castalie | Nov. 2nd, 2010

One of my bandom dreams came true tonight, I (finally) saw MyChem live! It was fucking brilliant! It felt kinda surreal at first - I mean, that was Gerard and Mikey and Frank and Ray right! There! In front of me! Singing and playing music live! Talk about a fantastic experience!

It was even better than what I'd hoped (except for The Sharpest Lives which isn't part of their setlist, sadly, as that song is maybe my Most Favourite of their songs); they started with Na Na Na (cue the crowd going wild) and finished with Kids from Yesterday (cue crowd going wild... which was kinda our default mode? Yes) They sang Cancer and Sleep and I'm Not Okay and Teenagers and The Ghost of You and Welcome to the Black Parade, which kinda gave me chills (it's such a powerful song on a good day but live, it's something else all right), just to name a few and! We had Desolation Row too! How awesome was that?

Gerard was fucking brilliant! I mean, he was just Gerard - Gerard with his talks to the crowd and his going down on his knees and his rolling on the ground and his licking his hand and licking the mike. The man struts a lot on stage, and he was also doing his Gerard poses a lot, the one N. christened "his slutty poses". Then we had a lot of looks between the guys (Frank/Gerard, Mikey/Gerard, Ray/Gerard) and the little touches (he ruffled Mikey's hair and touched his chest at one point, just to give an example) and the face-to-face when he sang with Frank (one mike for two guys) or when he was singing right in front of Mikey and Mikey was basically playing for him, you know? We also had a back-to-back (Gerard/Mikey), for good measure. Ray was a god - I'm always in awe when I see vids of him playing but having him play on stage for you doesn't compare. Same thing with Frank - I know he might have been a bit "calmer" than in some of the vids but that's still Frank we're talking about; Jem had the hardest time taking good pics of him because the guy just never stops moving! lol Mikey, on the other hand, is easier to photograph because he's always the more static of the lot but it doesn't mean he wasn't rocking (in every sense of the word) and we even had a Mikey solo at the end!! The guys left the stage one by one and they left us Mikey who did a little show of his own - I was so smitten omg!

And some (other) random details: there was the "Good Luck" helmet on stage, which Gee put on for one of the songs (not Na Na Na). Right behind Frank, there were pictures of his daughters. Gerard asked a girl to come sing Our Lady of Sorrows on stage with them. Oh and for those who're curious, his t-shirt was still hanging by a thread (literally, it seems lol). As for Frank, he changed his shirt mid-concert - so at least one of them likes clean clothes :-p

Jem took some fantastic pictures and she also managed to film several times (her camera is our new best friend because the quality is so good!) so as soon as she'll post her recap, I'll link to her entry - for those who don't have her friended, I mean. She hasn't started editing them yet but I just asked her if she's planning on sleeping tonight and she said she hasn't made up her mind yet so maybe soon lol I might also just link to both Jem's and GD's entries because they might write a detailed recap of the whole thing...

Also, Jem and GD dressed up for the gig so we had our very own Killjoys with us; twas really cute ;-)

Et finalement, une pensée pour Madeline qui aurait du être avec nous ce soir.

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