Gerard Way se afeita, habla de magia y de "Umbrella Academy" [MorrisonCon]

En un baño unisex casi sin luz en el club Body English en el Las Vegas' Hard Rock Hotel and Casino  Gerard Way, cantante de "My Chemical Romance", creador del cómic de ciencia-ficción / superheroes publicado por Dark Horse, "The Umbrella Academy" e invitado especial en la MorrisonCon, desempacó un kit de afeitar y declaró lo que él más amó sobre la convención fue la oportunidad de tener conversaciones profundas con los fans.

"Nunca me pongo a hacer eso. Por lo general, nos llevan directo al bus", dijo Way, llamando a la convención un "sorprendente" cambio de ritmo. El creador de cómics / músico, quien habló en los paneles de ese mismo día con Morrison y sus colegas músicos Jimmy Urine y DJ Akira The Don, realmente se había arrojado al espíritu de la convención, extendiendo su sesión de firmas de la tarde de una a cuatro horas y estirando su apretada agenda hasta el límite con el fin de hablar con los fans.

Ahora, en su camino a la filmación de un vídeo Way me invitó a unirse a él mientras se preparaba. Minutos después, se paró frente al espejo del baño, charlando sobre el acompañamiento musical de Way a los 45 minutos de presentación de la spoken word de Morrison en la noche del viernes mientras la estrella de rock se enjabonaba.

"No puedo recordar cuando la cosa se ​​produjo, pero era como, 'Van a hacer una convención sobre Grant'. Yo estaba como, 'Whoa! Eso es realmente impresionante', porque no puedo recordar la última convención basada en un individuo y su manera de pensar", dijo Way.

En el 2010, Morrison apareció en el video de "My Chemical Romance" "Art is the weapon", protagonizando al villano del vídeo. Para MorrisonCon, Way fue más que feliz de colaborar musicalmente una vez más con el escritor de comics.

"Así que [Morrison] dijo, 'quiero una pieza, ¿quieres hacerlo? Quiero hacer un ritual de invocación'. Le dije: '¡Sí!' Quiero decir, él es mi héroe. Me dijo, 'Oh mi Dios, sí, voy a hacer este ritual de invocación contigo!' Es curioso, porque justamente lo que ocurrió cuando lo mencionó es exactamente lo que pensé que iba a ser, así que no me sorprende, la verdad."

Él estaba preparado para una spoken word de 45 minutos / interpretación musical que hacía las veces de un ritual mágico de invocación?

"¡Sí! Realmente preparado para ello!" Way respondió con entusiasmo mientras empezó a afeitarse. "Sonó y sentí exactamente como pensé que iba a sentir, y me encantó!"

A pesar de la gran cantidad de fans propios, el escritor / músico se rió cuando se le preguntó si le gustaría crear una convención similar - una WayCon - para sus fans.

"Grant es realmente la única persona que podría lograr eso porque es todo lo que abarca con música y magia", respondió Way, negando con la cabeza.

"Yo diría que si hay algo poco representado en la convención hasta el momento, es magia", continuó Way. "Pero eso fue la primera cosa que vimos todos, así que realmente creo que fue una cosa mágica la interfase con los fans, y nunca lo he visto en una convención. El hecho de que está poco representado-. Empezó con la magia, y ahora es acerca de otras cosas."

Cambiando de velocidad en su propio trabajo, Way explica que si bien se habló el año pasado de convertir a "The Umbrella Academy" en una pelicula, hay muy poco en el camino para una actualización  aunque han habido algunos avances recientes en lo que se refiere al libreto.

"Tenemos un nuevo guión, que es un dato importante, no sé si vaya a tener mucho movimiento el guión anterior", dijo Way. "El nuevo guión es realmente grande y realmente depende de los que mandan, si quieren hacer esta película".

Con una sonrisa fácil Way, admitió que su serie, que sigue las vidas destructivas y disfuncionales de siete cultivados ex niños superhéroes que intentan evitar el apocalipsis, no cae fácilmente en la fórmula de Hollywood.

"No es algo fácil de vender, no es una película fácil. Hay un chimpancé hablando, hay un hombre marciano azuel en un cuerpo de gorila -. ¡Eso es una película difícil de hacer y por el dinero, es muy difícil", dijo Way.

