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![dungeons & dragons: How I ask people to play DnD
Nah, maybe
later
Hey, do you
want to play
Dungeons
& Dragons?
How I ask my friends to play DnD
Read, nigga, read!
[YELLING]
No
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DUNGEONS DRAGONS
edition
DRAGONS AND ELVES
BELONG IN OUR WORLDS
HE CO
AND SO DO YOU.
Fr
Neare nothing DUNRAGONS
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IN MID-2004, WITH THE GLOBAL DOMINATION THAT WAS TO COME
JUST A MURMUR ON THE HORIZON, WE FOLLOWED MCR AROUND
THE UK FOR ONE OF THEIR VERY FIRST METAL HAMMER FEATURES
WORDS: JOHN DORAN PHOTOS: JOHN McMURTRIE
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prepared for the accident that was to happen tonight at
premier sauna-cum-venue, The Garage. During
erard Way had been having
premonitions that he was going
to be blinded for months. The lead an eviscerating performance, Gerard throws himself
singer of My Chemical Romancetoward the crowd just as one particularly lust-crazed
kept on seeing it happen in
dreams and each time he would
young woman thrusts her arms up to touch him.
Gerard, now wearing onyx-black shades, takes up the
story: "I head-banged into her finger and it went right in
my eye. It was the weirdest feeling. It was painful but the
worst thing was how weird it was. I could feel her finger
in my eye and all this really warm fluid running down
my face. I thought my eyeball had burst and I just kept
on thinking about the dreams I'd been having about
wake up in a cold sweat, shaking. So he was almost
going blind. I was like, 'Dude, I've lost this left eye:
But the finger was right back into my socket around
the eyeball where all the tendons and shit are. It made
LEAP OF FAITH: THE
MCRMY PILE IN
ANK GENUFLECTS AT
HE ALTAR OF SCREAM
38 METLHAMNERCOUK
THE BROTHERS
WAY: DIVVENT MESS
garage RISTOR
music
"DOESTHE NUMBER 30
GO FROM HERE MATE?"
a really weird slurping noise when she took it out.the outfit) from Newark, NJ, who, despite only having
Metal Hammer has very strict rules about what girls acouple of single releases in this country, are starting
can and cannot stick into its various orifices and this
should definitely be a no-no. Gerard and the rest of themuch for their own safety, then they do about their fans.
band are sitting around sharing coffee, beers and soft They walk out on stage to hand out bottles of water to
drinks, waiting for their Manchester Hop And Grape show the people at the front and regularly douse the ones who
soundcheck this evening and telling us all about how they look like they need it. They also try to protect their fans
are beginning to take off in this country-while swapping from the carnage on stage if they get up there. It's Metal
gig injury stories. Gerard reckons it would have been cool Hammers view that moshing is a good thing because it
in a way to have lost his eye, saying: "Can you imagine gives people the chance to have catharsis and get the
how cool it would be to wear an eyepatch on stage?"
to cause a huge stir over here. And if they don't care
violence out that is in us all without hurting anyone else
You'd be the screamo Bluebeard!", adds taciturr
drummer Matt Pelissier. All of the band have horror stories in this country under the age of 40 was made to go to one
to tell when it comes to playing live and, watching thepunk or screamo gig a week then football violence would
powerhouse performance that they put on, you can't help probably die out overnight. But Gerard still thinks there's
but feel they should take out a hell of a lot more personal anegative element to it sometimes, saying: "Some of it
injury insurance. "Frank [Iero] hit me in the face with the is macho bullshit. Some of the nu metal acts were just
head of his guitar one night and it was bleeding so much encouraging violence for violence's sake. It gives punk
that my entire face was covered in blood," says Ray Toro, rck a bad name and it makes it harder for the kids. Their
the Afro-haired guitarist. "It was like a mask of blood." parents aren't going to let them go and watch bands if
(usually). In fact, we'd go so far as to say that if everyone
"We're a really physical band on stage," adds Gerard.they go and get the shit kicked out of them."
"I slipped a couple of discs in my back on tour. Frank hasThe Garage is heaving hours before the gig even starts
broken his wrist. We've all been hurt."
It was the gig the night before when we first met up
with the five-piece (Gerard's brother Mikey plays bass in
and people keep on coming up to Gerard in the pub
beforehand. He's nearly mobbed at one point by two
girls coming out of McDonald's. "Oh! My! God!" says
"We've all been hurt
GERARD ON SOME OF THE NOT-SO-MUCH-PERKS OF THE JOB
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VEHICLES AND
CONTENTS
ARE LEFT
ENTIRELY AT
OWNERS RISK
MCR'S
WARM-UP YOGA
one with hermouth full of Curly Wurly McFlurry "My!
Chemical! Romance!
for a quick pint. Now Gerard's got over the fear of nearly
becoming a rocknrolcyclops, he can explain the genesis.
And you can see why they're starting to attract this
of their strange name. "The name is taken from an Irvine
kind of attention when the gig kicks off. Within seconds Welsh book. Me and Mikey were looking at a copy of Ecstasy,
of the first song, Gerard is in the crowd, screaming and
thrashing like a younger, better-looking Casey Chaos.
