Metric (Slim's, 3 November 2005)

I <3>Live it Out. It was a good start, a slow song start, to a show otherwise filled with noise, guitar and Emily's antics. Then, once the rockin' part of this song came on, Emily shook her head viciously. Her strawberry blonde hair just waving like that in the air. Oh! So succexxy! Crazy, yes, but succexxy nonetheless.

I think "Succexxy" followed and then that's when the deluge of Live it Out songs came about. "Monster Hospital" was done and it was entertaining. "Patriarch on a Vespa" and "Handshakes," two songs that were present during the latter part of their last tour was there albeit different now that it has been refined. Before, that "uh-ah-hah-ha-ha" sound that Emily made was a vomiting noise. It sounds better the way it is now.

Throughout the whole set, Emily's voice wasn't so great. It would be good if she sang the song the way it was on the album, but when she improvised it in some way, it didn't sound as great.

We didn't get any Old World Underground songs until the encore I believe. After "Police and the Private," "Hustle Rose" was played followed by that annoying, and worthless, 12 minute version of "Dead Disco." I love "Dead Disco," and I thought they righted their wrongs by playing the slightly shorter version. But nooooo...they had to play the long ass version. Why!?!?!?!?! Me and the #1s decided to skip the show after that.

I was sick. I wasn't supposed to be there. I thought that Metric would otherwise entertain me after lying in bed and getting chest x-rays all day. They didn't. It was disappointing.

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