Asiente con la cabeza de acuerdo a una comparación entre "Umbrella Academy" y "X-Men", donde el Profesor X realmente odia a sus estudiantes, Way dijo que el verdadero reto en la adaptación de su obra a la pantalla grande es mantener el espíritu con el que fue concebido y escrito.

"Es difícil llegar a los cerebros de la gente envueltas en torno a lo que la película se supone que debe ser, porque la película se supone que es genial. Esa es la idea. Es difícil hacer una película genial. Las películas interesantes, como '500 days of summer' que sólo costó qué, 30 millones? Tratar de hacer eso con una película de superhéroes y conservar todo el control creativo es muy duro".

Por desgracia para los fans de "Umbrella Academy", Way dijo que actualmente no existe una fecha de lanzamiento concreta para "Hotel Oblivion", el próximo capítulo de la serie, a pesar de que está trabajando duro en ello.

"Empecé a escribirlo, y Gabrielle [Ba] está muy ocupado. La cosa es que si está escrito, alguien lo tiene que dibujar. Él lo dibujará cuando él tenga la oportunidad de dibujarlo. Estoy escribiendo sólo y estoy pretendiendo que él va a ser capaz de dibujar cuando haya terminado", dijo Way. "Estaba muy emocionado de empezar a escribir de nuevo. Extrañaba esos personajes, echaba de menos ese mundo".

Los dos primeros arcos de la serie de Way no sólo introdujo a los aficionados a ese mundo sino que también sirvió como estudio de mini-personajes. El primero, "The Apocalypse Suite", giró en torno a la sin poderes miembro de la Umbrella Academy, Vanya, que se enteró de que en realidad poseía la habilidad musical para acabar con el mundo. El segundo, "Dallas", seguió con el viajero en el tiempo, Number Five, quien se topó con el apocalipsis y quedó atrapado en el cuerpo de un niño de diez años de edad. El tercer capítulo, Way dijo a CBR, también tendrá una mirada más profunda a uno de los otros siete personajes principales.

"Tratamos de hacer un personaje centrado, de esta manera todas las rutas parecen muy interesantes, te dan un poco de eso en cada una. Creo que debería centrarse en cada personaje al menos uno de ellos - todo el mundo debería obtener su punto de mira para en su camino." dijo Way.

"Esta es una larga experiencia de afeitado", añadió Way, frunciendo el ceño ante su barbilla en el espejo.

Tengo que admitirlo nunca me he afeitado antes, no tenia idea de como seria la experiencia.
"Las maquinas de afeitar son asperas al pasar” suspiro Way, aplicando de nuevo su BIC sobre su barbilla.

Regresando a sus protagonistas Way dijo que deliberadamente quería que todos sus personajes fueran antipáticos la primera vez que los lectores los conocieran.

“La razón porque lo hice es porque creo que todo el mundo es dificil de agradar, creo que todos somos difíciles de agradar como personas, tu debes llegar a conocernos, a todos nosotros, y eso nunca he visto que sea representado en un comic, donde lo fue, “estos personajes son difíciles de agradar” dijo riéndose.

Finalmente guardando su kit de afeitar, Way explico como "Umbrella Academy" y MorrisonCon compartieron una clase especial de KISMET , siendo en primer lugar Morrison uno de los que lo inspiraron a escribir, “lei una entrevista – y eso es lo que me hizo querer hacer “Umbrella” —lei una entrevista, y fue mas como un manifiesto, Grant estaba hablando sobre como hay una nueva ola de LO-FI rareza apunto de golpear, a punto de llegar, y me dije a mi mismo “ quiero ser parte de eso , voy a hacer un libro que sea parte de eso”

"Si nos fijamos en los cómics hoy, ahora mismo, todo está explotando", continuó Way mientras nos dirigíamos a la planta baja al equipo de filmación que lo esperaba. "Eso es lo que está pasando, lee a Matt Fraction, está sucediendo desde Marvel a DC, todo el tablero. Tenía razón, pero leí eso y me lo tomé como, 'Oh, será mejor que levante mi trasero y haga algo! Ser parte de esto. Eso es lo que es."

