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Metric Tickets Metric is a Canadian indie rock band. Originally formed in 1998 in New York City, they are currently based in Toronto, Ontario. The band consists of vocalist and keyboardist Emily Haines, guitarist James Shaw, bassist Josh Winstead and drummer Joules Scott-Key. Their full-length second album, Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?, was released in 2003. Their latest album, Live It Out, was released in October 2005. Showtime Ticket Services has supplied preferred seating and difficult to obtain tickets for all Sports, Theatre and Concert Events Worldwide for over 20 years. Metric Tickets available now! ShowTime Ticket Services specializes in tickets for all tour venues. Metric Tickets continued.		Loading...   Tell a friend

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Metric received their first national exposure in August 2001 with the television commercial "Be Afraid", advertising Polaroid's I-Zone Pocket Fortune film. The music used for the ad was taken from the song "Grow Up and Blow Away", with the line 'Why does it feel so good to die today?' changed to the more benign 'Why does it feel so good to fly away?'. The film (which added "fortune cookie"-like messages to instant photos) was a flop, but the commercial drew curious music listeners to the Polaroid website to learn of the source of the electro-pop music used in the commercial.

Haines and Shaw also perform with Broken Social Scene, and Haines has been a guest on albums by Stars, KC Accidental, and Delerium.

Metric's 2005 album Live It Out has been a success in Canada, already selling twice as many copies as Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?. It has scored them three top 20 singles for "Monster Hospital", "Poster Of A Girl" and "Handshakes". The album has gone two times platinum in Canada, selling over 200,000 units.