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A teen girl obsessed with a “suicide cult” rock band, hanged herself two weeks after becoming an “emo”, an inquest heard today.

Talented karate artist and “model pupil” Hannah Bond, 13, and fan of controversial band My Chemical Romance, was found hanging from beneath her bunk bed with a tie in the early hours of September 23 at her family home in East Peckham.

She had several self-inflicted cuts in parallel fashion on her left wrist, which she told her dad was “an initiation into emo”, the inquest at Maidstone Coroners’ Court was told.

The petite, year nine pupil had in the months prior become obsessed with the teen trend (emo) - a popular fashion and lifestyle fad followed by kids who emulate the older ‘gothic’ crowd.

On her Bebo page Miss Bond, who used the online name Living Disaster and has internet friends with names like Sam Suicide, said she was obsessed with the hugely popular My Chemical Romance band, who hit number one with their last album, The Black Parade.

Her mother, Heather Bond, told the court how she learned The Black Parade is “where you go when you die” as she researched the emo fad.

She said: “The whole concept is aimed at people Hannah’s age.”

“In emo it is a very glamorous death to hang yourself.”

“There are websites that show pink teddies hanging themselves.”

“The band she was into, the music she was into – the whole thing is based on The Black Parade which is all about dying.”

“She called emo a fashion and I thought it was normal.”

“I didn’t know about the cuts. She used to wear emo bracelets so her wrists were concealed.”

“Hannah was just a normal girl.”

“She had loads of friends.”

“She could be a bit moody but I though it was just because she was a teenager.”

“In the months before she had become obsessed with the internet.”

“But there were no signs this was going to happen.”

“She had everything to live for.”

In a tribute book left at a shrine at her school following Miss Bond’s death a pal wrote: “I hope you enjoy The Black Parade.”

Her father, Ray Bond, a sensei at the Kyokushin Karate Club in Gravesend, where Hannah was a member, wept as he said: “Two weeks before her death, I saw the cuts.  I asked her about them and we discussed how it was an emo initiation.”

“She promised me she would never do it again.”

“She was in in touch with emos all over the world, particularly from America, over the internet.”

“The night before she hanged herself she came into the room and gave me a big kiss and said ‘I love you, Dad’.”

In the hours before her death Miss Bond had been hanging out with her boyfriend and others at a pal’s home.

She had not phoned her parents for a lift home when she was supposed to, playing up after she was told she would not be able to sleep over.

Her mum and older sister Jessica picked her up more than an hour and a half later to find that Hannah was “hyper active”.

Heather said: “She was hyperventilating. She used to drink the energy drink Kick, I don’t know if it had to do with that. She said she wanted a cuddle, so I reached back to her.”

As Hannah entered her family home she said she wanted to go straight upstairs. Heather told how she said: “I want to kill myself.”

That was the last time she was seen alive.

Nicola Appleton, the mother of one of the boys at whose home Miss Bond was spending time earlier that night, told the court how in the weeks prior she too had discovered cuts on her son’s arm.

She said: “He said they all did it.”

“I told him it had to stop.   He just said emos all do it.”

“He said he didn’t really want to hurt himself and the cuts weren’t very deep.”

“He had done it at school with a compass.”

Vanessa Everett, the headteacher at the Mascalls School were Miss Bond was regarded as an outstanding pupil, admitted there had been serious concerns over the spread of the emo lifestyle among students.

She said: “Hannah was known to me as a model student.”

“Everybody said she was a lovely, bubbly student who worked hard.”

“Right up to the weeks before she died Hannah was getting honours for her work in her lessons.”

“But we are very aware of this fashion trend which started with some of the older students.”

“Part of the problem it posts for us is it involves superficial self harm.”

“It can be difficult for us to differentiate between those students who were doing it because of serious psychological or emotional issues and those who are doing it for a fashion statement.”

“We wouldn’t have classified Hannah as one of those students with serious psychological or emotional problems.”

Recording a verdict of suicide, coroner Roger Sykes said: “She was a family friendly girl who was doing well as school.”

“A girl, aged 13 years, has taken her own life for no reason that could be regarded by anyone as sensible or justified and if in doing so she was thinking about how this would go down with those others who were involved with the emo fad; I just believe this a terrible tragic explanation for what happened.”

