Live It Out

Caught Metric at the Commodore last night. Awesome show.

First opener was The Lovely Feathers. They played a brief 25min set. I thought they were good and had a lot of energy. For their last song, the drummer from The Most Serene Republic came out and played the cowbell while dancing around the stage. His cowbell mannerisms were quite intense.

The Most Serene Republic was the next opener. They played for 45mins. The drummer was amazing. The singer has a unique stage presence. Looking forward to seeing them again at the Broken Social Scene show.

I first saw Metric last year when they opened with Death From Above 1979 for Billy Talent. At the time, I'd never heard of them but they completely stole the show for me. After seeing their performance, I was instantly hooked. I missed them twice this year due to a David Usher show one night, and arriving late the next day after our hitchhiking fun to Arts County Fair. Fast forward a couple months later and Metric are back playing at the Commodore. This time, they were playing two shows in one day.

Metric opened their 1hr 25min set with an energetic Empty. Emily's trademark head twisting with hands-on-hips dance was great. They followed up next with one of my favourites, Succexy. Not as much energy for this song, but understandable after playing another show just hours before. I'm actually very impressed with their performance as it's pretty hard to play the kind of show they do twice within only a few hours.

Some other highlights for me included The List, Monster Hospital, Handshakes, Live It Out, and an extended version of Dead Disco. There were also some good crowd sing-a-longs to Calculation Theme and Combat Baby.

Emily and James finished off the encore with Love Is A Place.