My Chemical Romance has bowed out of their three-night stint at Wembley Stadium in style. The Gerard Way-fronted band performed a track from Danger Days for the first time since 2011, after performing The Black Parade in full. My Chemical Romance has toured The Black Parade for the last year and will now take the tour across Europe.
Way and the band had performed B-sides and deep cuts, some for the first-time ever, at their second night performance. On their first of three nights at Wembley Stadium they covered Morrissey in their second act while also performing many songs from Danger Days.
A full setlist for My Chemical Romance’s show at Wembley Stadium can be found below.
- The End
- Dead
- This Is How I Disappear
- The Sharpest Lives
- Welcome to the Black Parade
- I Don’t Love You
- House of Wolves
- Cancer
- Mama
- Sleep
- Teenagers
- Disenchanted
- Famous Last Words
- The End
- Blood
- From A to B
- Boy Division
- Party Poison
- I’m Not Okay (I Promise)
- Desert Song
- Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)
- Vampires Will Never Hurt You
- Vampire Money
- SING
- Helena
- The Kids from Yesterday
This marks the first performance of Party Poison since 2011 and the first performance ever of Desert Song on The Black Parade tour. My Chemical Romance performed Zero Percent for the first time at their second Wembley Stadium show, where Joan Jett opened the gig.
In a five-star review of My Chemical Romance’s performance of The Black Parade, the band were praised by Cult Following for adding a new layer to their 2006 album. The review reads: “Adding a new layer of concept to a concept album is a bold move, but a band like My Chemical Romance can pull it off. Twenty years on from The Black Parade and the sense of unity found in the studio, the “in spite of it all” attitude that Gerard Way and the band used to build a rock opera classic, is replaced.
“You can find pockets of it at their Wembley Stadium show, where the theme now is a regiment of The Black Parade playing for a dictator, but the change feels more like Way had new ideas and no intention of another album than anything else. It works though. The set design, structure and overall stylishness of The Black Parade come through with new meaning. Nothing is sacred and any band with even an inkling of social commentary is going to pivot into representing their thoughts. A mock-up of Soviet Union-era propaganda, and dedicating themselves to it to this extent, is an incredibly bold move.”
The band will perform in Italy and Spain before heading to the United States for a tour that will run from August to November.
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