So the night after My Chemical Romance broke up I was just lying in bed listening to music, not able to sleep so I decided to write this and send it to Gerard's PO box. So here it is, please tell me what you guys think of it in the comments :D
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It's amazing really that four men on the other side of the world have had such an impact on my life. If it weren't for Gerard, Mikey, Frank and Ray I don't know what I would be doing with my life.
If it wasn't for that day when my best friend started ranting on about this amazing band called My Chemical Romance I would have never started listening to them. I still remember that one day after we had finished getting ready for my friends birthday party that weekend my parents and my friends parents decided to spend the next hour talking to each other. My friend and I went to the park across the road where she played The Ghost of You to me. The song was amazing, it was unlike anything I had really heard. When I got home that night I bought that song and played it on repeat for the next 2 days. I fell in love with that song. By the next week I had all their albums and that's all I would listen to: this amazing band called My Chemical Romance. During the Christmas holidays I caught up with my best friend from primary school who I hadn't seen for ages. I played her the Ghost of You and she fell in love with My Chemical Romance. Soon I started watching heaps of their interviews and really getting to know the band.
About a week later the friend that introduced me to them said that she had a ticket to go see them with 2 of my other friends. I decided I had to go to this concert with my primary school friend. After a lot of begging and crying my parents finally bought me a ticket for my birthday. The next 3 weeks were the slowest 3 weeks of my life. At the time we had no idea that this would be one of the last MCR shows.
The concert day finally came. My friend came over early and we drove straight to the venue in Sydney. After waiting in the line we finally got in. We were standing in the mosh pit about 10 meters from the stage in front of where Frank stands. The opening act Closure in Moscow was an amazing Aussie band. When they came off they started setting up the stage for My Chemical Romance. I remember my dad kept saying that there would be another support band but I knew that they would be coming on now. When they brought the drums forward and pulled the cloth off the drums I saw the kick drum had 'exterminate' written on it. I turned to my dad and said that it was their drum kit but he just said the next band would be using it. Then they pulled up a massive MCR sign at the back and the whole crowd went wild, we knew from that moment that MCR would be coming on stage soon. Then they pulled out Mikey's helmet from Na Na Na and put it on one of the speakers. By now we were just dying for them to get on, we simply couldn't wait. Then they pulled out franks bright green guitar and Mikey's shiny silver bass and did a final sound check before they came on stage. Soon the house lights went down and any of the screams we were saving just came out in great waves. Everyone around me was screaming and jumping. I turned to my best friend next to me and gave her a hug and whispered 'this is it' in her ear. No sooner Look Alive Sunshine started playing. All hell broke loose, I was jumping around screaming like a maniac not caring what anyone would think of me. The house lights slowly came up as Look Alive Sunshine ended and there was MCR, standing right in front of us. They started playing Na Na Na and everyone simply went wild. The start of the show was amazing. The next song they played was Planetary (GO) I had seen heaps of live videos on YouTube where they would throw heaps of giant balloons in the crowd when the chorus started. As soon as the chorus started heaps of multicoloured balloons literally came out of nowhere and started bouncing all over the crowd. These balloons were also filled with glitter so every time one popped there would be a huge glitter explosion. The rest of the concert was amazing. There was lots of screaming and tears and orange juice.