“It was not glamorous. It was a tragic loss of life.”

Visitors to the Miss Bond’s Bebo profile page are greeted with the words “Hi I’m Hannah and I’m addicted to My Chemical Romance especially Gerard Way”.

She even lists her hometown as “The Black Parade!!!”, and her playlist shows she has been repeatedly listening to 14 of the group’s hits.

She also asks friends to take part in an online vote on which member of My Chemical Romance is the sexiest.

The page is decorated with pictures of an emo girl with blood-spattered wrists after slashing herself in an apparent suicide bid.

Another picture shows a child’s exercise book scrawled with the words “Dear Diary, today I gave up…”.

She also glorifies in the slogan: “Brave is knowing that tomorrow isn’t a bright and happy future.”

Dozens of Miss Bond’s heartbroken friends have left tributes on her Bebo page.

One friend explicitly referred to the lyrics of Miss Bond’s favourite song when she wrote: “I’ll love you forever, I’ll never forget you, I’ll hold on to these memories till we meet again in the black parade.”

Another friend, Bonnie Price, wrote: “I miss you so much, when I found out I was devastated. I love you so much.”

Another added: “Black tears of death bring red tears of love and memories.”

My Chemical Romance have repeatedly come under fire for ‘glamorising’ suicide.

The band hit the mainsteam in October 2006 when their single Welcome To The Black Parade topped the charts.

Earlier hundreds of young devotees had queued all night outside London’s Oxford Street Virgin Megastore for a chance to see the band’s intimate in-store performance.

In the hit single the band’s frontman Gerard Way sings: “And though you’re dead and gone believe me your memory will carry on, will carry on.

“And in my heart I can’t contain it, the anthem won’t explain it.”

“Your misery and hate will kill us all. So paint it black and take it black.”

“Do or die, you’ll never make me, because the world will never take my heart. Though they try, they’ll never break me. We want it all, we wanna play this part.”

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Leave comments on the news sites above to let them know what UTTER SHIT this is.  If you have a brain you know its not the Band’s fault!

By: Roosterlady

My husband, my sister and I got to the venue at around 11:30 a.m. or so. When we got there there was already a small line with the people in the front having arrived the day before at 30 in the afternoon. We took our place in line and made friends with the surrounding fans, all of whom were very nice.

I did some Skeleton Crew promoting by handing out fliers I downloaded. It felt good to be spreading the word. Me with my fliers I handed out.

We took turns walking into the venue area and since it was partially outdoors you could see the stage being set up, merch stands bing set up and all of the hustle and bustle. After a while they set up a security guard to not allow anyone in anymore. Not even to use the port-a-pots even though there was still a three hour wait until the doors were officially open.

Finally after two hotel runs to use the restroom and one food run to McDonald’s the doors were opened. They split the boys and girls into two lines and people quickly made there way through the not so tight security. We made our way to the front, second from the barrier between Ray and Gerard. The stage seemed incredibly small and I couldn’t have been more excited.

Drive By was first. I thought the frontman seemed very sincere in being happy to be there and said that they would be at their merch stand after the show and they wanted to meet everyone. The had a camera man filming video of their set and at one point the lead singer held up the camera and recorded the audience. I thought their set was good and we bought one of their CD’s for $5 which they all signed.

Next came Billy Talent. I have to say that I disagree with Kizzymie. I felt like their performance energized the audience from the first song. I think the lead singer was very charismatic and entertaining and quite a performer. The guitarist was wearing a shirt that said Mikey Fuckin Frey just like the Mikey Way one. I will definitely be looking into their music in the future.

Finally, after much anticipation it was time for My Chemical Romance. The crowd was already getting tight and it only increased throughout the set.

They came onstage and every went wild. Gerard did say that he was sick and I saw him shoot three….count ‘em THREE snot rockets throughout the show, so I assume he must have had a cold accompanied by a runny nose. I thought that despite his ailments his vocals were outstanding and his performance was not lacking. I felt like he didn’t talk as much between numbers as I have seen him do at other shows I’ve been to. They seemed to truck through the songs fairly quickly, in my opinion. The songs all sounded amazing and I was thrilled to hear the b-sides and Headfirst for Halos.

