Gerard Way raves about LostAlone in this week’s NME Magazine.
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Gerard Way Turns Tipster
MCR maninman bigs up Derby three-piece LostAlone for saving him from ‘personal struggle’
We’veall been there” smack bang in the middle of a 133-date, multi-million-pound world tour juggernaut when the shit hits the fan. For My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way, solace in the latter part of the bands uber-OTT ‘Black Parade’ tour came in the unlikedly for of Derby trio LostAlone, whose music he says rescued him from the depths of despair and led to him taking on the role of executive producer on their March-bound ‘I’m a UFO in This City’ album.
Bigging up the band exclusively to Radar, Way said:
“The first time I heard LostAlone was exactly when I needed them. We were neck-deep into the last six months of touring ‘The Black Parade’ and I was going through an emotional change and a personal struggle. It had been a long time since I heard something that spoke directly to my damaged and angry 16-year-old self, yet was just as enjoyable to my 30-yeard-old brain. I know every word to every song they’ve ever written.”
But while the support of the MCR frontman is undoubtedly a gift, LostAlone’s story hasn’t all been plain sailing. Originally signed to Warner in 2009, it’s taken them three long years to actually realeas ‘UFO’ due to various label wranglings and line-up changes with singer Steven Battelle half-joking, “I’m convinced that the void would be turned into a degree course entitled Surviving Shark0Infested Waters. First module: Question Everything, Trust No-One…” Nevertheless, the band are now read to roll and start a mammoth 37-date UK tour this week.
Way, perhaps unsurprisingly, is utterly convinced by their potential to challenge his own band’s crown as the ultimate major label rawk-fodder, declaring,
“I have always thought of them as very much like us in that they are a group of fox-hole buddies, all alone, with nothing to directly compare them to. And because of this, they make music that no-one else can.”
