In 2023: My Chemical Romance performed their 70th show of the 2022-2023 Swarm tour at Punkspring in Osaka, Japan. This show was the last show of the Oceania-Asia leg as well as the overall last show of the Swarm tour. At this show, an unreleased song (titled "Eagles" on the paper setlist) was performed for the 13th time ever, with new lyrics, and Gerard Way wore a dark grey skirt suit with white scleral contacts and fake blood. The drum was a blank mirrored surface for the majority of the show, with "ENDLESS NIGHT" written on it before the encore. (🖤)
God, I looooooove the Undead Office Worker look, it tells such a clear story with so little. The drab grey suits punctuated eventually by pops of bright red blood, the increasingly pale foundation, the contacts - the way the slight variations between outfits (skirt length, shoes, accessories) serve counterintuitively to reinforce the feeling of repetition, painting a picture of this character's life, day after day of monotony that can't even be ended by death.
I don't know what the gloves were about, though. I think he just wanted to serve cunt.
The World Is Ugly in Osaka featuring some very clear backing vocals from Ray right at the beginning, some really cool riffs at the end, and a solo where he looks like this:
gerard wrote on the drum at the end of the show. every other show opens with gerard leaving a note on the drums but this time the message came at the end.