My Chemical Romance

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The group are yet to reveal whether or not 'The Foundations of Decay' is a one off single or the precursor to their first album since 2010's 'Danger Days'. My Chemical Romance played new single 'The Foundations of Decay' for the first time ever at their first UK show in 11 years. The rest of the setlist spanned their entire career, with 'Our Lady of Sorrows' - which featured on 2002 debut 'I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love' - appearing alongside fan favourites like 'Teenagers', 'Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)', 'Thank You For The Venom', 'Vampire Money' and 'Helena'.

At their first UK show in 11 years, My Chemical Romance performed rare oldies and gave the new single 'The Foundations Of Decay' its live debut.

The main set ended on another Black Parade hit, ‘Sleep’, while the encore was wrapped up with ‘Danger Days’ swansong ‘The Kids Of Yesterday’. Two further tracks from Conventional Weapons were also given their live debuts, with ‘Surrender The Night’ and ‘Boy Division’, which were played just before the encore. They opened the set emphatically with ‘The Foundations Of Decay’, which was followed by ‘Helena’ and ‘Give ‘Em Hell, Kid’ from 2004’s Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge.

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Often reforming bands do so for the wrong reasons but it was clear they meant business and weren’t simply going through the motions. For many of us whose teenage years were in the mid 00s, riddled with teenage angst, My Chemical Romance were relatable and an energetic escape from the pressures and expectations of growing up. The clever play on words references two iconic emo anthems in Paramore’s Misery Business and My Chemical Romance’s Black Parade.

Frontman Gerard Way's emo scream is back at full throttle as a new generation of adoring fans join in the rowdy singalongs.

But then they launch into Helena – emo’s ceremonial standard, and a defining video of millennials’ MTV – and the years melt away, with frontman Gerard Way’s swooping, heartfelt chorus echoed by the crowd. As the uplifting final call-and-response to I’m Not Okay (I Promise) affirms in the encore, The Black Parade marches on with new recruits. The band have nearly a year on the road ahead of them, playing to stadiums of tens of thousands, so these two relatively intimate dates at the 6,500-capacity Eden Project allow them to ease into it.

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That’s very much the kind of merch you’d create around a new album, right? We’ll surely find out more very soon. And that new merch looks rather interesting.

Fan-captured footage from the show reveals that they also delivered two surprise debut performances of other older songs “Surrender the Night” and “Boy Division ...

Fan-captured footage from the show reveals that they also delivered two surprise debut performances of other older songs “Surrender the Night” and “Boy Division” from their 2013 compilation album Conventional Weapons. Tour dates were rescheduled in 2021 but were pushed back again due to ongoing pandemic concerns. Lead singer Gerard Way concluded the concert with a heartfelt statement.

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The group just dropped their first single in a decade, “The Foundations of Decay,” on May 13. Reports spotted merch for a My Chem project called “Swarm” at the May 16 show. “Way is in command of the mic: spidery-fingered and snake-hipped, his emo scream is at full throttle.” It genuinely feels like anything could happen, as My Chemical Romance channel punk rebellion and playful ambition.” The show was an “amazing night” from an “amazing band,” said Kerrang!. “The years melt away,” said the Guardian of the May 16 show.

Fan-captured footage from the show reveals that they also delivered two surprise debut performances of other older songs “Surrender the Night” and “Boy Division ...

Fan-captured footage from the show reveals that they also delivered two surprise debut performances of other older songs “Surrender the Night” and “Boy Division” from their 2013 compilation album Conventional Weapons. Tour dates were rescheduled in 2021 but were pushed back again due to ongoing pandemic concerns. Lead singer Gerard Way concluded the concert with a heartfelt statement.

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One standout design is a white T-shirt printed with the very hot pink cover for an imaginary teen tabloid called Boy Zone (think Tiger Beat), introducing the band as the “saddest boys in the world.” The shirt was designed by illustrator Kerin Cunningham, who described it as “a bit whimsical, a little bit ironic, and a whole lot stupid in the best way,” but it was conceptualized by none other than MCR co-founder Gerard Way himself. That careful mixture of old and new extends to the band’s revamped merchandise, which similarly pays homage to the band’s past — and, I might add, to the band’s extraordinarily large LGBTQ+ fandom. American rock band My Chemical Romance embarked on a world tour on Monday, returning to the stage for the first time in a decade in the town of St. Austell in Cornwall, England. The show followed last week’s surprise release of a new single, “The Foundations of Decay,” which introduced a new yet familiar chapter in the band’s audiovisual aesthetic, combining various aspects of their former sound to create something wholly original.

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Standing in the grounds of the Eden projects, illuminated biomes rising behind the stage and craggy cliffedges climbing around us as people hold each other, punch the air and sing into each others faces, I find it bizarre to think that this is a band who were once blamed for founding “self-harming emo cults” and suicide panics. The result is a generation in a kind of arrested development. Clans of black-clad kids congregating around local monuments, relieved to have found each other and hanging on to each other for dear life. Music is a thread that tethers us to the past. Gerard Way’s voice has a kind of vulnerability to it, a slight wobble that suggests that it might break at any second. To see peoples’ kids silhouetted atop shoulders during the closing song – “The Kids From Yesterday” – is a poignant and heartwarming way to end the show.

My Chemical Romance played the second night of their comeback UK and Ireland tour last night (May 17) - check out setlist and footage here.

You can see the band’s upcoming tour dates below. ‘Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)’ (@evryoneblooms)May 17, 2022