A "surrogate band" who serve a fascist dictatorship, instigate violence against those who don't comply due to a state of total apathy induced by the people controlling them, coming to the realisation they don't want to serve this regime and being sentenced for it, then immediately beginning the cycle again???
between-songs transcript (boston, 7 september 2025)
this one was so delightful. shoutout again to gen. mwah. under the cut š
[before disappear]
[Gerard]: Ha, ha, ha, ha! [about Frank] He had not heard the joke yet. I told him what it was. Good evening, Boston! As you may know, we are The Black Parade. Here on special advisory from His Grand Immortal Dictator, please make some noise for him, the handsome gentleman. There he is! Bask in his glory. We are supported by The Draag National Auxiliary Band, please make some noise. I salute you sirs, and ladies. Now! I ask you, Boston! Are you ready to keep going? Letās go, then! You have dirtied our armoured suit for the last time!
[before i dont love you] [elexecution]
[Gerard]: Boston! Itās really nice to see you today. One more time, we are The Black Parade, just incase you were wondering and never heard of us before. Weāve got something planned for you today thatās really special, so Iām told, at least. Alright, so the deal was, everybody, when you came in, you got a sign, right? One side says yea, the other side says nay, correct? So, these people up there on the big red circle, or maybe the small red circle depending on who you are, have committed a heinous crime. They ate all the cake and shared none of it with us. Yes, itās very sad, you know? Itās how these things go sometimes when the cake is just too good, you understand. So, Iām gonna have you all put it to a vote, you see? Nay means we donāt punish them for eating the cake, and yea means we do. Iām very confused. Whatāsā? I see yeas in red, yeas in black, what is happening? Alright, one more time, which one wasāI donāt know which one was yea or nay. Letās look, uh, letās see one more time, uh, uh, red is yea, uhāum, red is yea, black is nay, right? Get āem up? Execute, redāno. Let me pick. Roll. Ready. Aim. Fire! Beautiful. Thank you for your participation in democracy.
[before mama]
[Gerard]: What a crisp, cool summer evening.
[introducing Sylvia during mama]
[Gerard]: Sylvia! Sylvia! Itās so nice to see you again! Iāve got a friend. I got a friend from jail, heās a dear friend namedāheās called The Gentleman, and he told me he wants to count you in. But first, letās ask how heās doing! Gentleman, how are you doing tonight? [high pitched gentleman voice] Iām doing very good, thanks. [normal voice] You look quite handsome in your dapper pinstripe suit with your grey tie and your fancy slacks. [gentleman voice] Thank you so much! Thank you, thank you! I really appreciate it! Itās so nice to be here in Boston with everybody. Yay! [normal voice] Most excellent! My dear Gentleman. Now, my dear Gentleman, do you know how to count in Sylvia? [gentleman voice] Yes sir, Iāve seen you do it a bunch of times and fuck it up, so I canāt really be that bad at it. [normal voice] Oh, Gentleman, surely. Surely. Okay, so why donāt you give it a try then, huh? Itās all you.
[before teenagers]
[Gerard and The Clerk together, shaking each other]: Itās really good! Itās really good! Itās really good! Everything is really good!
B STAGE
[before vampire money]
[Gerard]: Thank you Clarice Jensen, please make some noise for Clarice. She plays with us over there on the A-stage too, in the, uh, Draag National Auxiliary Band, itās really hard to say. Maybe I shouldāI shouldāmaybe I shoulda called it something different. Anyway, thereās a few other people playing with us, um, and thatās Kayleigh Goldsworthy, please make some noise for her. Incredible. And our dear friend and handsome man, Tucker Rule, [indistinct] and the handsomest of all, Cheech Iero, make some fucking noise. When, uhāwhen we were up there, I was really fucking looking forward to this. You know, itās so super fun doing that, but I was like, I donāt know, tonight more than any other night, I was like, oh, tonight letās do a whole fucking different show, letās do a whole ānother show, itās a whole show right here, happening right now, right here. And, uh, thank you guys so much for spending the day with us and evening and everything. Oh, fuck! Wait up. Please make some noise for Idles. The rain threw me off today, and uh, you guys were probably standing in it a while. So, uh, weāre My Chemical Romance from New Jersey. Allāall good? Weāreāsome rain damage and shit today. How you doing? [laughs] Alright! First time on this tour, possibly, not sure, maybe, I think, yes, possibly. Uh, weāre all gonna sing this one together tonight, itās a special night, youāll see at the end.
[before not okay]
[Gerard]: Fuck yeah. Please make some noise for Jarrod Alexander and Jamie Muhoberac, theyāve been playing with us for a very long fucking time, our brothers, weāve had a great fucking tour, this is our first stadium tour, thank you for coming out very much. Itās real cool, itās super fun, itās super fun. Uh, weāre always really looking forward to, um, Boston shows, uh, the two on theāon the reunion tour were fucking incredible, and one of those nights was, like, the swan outfit, it was just awesome. We met, uh, a really sweet person today named Ro, I want this song to go out to them.