En cuanto a las observaciones singulares de Way, musicalmente influido por el estilo de escritura y con ciertas similitudes con Morrison, Way respondió: "Está inspirado en Grant, con el espíritu de la diferencia y la creatividad y la energía. De hecho, me parece que si lees nuestro trabajo, es muy diferente. Pero el espíritu está allí de la experimentación, la creatividad y todo eso."

"Soy un soldado más, así es como me siento. Pero un soldado muy diferente, como si estuviera atacando el frente del Norte!" Way declaró con una sonrisa final, haciendo una pausa en la habitación verde del Body English para modelar su rostro recién afeitado para la cámara y el equipo aplaudió.

"Estas tan afeitado!" uno de los operadores de cámara se rió.

"Ya lo sé!" Way dijo, con una sonrisa de vuelta.

Fuente: CBR

#SUPERGODS Una noche con Grant Morrison y Gerard Way

De la pasada conferencia en Nerdmelt Showroom, el 28 de Julio de 2011.

Grant Morrison and Gerard Way at Meltdown Comics [Photos]

Grant Morrison arrived at Meltdown Comics on July 28 to promote his book Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human. The event featured a live interview conducted by Eisner Award winner/musician Gerard Way (Umbrella Academy, My Chemical Romance) and a Q/A session with fans. A signing followed the talk. All photos by Dianne Garcia.

Source: LA Weekly

Grant Morrison Habla de Nuevo Video de los Killjoys

 Habrá una continuación de las aventuras de nuestros queridos Killjoys, la información ha sido confirmada extraoficialmente por Grant Morrison (aka Korse).

El vídeo seguramente sera para el siguiente single "The Only Hope For Me Is You", el añadió que nadie se espera lo que pasara en este clip.

Lo que no sabemos es si este vídeo terminara por las buenas la historia de los Fabulous Killjoys o no!

Fuente: MCR French Team

My Chemical Romance Canaliza Sus Raices Escocesas en 'T In The Park'

My Chemical Romance canalizo con orgullo sus raices escocesas en T In The Park (10 de julio).

Gerard y Mikey Way son mitad escoceses, y antes del show, Gerard dijo a NME que siempre siente una conexion con Escocia cada vez que esta ahí. Dijo: "Creo que siempre lo llevo bajo la manga cuando estoy allí  Ciertamente me siento escoces y siempre me he sentido orgulloso de eso", antes de anadir que siempre ha puesto instintivamente sal a la sopa, una tradición caracteristica de Escocia.

Abriendo con 'Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)', MCR toco 'DESTROYA' dedicandola al artista de comics escoces Grant Morrison y su esposa quienes son amigos de la banda. El espectáculo se llevo a cabo bajo ominosas nubes grises, pero la lluvia mantuvo a raya a su conjunto.

A pesar de estar confirmados para encabezar Reading and Leeds el proximo mes, la banda toco como tercero en la lista despues de Foo Fighters y Pulp. Pero el cantante dijo que no esta mas que orgulloso de calentar para las estrellas del indie britanico.

Explico la importancia del cover de 'Common People' que hizo la banda para Live Lounge de Radio 1. Dijo: "Hicimos ese cover con total respeto del original. Es un testimonio de la musica de Pulp el hecho de que la canción significa mucho para mi siendo un recogedor de carritos en New Jersey, sin futuro, al otro lado del océano  Eso significaba esperanza tanto para mi como para todos los demás. Asi que trate de volver a ese lugar donde empujaba carritos sin futuro cuando la estaba cantando."

My Chemical Romance toco:

'Na Na Na' (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)'

'Give 'Em Hell, Kid'

'Planetary (GO!)'

'Mama'

'The Only Hope For Me Is You'

'Teenagers'

'Helena'

'Vampire Money'

'Welcome To The Black Parade'

'Destroya'

'I'm Not Okay (I Promise)'

Source: NME

Q&A: Gerard Way on Vampires, Glee, And Liza Minnelli [The Village Voice]

What are your favorite post-apocalyptic movies?

Night of the Comet, Mad Max obviously--I actually prefer the first one. A Boy and His Dog. I think those are like the three main classics.

