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Hammersmith Apollo

25/10/2016

‘Fuck Australia’ and Other Things I Might Regret Putting on the Internet (ft. #Parade10)

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Art, MCRmy, Music, My Chemical Romance (get a category), October 2016, Paywall, Videos

#Parade10 MCRmy meet up, Frank Iero, frnkiero andthe patience, FUCK AUSTRALIA, Gerard Way, Hammersmith Apollo, Indifferent Ignorance, Mikey Way, My Chemical Romance live 2010, Ray Toro, The Black Parade 10 year anniversary
11/09/2013

A Word on Today and Some Other Days

The ‘start’ of My Chemical Romance has always been 11th September 2001. Unless you think it though, anyway, and then it’s more “sometime between 9/11 and 23rd July 2002 when their first album came out” (9/11 was the catalyst but I kind of think that it took five people making noise to properly get it going,… Continue reading

MCRmy, My Chemical Romance (get a category), September 2013, THE WORLD *head in hands*

‘My Super Sweet Sixteen’, ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower’, 9/11, Africa, Aftermath of the September 11 attacks, America, George W. Bush, Government and Politics, Hammersmith Apollo, Kerrang! magazine, MCR, MCRmy, My Chemical Romance, Rwandan Genocide, Syria, Woolwich
15/09/2011

10 Years, 10 Days: “You gotta promise me, you gotta fuckin’ dance.”

Everyone’s noticed that My Chem quite enjoy playing live shows, and that people quite enjoy going to them. Having seen them twice, on their first show back in London last October and at Wembley Area in February – read the reviews/blogs here and here – I can tell you that there’s a reason for the excitement.… Continue reading

’10 Years 10 Days’, Music, My Chemical Romance (get a category), Videos

’10 Years 10 Days’, Frank Iero, Gerard Way, Hammersmith Apollo, Kerrang!, live shows, MCR, Mikey Way, My Chemical Romance, Ray Toro, Wembley Arena
23/11/2010

Music Teaches People… I Know What the American National Anthem Sounds Like.

The steady hum of my laptop ripping Danger Days is incredibly comforting. Almost as much as listening to it in bed at six in the morning is… I have a cold, okay, and it’s my alarm. There’s no point in reviewing the album, because a) most people reading this already have and… Continue reading

(All Hail) Creation, Colour

Bob Bryar, Bullets, CD, Danger Days review, Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, Death Before Disco, Dr Death Defying, Draculoid, Frank Iero, Fun Ghoul, Gerard Way, Hammersmith Apollo, Indifferent Ignorance, Jet Star, Kobra Kid, Little Jimmy Urine, live music, MCR, MCR album, Mikey Way, Music, My Chemical Romance, Party Poison, Ray Toro, Steve Righ, The Kids From Yesterday, The Roxy, Vampire Money, YouTube

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When I began this blog in 2009, I was a teenager. That’s why you’ll find some posts have been hidden behind a paywall. I was an incredibly different, less eloquent person when I was a teen, so if you want to read the thoughts of that teenager, you can join the No. 1 Readers’ Club for access.

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Hammersmith Apollo

‘Fuck Australia’ and Other Things I Might Regret Putting on the Internet (ft. #Parade10)

A Word on Today and Some Other Days

10 Years, 10 Days: “You gotta promise me, you gotta fuckin’ dance.”

Music Teaches People… I Know What the American National Anthem Sounds Like.