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My Chemical Romance announce extra European tour dates

The new dates are a part of their expansive 2022 reunion tour

My Chemical Romance have announced seven new dates in Europe as part of their 2022 reunion tour.

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Following on from a handful of extra UK dates , the New Jersey band have confirmed additional shows in France, Germany, Hungary and Poland to go alongside their already announced run of rescheduled reunion shows .

Tickets for these new shows go on sale Friday (December 10) from here and the additional dates can be seen below:

June 2022 01 – Accord Arena, Paris, France, 02 – Ahoy, Rotterdam, Netherlands 06 – Olympiahalle, Munich, Germany 07 – Budapest Park, Budapest, Hungary 09 – Letnia Scena Progresjii, Warsaw, Poland 12 – Velodrom, Berlin, Germany 14 – Grona Lund, Stockholm, Sweden

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The band were meant to head to Australia and New Zealand in March 2022 to kick off their comeback properly but have recently delayed that string of shows until 2023 , citing uncertainty with border and venue capacity restrictions.

My Chemical Romance’s reunion tour will now start with a pair of shows at The Eden Project in Cornwall, before a trio of shows at Stadium MK in Milton Keynes and a short UK run. They will then head out on a European tour and a run of shows across the United States.

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My Chemical Romance broke up in 2013 but reunited in 2019 for a show at the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall in Los Angeles . Soon after, they announced tour plans but those were delayed because of the coronavirus .

MCR’s complete tour schedule for the UK and Europe can be seen below:

MAY 2022 16 – Eden Sessions, St Austell 17 – Eden Sessions, St Austell 19 – Stadium MK, Milton Keynes 21 – Stadium MK, Milton Keynes 22 – Stadium MK, Milton Keynes 24 – Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin 25 – Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin 27 – Victoria Park, Warrington 28 – Sophia Gardens, Cardiff 30 – OVO Hydro, Glasgow

JUNE  01 – Accord Arena, Paris, France, 02 – Ahoy, Rotterdam, Netherlands 04 – Sonic Park Festival, Bologna, Italy 06 – Olympiahalle, Munich, Germany 07 – Budapest Park, Budapest, Hungary 09 – Letnia Scena Progresjii, Warsaw, Poland 12 – Velodrom, Berlin, Germany 14 – Grona Lund, Stockholm, Sweden 16 – Ice Palace, St Petersburg, Russia 17 – Park Live Festival, Moscow, Russia 19 – Park Life Festival, Kiev, Ukraine 21 – Kunstrasen, Bonn, Germany 22 – Kunstrasen, Bonn, Germany

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My Chemical Romance announce new 2022 European shows

On top of several recently-announced UK shows, My Chemical Romance have revealed more European tour dates for next summer…

Earlier in the week, My Chemical Romance added several new UK dates to their eagerly-anticipated reunion tour. And now there's more European shows coming, too…

The New Jersey emo heroes have revealed that, once they've wrapped things up in the UK, they will then be hitting Europe soon after – kicking off in Paris on June 1, before then taking in venues in Munich, Budapest, Warsaw and Berlin (on top of the tour dates they've previously announced, of course).

MCR's newest dates are as follows:

May 2022 16 St. Austell, UK @ Eden Sessions 24 Dublin, IE @ Royal Hospital Kilmainham 27 Warrington, UK, Victoria Park 28 Cardiff, UK, Sophia Gardens 30 Glasgow, UK, OVO Hydro

1 Paris, France, Accord Arena 6 Munich, Germany, Olympiahalle 7 Budapest, Hungary, Budapest Park 9 Warsaw, Poland, Letnia Scena Progresjii 12 Berlin, Germany, Velodrom

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May 2022 16 St. Austell, UK @ Eden Sessions 17 St. Austell, UK @ Eden Sessions 19 Milton Keynes, UK @ Stadium MK 21 Milton Keynes, UK @ Stadium MK 22 Milton Keynes, UK @ Stadium MK 24 Dublin, IE @ Royal Hospital Kilmainham 27 Warrington, UK @ Victoria Park 28 Cardiff, UK @ Sophia Gardens 30 Glasgow, UK @ OVO Hydro

