Gerard Way was about to sing “The Kids from Yesterday.” First, though, he had a question for the kids of today. Standing onstage Friday night at the Shrine Expo Hall — where the frontman had reconvened his highly influential emo band, My Chemical Romance — Way asked how many people in the audience were seeing the group for the first time. Mikey Way, left, and Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance perform Dec. 20 at the Shrine Expo Hall. (Speaking of the crowd, Friday’s was impressively diverse in terms of race and gender, an encouraging result of emo’s long-tail afterlife.) And that felt awfully strange for a group whose old gigs nearly always seemed to vibrate with life-or-death intensity.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 22, 2019 05:03 UTC