My Chemical Freak: My Chemical Romance All The Time

“For your chance to watch My Chemical Romance from the side of the stage in your Australian city, tell us in 25 words or less tell us what character you would create for yourself if you were a part of the Fabulous Killjoys, and Why!”

Read more on how to enter and details from Mychemicalromance.com here…

As part of the “HAITI: Aid Still Required” campaign, artists including My Chemical Romance, The Killers, Tom Morello, Slash and others have pledged to use their Twitter and Facebook accounts Thursday to rekindle interest in helping Haiti.  Read more at ABC News Radio Online.

As we all know James Dewees is the beloved keyboard player for My Chemical Romance.  After a stint in his own band Reggie and the Full Effect and other ventures, he turned over his mic and turned to his keyboard to bring a whole new element to MCR’s already massive successful list of music.

PunkNews.org sat down with Dewees and got an in-depth interview with one we know so little about.  Or at least that is the case for me.

“ So how did this all start? Forced piano lessons when you were a kid?

I actually wanted to take piano because my older brother took lessons; I think I was 7 when I started. I decided to play drums at 11 in the Lewis and Clark elementary school band. I carried a concert snare drum back and forth for a year, and drove my parents nuts. “

Read more from punknews.org here…

Things are ramping-up for the Big Day Out festival.  ”We learnt our lesson. We toured into infinity on those last two albums and it really got to us.  It took its toll on everybody’s mental and physical sanity,” says bass player Mikey Way.  Read more here…

Details are reeeeeeaaaaaallllll sketchy and it’s really late and I’m headed to bed, but apparently there will be an airing of MCR live on World Stage on MTV Latin America, this Friday, at 9 p.m.  Not sure of what live show this could be; possibly a rerun.  If anyone has any further details, please add to this in the comments section as I did an in-depth search on Google and MTV Latin America’s programming schedule and still came up empty.

The Squier Mikey Way Mustang Bass has just been announced at the NAMM trade show, adding to the Fender subsidiary’s rapidly expanding signature range.  Read more at Dawsons UK…

“Squier introduces what is surely one of its most distinctive signature bass guitar models ever in the striking short-scale form of the Mikey Way Mustang Bass. Designed with the input of the nimble My Chemical Romance bassist, it takes the classic Mustang Bass and amps it through the roof with a dazzling large-flake Silver Sparkle finish with black racing stripes, a single seismic humbucking pickup with a black cover, and a black headstock with Way’s signature on the back.”

Read more and buy one for yourself at Fender.com… 

Cassie from Cassie the Venomous is hosting a giveaway on her blog that includes:

1st Place – Full set of 5 My Chemical Romance action figures.
2nd Place – 1 Signed MCR MassCanvas t-shirt signed by all four members of the band.
3rd Place- 1 Unsigned MCR MassCanvas t-shirt.

How do you win these goodies?

Read more and enter at Cassiethevenmous.com

Deadline for entry is February 1, 2012 so enter quickly!

“MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE commemorated their ten-year anniversary on September 11th last year, which was followed up by the announcement a couple of weeks later, that the band would finally be returning to New Zealand – for the first time in five years – as headliners on the2012 BIG DAY OUT.
Bassist MIKEY WAY gave Coup De Main a call while doing some last-minute Christmas shopping in Los Angeles at the close of last year… “

Read the whole interview here…

Yeah that title is a mouthful and I had no idea how to say it other wise.  Below is a picture of a promotional poster for the “Obey Your Master-Art Tribute To Metallica” January 23rd- March 23rd at the Exhibita Gallery.

As you can see from the promo poster you can find more information via www.exhibitagallery.com

Photo courtesy of Brittany on Twitter Pics
Info via Cassie the Venomous on Twitter