All The Best Reactions To The My Chemical Romance Australian Tour
Nobody can deal.
By now, the unbelievable news has probably sunk in: My Chemical Romance are coming to Australia, somehow.
After all, when the news of the reunion first broke, it wasn’t even clear that My Chemical Romance were going to play more than a handful of American shows, let alone that they would be coming down to Australia.
Sometimes these reunions can be a one and done kind of thing — a flash in the pan that is squeezed in around often confused and hectic schedules. Think of the few Eddy Current Suppression Ring gigs that have been dropped since that band officially broke up.
But nup, looks like the emo legends are really committing to this thing. They’ll be playing two headlining gigs at Download Festival, before moving on to New Zealand with old friends Jimmy Eat World.
And nobody can really deal.
In fact, in the hours since the announcement first dropped, the internet has been a mess of emotional, overwhelmed emo fans trying to process a range of complicated feelings.
MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE IS COMING TO AUS IN 2020, GUYS HELLO WAKE UP
— Tahlia Pritchard (@Tahls) November 5, 2019
— Tahlia Pritchard (@Tahls) November 5, 2019
i cannot believe my chemical romance are playing australia next year. biggest festival get since outkast in 2014 imo.
— jackson langford (@jacksonlangford) November 5, 2019
reading My Chemical Romance on a festival lineup poster is absolutely fucking insane and i don‘t know how to handle it https://t.co/BA7NV2sByJ
— jana🎃 (@immcltmscncptn) November 5, 2019
I’ve been holding this toilet roll since MCR made their Aus/NZ announcements pic.twitter.com/OIxvVsgsh8
— •becton• (@swallowmyeyes) November 5, 2019
MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE IS COMING TO AUSTRALIA
— tayla (@dobrikmagic) November 5, 2019
me me, after
before knowing knowing mcr
mcr were are coming
coming to aus
to aus https://t.co/ltPHEKxGUg— 𝐤𝐢𝐫𝐛𝐲 ☻ mcr BAYBEEE (@ujivert) November 5, 2019
Particularly difficult for fans to process is the limited number of dates that the band are playing down here. There will be no Download sideshows — you’ve gotta catch them at a festival, or not at all.
Which is kinda tricky for most dyed-in-the-wool emo fans, who are now feeling old, and uncool, and thoroughly unprepared for standing in the hot sun and drinking overpriced beer.
Can't believe I have to go to fucking Download festival
— Spencer (@ImSpencer77) November 5, 2019
Looks like I, an 85 year old woman, will be attending a festival https://t.co/6bfcs26cL8
— Chloe Papas (@chloepapas) November 5, 2019
when my chemical romance is coming to australia but not brisbane pic.twitter.com/kYdPo6WBed
— karsa (@karsalillian) November 5, 2019
Me telling my mum My mum
that I have to fly to
Australia to see MCR pic.twitter.com/6O8VwohkGK— Cait (@CaitFromMars) November 5, 2019
Of course, there’s still the hope that all of this will result in new music for My Chemical Romance.
The fact that the band are going on something of an international tour means that they’ll be spending a lot of time with one another once again, playing the songs that made them famous. Surely at some point in that process you start thinking, ‘Hey, let’s get a coupla new bangers out’, right?
Right?