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A STAGE

[before disappear]

[Gerard]: Liverpool! It is so extreme very nice to be here today, thank you for having us! You are looking lovely today, I see some wheat in the audience… we are The 52nd Regiment of The Black Parade! We are supported by the Draag National Auxiliary Band! And we are here in support of the most handsome man alive, please put your hands together and make some noise for the [indistinct], His Grand Immortal Dictator! Ahh… yes, sounds good to me. What say you? Have some fun? Sure! How about it!

[before sharpest lives]

[Gerard]: Blood! Blood! Blood.

[before i don’t love you] [elexecution]

[Gerard]: Team effort! Alright, merry old fucking England! When you came in today—hold on, hang on, I’m getting water. This song’s really entertaining. It gets better the more you listen to listen to it over and fucking over again. Hold, please. ‘Cause you gotta stay hydrated. You don’t wanna—anyway, when you came in, you got one of these, right? You got one of these? So, one side, says yay! Everybody say yay! The other side says Nay! Alright. You guys have democracy or something like it here, right? We’re gonna try something out right now. See these people over here, with the hoods on and jumpsuits? They may have been [indistinct], they could be from the prison, who knows, it doesn’t say. Apparently they’re really bad people. I’ll take their word for it. So what we are going to decide right now, if they live or if they die! So. If they live, you don’t want them to die, you put the nay up. That’s how this works. Let me see the nays. Impressive! Let me see the yays. Fuck yeah. Alright, then. Let’s do this. Roll, please! Ready! Aim! Fire. That’s some gruesome fucking deaths we got here. That’s it! Get ‘em all off! Get them the fuck outta here. I don’t want what you’re selling. Yay! Didn’t that feel good?

[during mama][dagger part]

[Gerard]: Hello! How are you! How are you! You feeling better? Looking quite well! I’m gonna tell you a story, it’s a short story, trust me, it’s a short story. We were in jail, for something, like, two hundred and forty-seven years, and, after a while, you know, you’re there for a long time, you start to meet people, where I got this little dude, he’s the coolest. He’s the coolest, he gave me extra gruel, when he didn’t want—I don’t think he ate very much, I think he was made outta plastic, whatever[?]. And then he says, hey! I said what—he says hey! I’m bored of playing dice! No more dice for me! I said, what do you wanna do? He said, I want you to lean real close. I said okay. He said, I’m gonna whisper in your ear… something special for you…

[introducing Marianne]

[Gerard]: Marianne! We have Marianne back with us! Sure happy to see you, Marianne! Are you happy to see us? Sure you are. This is Marianne. She’s a wonderful singer. And she sings a part of this song, who was sung by a very big singer a very long time ago, she’s gonna help us tonight. What we’re gonna do today is, we’re gonna count her in. Y’all sing with us, alright? So we can all do it together. Goes like this. I said one. Two. And then you go, one, two, three, four. Let’s try it. Come on. How does that sound? Let’s try it. Now this time for real. Are you ready?

[before disenchanted]

[Projection guy]: Our time has come. The button pressed, and a simple act has meaning. A single word repeats across the stars, and then our hearts. Greatness. Then comes a time when all must ask, what cost to hide? What loss so great, to scrawl our names in sand? Or chisel them in concrete? Goodnight, my friends. Goodnight to all.

B STAGE

[before vampire money]

[Gerard]: Thank you Clarice. Please make some noise for Clarice Jensen. We’re My Chemical Romance from New Jersey. Alright Liverpool, hands up! Up! Up! Up!

[before not okay]

[Gerard]: Frank found me a jersey with my name on it. I’m so psyched about that. Woo! Fuck yeah. Fuck yeah! You wanna keep going? Let’s keep running!

