happy birthday my chemical romance

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fuck this post and happy birthday my chemical romance

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List of tags used on this blog, they do what they say on the tin! Everything is also tagged with date, year and show name if relevant. Sources for dates are in the (🖤), please DM me if a date is incorrect, I try not to spread misinfo!!

🖤 eras 🖤 #bullets era #revenge era #black parade era #danger days era #conwep era #breakup era #swarm era #lltbp era

🖤 releases 🖤 #album release #alternate version release #cover release #EP release #live album release #music video #single release

🖤 live shows 🖤 #tour date #live debut #live premiere

🖤 other 🖤 #announcement #birthday #interview #misc #not a date #related media #solo projects

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On this day, August 15

In 2025: My Chemical Romance performed their seventh show of the 2025-2026 Long Live the Black Parade tour. This show's magazine was "Variety Puzzles and Games Special Issue" (Autumn 2025) and the note was not recovered. (🖤🖤)

Watch the show here!

Jess Ripper

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On this day, August 9

In 2025: My Chemical Romance performed their sixth show of the 2025-2026 Long Live the Black Parade tour, in East Rutherford, New Jersey, USA. At this show, they performed a cover of Bon Jovi's "Livin' on a Prayer" for the first time. Midway through the show, they were joined on stage by the mayor of New Jersey, who presented them with the keys to the city. This show's magazine was "Into the Quantum Realm", and the note read "To avoid further premature shift departures, a time-card system is being introduced to the MOAT work release program." (🖤🖤)

Watch the show here!

Joanna Foster

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On this day, August 2

In 2025: My Chemical Romance performed their fifth show of the 2025-2026 Long Live the Black Parade tour in Arlington, Texas, USA. At this show, they performed the unreleased song "War Beneath the Rain" for the second time ever. This show's magazine was "A Peterson Field Guide to Insects" (1998), and the note read "You are in the city of Dallas, Texas." (🖤🖤)

Watch the show here!

Heather Martinez

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On this day, July 27

In 2025: My Chemical Romance performed their fourth show of the 2025-2026 Long Live the Black Parade in Los Angeles, California, USA. At this show, the magazine was "Christie's Toy Trains" (2002), and the note read "A horse with a silver tail neighs on a high hill." (🖤🖤)

Watch the show here!

Steve Rose

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On this day, July 26

In 2025: My Chemical Romance performed their third show of the 2025-2026 Long Live the Black Parade tour, in Los Angeles, California, USA. At this show, an unreleased song titled "War Beneath the Rain", written as part of the scrapped album "The Paper Kingdom" was performed live for the first time ever. This show's magazine was a book titled "Volcanoes", and the note has not been recovered. (🖤🖤)

Watch the show here!

Rob Sinclair

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On this day, July 19

In 2025: My Chemical Romance performed their second show of the 2025-2026 Long Live the Black Parade tour in San Francisco, California, USA. At this show, they performed a cover of "Bullet With Butterfly Wings" by The Smashing Pumpkins for the first time. This show's magazine was a Na Na Na music video prop "Murder" magazine, and the note read "Mother wants you disciplined." (🖤🖤)

Watch the show here!

Greg Chow

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On this day, July 11

In 2025: My Chemical Romance performed the first show of the 2025-2026 Long Live the Black Parade tour in Seattle, Washington, USA. They were joined by Lucy Joy Altus as Marianne during The National Anthem of Draag and Mama, Charlie Saxon as The Clerk, and cellist Clarice Jensen. At this show, the note read "Mother doesn't love you anymore". (🖤🖤)

Watch the show here!

Mark Beemer

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is there like a calendar or anything that you followed or was it all fan submitted stuff?

all fan submitted I suppose but the fan is just me personally spending a lot of time on setlistfm and wikipedia and the mcrchives dropbox lol! 🖤

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On this day, June 6

In 2025: My Chemical Romance released a deluxe anniversary edition of their second studio album "Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge". The deluxe edition featured new mixes of tracks by Rich Costey, along with 4 previously unreleased live tracks originally recorded for the BBC in 2005. (🖤)

Stream "Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge (Deluxe Edition)" here!

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On this day, October 20

In 2024: My Chemical Romance performed their second of two shows at the 2024 When We Were Young festival in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. (🖤)

Watch the show here!

Rob Sinclair

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On this day, October 19

In 2024: My Chemical Romance performed their first of two shows at the 2024 When We Were Young festival in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. At this show, "The End" and "Disenchanted" were performed live for the first time since 2007, "The Sharpest Lives" for the first time since 2008 and "Dead!" for the first time since 2011. "Cancer" and "Mama" both featured new violin accompaniments, performed live by Kayleigh Goldsworthy. (🖤)

Watch the show here!

Jared Stossel

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So long and goodnight ✩

Today is the one year anniversary of the day after the swarm tour ended, which also makes it the one year anniversary of this blog. For the most part, there are no more scheduled posts in the queue.

A couple of dates had already passed by the time I could verify them - I will schedule these as they come up, as well as making posts for anything new I find, updates/corrections to existing posts, and new events or releases. My inbox will stay open for any requests for dates to be added, as well as any corrections or sources to be added (thank you to the people who have sent these through in the past!). I'm not currently planning on scheduling reblogs of existing posts for future anniversaries, but I'm open to it if enough people would like that :)

I'm going to get a bit sappy now, so this last bit is really optional reading material. I truly wasn't expecting this blog to be anything more than some silly fun when I made it, but reading through people's memories of shows, releases and announcements in the tags has been more touching and meaningful than I expected. My Chemical Romance is a band, but like most things worth caring about My Chemical Romance is also an idea built out of human connection and shared experiences. The swarm era would never have meant as much as it did without every person who reached out a hand to share a piece of what MCR means to them, through their tags or art or jokes or song covers or archives or webweaves or 3am liveblogs of 12 pixel instagram livestreams. Thank you for being here with me, and for making something beautiful. 🖤

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On this day, March 26

In 2023: My Chemical Romance performed their 70th show of the 2022-2023 Swarm tour at Punkspring in Osaka, Japan. This show was the last show of the Oceania-Asia leg as well as the overall last show of the Swarm tour. At this show, an unreleased song (titled "Eagles" on the paper setlist) was performed for the 13th time ever, with new lyrics, and Gerard Way wore a dark grey skirt suit with white scleral contacts and fake blood. The drum was a blank mirrored surface for the majority of the show, with "ENDLESS NIGHT" written on it before the encore. (🖤)

Watch the show here!

ハヤシマコ

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On this day, March 25

In 2023: My Chemical Romance performed their 69th show of the 2022-2023 Swarm tour at Punkspring in Tokyo, Japan. At this show, Gerard Way wore a dark grey skirt suit with white scleral contact lenses and fake blood dripping from the side of his head, and "GEMINI" was written on the drums. (🖤)

岸田哲平

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On this day, March 25

In 2011: My Chemical Romance released the single "Planetary (Go!)" from their fourth studio album, "Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys". (🖤)

Stream "Planetary (Go!)" here!

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On this day, March 25

In 2014: My Chemical Romance released a greatest hits compilation album titled "May Death Never Stop You". This album contained the single "Fake Your Death", a selection of tracks from all four of their previously released studio albums, as well as three previously unreleased demos: "Skylines and Turnstiles (demo version)", "Cubicles (demo version)" and "Knives/Sorrows (demo version of "Our Lady of Sorrows". (🖤)

Stream "May Death Never Stop You" here!