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Metric to play Reading & Leeds + UK live dates
Posted: 12 Jul '06, 19:01
Unless you have been laying in a park drunk on pear cider for the past few weeks, you may have noticed that the Drowned in Sound label has this week released Metric's album Live it Out in the UK and that we, and seemingly a lot of you, like them rather a lot.
We can now announce that the Toronto based band, who opened for The Rolling Stones at Madison Square Garden back in January dontchaknow, return to these shores at the end of August to play the Carling Weekend: Reading and Leeds festival (due, sadly, to The Shins pulling out - more news on that soon) and they've added a few extra headline shows for good measure.
They play the NME/BBC Radio 1 stage on the Pearl Jam day and yes, you can expect Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw to join up with the rest of Broken Social Scene after their set to more than likely play the amazing 'Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl'. Anyways, these be the dates:
AUGUST 2006
Wed 23 London Kings College + DrownedinSound.com & Guest DJs 'til 1am
Fri 25 Carling Weekend: Leeds Festival
Sun 27 Carling Weekend: Reading Festival
Mon 28 Edinburgh 'T on the Fringe' Cabaret Voltaire
Tues 29 Birmingham Bar Academy
Wed 30 Manchester Late Room
Here comes the marketing bit, concentrate: tickets are £9.50 for London, £8 Edinburgh, £6 Birmingham and Manchester and go onsale from Thursday 13th July.
Currently at 7 in the Mtv2 chart and last weeks Xfm drive-time and NME single of the week 'Monster Hospital' is released on August 7th. The album 'Live It Out' is out this week on Drowned in Sound Recordings, available from all good record and download stores (including DiS' here).
http://www.ilovemetric.com
http://www.myspace.com/metricband
DiScuss: Anyone know why The Shins pulled out? What do you think of the album?
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That new single...
...is a stonking tune. It has inspired me to check out the album. "I fought the war, I fought the war but the war won't stop for the love of God".
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Woohoo
This makes me ---> :)
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pff
It's a rip of a clash song. blatently.
Try guess which one. A clue: it's rhymes..
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Clash song?
Idiot. You probably don't even know who Bobby Fuller is, do you?
Idiot.
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Maybe I do?
Maybe I used the more obvious and public band to get my point across?
Perhaps?
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yay!
but no liverpool? :( Go on!
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what! no Shins!
still, Metric. cloud. silver lining.
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What! no Shins!
I missed that part
DAMN
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wasn't it "recording issues" or something?
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it was a
"ben marwood is never allowed to see them" issue.
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they weren't so good at Koko
despite being one of my favourite bands.
the shins that is.
metric's show at koko was quite another matter </bias>-
Metrics's show at the Barfly was very good.
Will be checking them out again - providing they're not clashing with anyone amazing.
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problem with the shins live
is that while they've got a load of very good material on record, the albums are short for a reason. live, it kind of blends into one-dynamic, one-type-of-song-structure repetitiveness
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The Shins were extremely good
last time I saw them at Leeds. No blending/sucking at all.
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I thought
they were good at Koko but really really poor last year (?) at Reading. Not good at all.
The Shins this is. I don't much care for Metric.
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shins at iceland airwaves were amazing
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I adore metric.
Metric are the cherries on a sundae of awesomeness
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Oooh!
The Sunday NME tent line-up for Reading is really bloody good.
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best news ever
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'Live It Out' is...
simply delightful! It is definitely one of my favorite albums of all time, along with Metric's self-titled album and both of The Hush Sound's albums.
What amazes me the most is that while I and my college-student friends can dance and sing to Metric, my dad admits to listening to the new album at work. Brilliant!
I got the chance to see Metric at the end of October last year, about two weeks after 'Live It Out' was released in the U.S. It was amazing. Definitely the best show I've been to. So you could say I'm a fan.
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mistake!?
I really really really doubt Metric has a self-titled album. I'm willing to bet £10 that they don't. If you are refering to the debut full length - "Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?"
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Metric
I really like the Monster Hospital track,although the chorus just makes me think of the Clash for the obvious reasons.
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you wrote that
the tickets for sheffield were £6 but didnt list a date or venue... are they playing? where?
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its just been postponed due to commitments in canada
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KINGS COLLEGE GIG NOT IN AUGUST
according to TICKETWEB.CO.UK they are selling tickets for the Kings College gig on SUNDAY 23RD OF JULY. just thought you should all know.. i may be wrong, but it would be wise to check it out so you dont all miss out!
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Of course it's in August
Expect a tedious apologetic email from ticketweb if you've ordered from them already. They're hardly going to play London, then bugger off for a month exactly and then play Le reading festivalle.
They're playing London the same night as You Say Party We Say Die. What to do, what to do? Either way, I think I should make the decision quick smart.
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the things I do to see Metric
Birmingham again it seems? I was only there in March (damn times goes by quickly). So once again it'll be a night at the trainstation after a few hours at a club. The Bar Academy will be too small for Metric. Admittedly the BarFly seemed a bit big for them but the Academy is a joke for Metric who will surely have made a few new fans at Leeds and Reading.
And the Bar Academy is really up tight about bringing cameras :-(
Can't someone make them play in Nottingham or Leicester?!
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i love the bar academy.
the academy is shit about taking cameras, but for the bar acad i smuggle my good one in as there aren't usually any security guards at the front.emily 3 times in 3 days though = good.
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