Watch My Chemical Romance play The Black Parade album in full at When We Were Young festival

21 Oct 2024, 09:46 · louder

By Liz Scarlett
published 21 October 2024

Emo kings My Chemical Romance performed their iconic Black Parade album in full for the first time since 2007 at this weekend's When We Were Young festival

(Image credit: David Wolff-Patrick/Redferns)

My Chemical Romance performed their iconic 2006 album The Black Parade in full this weekend at When We Were Young Festival in Las Vegas.

The emo kings performed the first of two nights at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds on October 19, and played the album in its entirety for the first time since 2007. They performed for a second night on October 20 with the same set.

Kicking off with The End, followed by Dead!, Gerard Way and co. played through The Black Parade in chronological order, and gave new arrangements to Mama and Cancer with accompaniment on both from singer-songwriter Kayleigh Goldsworthy.

For the encore, MCR signed off with two tracks from 2004's Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge, I'm Not Okay (I Promise) and Helena.

Across the weekend, the festival additionally hosted performances from numerous other well-loved emo and pop-punk bands, many of which also played through iconic albums in full, including A Day To Remember's Homesick, Jimmy Eat World's Bleed American, Simple Plan's No Pads, No Helmet...Just Balls and Dashboard Conffesional's Dusk and Summer, among others. Fall Out Boy performed on both days, however opted for a career-spanning setlist instead.

Watch fan-filmed footage of My Chemical Romance's performance below:

My Chemical Romance - The End + Dead! LIVE @ When We Were Young 2024 WWWY Las Vegas 10/19/2024 - YouTube

Watch On
My Chemical Romance - Famous Last Words (When We Were Young 2024) - YouTube

Watch On
My Chemical Romance - Disenchanted LIVE @ When We Were Young 2024 WWWY Las Vegas 10/19/2024 - YouTube

Watch On
My Chemical Romance - I’m Not Okay (I Promise) (When We Were Young 2024) - YouTube

Watch On
My Chemical Romance - Welcome To the Black Parade (When We Were Young 2024) - YouTube

Watch On
My Chemical Romance - The Sharpest Lives (When We Were Young 2024) - YouTube

Watch On
My Chemical Romance - Helena (When We Were Young 2024) - YouTube

Watch On

My Chemical Romance’s When We Were Young 2024 setlist

1. The End. (first time live since 2007)
2. Dead! (first time live since 2011)
3. This Is How I Disappear
4. The Sharpest Lives (first time live since 2008)
5. Welcome To The Black Parade
6. I Don’t Love You (with new intro)
7. House Of Wolves
8. Cancer (with Kayleigh Goldsworthy) (first time with full band since 2006; new violin arrangement)
9. Mama (with Kayleigh Goldsworthy) (with new violin intro and outro)
10. Sleep
11. Teenagers
12. Disenchanted (first time live since 2007)
13. Famous Last Words (new outro with Welcome To The Black Parade reprise)
14. Blood

Get the Louder Newsletter

The latest news, features and interviews direct to your inbox, from the global home of alternative music.

Contact me with news and offers from other Future brandsReceive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors

Encore:

15. I’m Not Okay (I Promise)
16. Helena

Earlier this year, MCR shut down hopes of a reunion album after a number of cryptic posts appeared on their Facebook, including a variety of bizarre news stories, one which alluded to country singer Keith Urban‘s alleged prostate cancer.

While fans were hopeful that the band's social media use was hinting towards a new release, soon they became sceptical over the legitimacy of the content that was being posted.

Finally, the band put an end to the strange events, announcing that their Facebook had indeed been hacked.

“Our Facebook got hacked,” they wrote. “Don’t believe everything you read!”

Liz Scarlett

Liz works on keeping the Louder sites up to date with the latest news from the world of rock and metal. Prior to joining Louder as a full time staff writer, she completed a Diploma with the National Council for the Training of Journalists and received a First Class Honours Degree in Popular Music Journalism. She enjoys writing about anything from neo-glam rock to stoner, doom and progressive metal, and loves celebrating women in music.

More about louder

"If you're going to do anything, do it full measure, don't equivocate, be all the way in": How the MC5's Kick Out The Jams became a rallying call for a generation

“Jim’s whole shaman thing only became apparent later, after people wrote books about us. To us, he was just the frontman”: Jim Morrison – the man behind the myth, by the people who knew him
Latest

Jeff Lynne's ELO announce final ever show
See more latest ►

“There was a lot of power in what they had to say. I felt that even before I could relate to the stories they were telling”: Why Poppy’s cover of Spit by Kittie is a tribute to one of her favourite metal bands

White Willow's fourth album Storm Season to be remastered and reissued in December

"Your soul is pulled into the underworld!" Swedish songwriter Jonathan Hultén returns with mesmeric video for new single Afterlife

Nymphs singer Inger Lorre dead at 61

David Gilmour's Between Two Points remixed by Gus from Alt-J

"It's our love letter to the city that raised us." Indian nu metal sensations Bloodywood release thumping new single Nu Dehli, announce UK and Europe 2025 tour

Order your limited edition Frost* x Prog bundle – featuring a signed lyric sheet and art print!

Order your limited edition Myles Kennedy x Classic Rock bundle – featuring an exclusive piece of show backdrop!