On this day, October 5

In 2022: My Chemical Romance performed their 51st show of the 2022-2023 Swarm tour in Oakland, California, USA. At this show, the drum kit was a smiley face with a painted on bullet wound. (🖤)

Watch the show here!

Kris Lori Fuentes Cortes

mcr in Oakland as photographed by Alan Snodgrass

📸: Jennie Book

HELLO???

all u need to kno going into an mcr show is frank iero gonna be wearing long sleeves. Mikey way gonna be wearing no sleeves. ray toro is gonna be wearing clothing that is two snapped threads away from an international incident. and gerard way u just have no fucking idea

the best vid i got at the show, he was literally making goblin noises all night into the mic

it’s so easy to fall in love at a my chemical romance show. to fall in love with the people you’re queueing with, platonically infatuated with the way a band can bring together a community of new friends. to hear stories about how far people travelled for four guys who bring comfort and hope to many. to wake up every 40 minutes of the night on the cold concrete, next to people you just met. to overhearing conversations about the band, about the experience, about the excitement your line neighbors feel about seeing this band for the 1st, 5th, or 20th time. falling in love with the ambient sounds of the city and traffic as it dies down and turns into night life, looking up where the stars would be if the sky wasn’t so polluted with artificial light. the way it feels to journey across venue grounds, regroup in line next to your new friends and wait for doors. finally getting inside, only to look to your left and right and see the people that you’ve spent only a short time with happy crying, over barricade, or pit, or buying their first official tour merch. falling in love with the adrenalin rush, and the free flowing tears when the curtain drops. the cathartic feeling of everything you are worried about becoming insignificant in that moment, and in the next, and in the next after that until the lights come back up. the inevitable drop in your gut when you realize it’s over, and then you have to determine what comes next. for me, i’ll wait until the next, and hopefully when the next comes, i’ll get to fall in love all over again.

Glowing

beemer138: MCR • Day 47 • Oakland Arena • Oakland • Oct 5, 2022

[Oct 5, 2022]

Oakland Arena, Oakland, CA, 10.05.2022

📸 by Priscilla Anna ✨ ( insta priscillapple ) for oaklandarena

love this one omg

Oakland 10.5.2022 | Jennie Book

Speechless…

okay but the crowd last night was fucking bonkers, gerard even made a comment on how loud we were :’) i can’t believe i finally got to experience mcr live AHHH

babygirl and her soundboard ~

mcr oakland 10/05/22

chasing him