez reveals that the as-of-yet-untitled effort is taking on a significantly different sound than its predecessor.

“On the first record, there were a lot of soft sounds,” he says. “It sounds pretty. The stuff we are doing now is a little more on the rock side.”

HERE HERE play with The Silhouette Era and Candyflip 9pm Friday, March 6, at Jose’s, 638 Wave St., Monterey. $5. 655-4419.