You've said the new album's "Look Alive, Sunshine" intro was inspired by A Clockwork Orange, but it also reminded me of Vanishing Point, have you seen it? It's a 1971 car-chase flick with a guy on the radio sending messages to the driver so he can escape the police.

Yes! Vanishing Point and The Warriors were two very big reference points for the album. I definitely wanted it to feel like there was this DJ out there like, inspiring these lunatics to drive around. And I also wanted it to feel a little bit like The Warriors as well. But yeah, I love both of those movies.

So what came first, Fabulous Killjoys the album or Fabulous Killjoys the comic book?

The comic actually. Me and my friend Sean Simon--who sold our merch and was a friend of ours who just kind of volunteered to do that, he was in the van with us from the beginning. We had the idea for this comic that really was in a weird way semi-autobiographical, although had nothing to do with us and we weren't in it. Just like, all the stuff we would make up and the way we viewed the world and all the metaphors we'd use for the world. So that was kind of the starting point. And then I didn't realize it until [comic book writer] Grant Morrison had pointed it out that we were in fact making that album, that was going along with the comic of us.

The band on "Vampire Money" sounds very different from the band that made "Vampires Will Never Hurt You." Are you bored with the oversaturation of vampire culture in general, or just Twilight?

You know, it's interesting because I really have no problem with the Twilight franchise, it's just not for me. And I think I'm mature enough now to realize when something's not for me, as opposed to attacking it. But the interesting thing about "Vampire Money" is it's about anything you don't want to do, like anything people assume you're going to do for the money and you don't want to do it. It's about saying no over and over and over again. Basically, saying no with a song. But you're right, when we started out as a band we very much used that horror-movie imagery. To me it was different imagery though, it was drawing upon bands like the Damned and the Misfits and the classic horror films.

I wanted to know if you're more of a Buffy fan.

Joss [Whedon] is amazing, I love Joss. I'm actually not that familiar with Buffy, my wife is. I've always had a very hard time watching TV; I still do, like I can't get on schedule to watch stuff. Not that familiar with it, but I'm very familiar with a lot of his work. And the Buffy episodes I have seen are incredible.

I love how after a whole concept record dealing with cancer [The Black Parade], you threw in this one line "And all the good times/ They give you cancer" on "Party Poison." I feel like each one of your albums is making fun of the one that came before it.

Totally! We're definitely a self-referential band, and like, I especially, always end up abhorring what we did in the past. And I don't know why that is, I think the only way I can move forward is attacking it. I like how bands growing up... like, the Beatles were extremely self-referential and at times poking fun at who they used to be. I think it's healthy because if you dwell on who you used to be and you always cherish it and you always talk about how amazing that was, then you're not gonna grow. You're always going to be like, "Remember when we were the Black Parade and we were blowing up pyro and we were playing 10,000-person arenas?" And if you get caught up in that it's no good.

Killjoys also contains lyrical references to "Search and Destroy" and "Ballroom Blitz," and a lot of the sounds in "The Kids from Yesterday" remind me of Bowie's "Heroes." Are there any other 70s bands you slipped in there?

The Sweet... oh, you got that one! A lot people don't get that one and think I'm referencing like, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, which is funny because he must have been referencing the Sweet. Mainly, it was cinema. So it was like, John Carpenter, or the sounds in Escape from New York, how he would kind of play his own music. That was kind of an influence for sure. And Bowie, with Danger Days, even the title itself was inspired by Diamond Dogs. And that was also a dystopian, kind of future-glam-punk record. Damned Damned Damned was a big influence on this record. Hmm, what else. MC5. Definitely Detroit-kinda rock.

"Sing" was recently used on Glee, which a few bands (Foo Fighters, Kings of Leon) have recently come out against. How do you feel about the show?

It's a show about music, and we're not ever opposed to that sort of thing. In a lot of ways, it's the radio. So if it gets your message across, to use that kind of platform, then we'll use that kind of platform and still say no to Twilight. 'Cause to me that's not a platform, that's hawking a lifestyle whereas this is a show about music. It's really racy and it pushes a lot of things--I know it bothers a lot of Republicans too.

