[ATTENDED: September 20, 2022] Thursday [rescheduled from September 22, 2020 and September 21, 2021]
I bought tickets to this show for myself, my son and his friend on January 31, 2020, The boys were freshmen at the time. Now, after two rescheduled shows, the boys are seniors and were still excited about this reunion. (Even though they were too young to know about them the last time MCR played in NJ).
There were two opening bands, but our parking nightmares (oh Newark) made us miss The Homeless Gospel Choir, a folk/punk band from Pittsburgh who I was interested in checking out.
For our show (a second show was later added with a different opening band) Thursday opened. Thursday is a band from New Brunswick, NJ. They are an emo band that predates My Chemical Romance and somehow I had never heard of them.
I’m surprised I’d never heard of them. Turns out they broke up in 2012. They got back together in 2016 and toured a bunch then. They started touring again after COVID.
It was interesting hearing their earlier stuff is far more emo. “Cross Out the Eyes” had a soaring emo chorus and also some screamed backing vocals.
It was the twenty anniversary (almost) of War All the Time and they played three songs from that album.
But the highlight for most of us was when Gerard Way came out to sing “Jet Black New Year” (as he did on the album). I think he may have only screamed “jet black” but it was a little hard to tell exactly what was going on.
Things mellowed out for the next song, a calm ballad from War, but they took off one more time with a song from their newest album (from 2011), that had a soaring chorus.
They brought out Anthony Green of Circa Survive for “Understanding in a Car Crash.” It’s possible that I’d heard this song on various Spotify suggested songs. It was apparently a pretty big hit for them back in 2022.
They ended with the title song from War All the Time. It was a good energetic set, but I was only there for My Chemical Romance.
Thursday setlist
- The Other Side of the Crash/Over and Out (of Control) Ξ
- Cross Out the Eyes ©
- Signals Over the Air ϖ
- Jet Black New Year (with Gerard Way on vocals) ⊄
- This Song Brought to You by a Falling Bomb ϖ
- Fast to the End Ó
- Understanding in a Car Crash (with Anthony Green) ©
- War All the Time ϖ
Ó No Devolución (2011)
Ξ A City By the Light Divided (2006)
ϖ War All the Time (2003)
⊄ Five Stories Falling (2002)
© Full Collapse (2001)
The Homeless Gospel Choir played for about 25 minutes and we missed the whole thing.
They played
- Blind Faith ⇓
- Politics on Holidays ‰
- Future Ghosts ‰
- Don’t Compare ⇓
- Tender Hearted Jellyfish Alien Boyfriend ‰
- Art Punk ⇓
- Crazy Ξ
- Ripoff ‰
‰ Fourth Dimension Intervention (2022)
⇓ This Land is Your Landfill (2020)
Ξ Presents: Normal (2017)
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