[before summertime]
[Gerard]: Thank you so much. Thank you. We wanna just keep trucking. Keep fuckingākeep trucking, happeninā. Ready whenever you guys are. Lights! Beautiful!
[before our lady of sorrows]
[Gerard]: Um. We got aāwe got something off the first record tonight, but we want this one to go out to Nate Piekos, who is, umāheās the letterer on Umbrella Academy, the comic I do with Gabriel BĆ”, but, heāhe helped, well, he created the alphabet for Keposhka, which is the language of Draag. Which I have not spoken yet once on stage. Maybe I have one night before, maybe next one, who knows. But, uh, weāre had a lot of a fun doing that. I feel like we started doing that a long time ago. Like, a year and a half, I donāt know, yeah. Jeremyās been fuckināāa fucking long time. But, he did an amazing job, heās an incredibly talented letterer, and thank you Nate. This song off the first record is for you. Buddy!
[before planetary go]
[Gerard]: Fuck yeah, Boston. Fuck. Yeah. This is aāthis is the coolest night, obviously. To state the obvious, like, temperature-wise. Fucking incredible. Oh yeah, people-wise, sorry. Alright, we got a song off Danger Days, weāre gonna fucking dance right now. [indistinct] Letās fucking go!
[before war beneath the rain]
[Gerard]: Fuck yeah. I like the vibes tonight. This maybe wasā our evening was fun. Itās an evening. A chill fall evening. I wish it was a little, um, later in September, because we didnāt get to see the leaves change yet. That doesnāt happen for a hot minute, right? āCause I live in LA, so, we donāt get to see that. Really miss that. Thatās good though, right? Theyāre still doing that, right? The leaves are still changing? Thatās good. I want this song to go out to our brother Matt Galle, whoās here, from here in Boston, and, uh, he started booking us a very long time ago. Um, he had this festival called Skatefest, and, uh, he, uh, he booked us at it and we played upstairs in this cool little space, and after that he was like, āyo, letās work togetherā, it was just really fucking amazing. Weāve just been together forever, we love you Matt, thank you. That was a cool year. Think Glassjaw headlined it, it was fucking amazing. It was a really good night. Oh, Andrew W.K.ās headliner, Glassjaw played, Andrew was great, Glassjaw was fucking amazing. But, uh, this is a song off a record we never put out, but, uh, but we started playing it on this tour, and, uh, trying to remember the count-in. Whatever. Iāll get it. Excelente. Thank you. Hell yeah. All the feedback Iām getting is excellent, all this direction. Hell yeah. This songās called āThe War Beneath The Rainā.
[before na na na]
[Gerard]: Thank you. That was nice. That felt like the beginning. That felt like Skatefest, actually. I hope you liked that, Matt. Headbanging, sweat, sweat ān headbangs, headbanging and sweat, basically. My Chem: The First Ten Years. Blood ān headbanging. Fuckingāoh fuck. Hell yeah. Alright. Letās fucking rip it with you guys already. Itās a fucking banger.
[before helena]
[Gerard]: Hell yeah. I think this is actually, uh, I donāt think I got to tell Frank, but I think this is my favourite setlist of this tour. [indistinct] Itās just fucking good times, you know? All the way up to the roof without ending. Good fucking times. Trust me. I feel we got to spend a couple days here, right? Itās been fucking cool. Yeah, Mikey. [silly voice] Who knows! [laughs] [normal voice] Should we do the intro to this? This motherfucker? Letās do it. Sing it with us.
[before give em hell kid]
[Gerard]: Yo, spooky fucking moon, man. That a full moon again? I dunno. We were talking about the moon, out on the east coast, itās much larger and brighter. Itās fucking awesome to see. [laughs] Right. Frank said we paid extra for it, itās productionāit, it literally looks like it. Looks like spooky Chemical Romance moon, from the skylight, you know? [silly voice] Oooh. Check out the show. Itās scary. Get scared. Scary ghosts. [normal voice] Alright, weāre gonna play a song off Revenge, Mikey Way starts us off on this motherfucker.
[before vampires]
[Gerard]: Oh, shit. I just realised this is, um, the perfect night for that fucking moon. āCause tonight is my favourite of nights, the rarity that they happen. And that is double fucking Vampires. This songās off the first record, itās called āVampires Will Never Hurt Youā.
since some people aren't familiar with the lore: woody woodpecker was an cartoon character from universal known for his grating laugh. ray put said laugh in the dead solo because, well, if life ain't just a joke, etc etc. it is by all accounts difficult to play, and he hasn't played it live this tour up until now - before this, it was last played in 2011. here the laugh is edited over the solo so it's easier to pick out:
@thefaggotfrommcr has kindly pointed out that the shadow/figure is from this wizard of oz poster! i'm thinking the head belongs to mother war from the wttbp mv..
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