It's interesting because a lot of bands come out against it in certain ways, but I end up hearing a lot of these same bands using their songs in car commercials and stuff like that. I find that very interesting--where do you draw the line and with what? Get your music out there and get it heard, I thought that was always the point. And still you want to do that with a tremendous amount of integrity, too. Something like Glee, we don't have any control over how they're going to use it, but we knew that they would try and do a great job with it, so we knew it was in good hands--

Good jazz hands.

--but you might end up doing other things you feel gross about, you know?

Any plans to follow Green Day to Broadway?

That came up very early when Black Parade came out. There were a lot of offers for Broadway, for animated versions of the songs. Lots of different things came our way, and we said no because it wasn't right for us. American Idiot it's right for, it's very topical. I think it works well being a young record that got that, whereas Black Parade needed to be something that lived for a long time before that happens. Or, rather than do something on Broadway I'd much rather see Black Parade be a show the way Roger Waters went and did The Wall.

What's the story behind getting Liza Minnelli to sing on The Black Parade?

There was a line that was the only spot on the record that I wanted a guest vocal--I wanted a voice to finally talk back to me. And I wanted somebody kind of motherly, but who was also a survivor, had been through a lot, but was rooted in theater. And so... she was in! She was the first person that came to mind, and then [producer Rob] Cavallo had made a phone call to her assistant, and that was it. She did it for free and she was happy to do it.

What's the future of your hair color?

It's definitely uncertain. I have days where I love having it; it's the maintenance that's a pain in the ass. But it's funny... having just turned 34, and having people wanting to fit us into thirtysomething rock culture, my only form of rebellion left is to fuck my hair up and look like a 16-year-old. So, it's kind of all I got.

Source: The Village Voice

Gerard Way Talks Comics

 Have you noticed the eerie resemblance the Minion character in the movie “Megamind” has to your Academy’s Space Boy? I was with a really old friend of mine from art school when that commercial first came on TV, and he was like, “Whoa! That looks just like Space Boy!” It’s kind of a combination of some of my other characters — I have a fish named Carmichael who lives in a bowl, but wears a suit and speaks through a speaker on his chest. So now I’m like, “Ah, I don’t care.”

How did you meet — and then hire for your videos — “Doom Patrol” creator Grant Morrison? Well, I got lucky. I was asked in an interview about some of my influences, and I rattled off all of his books that had inspired me. And from there, he heard about it, and he was also a fan of “The Black Parade,” so then me and him and his wife just became really close friends. They were constantly looking out for me on the “Black Parade” tour, because I had a lot of ups and downs. And they were with me every step of the way when I was making “Danger Days,” so I said, “Hey, would you be in this? Would you be the bad guy?” And he said, “Absolutely!”

What did you learn from Morrison? He and I had very similar effects on people with our different art forms — we’re a very polarizing band, and people either love us or they hate us. But he knew how to deal with that, and he had the courage to keep going despite all that polarization. So after “Black Parade,” he was afraid we were going to backtrack and try to make “the punk record” or whatever, and he was right — it’s what we started to do. But he said, “You think you’ve made ‘Sgt. Pepper’s,’ but you’ve only made ‘Revolver’ — you haven’t gone that far yet, so you need to make the next one crazier.” I was scared of that, but he was totally right.

Source: San Francisco Examiner

My Chemical Romance Interview [ARTROCKER!]

Not necessarily our usual fare, but when My Chemical Romance hit Glasgow last week, Chelsea Cochrane

caught up with them for an exclusive interview.

Whilst thousands of eager teenage fans coil round the interior of Glasgow SECC we are brought past the manic group that started the queue almost 48 hours previously, and into the empty Hall 4. Once we;ve passed through four different security points and up numerous hallways, we were seated in a small but homely room, sparsely lit and scented with several candles. After a momentary wait Gerard Way and his younger brother Mikey enter the room, emanating a calm cool despite outer appearances of nervousness. And after brief introductions our interview gets underway.

Chelsea: The last time you guys were in the UK playing arenas with The Black Parade tour you had a massive stage production, various pyrotechnics and grandeur costumes but when you returned last October, for Danger Days, you’d stripped it right down. What is this tour going to be like?

