# The Metro Theatre

The Metro Theatre (commonly the Metro) is a music venue located on George Street, in the city centre of Sydney, Australia. The venue was redeveloped, from two former cinemas, by property developer Leon Fink.
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, 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 | United States | 2015 |
| Emperor | Black Metal | Norway | 2019, 2023 |
| Cattle Decapitation | Death Metal | United States | 2023 |
| Fear Factory | Industrial Metal | United States | 2015 |
| Lamb Of God | Groove Metal | United States | 2015 |
| Exodus | Thrash Metal | United States | 2015 |
| Morbid Angel | Death Metal | United States | 1996, 2011, 2014 |
| Hypocrisy | Death Metal | Sweden | 2019 |
| Kataklysm | Death Metal | Canada | 2019 |
| Obituary | Death Metal | United States | 2020 |
| Hour of Penance | Technical Death Metal | Italy | 2014 |
| Fit For an Autopsy | Deathcore | United States | 2018, 2023 |
| Emmure | Deathcore | United States | 2018 |
| Wormrot | Grindcore | Singapore | 2020 |
| Devildriver | Groove metal, Melodic death metal | United States | 2019 |
| All That Remains | Metalcore, heavy metal | United States | 2019 |
| Static-X | Industrial metal, Nu metal | United States | 2009, 2019, 2023 |
| Dope | Nu metal | United States | 2019 |
| Wednesday 13 | Gothic Metal | United States | 2019 |
| Dimmu Borgir | Symphonic Black metal | Norway | 2018 |
| Cradle of Filth | Extreme metal | United Kingdom | 2009, 2018, 2019, 2024 |
| Arch Enemy | Melodic death metal | Sweden | 2023 |
| At The Gates | Melodic death metal | Sweden | 2012 |
| Sevendust | Alternative Metal | United States | 2016 |
| Killswitch Engage | Metalcore | United States | 2018 |
| Seether | Post-grunge / Hard rock | South Africa | 2008, 2012, 2015, 2018 |
| From The Jam | New wave | United Kingdom | 2016 |
| Flosstradamus | Trap | United States | 2015 |
| Anthrax | Thrash Metal / Rock | United States | 2004 |
| John Mayer | Rock / Acoustic Rock | United States | 2009 |
| Lorde | Pop / Electropop | New Zealand | 2013 |
| Nightwish | Symphonic Metal | Finland | 2005 |
| Blink 182! | Punk rock / Punk Pop | United States | 2009 |
| Foo Fighters | Alternative rock | United States | 2005 |
| Coldplay | Alternative rock | United Kingdom | 2001 |
| Muse | Alternative rock | United Kingdom | 2004 |
| Doves | Indie rock | United Kingdom | 2000 |
| Alestorm | Folk Metal | Scotland | 2019,2022 |
| Kaiser Chiefs | Indie rock | United Kingdom | 2012 |
| The Dandy Warhols | Indie rock | United States | 1998 |
| Flyleaf | Hard rock | United States | 2013 |
| Neil Finn | Rock / Pop | New Zealand | 2001 |
| The Eels | Indie rock | United States | 2006 |
| Thrice | Post Hardcore | United States | 2008 |
| Ladytron | Synthpop | United Kingdom | 2008 |
| Anathema | Doom Metal / Progressive rock | United Kingdom | 2014 |
| DragonForce | Power Metal | United Kingdom | 2008 |
| Covenant | EBM | Sweden | 2008 |
| KMFDM | Industrial | Germany | 2004 |
| Behemoth | Blackened Death Metal | Poland | 2010, 2015 |
| The Hives | Garage rock | Sweden | 2008 |
| Propagandhi | Punk rock | Canada | 2009 2019 |
| Billy Talent | Punk rock | Canada | 2009 |
| Salt-N-Pepa | Hip-hop | United States | 2010 |
| Calexico | Indie rock | United States | 2010 |
| Sven Väth | Techno | Germany | 2010 |
| HIM | Gothic rock | Finland | 2014 |
| ZZ Top | Blues rock | United States | 2014 |
| Cannibal Corpse | Death Metal | United States | 2014 |
| Dinosaur Jr | Alternative rock | United States | 1995 |
| The Prodigy | Techno | United Kingdom | 1996 |
| Aphex Twin | IDM / Electronic | United Kingdom | 2004 |
| Queensrÿche | Heavy metal | United States | 2006 |
| Hard-Fi | Indie rock/Alternative rock | United Kingdom | 2007 |
| Aneurysm | Industrial Metal | Italy | 2011 |
| Booker T. Jones | R&B | United States | 2017 |
| McBusted | Pop-Punk | United Kingdom | 2015 |
| The Script | Pop rock | Ireland | 2012 2014 |
| Bastille | Pop rock | United Kingdom | 2013 |
| You Me at Six | Pop-Punk | United Kingdom | 2010 2015 |
| Calum Scott | Pop | United Kingdom | 2018 |
| Freya Ridings | Pop/Soul | United Kingdom | 2020 |
| Rebecca Black | Pop | United States | 2022 |
| Mimi Webb | Pop | United Kingdom | 2022 |
| Maisie Peters | Pop | United Kingdom | 2023 |
Australian acts that have played there include:
* Sia
* The Vines
* The Smith Street Band
* Short Stack
* Angela's Dish
* You Am I
* Eskimo Joe
* Pete Murray and the Stonemasons
* Alex Lloyd
* Spiderbait August 2014
* Something for Kate
* Gyroscope
* Sugar Army
* Young and Restless
* Angelspit
* Mortal Sin
* 5 Seconds of Summer
* 360
* Safia
* Jet
* Parkway Drive
* Thy Art Is Murder
* Polaris
* Psycroptic
* Sam Fischer
* Justice for the Damned