
My Chemical Romance is currently on the road for the North American leg of their Long Live The Black Parade anniversary tour. Last night’s Phoenix show saw a tribute to the late wrestler and former Every Time I Die guitarist Andy Williams, along with the first-ever live performance of “The Light Before Your Eyes.”
In honor of the album’s anniversary, the band opened the show with The Black Parade in full before moving to a B-stage for a second set, NME reported. During this transition to the second set, My Chemical Romance played “Boy Division” from the 2013 EP Conventional Weapons.
Right before jumping into the song, frontman Gerard Way said, “This one’s for The Butcher.” The Butcher was the ring name for Andy Williams, who tragically passed away at the age of 48 after collapsing during a wrestling show in Pennsylvania over the weekend.
Toward the end of their set, the rock band played Conventional Weapons’s “The Light Behind Your Eyes” live for the first time, with Way dedicating the song to his daughter. “I wrote this song for my daughter,” Way said before performing. “If there’s something I could leave for her, it’d be this one; it’s called ‘The Light Behind Your Eyes’.”
The Long Live The Black Parade tour has had other first-time live performances so far, with the band playing “Ambulance” for the first time during their Glasgow show back in July. Only time will tell what other potential surprises future dates have in store. The tour is set to close on November 22nd in Jakarta, Indonesia.
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