[before heaven help up]

[Gerard]: Fantastic! What a good time, yeah. We had, uh, that insect—it flew by, man. It was so fun. So—so, if you were really fuckin’, blowing up and stuff, which is extra fucking nice, thank you guys, so much. We wanna thank some people, please, make some noise for—they honoured us by playing with us tonight, one of the greatest bands of all time, Echo And The Bunnymen, please, make some fucking noise. We consider ourselves extremely lucky to have played with them, so, thank you, Echo And The Bunnymen. I want you to make some noise for these gentlemen here playing with us a very long time, Jarrod Alexander, Jamie Muhoberac [gerard noise]. The Draag National Auxiliary Band, make some noise for Clarice Jensen, Kayleigh Goldsworthy, and Tucker Rule. They’re amazing. We’ve been all together on this thing since, last year, we’re still having fun. Hey, who’s that? Steve. On the phone, right? On the telephone? We wanna thank the cast of Long Live, we wanna thank our crew, the greatest people. Really blessed. We’re gonna play you a B-side off of Black Parade.

[before summertime]

[Gerard]: Thank you. It’s getting—proper north now. Oh, yeah. It’s real weird. I feel like we’ve been here in the summer before, but, like, man, we’ve been, like, rehearsing this stuff in hotels and like, it’s like, fucking, um, I'm texting Linds, I’m like, yo, it like—looks like the afternoon now. It’s 9:30 at night! It’s so—it’s so fucking— it’s so fucking bright! And, yeah, of course, we’re still like—jet lagged, so we’ll be up, at, like, three, we’re like, oh, it’s dark. And at four, when you finally fall asleep, the fucking sun’s up again. The sun is fucking up again. Whatever. I fucking love it. W—whatever. The UK was the first place to love, love, love, love My Chemical Romance. We played our first big places in the UK, I think technically we got our first bus, which is fucking nuts, man. Wonderful. Thank you guys, so much. We love you guys. [indistinct] wait a sec. Alright. Lights on. This song’s off Danger Days. Make it like a starry sky!

[before save yourself]

[Gerard]: What’s next up? So, uh, Danger Days turns 15? Right? 15? I think so. Pretty awesome. We’re gonna play a song off it right now. We just played a song off it. Whatever. Love this song. This song is called ‘Save Yourself, I’ll Hold Them Back’.

[before cemetery drive]

[Gerard]: Oooh! Oooh. Don’t you worry, my friend. There’s water for everybody. On this boat. This boat has water for everybody. You guys got—you guys got really cool cemeteries here. This is a song off Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge called ‘Cemetery Drive’.

[before nanana]

[Gerard]: You guys look fantastic. Thank you so much. So, um, Danger Days turns 15 this year, is it 15 years? We, um, we’re gonna play a song off it. We’re gonna play a song off it. Oh, we—we did—we—we did play some. Woohoo! That’s—wild. This guy wants to real bad. This is for you. Killjoys, make some fucking noise!

[before venom]

[Gerard]: We don’t need to turn the lights on! Maybe, they, uh—they need help, or something, over there. Somebody’s going to come. Fuck it, the lights aren’t all too bad. Let’s help them out. [indistinct] You get the thumbs up. They’re coming around. So, I was actually gonna say this, um, anyway, um, Liverpool is Frank’s favourite football team. Like, he’s fucking, way into it. [indistinct]. I used to go see the Cosmos from New Jersey. Have you seen the Cosmos? Who saw the Cosmos here? He did. My friend, he’s the only one here who saw the Cosmos. [at frank after the crowd chants] Look at him, look how fucking happy he is, man. Come on. Happiest fucking person in the room. Can we get over there? Can we g—we’re good. Okay. We’re gonna leave the lights on for this next song, though. ‘Cause it’s that kind of song.

[before helena]

[Gerard]: Alright, you can turn the lights off. You’re pretty, like, for real, I could’ve made, like, some stupid, ohh, they’re so ugly, turn ‘em off. ‘Cause it’s not true. You’re fucking pretty. That’s what it is, Frank. On the dead mic, he said, you’re too pretty. Can’t keep looking like that. That’s the way it goes. It’s like that. We have two more for you. Thank you so much. This is an amazing way to start the tour. Really appreciate it. [indistinct] we gonna do the intro to this one? What’re we gonna do? Okay—we’ll do that.

[before kids]