Friday 25 February 2011

My Chemical Romance

I know it's been ages and I keep promising to write more and I will! Just I've had exams and stuff, but I will make this more regular.
Anyway, a few weeks ago I went to see My Chemical Romance.
 MCR's new album "Danger Days: True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys" is a concept album based around the lives of "The Fabulous Killjoys" set in California 2019. To be honest, when listening to it I didn't really "get" the concept much. But it's definately one of the best albums I own. Most of the songs make you want to party or have a deep think. My favourite songs off the album are "Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na)" - which is an excellent song with up-beat rhythm, great lyrics and catchy riff - "Planetary (GO!)" - again, a great party song with great lyrics that just makes you want to dance - and "Vampire Money" - another dancy song having a poke at the many people who critisized the band for not making a song for vampire film "New Moon".
When we went to see MCR on 12/2/11 at Wembley Arena, for once we didn't turn up hours early, but we had seats so didn't really need too. I wanted to be in the standing area, but in a way was glad I wasn't because it looked really violent. We were later told over 100 people got pulled out. Supports were Lost Alone - which we didn't really see any of but they seemed quite good - and The Blackout, who we really enjoyed and definately got the room excited. After a while of waiting and a lot of Mexican waves, the whole room went dark and MCR opened with "Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na)" (after "Look Alive Sunshine" - the spoken introduction to the album). MCR played with a lot of energy and kept the audience dancing the whole way through, even in the seating area. However, I did think they let themselves down slightly with the setlist. Although it included a lot of favourites such as "Mama", "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)", "Destroya", "Party Poison" and a lot of other good ones there were some noticably missing tracks such as "Dead!", "House of Wolves" and "Bulletproof Heart". The band were only on about an hour and a half, and although I throughly enjoyed the gig, it was definately over to quickly and I thought they could've definately tried to include more songs.
After the gig, my friends and I decided to wait at the stage door in hope of getting something signed (this time we did our waiting after the gig). After waiting two hours, we were told the band were not coming out, but we still met a few members of The Blackout and had quite a good laugh. If anyone was there and knows what I'm talking about when I say beef, please comment :)
All in all, it was a good night, despite the few missing songs, thanks for reading and I'll try write soon!
Emily

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