My Chemical Romance kicks off February 22 in Manchester, New Hampshire, and then moving down the East Coast before heading west and concluding March 16 in Reno, Nevada. The band said it will announce more dates in the coming weeks. The band is touring in support of the widely praised Parade, billed as "an epic theatrical concept album about mortality.
" The band will perform part of the show as the Black Parade, the circuslike alter ego it adopts on the new album. "We're going to retain the essence of a rock show," front man Gerard Way told Billboard. "It's not going to be like seeing [Pink Floyd's] The Wall.
It's going to bring the music and the band and the record to life. It's going to be theatrical without detracting from [the music]; it's not going to be surface over substance." Fans will be able to buy a limited number of tickets in a starting today.
The official on-sale date for tickets will be Saturday, January 6, 2007. Before hitting the road in the US, My Chemical Romance has a series of shows Down Under as part of the Big Day Out festival, which tours through Australia and New Zealand. Based in New Jersey, My Chemical Romance is an alternative pop/rock and punk-pop band that has been compared to Thursday and, to a lesser degree, Cursive.
Their name was inspired by author Irvine Welsh (of Trainspotting fame), and while many of their songs are loud, fast, hyper, and aggressive, My Chemical Romance's work also tends to be melodic...
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