The Metro Theatre (commonly the Metro) is a music venue located on George Street in the city centre of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.Event industry musters at The Metro
The foyer of the Metro, designed by leading Australian stage designer Brian Thomson, features a lightweight plastic replica of the Art Deco crystal chandelier which once hung in Regent Theatre which formerly stood opposite the Metro in George Street.
Acts that perform at the Metro often include heavy metal music, indie-rock, and alternative bands, often of international fame. It was the venue for the now-legendary Sydney concerts in 1995 by Jeff Buckley and a record seven sold out shows in a row over six days in 1996 by You Am I,Escape artists among many others.
It has two separate performance spaces inside the building, the Forum (often simply called the Metro) and the Transit Lounge (which, in January 2007, was re-launched and re-branded as the Lair). Up until 2007 it was not uncommon for both spaces to be used on the same night for different acts, with the larger of the two, the Forum, generally hosting the more famous act. Since the launch of the Lair the space has seldom been used for a public performance, as its primary function was to house MTV Australia's the Lair live music programme.
For a brief period in the second half of 2006, the venue was known as the Century Theatre after it went into receivership and was acquired by Century Venues. It was changed back to the Metro Theatre by October 2006.
On 16 September 2009 the Metro was rebranded as the Virgin Mobile Metro, after a sponsorship deal had been made. Dappled Cities Fly and the Seabellies both played at the launch night on 29 September 2009.
Performing acts at the Metro, Sydney
A list of some of the more famous musical acts that have performed at the Metro:
Band Name Genre Country Year/s Played Machine Head Groove Metal / Thrash Metal 2015 Emperor Black Metal 2019, 2023 Cattle Decapitation Death Metal 2023 Fear Factory Industrial Metal 2015 Lamb Of God Groove Metal 2015 Exodus Thrash Metal 2015 Morbid Angel Death Metal 1996, 2011, 2014 Hypocrisy Death Metal 2019 Kataklysm Death Metal 2019 Obituary Death Metal 2020 Hour of Penance Technical Death Metal 2014 Fit For an Autopsy Deathcore 2018, 2023 Emmure Deathcore 2018 Wormrot Grindcore 2020 Devildriver Groove metal, Melodic death metal 2019 All That Remains Metalcore, heavy metal 2019 Static-X Industrial metal, Nu metal 2009, 2019, 2023 Dope Nu metal 2019 Wednesday 13 Gothic Metal 2019 Dimmu Borgir Symphonic Black metal 2018 Cradle of Filth Extreme metal 2009, 2018, 2019, 2024 Arch Enemy Melodic death metal 2023 At The Gates Melodic death metal 2012 Sevendust Alternative Metal 2016 Killswitch Engage Metalcore 2018 Seether Post-grunge / Hard rock 2008, 2012, 2015, 2018 From The Jam New wave 2016 Flosstradamus Trap 2015 Anthrax Thrash Metal / Rock 2004 John Mayer Rock / Acoustic Rock 2009 Lorde Pop / Electropop 2013 Nightwish Symphonic Metal 2005 Blink 182! Punk rock / Punk Pop 2009 Foo Fighters Alternative rock 2005 Coldplay Alternative rock 2001 Muse Alternative rock 2004 Doves Indie rock 2000 Alestorm Folk Metal 2019,2022 Kaiser Chiefs Indie rock 2012 The Dandy Warhols Indie rock 1998 Flyleaf Hard rock 2013 Neil Finn Rock / Pop 2001 The Eels Indie rock 2006 Thrice Post Hardcore 2008 Ladytron Synthpop 2008 Anathema Doom Metal / Progressive rock 2014 DragonForce Power Metal 2008 Covenant EBM 2008 KMFDM Industrial 2004 Behemoth Blackened Death Metal 2010, 2015 The Hives Garage rock 2008 Propagandhi Punk rock 20092019 Billy Talent Punk rock 2009 Salt-N-Pepa Hip-hop 2010 Calexico Indie rock 2010 Sven Väth Techno 2010 HIM Gothic rock 2014 ZZ Top Blues rock 2014 Cannibal Corpse Death Metal 2014 Dinosaur Jr Alternative rock 1995 The Prodigy Techno 1996 Aphex Twin IDM / Electronic 2004 Queensrÿche Heavy metal 2006 Hard-Fi Indie rock/Alternative rock 2007 Aneurysm Industrial Metal 2011 Booker T. Jones R&B 2017 McBusted Pop-Punk 2015 The Script Pop rock 20122014 Bastille Pop rock 2013 You Me at Six Pop-Punk 20102015 Calum Scott Pop 2018 Freya Ridings Pop/Soul 2020 Rebecca Black Pop 2022 Mimi Webb Pop 2022 Maisie Peters Pop 2023EvanescenceRock2025Travis ScottHip Hop, Pop2016
Australian acts that have played there include: +
References
External links Official website Virgin Mobile Metro press release MTV The Lair official website Century Venues official website