1 Paris, France @ Accord Arena 4 Bologna, IT @ Sonic Park Fest 6 Munich, Germany @ Olympiahall 7 Budapest, Hungary @ Budapest Park 9 Warsaw, Poland @ Letnia Scena Progresjii 12 Berlin, Germany @ Velodrom 16 St. Petersburg, RU @ Ice Palace 17 Moscow, RU @ Park Live Festival 19 Kiev, UA @ U Park Live 21 Bonn, DE @ Kunstrasen Bonn Gronau 22 Bonn, DE @ Kunstrasen Bonn Gronau

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29 Philadelphia, PA @ Wells Fargo Center

September 2022

5 Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena 7 Boston, MA @ TD Garden 11 Brooklyn, NY @ Barclays Center 13 Detroit, MI @ Little Caesars Arena 15 St Paul, MN @ Xcel Energy Center 20 Newark, NJ @ Prudential Center 21 Newark, NJ @ Prudential Center 24 Sunrise, FL @ BB&T Center 27 Houston, TX @ Toyota Center 28 Dallas, TX @ American Airlines Center 30 Denver, CO @ Ball Arena

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3 Tacoma, WA @ Tacoma Dome 5 Oakland, CA @ Oakland Arena 7 Las Vegas, NV @ T‑Mobile Arena 11 Inglewood, CA @ The Forum 12 Inglewood, CA @ The Forum 14 Inglewood, CA @ The Forum 15 Inglewood, CA @ The Forum

11 Auckland Outerfields 14 Brisbane Entertainment Centre 17 Melbourne Rod Laver Arena 19 Sydney Qudos Bank Arena

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Call them pop-punk, post-hardcore, or alternative rock, but lead singer and founder Gerard Way would rather you never call them “emo.”

My Chemical Romance is arguably one of the most influential bands of the early 2000s, garnering a gigantic loyal fanbase over the years who do everything from following their tours to supporting their causes in public demonstrations.

When the native New Jersey band disbanded back in 2013, followers believed it was the end of an era, but that proved untrue with a powerhouse reunion in 2019. And now, the long wait for more dates is over as Way, along with his brother Mikey and bandmates Ray Toro and Frank Iero are back with a vengeance.

My Chemical Romance started as the brainchild of lead singer Gerard Way. In the aftermath of the 9/11 attack, the vocalist was inspired to write about the event and start a band with guitarist Toro, his brother Mikey on bass, Iero on rhythm guitar, and original drummer Matt Pelissier.

My Chemical Romance released its first album, I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love, in 2002. While it wasn’t a major hit, it used the music to cultivate a fan base following via MySpace. These efforts plus solid touring performances led the band to sign with Reprise Records in 2003.

In 2004, MCR’s second studio album, Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, climbed to a respectable position on the Billboard charts, peaking at #28, and went platinum within the year. Pelissier departed soon after the record’s release, so Bob Bryar took over behind the drum kit.

Over the next two years, My Chemical Romance opened for bands like Green Day on the American Idiot Tour and Fall Out Boy on the Warped Tour. With a robust following, the band was ready to amp things up.

In 2007, the band released its magnum opus concept album, The Black Parade. This rock opera centers around a central character dying of cancer. The band staged powerful events like a hosting live gig using a pseudonym that almost resulted in the audience revolting and a releasing faux parade of black-robed marchers.

Not only did The Black Parade solidify My Chemical Romance’s burgeoning cult following, it was a huge commercial success. The album debuted at #2 on the Billboard charts and went on to go triple platinum in both the US and UK.

Mistreated and misunderstood by some media outlets, Gerard Way and his band had to overcome controversies generated by misinterpretation of MCR’s lyrics. After releasing their fourth album, Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, in 2010, the band would release a series of singles over the next two years compiled as the Conventional Weapons album.

