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My Chemical Romance Reveal Opening Acts for Rescheduled 2022 Reunion Tour Dates

They'll finally get a chance to "carry on" as My Chemical Romance 's pandemic-delayed reunion tour is finally happening stateside. The band just revealed the full rescheduled itinerary for North America after having to continually push back the shows due to COVID-19's impact on the touring industry.

The tour will now officially get underway Aug. 20 in Oklahoma City, with dates running through Oct. 29 which is the final scheduled night of the When We Were Young festival in Las Vegas. The group has also added 14 new shows in 10 cities to the itinerary. See all cities, dates and venues listed below. Tickets for the new dates will go on sale this Friday (March 11) at 12N local time.

In addition, My Chemical Romance have filled the run with a variety of opening acts, including the reunited Midtown, Badflower, Turnstile, Taking Back Sunday, The Bouncing Souls, Thursday, Kimya Dawson, Meg Myers, Devil Master, Dilly Dally, Ghosh, Nothing, Shannon and the Clams, Soul Glo, Surfbort, The Homeless Gospel Choir, The Lemon Twigs, Waterparks and Youth Code all playing select dates.

My Chemical Romance announced their plans to reunite in the fall of 2019, though the seeds of a potential reunion were planted as far back as 2017.  "In 2017, we got in a room together to see what would happen," MCR wrote on Twitter in December of 2019 . "A couple more jam sessions and 39 days of rehearsals later, we’re ready to show you what we’ve learned. See you soon."

The band played their first reunion show at the Shrine Expo Concert Hall in Los Angeles on Dec. 20, 2019, reportedly grossing nearly $1.5 million for the band. The group then started announcing more and more tour dates for 2020, but the pandemic wiped out those plans.

The group will play in the U.K. and Europe this May and June, before focusing on the U.S. this fall. See all of their scheduled dates and get ticketing info here .

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Aug. 20 – Oklahoma City, Okla. @ Paycom Center Aug. 21 – San Antonio, Texas @ AT&T Center Aug. 23 – Nashville, Tenn. @ Bridgestone Arena Aug. 24 – Cincinnati, Ohio @ Heritage Bank Center Aug. 26 – Raleigh, N.C. @ PNC Arena Aug. 27 – Belmont Park, N.Y. @ UBS Arena Aug. 29 – Philadelphia, Pa. @ Wells Fargo Center Aug. 30 – Albany, N.Y. @ MVP Arena Sept. 1 – Uncasville, Ct. @ Mohegan Sun Arena Sept. 2 – Montreal, Quebec @ Centre Bell Sept. 4 – Toronto, Ontario @ Scotiabank Arena Sept. 5 – Toronto, Ontario @ Scotiabank Arena Sept. 7 – Boston, Mass. @ TD Garden Sept. 8 – Boston, Mass. @ TD Garden Sept. 10 – Brooklyn, N.Y. @ Barclays Center Sept. 11 – Brooklyn, N.Y. @ Barclays Center Sept. 13 – Detroit, Mich. @ Little Caesars Arena Sept. 15 – St. Paul, Minn. @ Xcel Energy Center Sept. 16 – Chicago, Ill. @ Riot Fest Sept. 20 – Newark, N.J. @ Prudential Center Sept. 21 – Newark, N.J. @ Prudential Center Sept. 23 – Dover, Del. @ Firefly Music Festival Sept. 24 – Sunrise, Fla. @ FLA Live Arena Sept. 27 – Houston, Texas @ Toyota Center Sept. 28 – Dallas, Texas @ American Airlines Center Sept. 30 – Denver, Colo. @ Ball Arena Oct. 2 – Portland, Ore. @ MODA Center Oct. 3 – Tacoma, Wash. @ Tacoma Dome Oct. 5 – Oakland, Calif. @ Oakland Arena Oct. 7 – Las Vegas, Nev. @ T-Mobile Arena Oct. 8 – Sacramento, Calif. @ Aftershock Festival Oct. 11 – Los Angeles, Calif. @ The Forum Oct. 12 – Los Angeles, Calif. @ The Forum Oct. 14 – Los Angeles, Calif. @ The Forum Oct. 15 – Los Angeles, Calif. @ The Forum Oct. 17 – Los Angeles, Calif. @ The Forum Oct. 22 – Las Vegas, Nev. @ When We Were Young Oct. 23 – Las Vegas, Nev. @ When We Were Young Oct. 29 – Las Vegas, Nev. @ When We Were Young.

