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Title: 5 Minutes With Gerard Way
Accompanying Image: Gerard Way singing at Big Day Out.
Aside: “Next Week: More from K!’s interview with Gerard Way about MCR’s future”
K!: You played the New Zealand BDO before coming to Australia. Did you know there’s a street called Gerard Way over there?
Gerard: That’s what I heard. I was in the UK once and a fan had given me a Gerard Way sign too that they had lifted from a suburb. I guess there’s a couple in the world.
K!: How are things going today in Sydney?
Gerard: We flew in yesterday so I think we’re all still catching up on the jetlag, and when we get a lot of free time we just hang anyway. You know, the humidity is actually a really hard thing to perform in. It’s very difficult, you feel like you’ve been up there for house, even if you’ve only been up there for a half hour.
K!: How does this BDO feel compared to last time?
Gerard: I guess there’s less of a sense of combativeness, which is interesting.
K!: Combativeness from the crowd or from other bands?
Gerard: I don’t like to even get into it that much, it’s actually boring. Last time we came over, we had done Black Parade but we were still a fairly young band for making a record like that, and there was a lot of stuf in the news. It was back when everything was very tabloidy in terms of the dangers of our kinds of musci and our kinds of dress and our kinds of thinking, and it was kind of in full force when we came to Big Day Out. There was a lot of in-crowd violence, kids getting beat up: lots of reports of that. But you know what was great about it? The kids still showed up wearing black. So there’s just not that going on this time, which is really cool.
(Source: emmahavana, via mcrupdates)