Gerard:  I’d say it’s somewhere maybe right in the middle. It is stripped down in that it is mainly about the band performing and playing but there are a lot of lights. We’ve brought a lot of really amazing lights, I think we’ve got 6 semi’s full! But it is just us playing, there are no props really or anything, no settings, there’s just the band. That’s new for us really. 

Mikey: Yeah, it’s like a less is more kinda thing. We stripped everything back but it seems like more, you know. The lights seem even more impactful.

Chelsea: You took Glasgow-based band Twin Atlantic out support you last time around, why is it you chose them?

Gerard: When we listened to their EP (A Guidance From Colour) we just thought they were great.

Mikey: They reminded us of this great thing they shared with bands coming up from New Jersey in the early 2000’s.

Gerard: Their all really nice guys.

Mikey: Yeah, they kicked ass on that tour!

Chelsea: Also at your last show in Scotland you played the track ‘DESTROYA’ for the first time live, which was dedicated to Grant Morrison. How much of an influence is he on the new album? 

Gerard: Huge. He is a huge influence personally to me, too. I guess more importantly he is just a really close friend, he and his wife. I look up to them; I ask them for a lot of advice. He was a big influence on taking a chance with this record and kinda saying “Fuck it!”, but in a really good way. We are playing ‘DESTROYA’ again tonight. It’s gotten, I think, much bigger sounding.

Mikey: ‘DESTROYA’ is actually my favourite lightshow set! Grant’s one of the great thinkers and philosophers of his generation, he is one of the greats and just such a warm hearted and caring person and a huge influence on me and Gee and one of our closest friends.

Chelsea: How is it you actually became friends?

Gerard: During Black Parade I had done an interview somewhere, in Rolling Stone or Spin I believe, where I just talked about all the influences since Revenge and then on The Black Parade and I just talked a lot about his work. So he got wind of it and he was a big fan of ours. He is into a lot of great older music and older stuff but also he is into contemporary music, he is into modern younger bands too which you don’t find a lot. So we met in Glasgow at the Barrowlands, and I remember being really nervous.

Mikey: But we hit it off right away, there was a rapport right away and it was like we had known each other a long time.

Chelsea: So does ‘DESTROYA’ have anything to do with him or is it just his favourite song?

Gerard: It’s interesting, it was their favourite when we played them [Grant and his wife Kristan] the finished album. They hop over to LA sometimes too and we had them over at the studio and before we even played it for them I kinda had a feeling they were gonna love it. I remember Kristan saying “Wow that is the fucking greatest”, she loved it and they both loved it!

Mikey: They loved ‘DESTROYA’ and ‘Planetary (GO!’), those are the key jams.

Chelsea: Yeah they really stand out, ‘Party Poison’ as well.

Mikey and Gerard: Yeah, yeah!

Chelsea: Why is it you have a song named solely after Gerard’s character, Party Poison?

Gerard: It’s just a good title really. “Death before Disco”, the original title of the song, just didn’t feel right anymore. It didn’t feel like it was current.

Chelsea: Is Grant Morrison or his character (Morrison potrays Korse, the head of the fictional corporation MCR’s alter-egos The Killjoys are attempting to take down) going to be involved in the Danger Days comics?

Gerard: No, none of the characters, even our characters, are in it. It is a completely separate thing, even almost a separate setting. It shares all the ideals behind the record and the theories and the commentary but it is nothing like the videos you have seen. I think the car is probably the only thing that’s the same!

Chelsea: Gerard, you have said before that around the time a new album is released you already have ideas for the follow up; do you have any for the next one yet?

Gerard: It’s weird because I don’t like talking much about what I think it will be anymore because I usually find that I am wrong. I mean, I had gut instincts at least visually about Danger Days and I was right about it and that’s what we ended up doing. I’m forming some stuff now but… I would love to just go record but being on tour makes that difficult. If we could get in a studio now I would just love to make some music.

Mikey: Yeah, the new sound just kind of finds you. You can’t plan it or guess what it’s going to be because you’ll usually be wrong, but you’ll always be pleasantly surprised. You can never formulate what you’re going to sell you will just end up where you are supposed to be.

Chelsea: Music videos have always been a very important part of My Chemical Romance’s visual element and often carry on a story with each album’s singles, but your characters died at the end of the last video; are you planning a come back for them now or doing something different?

