This one is sure to please all the black-eyeliner-loving millennials out there.
In huge news for all the 90s emo kids, My Chemical Romance (aka MCR/My Chem) has announced Arizona’s finest Jimmy Eat World as support for their 2023 Australian arena tour.
Celebrating nearly three decades and ten albums, lead vocalist and lead guitarist Jim Adkins, rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist Tom Linton, bassist Rick Burch, and drummer Zach Lind, will return to Australian shores for the first time in six years as part of MCR’s highly-anticipated 2023 tour.
My Chemical Romance / Jimmy Eat World Australian Tour 2023
Entertainment Centre, Brisbane – Monday March 13
Entertainment Centre, Brisbane – Tuesday March 14 (Sold Out)
Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne – Thursday March 16
Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne – Friday March 17 (Sold Out)
Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney – Sunday March 19 (Sold Out)
Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney – Monday March 20
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The Mesa, Arizona quartet’s commercial breakthrough came with the release of Bleed American, with single “The Middle” hitting No. 1 on the Billboard Alternative Airplay chart and peaking at No. 5 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, where it spent 33 weeks total on the chart.
Futures, their follow-up album to Bleed American, featured single “Pain,” which also hit No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Alternative Airplay chart, made Billboard’s Hot 100 (No. 93), and is RIAA-certified Gold. In October 2019, the band released their tenth album, the critically acclaimed, Surviving.
June 2022 saw Jimmy Eat World return with their first independent release, single “Something Loud”.
My Chemical Romance’s March tour, will be their first return to Australia since their appearance at Big Day Out festival in 2012.
MCR first made their debut in 2002 with the independently released album “I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love”. The band signed to Reprise Records the following year and made its major-label debut with 2004’s “Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge”, now 3x certified Platinum. The album contained the Platinum hit ‘I’m Not Okay (I Promise),’ the Gold-certified ‘Helena,’ and ‘The Ghost of You.’
Rolling Stone hailed the 3x Platinum “The Black Parade” as one of the top albums of 2006. The lead single ‘Welcome to the Black Parade’ topped both Billboard’s Alternative Songs tally and the UK Official Singles chart and is now 3x Platinum.
The band toured extensively behind the album – appearing as characters from “The Black Parade” – and released the live album “The Black Parade is Dead!” in 2008. “Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys” was released in 2010 and topped Billboard’s Alternative Albums and Top Rock Albums charts. It was followed by a series of singles later released as “Conventional Weapons” in 2013.
Better start limbering up to hit the mosh pit stat.
Second shows in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney were announced off the back of their original shows instant sell-out.
For complete tour and ticket information, visit livenation.com.au.