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My Chemical Romance Extend 2022 Reunion Tour

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UPDATE (3/9/22) : My Chemical Romance have added a 14 new shows to their long-awaited reunion tour , and released additional tickets to previously announced gigs. The group’s expanded itinerary — which is available below, new dates in bold — will find them hitting 10 new cities and adding more shows in Brooklyn, Toronto, Boston, and Los Angeles. Tickets for the new gigs will go on sale this Friday, March 11, at 12 p.m. local time via the My Chemical Romance website .

My Chemical Romance’s reunion tour — originally scheduled to begin September 2020 — has been pushed to 2022 as the impact of Covid-19 continues to linger in the U.S. and other nations around the world.

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“We are deeply sad, but those emotions are only a fraction of the depth of feeling we have all experienced watching the suffering and loss of the past year,” My Chemical Romance said in a statement Friday. “We just want to be as sure as we can be that everyone is safe. Refunds will be offered to anyone who wants them.  We are sorry if this is disappointing, and we really can’t wait to see you in 2022.”

In January 2020, prior to the coronavirus pandemic, My Chemical Romance announced their first U.S. tour in nine years with a September 2020 start date. However, five months later amid the pandemic, the band rescheduled those shows to begin September 2021. Those dates, following Friday’s postponement, are now scheduled for 2022.

Check out the MCR’s site for the new itinerary; all tickets will be honored for the new dates, while fans who can’t attend the rescheduled shows can request a refund by May 16th.

My Chemical Romance were also set to headline both the 2020 postponed and 2021 rescheduled Aftershock Festival as well as the 2021 Riot Fest , but the band’s gigs at those festivals have been canceled as part of Friday’s postponement. Both festivals are still scheduled to take place, with Aftershock tweeting Friday that a new headliner was “to be announced” and Riot Fest revealing that MCR’s headlining gig there will now occur in 2022.

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August 20 – Oklahoma City, OK @ Paycom Center August 21 – San Antonio, TX @ AT&T Center August 23 – Nashville, TN @ Bridgestone Arena August 24 – Cincinnati, OH @ Heritage Bank Center August 26 – Raleigh, NC @ PNC Arena August 27 – Belmont Park, NY @ UBS Arena August 29 – Philadelphia, PA @ Wells Fargo Center August 30 – Albany, NY @ MVP Arena September 1 – Uncasville, CT @ Mohegan Sun Arena September 2 – Montreal, QC @ Centre Bell September 4 – Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena September 5 – Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena September 7 – Boston, MA @ TD Garden September 8 – Boston, MA @ TD Garden September 10 – Brooklyn, NY @ Barclays Center September 11 – Brooklyn, NY @ Barclays Center September 13 – Detroit, MI @ Little Caesars Arena September 15 – St. Paul, MN @ Xcel Energy Center September 16 – Chicago, IL @ Riot Fest September 20 – Newark, NJ @ Prudential Center September 21 – Newark, NJ @ Prudential Center September 23 – Dover, DE @ Firefly Music Festival September 24 – Sunrise, FL @ FLA Live Arena September 27 – Houston, TX @ Toyota Center September 28 – Dallas, TX @ American Airlines Center September 30 – Denver, CO @ Ball Arena October 2 – Portland, OR @ MODA Center October 3 – Tacoma, WA @ Tacoma Dome October 5 – Oakland, CA @ Oakland Arena October 7 – Las Vegas, NV @ T-Mobile Arena October 8 – Sacramento, CA @ Aftershock Festival October 11 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Forum October 12 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Forum October 14 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Forum October 15 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Forum October 17 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Forum October 22 – Las Vegas, NV @ When We Were Young October 23 – Las Vegas, NV @ When We Were Young October 29 – Las Vegas, NV @ When We Were Young

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My Chemical Romance Reschedule Reunion Tour for 2022

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My Chemical Romance have once again rescheduled their North American tour dates , now set to begin at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on August 29, 2022. The emo band’s reunion tour was announced back in January 2020 and was originally set to begin that fall. After the onset of the pandemic , the tour was rescheduled to 2021 before being pushed to 2022 today. Tickets for all original dates will be honored; find the new itinerary at the My Chemical Romance website .

