Metric has lots of love…Stadium Love!

Friday November 20, 2009 Canadian sync-rock band Metric played in Boston, Mass. The four-person, 35 year old band came to the spacious House of Blues and rocked socks off. The band started off slow with the song, “Twilight Galaxy” off their newly released “Fantasies” album. As the intro began an array of lights began to shine on the band showing off lead singer Emily Haines’ silver sequined dress. Once Haines got into the song, the audience soon became comfortable. With a mellow jam in the middle, it was obvious the band had been playing for a while and was able to blend well without any sort of sign transitioning to stop. It continued this way throughout the night. Their second song, “Front Row,” was yet another song off the album “Fantasies.” The song began with Haines switching from her usual synths for an electric guitar. Rocking out with guitarists James Shaw and slowly making her way to each musician, it seemed as if Haines ‘energy was transitioning to the players. After hyping the crowd and band up, Metric went on to play several more songs off “Fantasies” including, “Gimme Sympathy,” Help I’m Alive” and “Sick Muse.” After a long wait, Haines finally went on to introduce the band, James Shaw on guitar, Josh Winstead on bass, Joules Scott-Key on drums and herself, Emily Haines. “We’ve got love, a whole lotta love,” Haines told the audience, “We’ve got stadium love.” The band immediately went into the song “Stadium Love.” Hopping around in stilettos and head banging while playing her synth, Haines made her presence known. Mixing it up a bit, the band began to play some of their older hits from the album “Old Ground Underground, Where Are You Now?” including “Monster Hospital,” “Live It Out” and “Dead Disco.” While, half of the crowd knew all of the “Fantasies” the other half became ecstatic when “Dead Disco” started up. Dancing and singing as loudly as possible soon ensued when the first chorus came up: “Dead Disco, Dead Funk, Dead Rock ‘n’ Roll.” Before ending the set Haines told the crowd how beautiful they really were. To end the night the band went onto play a melodic version of “Satellite Mind.” Haines gave it her all while Shaw and Winstead blew the crowd away. As the lights went down no one in the crowd left their spot, but cheered on for an encore. The audience soon got what they wanted an encore of an acoustic version of “Combat Baby.” Completely caught off guard by how many people knew the lyrics, Haines let the audience sing some of the chorus. Before finishing the last two lyrics, “How I miss your ranting, do you miss my all time low?” Haines thanked the audience yet again. Once Haines finished the song the band stood as a group and took a bow. Hugging and patting each other on the back, it was obvious that this band had a whole lotta love.