At one point during the piano solo, Frank brought an older woman onstage and she had his guitar around her neck. I had seem the woman earlier being escorted onstage by Matt Cortez. She watched the show from a chair on the side of the stage so I assume she must have been a relative of Frank’s maybe? Anyway, it was very sweet. I love Frank.

The dude that played the harmonica, I had seen earlier performing roadie duties. He sang along with the chorus during the Teenagers performance and his harmonica skills were great. It was pretty cool.

People were randomly throwing things onstage…stuffed animals, boas and the like, but one thing caught Gerard’s attention. Some one close to the front was holding up a scarf type thing that said something about France. He said something along the lines of, “Is that for me? I love France. They love my wife over there.” It was too sweet.

Before Desert Song, Gerard said that he was going to play a song from a little movie called Life On The Murder Scene. He said that the point of the movie was to encourage everyone to get out there and start a band. It was pretty cool. He did also mention that this was the last tour they would be doing for a couple years, but we pretty much already knew that. He also howled like a wolf a few times before they played House of Wolves.

We we literally 6-8 feet away from the band. I was amazing to be that close and to see the details of their expressions and the sweat dripping off of their faces. Ray was amazing as usual, and I agree that Mikey was a commanding presence throughout the show. Bob with his knee high socks and shorts never fails to make me smile.

I have to say that besides the show I saw in Ft. Lauderdale, this was the roughest crowd I had been in. People were definitely pushing forward aggressively, worse at times then others. People were bing pulled out of the front left and right losing shoes along the way. When the show was over there were two random shoes at my feet. The girl next to my sister passed out before the show even started and I saw another girl completely passed out being pulled out of the pit as well. If you were short, which luckily none of us were, you would have had a difficult time in the first 10 feet of audience. One such person having a difficult time actually threw up on my sister. It was so foul. And another girl- you are not going to believe this- she BIT my husband. He flipped out and tried to get security but they didn’t do anything. Piss poor. She said he was elbowing her. Dude, where we were everyone was getting elbowed. I was also fucking pinched in my back and it felt pretty intentional. It was kind of unbelievable at times.

MCR’s main security guy (Mehdi or something like that?) passed out water bottles probably three songs before the end of the show to a bunch of us in the front and it was much appreciated by that time.

For all of they hype I had heard about the band seeming tired on this tour, Ray drinking onstage (which he did not), and the shows lacking energy, I think all of that is rubbish. They were amazing.

As the crowd cleared I made my way the the merch stand and bought the Mikey Fuckin Way shirt: front / back ($20), a Ray Toro t-shirt that I had never seen before: front / back ($20) and a long sleeve jersey type shirt that had the tour dates on the back: front / back ($25). We chugged our $3.50 waters and headed back to the hotel to wash the saliva and puke away.

It was a great night and an amazing show. We’ll remember this one for a long time.

edit:
Gerard talking about Sloss being haunted and Mikey and the Ouija board.

video credit: afjhfksfhd

I found this quite hilarious.  And what Frank says is even MORE hilarious!

Video by: jskuhinjection

Credit to Kristie for the find!

By Curtis Schieber
FOR THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Spring delivered an idyllic sunset behind the Lifestyle Communities Pavilion last night, not long before My Chemical Romance took the stage. If the band saw the display, likely the musicians recognized the marked contrast with the music it was about to deliver. The New Jersey group’s catalog, especially the comic opera of its newest album, The Black Parade, is about impulses more likely to emerge after the day’s sunlight has been spent.

That collection was the centerpiece of the previous tour, scheduled for Columbus but canceled because of illness. “We killed The Black Parade (after that),” lead singer Gerard Way said last night. “You didn’t miss much, other than a lot of prancing and some cool explosions.”

Still, the singer — newly returned to his natural brunet — and band performed an extended set of selections from the album. They were the highlights of the evening and spoke best for the potent personal medicine of the band’s material.

Way has said that his songs help him deal with personal demons, no more plain than on the album’s title track, wherein the protagonist leads a parade of damaged, wounded souls.