Then, almost without warning, My Chemical Romance amicably broke up. But by 2019, a surprise show in LA signaled a reunion tour. COVID-19 postponed it in 2020, but now the boys are back and ready to take the world by storm.

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My Chemical Romance, may their music never stop you! After their glorious years of being a band, they never have put on a bad show. With others envious of their success, their rocky vibe still manages to say everything in their lyrics.

As only a start-out band in the early 00's, they have blasted their way through all the others, just by their unique and heartfelt music. They are not just a talented, creative and inspiring foursome, but they all put their all into their spectacular performances on stage, whether it be small cramped venues, or huge overpacked arenas. My Chemical Romance are definitely the band everyone's heard of and alot of upcoming bands look up to. They jam pack their performances with energy, emotion and true passion. As popular songs such as the heart aching 'Helena' to the powerful 'Famous Last Words', there is always an element of surprise that this band will put into their set. Frontman 'Gerard Way' sure can get the crowd on their feet and having the best night of their life. However, as they are no longer a group they will certainly be an inspiration to many. My Chemical Romance is done, but it can never die.

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MCR have always been true performers they either perform epically or not at all. And trust me they really knew how to entertain. I have always turned to music as a way out of reality, a tool used to set me free and it felt like they knew how to make me forget about the struggles and just have an amazing time. I was in complete awe, just watching my idols perform and seeing how powerful their words and music could be. They owned the stage. They owned the crowd.

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My Chemical Romance is a classic punk band. My obsession started when I was 11. I loved the Black Parade and everything the band stood for. Their music never fails to amaze me. The lyrics helped me through some tough years and it breaks my heart that they broke up. I'm pretty sure that no matter your walk of life, MCR knew how to touch you.

Wow.. yeah. MCR was my favorite in early high school, seeing them after the craze was a great experience. Gerard still holds up with his great stage proformances and boy oh boy is Frank hot. Got to hear some of my favorite ever songs live and will forever remember this concert.

i will never forget this day and i metaphorically pissed my pants seeing all 4 of them together again. my favorite band of all time and sounded like they never took a 6 year hiatus. i would wait all over again t see them. the crowd sucked, emos are hard to mosh with.

Please announce a show in AZ. The tickets to the Vegas show sold out, and people rescaling tickets are selling them at an insane price. Please, announce more dates. There are plenty of people who have been fans since y’all started that want to see you.

Can we talk about how they’re not playing anywhere in the south aside from Texas? Lmao wtf man. What’d we ever do to y’all? I can’t get to Cali to watch an hour long show lolll I ain’t got the money for that

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Watch My Chemical Romance play first UK show in 11 years as reunion tour begins

Two-and-a-half years after their los angeles comeback show, the band finally began their full reunion in cornwall last night (may 16).

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My Chemical Romance made their return to the UK last night to kick off their reunion tour, debuting new music and rarities at their first show here in 11 years – see footage, setlist and more below.

The band, who disbanded in 2013 and released their “eulogy” final song ‘Fake Your Death’ the following year, have been gearing up for a  reunion tour from this spring after getting back together in December 2019 to play their first show in seven years at the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall in Los Angeles.

Last night (May 16) at the Eden Project in St. Austell, Cornwall, My Chemical Romance finally kicked off their reunion tour, which will take them throughout 2022 and beyond.

The show kicked off with the live debut of the band’s new song ‘The Foundations Of Decay’ , their first new material in eight years which landed last week.

From there, they played their biggest hits including ‘Helena’, ‘Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)’, ‘Teenagers’, ‘Welcome To The Black Parade’ and more.

Fans are also pointing out a new series of merchandise on sale at the show, which are emblazoned with the word ‘swarm’. From fans’ reactions, it appears that many believe the band have a reunion on the way with ‘Swarm’ as its title.

See footage of the show and the ‘Swarm’ merch below.

See the band’s full setlist from the comeback show below.

