My Chemical Romance has been booked to play the X Fest in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on April 25, 2008. 2theadvocate.com and WNXX 104 the X, is reporting MCR to play the festival on Friday the 25th. Other acts for the festival include:
My Chemical Romance
Puddle of Mudd
Finger Eleven
Atreyu
Story of the Year
Billy Talent
Meriwether
Tickets go on sale March 6, 2008 at all Ticketmaster outlets and online at Ticketmaster.com.
If you live near 104 the X listening area, they are running a contest for your chance to win tickets before they are availble. Click Here for info on the contest and 104’s official site.
Thanks to MCRime for the tip!
Reprise has just released a statement containing a list of U.S. tour dates booked to date. At the end of the statement, there is an asterisk followed by the words “more to come”.
Mikey had stated in his email, sent through Reprise to everyone on their mailing list, that the Madison Square Garden performance would be the perfect goodbye to “The Black Parade” tour. Many are thinking this means that is the last stop on the new U.S. tour. For those of you who do not have a tour date near you, maybe there is still hope!
Below is the statement sent out by Reprise…
Last American Shows Before Platinum-Selling Rock Band Begin Work on New Album
BURBANK, CA–(February 29, 2008) – My Chemical Romance, who traveled the globe last year in support of their platinum-selling album “The Black Parade,” will return to the U.S. in March for a month-plus tour — the last series of dates before the band take time off to write a new album. The tour, which features support from Billy Talent and Drive By, begins March 28th in Tempe, AZ, and will hit mid-size theaters across the country. My Chemical Romance made a deliberate decision to play more intimate venues this time around after spending months of performing in U.S. arenas on the Projekt Revolution tour with Linkin Park and Taking Back Sunday over the summer.
“We are really excited about the tour,” the band said in a statement posted on its website (www.mychemicalromance.com). “Our good friends Billy Talent and Drive By are coming with us. We could not think of a better tour to go away from ‘The Black Parade.’ We wanted to come to these places. We selected them. We wanted to get away from big shows for a while. When we started this thing, we could feel you guys right in front of us. It is time for that to happen again.”
My Chemical Romance is also putting the finishing touches on an upcoming CD/DVD titled “The Black Parade is Dead!,” which was filmed over several weeks in October 2007.
Released in October 2006, “The Black Parade” shot to No. 2 on Billboard’s Top 200 album chart, selling more than 240,000 copies its first week of release. The album was hailed by critics and has spawned four Modern Rock smash singles, including the latest, “Teenagers,” which hit the No. 1 spot on MTV’s “TRL.”
My Chemical Romance tour dates with Billy Talent and Drive By:
3/28 Tempe, AZ @Tempe Beach Park
3/29 Tuscon, AZ @Rialto Theatre
3/30 Las Vegas, NV @The Joint
3/31 Las Vegas, NV @The Joint
4/3 San Francisco, CA @Warfield
4/4 San Francisco, CA @Warfield
4/6 Irvine, CA @Bamboozle Left
4/8 Portland, OR @Crystal Ballroom
4/9 Portland, OR @Crystal Ballroom
4/11 Salt Lake City, UT @Great Salt Air
4/14 Denver, CO @Fillmore Auditorium
4/15 Kansas City, KS @Memorial Hall
4/17 Chicago, IL @Congress Theatre
4/18 Chicago, IL @Congress Theatre
4/19 Detroit, MI @The Fillmore at State Theatre
4/20 Detroit, MI @The Fillmore at State Theatre
4/22 Cleveland, OH @The Agora Theatre
4/28 Austin, TX @Stubb’s
4/30 Birmingham, AL @Sloss Furnace
5/2 Memphis, TN @Beale Street Festival
5/3 St. Louis, MO @Pageant
5/4 Columbus, OH @Lifestyle Pavillion
5/6 Philadelphia, PA @Electric Factory
5/7 Philadelphia, PA @Electric Factory
5/9 New York, NY @Madison Square Garden (with Drive By & Taking Back
Sunday)
*more to come (<—- the “more to come” referred too)
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James Jean, artist and illustrator, had penned a drawing for Spin Magazine. The illustration depicts Gerard Way, Billie Joe Armstrong, Gwen Stefani, Ashlee Simpson, and Trent Reznor as fantasy characters. Click the thumbnail below to be hold the original and its awesomeness!
Photo Credits:
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Follow the link below to see Pulp Secret’s look inside “On Raven’s Wings”. They have posted scans of the 16-year-old Gerard’s comics.
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My Chemical Romance were nominated for several Shockwaves NME awards, as I had reported to you. Those award winners have been announced, and sadly, MCR didn’t go home with any of them.
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My Chemical Romance are slated to play Sloss Furnace on April 30, 2008 at 7pm. Many have asked why Sloss Furnace? Others have asked what is Sloss Furnace? We are going to try to answer that.
