#welcome to the black parade soundwaves

[yogurtverse]

Alright, for my first day on Tumblr I'm gonna dump these stand ideas and abilities I came up with. Feel free to do what you want with them.

Radiohead: Combat based stand with the ability to store people in electronics. The person inside can be safely transferred to other devices through means such as email. If the device is cracked in any way, the person inside will get a scar where the crack was, and destroying the machine beyond repair kills them

Substand-Ok Computer:Allows the user to force anyone inside their machine to go through an application (such as a video game) any damage they take during the game applies to the real person, but they are bound by the rules of the game(I.E being hit by a Mega Man enemy that should kill instantly won't)

Franz Ferdinand: Can create a perfect replica of anybody provided it has something with the persons DNA on it

Alestorm: Anyone who is hit by the stand becomes disoriented, as if in a drunken haze

Aquabat: Suit type stand that allows the user to become any fictional character. The more powerful the character, the more toll it takes on the user

Weezer: Allows the user to see into someone’s soul and true feelings, as well as different colour strings seeing the connection two people have to each other

Ride the Lightning: Allows the user to redirect any effects of something onto another person

Feel Good Inc: Allows the user to change a persons emotional state

100 Gecs: Colony type stand of 100 small creatures that attaches to it's user and makes loud noises around them

Madvillain: Stand that produces masks. Once the mask is applied, the wearer is forced to succumb to their base instincts

Operation Ivy: Allows the user to manipulate soundwaves

Twenty One Pilots: Allows the user to 'save' a point in time and return to it at any moment. But anyone the user interacts with in a deleted save will retain their memories

Mr. Blue Sky: Capable of transferring life from one object to another

Alice in Chains: Creates an unbreakable chain, which only the user can undo

Agents of Fortune: Manipulates probability. Starts with a 5 percent chance to change but can evolve to 15 percent

Welcome to the Jungle-Turns body hair into plants

Eye of the Tiger:Can perfectly mimic any fighting technique it sees once, be it real or fictional

Starry Starry Night: Changes the colour palette of anything it touches

Panic at the Disco: Allows the user to transfer any emotions being felt to another person

Magical Mystery Tour: Allows the user to switch places with another person

Backstreet Boy: Colony type stand. Once applied to a person, it forces them to sync up to the users movements

Caravan Palace: Able to plant false realities in targets

Hotel California: Can only be activated in a four walled room (but can spread to other rooms) Anyone within the room who enters slowly loses their sense of reality. If the victim stays for two long their brain deteriorates and kills them

Black Parade: Allows the user to manipulate shadows

Motorhead: Capable of controlling vehicles

Nonagon Infinity: Forces the user to redo anything from their past nine actions

Weird Al: Makes stands do the opposite of what they would normally do

Marvelous Mechanical Museum: Creates a room that can do anything, but only to people that accept a bet or challenge with the promise of a prize. The competitors are unable to leave until either a winner is announced or the prize is destroyed.

Thrift Shop: Allows the user to manipulate clothing

Fireflies: Allows the user to manipulate light

Lemon Demon: Allows the user to implant USBs it produces into people and download their memories, which the user can then use as a normal USB to display and download the memories

Take on Me: Anyone hit by the stand disappears from reality for the corresponding number of days. The victim does not age during this process

[raggscat32]

mcr really said 'here's some lines on a page' and put it on sale for several thousand dollars and yet here we all are wishing we could have it

[thatgerardwaysideblog]

Gerard poses for portraits at the Soundwave Festival in Melbourne, Australia. pt.1

Photographer: Martin Philbey

Date: February 22, 2015

ℂ𝕝𝕚𝕔𝕜 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕚𝕞𝕒𝕘𝕖 𝕗𝕠���� ℍ𝔻 𝕢𝕦𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕥𝕪

[current-mcr-news]

mychemicalromance: To commemorate the release of The Black Parade, 15 years ago, MCR teamed up with @soundwaves_art to create these beautiful canvases made by distorting the soundwaves of “Welcome To The Black Parade” @gerardway signed 100 copies and we're going to donate all profits to @trevorproject and @kulturecity to support their profound mental and emotional health work. Link in bio to get one!

[May 6, 2021]

[circlesandsoundwaves]

“We can actually do it.”: Interview with Waterparks

Photo and Interview by Molly Louise Hudelson.

If you’ve been following the pop-punk scene over the past two years, chances are you’re familiar with Waterparks. The Houston-based group recently wrapped a tour with All Time Low, and in addition to a North American headlining tour earlier this year, they’ve also shared the stage with Sleeping With Sirens and Good Charlotte.

I met up with Awsten, Otto, and Geoff for an interview before the first of two Philadelphia shows last month, and it was a fun one. There was a lot of laughter and joking around, but when it comes to the band, they do mean business. Selling out most dates of their first headlining tour taught them that “we can actually do it”; and they’re now “much more confident” heading in to a headlining tour in the UK.  Read on for my interview with Waterparks, where we talked about the tours, their recent experience as Emo Night DJs, and more!