‘The Foundations Of Decay’ ‘Helena’ ‘Give ‘Em Hell, Kid’ ‘Make Room!!!!’ ‘Summertime’ ‘This Is How I Disappear’ ‘You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison’ ‘Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)’ ‘Famous Last Words’ ‘Surrender The Night’ ‘Teenagers’ ‘DESTROYA’ ‘Our Lady Of Sorrows’ ‘Vampire Money’ ‘Thank You For The Venom’ ‘Mama’ ‘Welcome To The Black Parade’ ‘Sleep’ ‘Boy Division’ ‘I’m Not Okay (I Promise)’ ‘The Kids From Yesterday’

See My Chemical Romance’s upcoming UK and Ireland tour dates for 2022 below, and a full list of dates including Europe, North America and beyond  here .

MAY 19 – Stadium MK, Milton Keynes 21 – Stadium MK, Milton Keynes 22 – Stadium MK, Milton Keynes 24 – Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin 25 – Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin 27 – Victoria Park, Warrington 28 – Sophia Gardens, Cardiff 30 – OVO Hydro, Glasgow

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Why My Chemical Romance’s Reunion Tour Has Proven ‘Bigger Than Anyone Thought It Could Be’

As the band prepares for its first North American run in over a decade, its reunion tour's early returns suggest a one-of-a-kind, $60 million success story.

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My Chemical Romance ’s first reunion show was a personally moving experience for Matt Galle, the band’s longtime agent. “It was very emotional to see them back,” CAA’s Galle, who had known the group since his days as a small-time Boston promoter in the early 2000s, tells Billboard of the band’s comeback show, an underplay at the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall in Los Angeles in December 2019. “You never knew if it was going to happen again or not.”

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The sold-out show at the nearly 5,000-capacity venue went off without a hitch: the band’s performance was rapturous , and the box office gross was record-breaking . Yet prior to the show, Galle looked around the audience and got the biggest hint at just how significant a full My Chemical Romance reunion tour could be. “I noticed that the crowd was people my age that grew up with the band, and maybe a little older,” says Galle, 44. “And then there were people that were my kids’ ages — in junior high, in high school, in college. It was multiple generations of people, that had all waited to see them.”

Two-and-a-half years and one pandemic later, My Chemical Romance have returned to the road, and hundreds of thousands of fans across demographics and continents have gotten what they’ve been waiting for. During a summer in which a crowded marketplace has led to some deflated ticket sales, the My Chemical Romance Reunion Tour has thus far been an unequivocal smash: through 21 dates across the U.K. and Europe in May and June, the trek earned $21.1 million with 277,000 tickets sold, according to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore .

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Those numbers make the reunion run the biggest tour of My Chemical Romance’s career – and it’s not even one-third of the way complete. Later this month, the band kicks off a 42-date North American tour that wraps in November, then heads to Australia and New Zealand for eight shows in March 2023, with headlining festival gigs interspersed with arena dates. With tickets in sky-high demand, Billboard Boxscore estimates that the My Chemical Romance Reunion Tour’s final gross will cross $60 million.

“It’s gotten so, so much bigger than anyone thought it could be,” says Rick Franks, co-president of North American touring at Live Nation, one of multiple promoters working on the Reunion Tour. “We knew it was big. We knew it was arena big. We just didn’t know the demand would blow these places out immediately.”

“Compared to the market as a whole,” says Adam Weiser, svp of global touring at AEG, “this is one of the biggest tours of the last three years.”

Even in their commercial heyday in the mid-‘00s, My Chemical Romance were never sure-thing arena headliners – led by Gerard Way, the quartet represented an influential alt-rock group with a cult following and some true crossover moments. Their 2004 sophomore album Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge peaked at No. 28 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, but spun off emo-pop singles like “I’m Not Okay (I Promise)” and “Helena,” the band’s first Hot 100 entries. The Black Parade , the band’s rock opera follow-up, became their mainstream breakthrough, bowing at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and giving the band their lone top 10 hit on the Hot 100 with the epic-by-design sing-along “Welcome to the Black Parade,” which peaked at No. 9.