Sloss Furnace was an iron producing furnace in Birmingham, Alabama. It began in April of 1882 and produced iron until the 90’s. Sloss Furnace has now been turned into a hitstorical museum. They offer daily tours, host events, and host the annual Sloss Fright Furnace the month of October.
Sloss is said to be haunted. They were featured on Fox Channel’s “Scariest Places On Earth” in 2006. One can imagine this is the reason MCR chose to add this stop on their U.S. tour.
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Written on the attached page, is an entry into a blog that Hart D. Fisher contacted directly on the 27th of February. He keeps saying there is more to the story. My question is: Why aren’t we hearing the rest of the story?
Is he waiting to tell more in order to keep the spot light on him?
Does he really have instances where Gerard actually plagiarized his work?
If Gerard did plagiarize, why is he bringing it to the web and not to a court near him?
Do we really believe that Gerard took his lyrics from anything other than life experiences?
I had decided I wasn’t going to promote this nobody’s claims anymore, but I am about current issues with the guys. This is a current issue.
Do we here at My Chemcial Freak think there is anything to the allegations? No, I really don’t believe that there is. I truely think this is his way of making money when he needs it. Does my heart go out to him and his wife for their woes? Yes, it does go out to them, but its no excuse for the way he has chosen to go about this.
I have examined the situation, thus far, and have come up with this. Dark Horse comics did, indeed, claim The Umbrella Academy to be Gerard’s first run at comics. Gerard, however, never stated this. Dark Horse has, in the last two days, stated they were told from the get-go about the “On Raven’s Wings 1 & 2″ comic. They knew that it was a dabble in comics for a 16-year-old Way. I believe it was a simple oversight on their behalf, calling it his first.
So far the only statement Gerard has made on the matter is the following:
I sent [Hart] an email years ago, before we finished ‘Revenge,’ thanking him for believing in me, and never got a response. I think I emailed him once again as well…never heard anything back. I’m not ashamed of what I did for him, and wanted to see him in person and thank him. I’ve never had the chance.
-Gerard Way, through Dark Horse Comics
The article in which Dark Horse deemed The Umbrella Academy, Gerard’s first comic can be found HERE. It simply states…
Way’s first comics work is remarkably polished, and he takes to scripting far better than many of the other celebrity comics writers coming to the field from other media, most of whom evidence a still-getting-the-hang-of-it learning curve for a while. Beyond simply being not bad, Way’s loony action adventure tale fits squarely into his publisher’s zanier pulp riffs, like Mike Mignola’s Hellboy and Eric Powell’s The Goon.
-Review from Dark Horse Comics site
Apparently the above snippet is the root of Hart’s ranting. I, as well as others, will have to see the proof of the plagiarism. I could be wrong, but again I do not believe it exists.
CLICK HERE to read the blog entry in which Hart D. Fisher discussed the subject he “isn’t discussing”, which is his wife’s on-going battle with cervical cancer.
Due to venues selling out, MCR are adding additional performances to some of their currently booked cities! Below is the list so far, with the new dates highlighted in white.
03/28/2008 – Tempe, Arizona, Tempe Music Festival
03/29/2008 – Tucson, Arizona, Rialto Theatre
03/30/2008 – Las Vegas, Nevada, The Joint
03/31/2008 – Las Vegas, Nevada, The Joint
04/03/2008 – San Francisco, California, Warfield
04/04/2008 – San Francisco, California, Warfield
04/06/2008 – Irvine, California, Bamboozle Left @ Verizon Amphitheatre
04/08/2008 – Portland, Oregon, Crystal Ballroom
04/09/2008 – Portland, Oregon, Crystal Ballroom
04/11/2008 – Magna, Utah, The Great Salt Air Theatre
04/12/2008 – Mexico City, Zero Fest
04/14/2008 – Denver, Colorado, The Fillmore Auditorium
04/15/2008 – Kansas City, Kansas, Memorial Hall
04/17/2008 – Chicago , Illinois, Congress Theatre
04/18/2008 – Chicago, Illinois, Congress Theatre
04/19/2008 – Detroit , Michigan, The Fillmore @ State Theatre
04/20/2008 – Detroit, Michigan, The Fillmore @ State Theatre
04/22/2008 – Cleveland, Ohio, The Agora Theatre
04/28/2008 – Austin, Texas, Stubbs Amphitheatre
04/30/2008 – Birmingham, AL, Sloss Furnace
05/02/2008 – Memphis, Tennessee, Beale St. Festival
05/03/2008 – St. Louis, Missouri, The Pagaent
05/04/2008 – Columbus, Ohio, Lifestyles Community Pavilion
05/06/2008 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Electric Factory
05/07/2008 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Electric Factory
05/09/2008 – New York, New York, Madison Square Garden (date and time for this one could change)
To buy tickets for your venue or find out when a certain date goes on sale, go to Ticketmaster.com, type in My Chemical Romance.
Go to Ducatking.com to see all their presales available, scroll down until you see My Chemical Romance’s category.
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