As of writing, MCR are still scheduled to play a handful of 2021 festival dates, including Riot Fest in Chicago this September. Their first performance of 2022 is currently set for March 12 at the Outerfields at Western Springs in New Zealand.

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After years of anticipation and delay, My Chemical Romance finally kicked off their North American tour on August 20, 2022 in Oklahoma City, OK.

The long-waited North American return of the band was announced in January 2020 in elaborate fashion. A 13 plus minute video titled “A Summoning” took fans on a journey through every era of MCR, ending with the reveal of the tour cities and dates for later that year. Tickets sold out in less than six hours.

However, due to the COVID-19 epidemic, the dates would be pushed back to 2021. They were later pushed back once again for the same reason, which finally brings us to 2022 and the kick off show.

With frontman Gerard Way in a Joker tribute costume, complete with make-up, and a drum kit reading "BIG DEATH ENERGY," the band took the stage and opened with their latest single “The Foundations of Decay.” Then they shocked the crowd by going into “Bury Me in Black,” a song recorded as a demo and only ever released as a B-side. This was the first time the band had played this deep cut since 2003.

While all of their major albums were represented, the band also paid attention to their more experimental releases with two songs from Conventional Weapons and “Mastas of Ravenskroft” from the Mad Gear and Missile Kid EP. Black Parade and Danger Days dominated the setlist, with songs from the obvious singles (including “Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)” and “Welcome to the Black Parade”) to others like “Mama” and “DESTROYA.” “Ghost of You” from Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge was dedicated to the band’s longtime friend and producer Doug McKean who passed away suddenly in late July.

Oh, and at one point Gerard put Pop Rocks in his mouth and asked the crowd if they could hear it.

The setlist did feature another surprising return, too. “This is the Best Day Ever” was played live for the first time since 2005.

The main set ended with “Sleep.” But the band returned to the stage for a two song encore: “Vampire Money” and of course “I’m Not Okay.” “Helena” was listed on the printed setlist but was cut for time, unfortunately.

The tour is scheduled to keep going through October with stops all over the US. Keep watching Setlist to see if any other big surprises pop up along the way!

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My Chemical Romance add more dates to rescheduled 2022 tour

My Chemical Romance have announced three more live shows for their huge 2022 comeback run next year.

My Chemical Romance have announced three more live shows – in Russia and Ukraine – for 2022.

The New Jersey gang have added a trio of gigs in June to their huge comeback run next year, now also performing at St. Petersburg's Ice Palace, Moscow's Park Live Festival, and Kiev's U Park Live on top of their already-announced dates.

Earlier this week , Gerard Way admitted that My Chem's incredible 2019 comeback gig at The Shrine in Los Angeles was the "most fun” he’s ever had onstage with the band.

"Something that I tried to do, and this was conscious, was relinquish some control," the frontman explained. "I think about control a lot, and in the years since the band broke up I’ve really examined control in all of its forms. My goal at The Shrine was not to direct the audience to do anything. To let them do what they naturally wanted to do. It became less of working a crowd, as they say, or being an entertainer.

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"If I moved my hand, it was because I wanted to do it. I wasn’t trying to get the audience to wave their hands and stuff. I was just performing. To me, the new version of My Chemical Romance and the way I want to go about it is exercising less control.”

Announcing their rescheduled tour last month , My Chem said in a statement: "My Chemical Romance is postponing our 2021 touring plans until 2022. We are deeply sad, but those emotions are only a fraction of the depth of feeling we have all experienced watching the suffering and loss of the past year. We just want to be as sure as we can be that everyone is safe.

"Refunds will be offered to anyone who wants them. We are sorry if this is disappointing, and we really can’t wait to see you in 2022. All tickets will be honored for the new dates. If you are unable to attend, refunds are available at your point of purchase. Refunds are available for a limited time, details on refund windows and rescheduled tour dates can be found here .