The Black Parade World Tour in 2007-08 brought My Chemical Romance to a mix of arenas, theaters and festivals around the globe, earning an average of $183,600 on 5,415 tickets sold per date, according to Billboard Boxscore. Yet the band’s 2010 album Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys halted their commercial momentum, peaking at No. 8 on the Billboard 200; its accompanying live run, The World Contamination Tour, saw nightly grosses and attendance fall by 27% (to $136,000) and 37% (to 3,392 tickets), respectively. That tour wrapped in May 2012, and less than a year later, My Chemical Romance announced their breakup.

As the band members explored solo and side projects in the mid-2010s, however, My Chemical Romance’s catalog gained a steady listenership across different platforms. The Black Parade has become a regular entry on Top Rock & Alternative Albums, a consumption-based weekly chart, for years: since 2017, the album has logged 83 weeks on the tally, placing next to new releases as well as enduring classics by bands like Nirvana and Sublime. As “I’m Not Okay (I Promise),” “Helena” and “Welcome to the Black Parade” have carried on, as it were, as streaming successes – combined, they’ve earned over 1 billion U.S. on-demands streams to date, according to Luminate – and as staples in alternative and rock radio rotations.

“There is a level of rediscovery that’s happening,” says Michelle Rutkowski, program director at alt-rock station WLUM-FM in Milwaukee. “‘Welcome to the Black Parade’ was always the biggest hit and shows up the most frequently in our library, but it’s been interesting to see ‘Helena’ and ‘I’m Not Okay’ [performing well] in research, where previously they had not.”

Rutkowski also points out that My Chemical Romance’s appeal was never just about the songs and albums – the band’s aesthetic, a goth-glam riff on mid-’00s emo that updated through different album eras, cut through a crowded scene. It also fueled major merchandise sales, even (and especially) when the band was defunct. “MCR has one of the most passionate fan bases I’ve ever seen during my 10-plus years as a buyer at Hot Topic,” Mikey Seitis, senior buyer of music and music apparel at the popular mall chain, told Billboard in 2020.

In addition to the renewed interest in their catalog and t-shirt sale opportunities, Weiser believes that a My Chemical Romance reunion run was always going to do strong business because of the band’s touring history… or lack thereof. “There was almost this mythology of My Chemical Romance live, because they never over-toured,” he says. The band’s final headline trek mostly played to theaters, and was broken up by a co-headlining run with Blink-182 as part of the Honda Civic Tour that year.

As such, the band hadn’t embarked on a proper headlining tour with arena dates since The Black Parade World Tour wrapped in 2008 – creating a “perfect storm” of demand, says Rich Schaefer, svp of global touring at AEG. “Longtime fans had been waiting, and new fans had come up without ever having had the chance to see the band,” he says. “So we just sort of realized, ‘Wow, this thing [could] be huge.’”

According to Galle, the first real discussion of a reunion tour happened in early summer 2019 at a meeting at Way’s Los Angeles home; the band had a specific vision for the return, one that didn’t include a comeback album or media blitz. “It was always a less-is-more thing – they just wanted to play the music for the fans,” says Galle. The Shrine Auditorium show in December 2019 sold out immediately and grossed nearly $1.5 million, a record for the venue. A 2020 reunion tour, including 18 North American arena dates for the fall of the year, was announced in January, and ticket demand surpassed the wildest expectations of all parties involved.

“I remember the morning of the first presale – we just had these massive queue counts on these arena shows,” Schaefer recalls. “They had some of the biggest numbers I had ever heard of for a non-Elton, non-Springsteen kind of thing. It was in its own universe.”

Of course, that 2020 tour never happened – the run was postponed to 2021 due to the pandemic, then postponed again to 2022. Ticket buyers were given the opportunity to receive refunds due to the postponement – and reps for both Live Nation and AEG confirm that the overwhelming majority did not, instead opting to hold onto their spots at the My Chemical Romance Reunion Tour for over 900 days.