CIRCLES & SOUNDWAVES: For the record, could you each tell me your name, what you play in Waterparks, and a fun fact about yourself?   Awsten Knight: Awsten, I sing in Waterparks, and it's not fun to be in Waterparks. That's my fun fact. Otto Wood: Hi, my name is Otto, I play the drums in Waterparks, and I miss having fun. Geoff Wigington: Hi, my name is Geoff, I play guitar in Waterparks, and I have fun in Waterparks.   C&S: You're on the All Time Low tour right now; you did a tour with Sleeping With Sirens last fall, you've done some touring with Good Charlotte, and then you did your first headliner this spring. I read something from earlier this year where you said that you felt like on support tours, you had training wheels.   AK: Yep.   C&S: And then all of a sudden for a headlining tour, you're pushed out on your own. What did you learn from being on a headlining tour?   AK: That we can actually do it and it's not that scary- kinda like a bike. GW: I definitely love doing a headline tour more than a support tour. AK: The whole training wheels thing, that was because I didn't know what the draw would actually be like in terms of people caring.   C&S: Most of the shows sold out.   AK: Yeah, the majority of them. There was only a couple that didn't. One of them I was so mad- capacity was 600 and it was at like, 584. I was like, "fuck." I was mad. I was like, "Guys, we should maybe buy however many tickets."   C&S: The headliner was incredibly successful- has that affected you at all or given you any confidence going into another support tour like this?   OW: Oh, we're so not grounded anymore! [Awsten and Geoff laugh.]   C&S: What do you mean?   OW: [Laughs.] Our egos are hugely inflated. AK: We all have our own bus now. GW: Yeah, this is actually the first time we've talked to each other in months. AK: You're bringing the gang back together. OW: Yeah. Thank you.   C&S: Well, I feel honored that I can be the one to bring Waterparks all back together.   Last night you played Boston and after the show, DJ-ed Emo Night. [They all laugh.]   AK: Yeah.   C&S: What were your personal guidelines in putting together your setlist?What were your criteria in choosing songs?   AK: Hits. OW: Play all the hits. AK: Just the hits. OW: All the hits. AK: The night before, in the hotel room, I was sitting at my computer, and looped the intro to "I'm Not Okay" by My Chemical Romance so it would just start over when the vocals come in. I did the same thing with "Welcome To The Black Parade." I thought it would be really funny but everyone was just really drunk and singing very loud and did not notice. So I just looked at Otto and was like, "It's not working."   C&S: I've never been to an Emo Night but what I've heard is that everyone gets really, really drunk.   GW: Everybody's super drunk the whole time, and if you're not drunk, you're not really gonna have that much fun. OW: I miss having fun.   C&S: I saw on Twitter that you played a TED Talk during Emo Night? [Otto and Geoff burst out laughing.]   AK: Yeah. They cut it short.   C&S: That's very disappointing- Emo Night censorship.   AK: I know. I got through about five minutes of the TED Talk I wanted them to hear.   C&S: What was the TED Talk about?   AK: Oh, it was about getting your life together, so it was a good time for them to hear it. The people that were in charge kept coming up and going like, "Hey, I think you're losing them!"- I was like, "I don't think so." OW: They're like, "Hold on, hold on." AK: "Just give it another minute." And finally they came and played- I don't know, The Used or something.   C&S: Wait, so someone cut off your TED Talk?   AK: Oh yeah, dude- a lot of our stuff kept getting [cut off]. OW: They hijacked our playlist. We had a whole thing set up and I'd say half the set or more wound up being an outside influence- "You should play this now." I was like, "I guess."   C&S: If you had had full control over the playlist, what would it have been?   AK: The thing is, we had to put in a couple staples just so they wouldn't be permanently mad. Duh, you have to play "I Write Sins", duh you have to play "Cute Without the E." We came out to "What If God Was One Of Us?"- with balloons and everything- but it wound up being instrumental so I had to sing it, so that was weird. I was asking a lot of rhetorical questions between lines. OW: And then we rolled right in to "Who Let The Dogs Out?".   C&S: That's a little bit of a switch-up from the typical Emo Night. OW: Right. And then right on in to "I'm A Believer", "Good Girls Go Bad", "Welcome To The Black Parade" intro loop over and over again. We tried to play "Humble"; that didn't work out. We tried to do a TED Talk; that didn't work out. We did "Cute Without The E." AK: That worked out. OW: I think that worked out because that was kind of in line with what everybody was cool with. "I'm Not Okay" intro loop, we were gonna play "How To Save A Life" by The Fray- that didn't work out.   C&S: See, even though The Fray is not an emo band, that song makes me feel emo.    OW: It makes you emote.   C&S: And it's from the right era.   OW: From "How To Save A Life" into "How You Remind Me" from Nickelback. AK: That didn't happen either. OW: "I Write Sins Not Tragedies", "It's My Life"- we got to play some of that Bon Jovi. AK: They cut it off. OW: And then we got to play our song "Easter Egg" for a little bit. AK: We said we were gonna play it that night and everybody was disappointed that we didn't play it during our set. OW: We weren't lying, though. We did play it. AK: And then it got cut off for A Day To Remember- so, sorry.   