Event Calendar

30 September 2006

Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton (Cafe du Nord, 22 September 2006)

The last time I saw Emily Haines at Cafe du Nord, she was playing solo and was guided with a rope and a blindfold. Now, Emily has two other members in her solo side project and a whole slew of songs from her beautiful album Knives Don't Have Your Back.

Emily is so upbeat and crazy during her Metric shows that seeing her do slower songs is a welcome change. It just shows a different side of her. And she still looks damn hot doing it.

With various film shorts projected in the background, Emily played a good majority of her album. She opened up with "Our Hell" which is the first song from her album. The bass was a welcome to this song, but the sound system at the du Nord didn't necessarily cooperate with that. Her single, "The Lottery" was beautifully played with her voice singing each lyric delicately. Emily would chat with the audience every now and then, saying that the guys from Metric completely approved of her solo side project, lest there be any doubters out there.

It was just a nice, relaxing night of music. Nothing too exciting or complicated. Just simple.

Beer Rating:

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

aw, wish i could've caught her here in l.a., i love metric. she's got great style, i agree.

-robin in los angeles