The postponement allowed more dates to be added to the Reunion Tour, with those 18 dates expanded to over 40 in North America, including extra shows in the New York and Los Angeles areas and smaller markets like Raleigh, San Antonio and Cincinnati added as well. My Chemical Romance’s U.K. and Europe tour maintained an average of $1 million per night, and Galle says that the North American dates “should all be around the $2 million-plus gross range.”

With the U.S. run kicking off on Aug. 20 in Oklahoma City, My Chemical Romance diehards in North America will finally get a chance to see the band after years of inactivity and postponements. After that, the band’s future remains to be seen. Although they released a surprise single, the six-minute prog-rock scorcher “The Foundations of Decay,” in May to help commemorate their live return, no new album or further studio output has been confirmed. And while the reunion tour has demonstrated a huge demand for their live show, My Chemical Romance may choose not to exploit that market once this run wraps up in early 2023.

“I don’t think they’re gonna be an act that’s out touring every year, at all,” says Galle. “If they do end up playing again after these dates are over, it’ll be selective, and the way they want to do it.” With the band headlining festivals like Firefly, Riot Fest and When We Were Young (the lattermost is expected to sell 185,000-190,000 tickets across three days, per Live Nation) as part of their upcoming North America itinerary, Galle says that it’s been gratifying to have other festival bookers ringing him up about My Chemical Romance for future lineups.

“A lot of the cool festivals want them to headline and be a part of them,” Galle says. “I don’t know what they’ll end up doing, but it’s nice to see people thinking about them in that respect.”

Regardless of how My Chemical Romance’s touring future plays out, the Reunion Tour has been so successful that any follow-up should generate major interest from fans who missed this comeback run, or want a second helping. The performance of this tour has proven that My Chemical Romance should be viewed as a major player on the road moving forward, and not just for a long-awaited reunion trek.

“If they [tour] strategically and don’t over-saturate the market,” says Schaefer, “I think that they can absolutely sustain this crazy-high level.”

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CONCERT REVIEW: My Chemical Romance Close Out European Tour In Style

Last night was bittersweet. We witnessed greatness again, but unfortunately, it was the last night of greatness for the European fans. My Chemical Romance closed out a very succesful run through Europe with a great set in Bonn. We were very fortunate to have been able to witness a second show on this incredible tour. After an in-door show in Rotterdam , it was a nice change of pace to witness the band perform on a stage in a beautiful park in the hot summer sun. With a setlist that many in the fandom have deemed to be the best one yet, we were in for a treat. Tonight we got 2 songs from Bullet, with Our Lady of Sorrows only being played a handful of times on this tour, we got a Black Parade B-side: Heaven Help Us, and of course a lot of songs from Danger Days , The Black Parade and Three Cheers. Heart-wrenching and beautiful at the same time, My Chemical Romance closed out their set with Cancer, with the very last lyric being sung to the European fans being: ‘Cause the hardest part of this is leaving you’. Re-live the concert with us through the extensive gallery of the show right below and let us know if you have seen MCR live yet and where, or if you have tickets for any of the upcoming US tour or festival dates!

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Including the live debut of their new single, "The Foundations of Decay”

My Chemical Romance were finally free to proceed on their much-delayed reunion tour , making their first stop at the Eden Project in Cornwall, UK on Monday night (May 16th).

The band unloaded 21 tracks for a breakneck performance that covered every era of the esteemed emo group’s career with some unexpected deep cuts and long-awaited stage debuts. They wasted no time showing off their new tricks, kicking off the show with their comeback single and first released music in eight years, “The Foundations of Decay.”

