Indie rockers Metric are focused on giving their audience the best of themselves (photo by Justin Broadbent).<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nMost people would assume life on the road as a musician is a non-stop party or a fairy-tale lifestyle, where rockstars in leather pants throw television sets out of hotel windows and lounge in expensive recording studios all day. But sometimes it\u2019s much more real and fulfilling than that: it\u2019s a mobile workplace, a community of people who are all working extremely hard to provide not only the best performance for the audience but also a stable environment to thrive as a team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI feel as though that\u2019s sort of part of what the job is, and what the life is, is actually wrangling all that chaos into a smooth experience for everyone,\u201d says Haines. \u201cSo, you know, there are stories, but now it\u2019s much more about trying to use our energy and strength to just make everything go as smoothly as possible, including considering all the emotions and the mental state of everyone involved.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The members of Metric keep the notion of singles at bay while producing an album. Haines says that they perceive their body of work as a whole experience rather than a sequence of individual songs. They keep all commercial consideration on the backburner to stay as true to the creative process as possible and to provide their audience with a genuine experience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe go into every album with lots and lots of songs and we narrow things down just based on, first of all, still being committed to the album format,\u201d she says. \u201cKind of like you\u2019re making a film and every song is a scene in that film or vignette in that film, and so paying more attention to that, of like, how do we give our audience the most amazing experience possible and how do we make every song true to itself? And then once it\u2019s done, yes, all those conversations start to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It goes without saying that nothing worth having comes easy, and a true artist must adhere to their intuitive ethics in order to yield their maximum artistic potential, providing the listener with a genuine experience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI can\u2019t speak for anyone else; I can just speak for my own band and say that we do have a code of conduct that has defined the decisions that we\u2019ve made,\u201d says Haines, \u201cand it hasn\u2019t always been the easy road for us at all, but what we gain from that is the meaning and value of our lives and the meaning and value of the band.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Metric
6:45 pm Wednesday, April 17
$36 and up, Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre
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