"For festivals or events where the new 2022 date has yet to be announced, event organizers will be in touch directly. If you have any questions, please reach out to your point of purchase.”

Catch My Chemical Romance live at the following dates:

12 Western Springs, NZ @ The Outerfields at Western Springs

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

4 Bologna, IT @ Sonic Park Fest 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

August 2022

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

October 2022

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

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My Chemical Romance have added several shows to their highly-anticipated 2022 reunion tour. Newly announced stops include San Antonio, Nashville, Cincinnati, Toronto, Boston, Portland, and more. Tickets for the new gigs will go on sale this Friday, March 11 HERE .

The trek was originally slated to start in September of 2020, but was postponed due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

“We are deeply sad, but those emotions are only a fraction of the depth of feeling we have all experienced watching the suffering and loss of the past year,” My Chemical Romance said in a statement Friday. “We just want to be as sure as we can be that everyone is safe. Refunds will be offered to anyone who wants them.  We are sorry if this is disappointing, and we  really  can’t wait to see you in 2022.”

In addition to the group’s headlining tour dates, My Chemical Romance are slated to headline Aftershock Festival and Riot Fest this fall as well.

“My Chemical Romance is done. But it can never die,” frontman Gerard Way said in a statment in 2013. “It is alive in me, in the guys, and it is alive inside all of you. I always knew that, and I think you did too. Because it is not a band—it is an idea.”

My Chemical Romance’s last studio effort was 2010’s  Danger Days: True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys . The disc peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard 200, and No. 1 on Billboard Rock Albums and Alternative Albums charts.

My Chemical Romance – 2022 Reunion Tour

August 20 – Oklahoma City, OK @ Paycom Center August 21 – San Antonio, TX @ AT&T Center August 23 – Nashville, TN @ Bridgestone Arena August 24 – Cincinnati, OH @ Heritage Bank Center August 26 – Raleigh, NC @ PNC Arena August 27 – Belmont Park, NY @ UBS Arena August 29 – Philadelphia, PA @ Wells Fargo Center August 30 – Albany, NY @ MVP Arena September 1 – Uncasville, CT @ Mohegan Sun Arena September 2 – Montreal, QC @ Centre Bell September 4 – Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena September 5 – Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena September 7 – Boston, MA @ TD Garden September 8 – Boston, MA @ TD Garden September 10 – Brooklyn, NY @ Barclays Center September 11 – Brooklyn, NY @ Barclays Center September 13 – Detroit, MI @ Little Caesars Arena September 15 – St. Paul, MN @ Xcel Energy Center September 16 – Chicago, IL @ Riot Fest September 20 – Newark, NJ @ Prudential Center September 21 – Newark, NJ @ Prudential Center September 23 – Dover, DE @ Firefly Music Festival September 24 – Sunrise, FL @ FLA Live Arena September 27 – Houston, TX @ Toyota Center September 28 – Dallas, TX @ American Airlines Center September 30 – Denver, CO @ Ball Arena October 2 – Portland, OR @ MODA Center October 3 – Tacoma, WA @ Tacoma Dome October 5 – Oakland, CA @ Oakland Arena October 7 – Las Vegas, NV @ T-Mobile Arena October 8 – Sacramento, CA @ Aftershock Festival October 11 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Forum October 12 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Forum October 14 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Forum October 15 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Forum October 17 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Forum October 22 – Las Vegas, NV @ When We Were Young October 23 – Las Vegas, NV @ When We Were Young October 29 – Las Vegas, NV @ When We Were Young

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Dressed down for the occasion (Way wore baggy short-shorts, high-top sneakers and a T-shirt reading “Pool Boy at the Vampire Mansion”), MCR saved its usual sartorial dramatics for its raging setlist. Standing before red velvet curtains that dropped to reveal a decimated cityscape, MCR started with the new-ish “The Foundations of Decay” – a slow, Hammer Horror-esque song with willowy, Cure-like guitars that blossomed into a crunch-chunking fast track before its screamo finale.