C&S: You have a tour coming up in the UK, and that's your first headliner in the UK.   AK: And it's sold out!   C&S: How do you feel going in to that knowing it's sold out?   AK: Much more confident. GW: Yeah- it's gonna be really cool. I love the UK a lot. OW: Really good- maybe I'll start to have fun again.   C&S: What would allow you to have fun?   OW: If these guys will let me play bass instead of drums. AK: Nope!   C&S: So that leads in to the video for "Gloom Boys", where you have a potential bassist fighting off all your ex-bassists, Scott Pilgrim-style. The video is what, seven minutes long?   AK: Yeah dude. It was twelve and we were like, "Gotta cut it down." OW: It's a commitment.   C&S: So you weren't going to make a feature length film?   AK: It just didn't seem like the best idea, but... eventually.   C&S: There's a line in that song where you say, "I like happy songs with titles that don't match at all." When I listen to your album Double Dare, that's what I get out of it- it's a super, super catchy, fun record- but then I looked at the lyrics and I was like, "...oh." [Otto laughs.] Some of it's, like, real shit.   AK: Yeah, that's what that means.   C&S: In terms of other music that you're in to, what are some of your favorite happy songs with titles that don't match?   AK: I like a lot of music where it sounds poppy and happy and everything and then you can tell the lyrics and mood of it just don't match. Even if you switch it around and it sounds dark but it's a poppy and happy song- that's cool too. OW: I guess Alkaline Trio's good about that- Crimson, for sure, that record- album. Oh no- I said "record".   C&S: Can we not call an album a "record"?   AK: You can, as long as there's a [vinyl] record. We have a record of [Double Dare].   C&S: Are you big vinyl people?   AK: I go through phases of it- if it's one of my favorite albums or I'm obsessed with the art, I'll get it. But I don't collect to just have as much as possible.   C&S: I imagine it's hard on tour, too- to just physically collect a lot of stuff.   I saw the Digital Tour Bus video that you guys did on Warped Tour last year and there were all these boxes of stuff fans had given you. What is either the weirdest or the best thing a fan has given you?   GW: Somebody gave me a copy of Ocarina of Time 3D for my 3DS- that was super cool cuz I had it before and my system got stolen so I got to replay it. OW: Someone made me a needlepoint- my favorite film is There Will Be Blood with Daniel Day Lewis- and [the needlepoint] looks very innocent, it's a knitting of a milkshake and it's in bubblegum colors and it says "I drink your milkshake" on it- but if you know the context of it, it's very demented. AK: I like when people give me Whole Foods gift cards but as far as a thing that someone's made me, I got this voodoo doll of myself that I like to stroke and massage and give money to before I go to bed.   C&S: That's... genius. That's so cool.   AK: It hasn't worked.    C&S: Well, you can try.   Your album Double Dare came out last November, before that you had the EP Cluster, and then a couple EPs that you released before signing to Equal Vision. Over the years, how has your approach to songwriting changed? When you wrote Airplane Conversations that was before you had even played a show.   AK: Yep. I mean- just better at it. There's home recording involved when there wasn't before so you get to try out ideas and have a lot of options going- as opposed to being like, "Let's see what happens after we pay a bunch of money and this is fleshed out and complete and mixed and sounds good and then we can see if we wanna use it." That's not how it works- so having the freedom to do that just makes for better releases. OW: And you get to actually make things instead of trying to articulate it to someone later.  AK: Exactly- like any weird sounds or electronic stuff or whatever, you can just do it- instead of trying to be like- BRRLRLRRRLLLR- but saying, "make it sound like an icicle."   C&S: You won the Best Breakthrough Band award at the APMAs, you've been touring pretty much nonstop, and you put out an album less than a year ago- it's been a very good year for Waterparks. Where do you see yourselves or where do you hope to be a year from now?   GW: I hope to have at least three more buses.   C&S: Okay. So each of you has a bus, and then each of your personal assistants has a bus?   GW: No, no- one for each of our dogs.   C&S: Each dog has their own bus?   GW: Yeah. AK: I want to be friends with Pharrell. That's all I want to be different.   C&S: How do you respond to haters or any kind of negativity surrounding your band?   AK: No one hates us, we're the best band and- um… um... yeah. GW: That's how you actually do it right there.   C&S: Okay. I dig it. Cool, thank you guys so much- anything else to say? Anything else the internet should know?   AK: Get enough sleep. Stay off the internet. It's good for you.

Thanks Awsten, Otto, and Geoff! Waterparks recently announced a headlining tour for this fall; they’ll be joined by As It Is, Chapel, and Sleep On It. See a full list of shows and keep up with the band on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.