Gerard: Well we are going to take a break from the story for a bit until it feels like we got to the song that makes the most sense to do the last part. To me it feels like ‘Only Hope (For Me Is You)’ is the best one to do for the last part of the video so when we get there…I have lots of ideas but I like to keep it loose and I don’t over think it. I like to finalize things a week before, sometimes day of.

Chelsea: So ‘Planetary (GO!)’ is your next single, what is the plan for the music video?

Gerard: We are going to try and do something that we have never done before, I think we are going to perform with a real audience and make something visually cool looking-  like it needs to be shot on all kinds of crazy different cameras. A live video but I think it’s going to look more artistic than that, I see big LED’s in my head, lot’s of lights and colours and sweat and audience but kinda more like a party!

Chelsea: Kind of reflecting your new tour set up then?

Gerard: I think so yeah. We are making it right now so obviously a lot of who we are right now is going to be in that.

Chelsea: Over the years you have all changed as a band and a lot as people since ‘Life on the Murder Scene’ came out, have you got any plans for another documentary?

Mikey: We have been talking about that actually because the 10 years is coming up and we have been talking about putting together a documentary of sorts. That’d be really cool we think.

Gerard: Yeah it would be nice to do a follow up to that. I feel like what’s great about “Murder Scene” is to me it’s more than a biography about a band and I think it would be nice to catch up, so to speak, to what things are like now because that was about 7 years ago.

Mikey: Yeah a new version of that would be pretty great!

Chelsea: As you mentioned there the 10^th Anniversary of your first album “I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love” is coming up, do you have a special release or gig or tour planned?

Gerard: We are talking about all those things yeah. We want to do something really nice for the fans like some kind of cool package. Frank and Mikey have kept a lot of the original materials and show fliers and stuff so we are hoping to do a lot with that.

Chelsea: Like replicate them and put them in a pack or something?

Gerard:  Something, yeah. I have every single scrap of paper I’ve ever written lyrics on and like a giant thing just sitting in my office.

Mikey: I have one of those photo books filled with show fliers and old set lists and day sheets, I have a bunch of those and then Frank has absolutely everything. My stuff is kind of scattered but his is complete, he has everything ever. 

Fraser: There are a few bands, such as Coheed and Cambria, who play through their entire albums. For their tenth anniversary they are touring America with just their first album, is that something you guys are considering?

Gerard: Yeah, we are talking about it. I know Thursday is doing the ‘Full Collapse’ tour right now.

Mikey: Yeah, we missed by like a couple of days, I was so bummed!

Chelsea: You recently recruited a new drummer, Mike Pedicone from The Bled. How is it playing with him and has he fitted in well with MCR?

Gerard: He is a fantastic rock drummer and I think that is really why he is very much like us. The Bled is obviously a heavier band in some ways but if you listen to Bullets that’s a pretty heavy record with elements of post-hardcore and metal on it. We fit together super great, it just gelled instantly and we love playing with him live.

Mikey: We are having a great time with him, just having a ball up there.

Chelsea: Will he be sticking around for festivals?

Gerard: Yeah!

Mikey: There is no… It’s like (James) Dewees is one of our best friends, Pedicone is one of our best friends, and we are all friends playing so there is no titles or this or that.

Fraser: You guys definately look like you’re having fun playing together, especially in Edinburgh last year.

Mikey: That was my favourite show on that tour!

Chelsea: We asked a fan for a question and they wanted to know is Party Poison’s jacket influenced by Akira?

Gerard: Definitely! The iconography as well, I try and make it my own but it is definitely inspired by Akira.

Source: Artrocker!

Grant Morrison aka KORSE

KORSE es un exterminador de la unidad S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W de Better Living Industries su historia no esta revelada aun pero esta intimamente ligado con los Killjoys y la historia secreta que hay tras ellos. Es un sabueso de humanos que se viste como muerto viviente.

Quien interpreta este personaje en los videos de "Na Na Na" y "Sing" es Grant Morrison, un guionista de comics conocido por tomar el control de personajes clásicos, reinterpretándolos y relanzándolos con éxito (Animal Man, Doom Patrol, JLA, New X-Men y All Star Superman), entre otros.