Their music is reminiscent of other emo/post-hardcoreChemical Romance mean so much on so many different
bands such as Funeral For A Friend and Hundred Reasons, levels. It seemed to be the only way to describe the music.
but they have a scruffier, punkier edge, which comes fromAnd in another way, Trainspotting is generally set in this
the fact that they're all massive fans of Black Flag.
and on the inside it said, Three tales of chemical romance."
The de facto leader of the group adds: "Well, the words
area with people getting caught up in a scene and a vibe
The band, it has to be said, as nice as they are, don't
appear to be very rock'n'roll. Hammer groans inwardly
when it gets on the tour bus, as the two DVDs that are
out on show are Dungeons & Dragons, the cartoon,
and a stop-motion animation of Wind In The Willows.
Nearly all the band go straight to bed, leaving Hammer Matt, who looks like he would sooner be pulling his own
up with just Matt and the drummers from Hondo Macleanteeth out with pliers than being interviewed, perks up
and The Bled, drinking Stella, listening to Refused and slightly and says, "Newark is in the State of New Jersey,
talking about hi-hats. C-c-c-call the cops!
where there's a lot of drugs about and that resonated
with us because of all the stuff we had to fight through to
become a band. The strange thing is that when you watch
the movie with the drug addiction and murder, it evern
looks like Newark, where we come from!"
a few hours outside of New York. It's a complete goddamn
The next day, when Hammer has unstuck its tonguewasteland. It's been shut down for about 20 years. It
from the floor and tried to rub its aching pancreas
better, we look for the band, but apparently they all got up What does it smell of?" we ask.
to go sightseeing around Manchester at 5.30 this morning. "Dead bodies", he replies nonchalantly.
5.30am? That was only half an hour after Hammer went
to bed! Later, after a lot of fannying about with gaffa tape says, "and during that period I was using substances
and hairspray, the band finally say theyre ready to go out to overcome other substances.
smells godawful."
"Also, at the time I was drinking severely," Gerard
"I could feel her finger in my eye...
I thought my eyeball had burst"
NO, ITS NOT A WEIRD GROUPIE STORY
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40 METRIHAMMERCOUK
"Id had a really bad year before the band and that
helped me get out of it. My art career had gone down the like he could have stepped straight out of Flock Of
shitter, 9/11 had just happened. I was quite close to that Seagulls, Gerard is a goth-rock marauder with raven-
at the time and it affected me in a very bad way. I became black hair, torn black clothing and aviator shades, and
like a hermit and just started drinking all the time and Matt, with his backwards cap and goatee beard, looks
I didn't want to do anything with my life. And drinking like he's ready to walk on stage filling in for Metallica.
and not doing anything else is the worst thing you can Frank is the most 'modern-looking guy in the band
do in terms of depression. I had to go and see a therapist with his punctured face, gun and heart tattoos, and
for the first time ever and she put me on antidepressants. asymmetrical haircut. Suddenly all their disparate looks
But it wasn'tthe counselling or the drugs, it was the band gel and they look like a band should: a band of brothers.
that got me out of my depression. I had a purpose again." "In this life you gotta do what you gotta do!" yells
with his MC5/Mars Volta 'fro, the rake-thin Mikey looks
All of the band have had similar experiences. "I think Gerard before pausing and adding, "And if that means
you'll find none of us was the cool kid at school," offers doing a line of coke and getting a blow job, then that's
Frank. "I felt like I never fitted in when I was younger and what you gotta do!"
I think depression is a normal thing that happens in thatHammer ain't gonna argue, and by the end of the show
situation. So a lot of those emotions go into our songs. there have been more members of the audience running
We keep it in check now. Sometimes I go a little bit off the across the stage and diving off than those who haven't.
rails but we keep each other in check. There's always beer After dragging Frank off for a quick curry in nearby
around when you're on tour. You're more likely to get beer Rusholme, just to prove that all English food isn't shit,
tickets than meal tickets."
we rejoin the others in Manchester's premier rock bar,
The reason that bands drink so much on tour is because Big Hands, where a dizzying array of beers are drunk
of all of the downtime there is to kil. Matt, who doesnt by the band, and by the swelling ranks of girls who want
drink that often, says: You'll get kids who are desperate to drink with them.
to come backstage and when they run into the dressingWe leave them at about 3am, cavorting on the streets of
room there will be, like, one guy asleep, two having a chat, Manchester, singing note-perfect impressions of English
one watching the TV and another smoking a cigarettebands while dreaming about world domination.
they always look so depressed, like they've walked into
the wrong room. Why? You feel like saying, Look, you'd be
having a better time if you were out at the bar."
Frank agrees: The hour you're on stage and meeting
the kids afterwards is what it's all about. It is the 22.5
GERARD WOULD
NEVER LET
ANYONE INTO
HIS SACRED
CRYPT
hours of the day which is boring when you're on tour."
But if last night's gig was incendiary, tonight's is
certifiably cooler. Ray looks like a 1960s urban guerrilla
If
'DUDE, WHERE'S MY EYE?"
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