As if the sound of new MCR wasn’t enough to pump up the audience, the band dove straight into the core of their catalog with “Helena.” The extensive setlist was full of hits (“Teenagers,” “Welcome to the Black Parade”) but also included plenty of surprises from the band’s under-sung later entries like 2010’s Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys and their last studio release, 2013’s Conventional Weapons compilation. The latter project got particular shine after two songs from the album, “Surrender the Night” and “Boy Division,” graced the stage for the first time.

Elsewhere, MCR showed they are truly marching toward world domination on this upcoming tour as they dusted off The Black Parade staple “This Is How I Disappear” for the first time since 2010.  But the biggest crowd-pleasers came during the band’s three-song encore, where they closed out with the anthemic “I’m Not Okay (I Promise)” and the rousing send-off “The Kids from Yesterday.”

Watch fan-captured footage of the concert and see the full setlist below.

In total, My Chemical Romance will embark on 64 dates across Europe and North America in 2022 and Australia and New Zealand in March 2023. MCR also tops the roster for several festivals this summer including Las Vegas’ When We Were Young , Saramento’s Aftershock , Dover’s Firefly , Chicago’s Riot Fest , and Atlanta’s Music Midtown . They’ll be supported throughout the tour by the likes of Badflower, Devil Master, Dilly Dally, GHÖSH, Kimya Dawson, Meg Myers, Midtown, Nothing, Shannon and the Clams, Soul Glo, Surfbort, Taking Back Sunday, The Bouncing Souls, The Homeless Gospel Choir, The Lemon Twigs, Thursday, Turnstile, Waterparks, and Youth Code. Fall in line with The Black Parade via Ticketmaster .

My Chemical Romance ‘The Foundations Of Decay’ Live for the first time at their first UK show in over ten years #MCREDEN pic.twitter.com/QdasFTOf2I — Rock Sound (@rocksound) May 16, 2022

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Setlist: The Foundations of Decay (Live debut) Helena Give ‘Em Hell, Kid Make Room!!!! Summertime This Is How I Disappear (First performance since 2010) You Know What They Do to Guys Like Us in Prison Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na) Famous Last Words Surrender the Night (Live debut) Teenagers DESTROYA Our Lady of Sorrows Vampire Money Thank You for the Venom Mama Welcome to the Black Parade Sleep

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My Chemical Romance will tour North America for the first time in nine years this fall.

The reunion run launches September 9th at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit and continues through the next month, wrapping October 11th at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. My Chemical Romance announced the tour with an eerie short film titled “A summoning…” that features music from band members Ray Toro and James Muhoberac. The clip follows a young boy (played by Marcos Garcia) with an interest in the paranormal and the dark arts, who tries to outrun a trio of masked figures, with many of the scenes seemingly corresponding to different eras in My Chemical Romance history.

Tickets for all dates will go on sale this Friday, January 31st at 12 p.m. local time on Ticketmaster.com . Complete information is available on the band’s website .

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After splitting in 2013 , My Chemical Romance announced their plan to reunite last fall. In December, they returned to the stage with a sold-out show at the Shrine Expo in Los Angeles. Rolling Stone ’s Suzy Exposito wrote of the show , “[I]t’s with this landmark concert that MCR ceases to be a nostalgic act, and proves its mettle as a timeless, rock & roll band for the ages.”

Prior to their North American tour, My Chemical Romance will play a string of international concerts this spring and summer in Australia, New Zealand, the U.K., and Europe.

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My Chemical Romance Add New 2022 North American Tour Dates

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My Chemical Romance have added new dates to their 2022 tour. The new North American shows take place in August, September, and October. Find the group’s tour schedule below.

My Chemical Romance’s tour includes three performances at the new When We Were Young music festival in Las Vegas, Nevada. The band has numerous stops in Europe, too, but will not be playing shows in Russia and Ukraine .

The following acts will serve as openers at various points on the My Chemical Romance tour: Badflower, the Bouncing Souls, Devil Master, Dilly Dally, Ghösh, the Homeless Gospel Choir, Kimya Dawson, the Lemon Twigs, Meg Myers, Midtown, Nothing, Shannon and the Clams, Soul Glo, Surfbort, Taking Back Sunday, Thursday, Turnstile, Waterparks, and Youth Code.

