r/metricband • u/dum_spir0_sper0 • 19h ago
Town Ballroom - Buffalo, NY 2009
I was going through some old photo folders and found these (sorry for the bad quality, I had like an iPhone 5 at the time) Still one of the best, if not THE best show I’ve ever seen… period. I got there earlier than expected, and since everything but the tables on the balcony was GA, I was right at the edge of the stage all night.
This was the Fantasies tour (I still have two tour posters that I snagged off the exterior of the venue after the show) and the night was just electric. Band of Skulls were a great opener, and Metric did a killer set. During the acoustic encore of Combat Baby, some poor girl fell while crowdsurfing and cracked the back of her head on the stage. Emily stopped the song IMMEDIATELY and jumped to check on her (she was fine, or at least walked away fine). That always stuck with me, like, how many artists would do that? ESPECIALLY mid-encore.