Last night, the tune not only thundered with the weight of the mission, but its circus-music style provided an absurdly comedic tone. The surreal, jaunty attitude was distilled in Mama, whose darkly comic catharsis was driven by a foundation lifted from Kurt Weill as surely as the Doors covered the Weimar-era German songwriter nearly 40 years ago.

The tunes also found the band sounding the most like Queen, an inspiration permeates the album.

First, though, My Chemical Romance is a solid rock-and-roll band. If hits such as Helena weren’t as dimensional as the new material, they thundered, nonetheless.

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Wednesday, May 7th

MCR will be on The Sauce, on Fuse at 6pm.

Also appearing on The Sauce the same day… Christina Ricci!

Tune In, Turn On, and Explode!

By Jamille
From LJ

I just had one of the most memorable nights of my life.

But before we got all the awesomeness of this show, we had to deal with the people from the line. Because, of course, there’s always someone cutting it. And after the whole situation, we still were smashed against the entrance barer. I must say that I really regret not trying to sneak with my camera in my bra or something, because I could totally have gotten great pictures from the place were I was.

Jenny and I were on the forth row on the centre, and xneverxbreakxme on the barricade. Somehow, I ended separated of Jenny, since everybody was shoving even before the show started.
I’m going to try to list the highlights, but I’m probably forgetting something that I might add later (any help provided is welcome, lol).
• Drive By
The bassist, hehehe. Don’t get me wrong, but I don’t know that much about them. They put a up a good show and their songs sound good at least live. I bought the cd afterwards, so I’m gonna check it soon.
• Billy Talent
Benjamin saying, after seeing that everybody was being pushed all the fucking time, before Surrender that “This is not a fucking Limp Bizkit show. This is a My Chemical Romance show and you’re supposed to take care of each other”. Aw, I found that cute, srsly. So people actually calmed down… for the following two songs, and then it started all over again.

Benjamin saying “I love My Chem. But there is a member that I hate. His name is Bob Bryar and I am going to get two guys to kill him.” (?) or something about those lines. Then he called Bob to play Fallen Leaves (do I love this music) with them and it was fantastic. When Bob was done, he was halfway through the stage when BK continued and told him to use the minutes he was giving to Bob, so that he could ran.
• My Chemical Romance
EVERYTHING q.

Frank entered the stage with a cigarette between his lips and I was like “Damn, stop making it look sexy :[“. They started Disappear right away and continued with Dead! before introducing themselves and saying hi to Saint Louis. Gerard messing Frank’s hair was cute, rs.

In between songs, that now I don’t remember which, Gerard said hi to the moms on the audience, and really, they were a lot. I met a few of them on the line and all them were amazing. Then he said something about his pants, I think because they were supposedly too tight and he “wanted to share the feeling.” Lol. “It feels like I have a flower here *points to the crotch, pretends it’s going to open the fly*. I am a man, I ain’t got no flower”. And everybody laughed. Frank came from the other side of the stage and said something while giggling and Gerard restarted. “He saw it and he said it looks like a flower” and it was the mega LOLs.
Before House of Wolves, Gerard started to make wolf noises and the audience went along. It was funny.

Before Mama, he started saying random things in French and then he goes “I don’t know much about French. *insert common French words here*… What about ‘kiss my ass’? Is that French?” and the music started. Even in the end, he still insisted on the French words, lmao. I just understood he saying “Au revoir”.

Before I’m Not Okay, Gerard rambled again. “Karate. I love Karate. I looove Karate movies, but I don’t know karate.”

During I’m Not Okay, Frank came to Ray’s side and motioned like he wasn’t going to let Ray play. It was the cutest thing to see Ray grinning and saying something that, in my mind, meant that there was going to be a payback. I guess it was, because Frank also chuckled and went to his right spot.

During the part “you better run like the devil (…)” of House of Wolves, Frank turned to Mikey and just pushed him with one hand. Omg, he really looked like a kid by his expressiong. Totally priceless.
Gerard made everybody say hi to James Dewee’s parents, because apparently they were there.