Even at their briefest – for example, “Boy Division” – MCR manages to pack in more theatricality, harmony and melody into three minutes than anyone else. Such levels of grandeur, tunes-manship and high conceptualism were on fullest display during the piano-led, military-drummed “Welcome to the Black Parade” and its immediate follow-up, “Mastas of Ravenkroft.”

But the grandest of all theater remained between the band and its audience on Monday night. When he wasn’t busy pushing his sweaty mop-top from his face or bouncing across the stage, Way was interacting with the Wells Fargo’s devoted, conducting their reactions like a maestro with waving arms. He smirk-smiled precociously as he positioned his microphone toward the crowd during “Famous Last Words” and the raunchy, rarely performed “Vampires Will Never Hurt You.”

As he slinked his way through the back-to-boogie, snake-charming “Teenagers,” Way sang reminiscings of youth and the awkward prejudices he felt as a kid.

They said, “All teenagers scare the living shit out of me They could care less as long as someone’ll bleed” So darken your clothes or strike a violent pose Maybe they’ll leave you alone, but not me

As Way embraced the lyrics of “Teenagers” from 2006, cleanly cackle-crooning in his manner through its us vs. them theme and its richly chugging pulse, the singer was embracing the black parade of kids in front of him in 2022, clutching them to his breast. And thus devotion was shared, communally, between the crowd and their Chemical Romance. If “emo” truly stands for emotion in its punk-iest fashion, then My Chemical Romance — 20 years after its start — should hang onto that tag forever if Monday’s show was any indication.

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My Chemical Romance Adds Several New Stops To Their 2022 Tour

My Chemical Romance has added a slew of new dates to one of the most anticipated tours of the year. The new shows will take place across ten new cities across the US, as well as additional evenings in Brooklyn, Toronto, and Boston.

On top of 14 new arena shows, the Gerard Way-fronted band has added additional tickets to some of their already sold-out shows. Joining MCR on their extensive North American tour on select dates are Badflower, Devil Master, Dilly Dally, Ghosh, 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.

General on-sale begins Friday, March 11 . Check out the full tour schedule below.

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 — Belmont Park, 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, QC @ Centre Bell 09/04 — Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena 09/05 — Toronto, ON @ 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 — St. 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 10/22-23 — Las Vegas, NV @ When We Were Young 10/29 — Las Vegas, NV @ When We Were Young

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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.

By Jason Lipshutz

Jason Lipshutz

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.”

My Chemical Romance Hits New Heights With $20 Million European Tour

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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My Chemical Romance Kick Off Reunion Tour with New Music, Rare Performances: Video + Setlist

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

My Chemical Romance performing ‘Boy Division’ for the first time #MCREden pic.twitter.com/f8qwa7qB81 — ali (@Justdip) May 16, 2022

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

Encore: Boy Division (Live debut) I’m Not Okay (I Promise) The Kids from Yesterday

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My Chemical Romance Push Back Reunion Tour Dates To 2022

By Katrina Nattress

April 16, 2021

It looks like fans are going to have to wait a bit longer to see My Chemical Romance 's reunion. On Friday (April 16), the band announced it was pushing back its already postponed tour dates to 2022.

"My Chemical Romance is postponing our 2021 touring plans until 2022," they wrote on social media. "We are deeply sad, but those emotions are only a fraction of the depth of feeling we have all experienced watching the suffering and loss of the past year. We just want to be as sure as we can be that everyone is safe. Refunds will be offered to anyone who wants them. We are sorry if this is disappointing, and we REALLY can’t wait to see you in 2022."

See MCR's post and the new tour dates below.

