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Royal farms arena concerts3/7/2024 ![]() They ended with “Help I’m Alive”, leaving us all trembling in satisfaction and a better respect of the meaning behind “We’re Metric!” Like a stirring version of “Satellite Mind” and “Gold Guns Girls”, which set the crowd on the floor, now at full attention, in motion. My favorite moments were when Metric played classics from their album Fantasies. Really the only effect during their set, but to be fair the spare performance was a good primer to the over-the-top spectacle that was to come. James also wore a fedora hat, and he and his hat were repeatedly reflected as a giant shadow on the empty screen behind them, to eerie effect. They all loved to mix up the dynamics as well, at one point all four were poised over individual keyboards, jamming for a brief interlude without lyrics. ![]() Note: It is, and it’s also the name of the new album.) “Dark Saturday” is a return to form and a great Metric song, all the more exciting to hear live. ( Or two, I think “Art of Doubt” is on the new album, but not sure. They played two of their new singles, “Dark Saturday” and “Dressed to Suppress” and one other song from the upcoming album called “Now or Never Now”. They formed in Toronto, Canada and will release their seventh album, Art of Doubt, in September 2018. Metric is Emily, along with James Shaw (guitar), Joshua Winstead (bass) and Joules Scott-Key (drums). Metric, for their part, played a tight 45 minutes and gave the expanding crowd a fine sampling of nine new and vintage Metric songs. Metric walked on stage exactly on time (7pm) and went to work, on what was to become four hours of incredible music and showmanship, with “Black Sleep”, maybe as another nod to their status as an opener. stood out, both with her pleas to be known and through their very admirable prologue. Just in case anyone was confused, Emily and co. ![]() Emily Haines, lead singer of the indie rockers known as Metric, was keen to inspire everyone at Royal Farms Arena with that key piece of information, repeating it several times.Īs the opener on a Smashing Pumpkins’ reunion tour, it’s no small feat to perform ahead of such a grandiose band, especially when Metric has such an impressive resumé of their own.
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