Playing Desert Song, and according to Gerard, was Ray’s request <3 After (I don’t remember the music) all them – except for James, who kept playing – went behind the drum set and really seemed discuss something. Gerard came and sang Cancer – that made me burst in tears, but also laugh when between the verses “’cause I’m awful just to see” someone shouted “Hell yeah!” in a really funny way. You could feel the ‘tension’ of the music being broken in those two seconds or less; even Gerard laughed – and finally Ray brought an acoustic guitar. I must admit that I didn’t expect. Gerard talked about how they planned to put it on Revenge but it ended up on LOTMS and also said that LOTMS was about how they wanted people to express themselves; being in a band, drawing a comic book or making a movie. It was beautiful. I’d probably have cried a bit more if I didn’t feel so drained.

Gerard talked about their break – he told us they’d come back in St. Louis in three years or so and everybody went “NOOOOOOO!”, hahaha. Then he continued “I am fucking old, man. You get tired of shaking your ass and partying till 6am in the morning. I am getting old, but you make me feel so young, you know?”

“We’re gonna play a Bullets’ song” was enough to make me go crazy – and looking for my cell phone to call bunchofliars <3 – and I must say that for a brief moment I wanted them to play at least a bit of Vampires again, but Gerard said they wouldn’t do it and that “they also couldn’t play the whole song” :{ But headfirst is just a great, powerful song and all that I wanted to do was pull my friend from the cell phone and make her listen to it with me, there.

Gerard made everybody point their middle fingers to the ceiling during “you’re never take me alive” verses.

I didn’t see much of Mikey or Frank action, since I was on Ray’s side of the stage, unless I’d be on stretching my legs as much as I could. But Mikey was unstoppable, shaking his long hair and making a pose when Gerard introduced him before Give ‘Em Hell, Kid.
After the show, the guys from Drive Buy were signing stuff (they had said before they wanted “to meet and hug Saint Louis”) and that was probably the only time I used my camera (when my mom heard they weren’t allowed, she took it back to the hotel, lol):
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And Frank was the only one to came out after. I passed him three or four times, but the line to have something (“just one thing and no cameras!”) signed was huge. I went to the end after I bought my merch and the Drive By’s cd, but when he was halfway done he had to go. I was kind of sad at first, because I was this close and then… But you know what, nothing about this night will make me feel less happy and satisfied. The sensation of the first My Chem show is just indescribable. Too good to put in words.

Sorry if I forgot something. I’m writing this at 2 am, on the road and the lack of sleep/food/lights is making me dizzy. I just have to say thanks to Jenny, xneverxbreakxme and her mom, for buying my extra ticket, hahaha. And for the entertaining people on the line.

That’s what I remember of them playing:
Disappear
Dead
Cemetery
Way Home
Black Parade
Jetset
I Don’t Love You
House of Wolves
Mama
Prison
Headfirst
KAYF
Not OK
Teenagers
Famous
Cancer
Desert
Give em Hell
Helena

Also, if someone – anyone – has any pictures of the show and/or the one we got with the S//C street team, please contact me? I’d really love to print them to make my personal scrapbook, so don’t worry about me reposting and claiming they’re mine. If I post somewhere, of couse I’ll give you the credits or whatever you want. I’m just desperate for pics, guys, from the best night of my year so far. (Ahahaha to my friends that wanted me to go to the prom instead, k?)

Late last night I got the email, as I am sure many of you did too.  The DVD/CD combo was up for presale at 1am central time this morning.  Well, being the obsessive person I am, I ran right over to theblackparadeisdead.com and nearly had a heart attack before I finished checking out in the online WB store!  My heart was jolted back into rhythm when I saw the final price… $70 and some change.  This was with shipping and all.  You might say, “well you didn’t have to order the limited edition.”  Oh but I did!  I mean they know how to get ya.  They know what to do to make you want it all, and they know we love that band so much, we are willing to spend our lunch money or grocery money to get it!

I have poked around a few online bulletin boards and fan sites.  The concensus is general… “The limited edition is way to high!”  This is what is being screamed (written in all capital letters) around the internet.  And don’t get me wrong for a second, it stung a little when I mashed the “complete order” button this morning. 

So here is my question.  Did you buy the limited edition?  Are you happy with what you are getting?  Did you say “eff that” and buy the regular CD/DVD combo instead of the limited edition?

Just wondering what all the MyChemicalFreak readers have to say!

Your friend in brokeness,
Brandi