After breaking up in 2013, My Chemical Romance returned to the stage in 2019 . They had been planning a 2020 reunion tour, but had to reschedule due to the pandemic .

Read Pitchfork’s Sunday Review of My Chemical Romance’s 2003 album Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge .

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05-16 St. Austell, England - Eden Project 05-19 Milton Keynes, England - Stadium MK 05-21 Milton Keynes, England - Stadium MK 05-22 Milton Keynes, England - Stadium MK 05-25 Dublin, Ireland - Royal Hospital Kilmainham 05-27 Warrington, England - Victoria Park 05-28 Cardiff, Wales - Sophia Gardens 05-30 Glasgow, Scotland - OVO Hydro 06-01 Paris, France - AccorHotels Arena 06-02 Rotterdam, Netherlands - Rotterdam Ahoy 06-04 Bologna, Italy - Sonic Park Fest 2022 Arena Parco Nord 06-06 Munich, Germany - Olympiahalle 06-07 Budapest, Hungary - Budapest Park 06-09 Warsaw, Poland - Progresja Scena Lethia 06-11 Prague, Czech Republic - Prague Rocks 2022 Stadion Sinobo 06-12 Berlin, Germany - Velodrom 06-14 Stockholm, Sweden - Gröna Lund 06-21 Bonn, Germany - Kunstrasen Bonn 08-20 Oklahoma City, OK - Paycom Center 08-21 San Antonio, TX - AT&T Center 08-23 Nashville, TN - Bridgestone Arena 08-24 Cincinnati, OH - Heritage Bank Center 08-26 Raleigh, NC - PNC Arena 08-27 Elmont, NY - UBS Arena 08-29 Philadelphia, PA - Wells Fargo Center 08-30 Albany, NY - MVP Arena 09-01 Uncasville, CT - Mohegan Sun Arena 09-02 Montreal, Quebec - Centre Bell 09-04 Toronto, Ontario - Scotiabank Arena 09-05 Toronto, Ontario - Scotiabank Arena 09-07 Boston, MA - TD Garden 09-08 Boston, MA - TD Garden 09-10 Brooklyn, NY - Barclays Center 09-11 Brooklyn, NY - Barclays Center 09-13 Detroit, MI - Little Caesars Arena 09-15 Saint Paul, MN - Xcel Energy Center 09-16 Chicago, IL - Riot Fest 09-20 Newark, NJ - Prudential Center 09-21 Newark, NJ - Prudential Center 09-23 Dover, DE - Firefly Music Festival 09-24 Sunrise, FL - FLA Live Arena 09-27 Houston, TX - Toyota Center 09-28 Dallas, TX - American Airlines Center 09-30 Denver, CO - Ball Arena 10-02 Portland, OR – Moda Center 10-03 Tacoma, WA - Tacoma Dome 10-05 Oakland, CA - Oakland Arena 10-07 Las Vegas, NV - T-Mobile Arena 10-08 Sacramento, CA - Aftershock Festival 10-11 Los Angeles, CA - The Forum 10-12 Los Angeles, CA - The Forum 10-14 Los Angeles, CA - The Forum 10-15 Los Angeles, CA - The Forum 10-17 Los Angeles, CA - The Forum 10-22 Las Vegas, NV - When We Were Young 10-23 Las Vegas, NV - When We Were Young 10-29 Las Vegas, NV - When We Were Young 03-11 Western Springs, New Zealand - The Outer Fields at Western Springs 03-13 Brisbane, Australia - Brisbane Entertainment Centre 03-14 Brisbane, Australia - Brisbane Entertainment Centre 03-16 Melbourne, Australia - Rod Laver Arena 03-17 Melbourne, Australia - Rod Laver Arena 03-19 Sydney, Australia - Qudos Bank Arena 03-20 Sydney, Australia - Qudos Bank Arena

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