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03/12/2022 – Western Springs, NZ @ The Outerfields at Western Springs

05/17/2022 – St. Austell, UK @ Eden Sessions

05/19/2022 – Milton Keynes, UK @Stadium MK (SOLD OUT)

05/21/2022 – Milton Keynes, UK @ Stadium MK (SOLD OUT)

05/22/2022 – Milton Keynes, UK @ Stadium MK (SOLD OUT)

05/24/2022 – Dublin, IE @ Royal Hospital Kilmainham

06/04/2022 – Bologna, IT @ Sonic Park Fest

06/21/2022 – Bonn, DE @ KUNST!RASEN (SOLD OUT)

06/22/2022 – Bonn, DE @ KUNST!RASEN

08/29/2022 – Philadelphia, PA @ Wells Fargo Center (SOLD OUT)

09/05/2022 – Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena (SOLD OUT)

09/07/2022 – Boston, MA @ TD Garden (SOLD OUT)

09/11/2022 – Brooklyn, NY @ Barclays Center (SOLD OUT)

09/13/2022 – Detroit, MI @ Little Caesars Arena (SOLD OUT)

09/15/2022 – St Paul, MN @ Xcel Energy Center (SOLD OUT)

09/20/2022 – Newark, NJ @ Prudential Center (SOLD OUT)

09/21/2022 – Newark, NJ @ Prudential Center (SOLD OUT)

09/24/2022 – Sunrise, FL @ BB&T Center (SOLD OUT)

09/27/2022 – Houston, TX @ Toyota Center (SOLD OUT)

09/28/2022 – Dallas, TX @ American Airlines Center (SOLD OUT)

09/30/2022 – Denver, CO @ Ball Arena (SOLD OUT)

10/03/2022 – Tacoma, WA @ Tacoma Dome (SOLD OUT)

10/05/2022 – Oakland, CA @ Oakland Arena (SOLD OUT)

10/07/2022 – Las Vegas, NV @ T-Mobile Arena (SOLD OUT)

10/11/2022 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Forum (SOLD OUT)

10/12/2022 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Forum (SOLD OUT)

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My Chemical Romance review – emo’s elder statesmen march into new era

Eden Project, St Austell Frontman Gerard Way’s emo scream is back at full throttle as a new generation of adoring fans join in the rowdy singalongs

E mo never dies: the fourth wave of the angsty rock subgenre began a decade ago and you could argue that now, with all the fretful pop-punk in the charts, we’re on to a fifth. So My Chemical Romance could not have timed their comeback better, making a new generation of fans as their original teenage audience ages into stadium rock. The band split after 12 years in March 2013, but remained beloved by the MySpace generation; tickets to a one-off reunion show in December 2019 sold out in minutes. Now, after several pandemic-related delays, MCR’s world tour gets under way in St Austell, Cornwall.

The band have nearly a year on the road ahead of them, playing to stadiums of tens of thousands, so these two relatively intimate dates at the 6,500-capacity Eden Project allow them to ease into it. Fans are rapturous at the mere fact of a reunion, and any initial trepidation over how MCR might sound in 2022 seems to come from the stage: the band are somewhat stiff through the sombre opener The Foundations of Decay, which was released only days before the show. That choice seems too preemptive, given their well-loved back catalogue – a warning against expecting exactly the same band you loved back in 2004.

But then they launch into Helena – emo’s ceremonial standard, and a defining video of millennials’ MTV – and the years melt away, with frontman Gerard Way’s swooping, heartfelt chorus echoed by the crowd. Though endearingly awkward with the audience, fretting about his overgrown fringe and asking the spotlight to be turned off him (“It makes me self-conscious”), Way is in command of the mic: spidery-fingered and snake-hipped, his emo scream is at full throttle.

The setlist is split between their Queen-esque melodrama and fun thrash-y punk, with rowdy singalongs to Teenagers and Na Na Na, and ventures into camp on Mama and Vampire Money. Against a backdrop of an apocalyptic cityscape (and the Eden Project’s red-lit biomes), MCR fully commit to the world-building and sardonic humour that has seen their music age much better than many of their contemporaries.

Predictably, the greatest enthusiasm from the crowd was reserved for songs from Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge and their beloved 2006 concept album The Black Parade, with Way seeming struck by the reverent response to Famous Last Words. MCR might now be elder statesmen of emo, but the inclusion of later material, plus the hint of a new project titled Swarm on the merchandise table, reiterate that this is not a legacy act cashing in on nostalgia, but a much-loved band re-entering the fray.

Even Way seems surprised by the youthfulness of the crowd – this will have been the first gig for many pandemic-age teenagers. As the uplifting final call-and-response to I’m Not Okay (I Promise) affirms in the encore, The Black Parade marches on with new recruits.

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