#lists that clearly show my priorities... but these are the tentative standouts for me

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what r ur favourite hesitant alien performances?? :D

ooh boy I have so many.... incomplete list because i’m still finding videos everyday <33

Reading Festival 08/22/2014 / Voodoo Music Festival 10/30/2015: these are the two big pro-shoots we’ve been gifted with so of course they’re on the list. i especially love the performance of No Shows (kissed an ah- nimals hands i got nothing...) and Juarez from the reading performance and the snakedriver cover and Don’t Try from voodoo. small mention to the little speech at the beginning of No Shows at Voodoo as well ❤️

No Shows, Soundwave Festival 02/22/2015: the infamous “Iggy moment” i think this one is self-explanatory hehe

I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone Cover, Webster Hall 10/23/2014: I mean, duh. gerard way riot-grrlisms. also its just a really fantastic cover

Get the Gang Together, Le Trabendo 01/18/2015 (bonus How It’s Going to Be), Southampton 01/21/2015  and Trocadero 10/17/2014: this is my favorite hes alien song already but its even better live- the first one, the woman in the crowd he chooses to play the tambourine has so much energy and the room is electric i would kill to be there (also. one of the best hugs i've ever seen another human being receive....) the second one is the performance with someone in the crowd in a lola costume... which is so fucking cool. also includes the quote “sharing is pain. my art is pain. my life is pain... just kidding” while Gerard stares off into the distance. In the third one gerard is really hamming it up on stage, like seriously getting into it. plus the girl they bring on stage is like. 16. and his immediate reaction is “shit” in that tone of like being reminded your old and then they proceed to ask her “what are you going to do with your life” which is just so startlingly funny to me. anyway. best live song. that scream.....

Drugstore Perfume, Sala Apolo 01/16/2015: boa performance! its already a very good show, with the added bonus of gerard wearing pink boas during this song 🥺

Irving Plaza 10/20/2014 just generally, specifically Television All the Time and Maya the Psychic: pink lighting!! also just seemed like a particularly good show, very good energy

Pinkish, Novosibirsk 09/15/2015 and Stereo Plaza 04/9/2015 (with Don’t Try): these are like. the only videos of this song i could find. the first one includes a very fun introduction with a “fucking ancient” rock and is probably the best filmed version of Pinkish live (i think about the destiny/dream lyric change every day. haunted). the second one is not the best quality but the performance is certainly worth it (when i muster the energy to make gifs.... its over for everyone and it starts here)

Ambulance/Piano Jam, Klub Palladium 01/2015, Cologne 1/25/2015, and O2 Academy Birmingham 01/2015: okay. these are my favorite iterations of this song. it seems to have changed a lot over the course of touring but the lyrics and performance style around late January seems to be where it was at. the first one is oddly shot, but i think its the best vocal performance of this one and the venue had cool lighting... gives me chills- the other two are also very good though!

Snakedriver, Armazem F Lisbon 01/14/2015 and date/place unknown: there aren’t a ton of good videos of this cover (other than the pro-shot ones) but these are the best, especially the second one which has like. 6 views are 3 of them are probably mine lol. i just very much love the cover, particularly the last little added section... lord i got space.....

Millions, Armazém F, Lisbon 01/14/2015: solely on here because Gerard takes a flag from the audience and comments “one of these days I’m gonna open one of these and it’s gonna say ’Eat Shit’ on it” and i think that’s funny

This little lotion interlude, Samara 09/2015: just a fun little song moment :)

Also just the many, many speeches about trans rights and mental illness get a very hearty honorable mention here

anyway, thank you so much for the ask!! i appreciate any and all opportunities to talk about hesitant alien 💞