Audio Update: Metric @ The Horseshoe

Carly and I did end up going to see Metric on the 27th. Graph Nobel and her band opened the night. [Do I say it? I can feel the feminist eye rolls already...] Nobel is small. Like, my kind of small, minus 13lbs. But the sound that she can produce is huge. Sometime in between songs an url was mentioned, but I didn't hear it. I googled "Graph Nobel" but found only a few blathery, generally uninformative pages. So I really don't know anything about the woman or the band. Just that the group had a surprising level (why?) of tightness; their sound is a little corporate-fm at times, but they seem to have a lot of grit and promise up their sleeves. Nobel and her back up singer blast a whalloping aural expression for certain. Plus they have fun, 'haha we tricked you' rythym turn arounds.
Second to play was Boy. One of them, on lead guitar, front & centre, is from the Yukon, apparently. I was there to see Metric. Boy was boring. Very boring. I got up and bought a $7.50 pint of Caffrey's. Not sure how much I usually pay for a pint of beer, but $7.50 seemed a bit much. I should pay more attention to these things. But, in any case, Caffrey's is an extremely enjoyable Irish ale. You see, it has a thick head that you can savour, and a very short taste registry time span. So the taste is there, and then it's not. There -- mmm -- then not. Brief, mild, and politely bold. No after taste, really, just an ever so subtle nutty lingering. Please go and learn more about this dependable brew at The Beer Belly. And, my dears, that is all I have to say for Boy's performance at the Horseshoe on Saturday.
Now Metric, on the other hand, was fun. A great deal of fun. Everybody on stage had energentic, intelligent personality, and singer/keyboardist Emily Haines is a fantastic voice for the band. There was a song played that I hadn't heard before...something about flame blue eyes? Anyway, I liked it a lot. Once upon a time, I posted a number of links to articles describing her voice. Go look for them. [HINT: The stamp was "Thu Jun 05, 09:02:03 PM". I believe in you and your ability to find this entry. I'm clapping for you, Peter. I swear I'm clapping.] One of those guys who always shows up to shows with his fucking digicam posted a bunch of pictures from the show on his site. ..So we shall not abhor him this time.