My Chemical Romance Live in Singapore

DATE
11 Dec 2007 Tue, 8pm

VENUE
The MAX Pavilion @ Singapore Expo

TICKET PRICE
Standard - S$95, S$85 S$75

Book your tickets at Sistic now!

The princes of darkness and pioneer of Alternative Rock, My Chemical Romance, is set to bring their evolutional, The Black Parade, to our shores this December.

With their melodramatic musical and lyrical content, and impressive theatrical stage performance, no wonder My Chemical Romance is touted as “one of the biggest bands in the world” by the bible of Alternative Rock, Kerrang! Magazine.

Following the success of their multi-platinum and highly acclaimed epic album, The Black Parade, these New Jersey natives are finally here in Singapore after much awaiting from their fans.

With hits like, Welcome to the Black Parade, Teenagers and Famous Last Words, The Black Parade is guaranteed to clean up your looks and take you through on a spectacular march into the beaten and the damned.

"The most exciting thing about this tour is that it's the first time you're really seeing the Black Parade as a band. And yet you're never gonna get alienated because you're also gonna get My Chemical Romance." Gerard Way, the lead singer of the band says of the tour.

So what are you waiting for? Be the savior of the broken and join The Black Parade now!

This concert is brought to you by Samsung and organized by Midas Promotions.

LP UNDERGROUND 7 LAUNCHES ON DECEMBER 5

The brand new Year 7 of LP Underground will be launching on December 5, 2007! Thank you all for being a part of the LPU thus far. Every year we strive to give YOU, the dedicated fans, the most exciting items and opportunities for exclusive events, and we are looking forward to you joining us for year 7 of LP Underground. As voted on by you, the new LPU 7 CD includes 10 full tracks, featuring the best live recordings of your favorite Linkin Park songs from Projekt Revolution 2007!

You can purchase the new LPU 7 membership package on www.lpunderground.com starting December 5.

Here's what you can look forward to in the new exclusive LPU 7 membership package:

LPU 7 Pass
- LPU 7 CD with 10 Live Recordings featuring the Best of Projekt Revolution 2007
- LPU 7 Shirt
- LPU 7 Membership Card
- LPU 7 Sticker Pack
- LPU 7 Shoelaces
- LPU 7 Carabiner Keychain
- Letter from Linkin Park
- Annual Newsletter
- Mobile Benefits including Exclusive LPU Ringtone, Wallpaper, Contests, and Text Alerts*

LPU 7 Bonus Pass
- All LPU 7 Pass Items above
PLUS
- FIVE collectible bonus LPU items from the past years (LPU 1 through 6), as selected by LPU Headquarters! Bonus items will include one CD and four other select collectible items (such as a photo, sticker, guitar pick, wristband, postcard set, pin, or membership card).
Note: Items are selected randomly and cannot be exchanged. All packages will not be the same.

LPU Online-Only Pass
(see membership benefits below)

All of the above 3 membership levels will have access to the following benefits:
- Opportunities for Presale Tickets and Meet & Greet Passes**
- Access to Members-Only Website www.lpunderground.com
- Your Own E-mail Address [name@linkinpark.com]
- Exclusive Audio & Video Clips
- Exclusive Merchandise Online
- 15% Discount on Most Items at linkinparkmerch.com

*Standard messaging rates apply
**Subject to availability

Prices (includes shipping/handling fees)
LPU 7 Pass = US$28 for US/Canada/Mexico, US$35 for International
LPU 7 Bonus Pass = US$38 for US/Canada/Mexico, US$45 for International
LPU 7 Online-Only Pass = US$15

Linkin Park Live in Singapore - TOMORROW!!!

Here's the final list of us going together.

Since everyone has different timing and we are not sure how's the crowd and queue will be like this time, try to go as early as possible.

01. Elyse (+2) - 3 or 4pm
02. Jaz - follow Elyse
03. Daphne (+2) - 3 or 4pm
04. Ting Ting (+2) - 3 or 4 pm
05. Alan Voon - follow Elyse
06. Grey - follow Elyse
07. Chi Anh
08. Julian (+1) - 3 or 4pm
09. Farhan - after 5pm
10. Hendry (+1) - 3 or 4pm
11. Mona - follow Elyse
12. Syafiq
13. Ziqing
14. Melissa - late
15. Yiling - late
16. Wilkie
17. Saha - early morning!

Total 25 peeps as of now.

Since most of us are going in the afternoon time, we should be able to queue together.

Those who are going later, give me or any of those going early a buzz when you get there.

SEE YOU!!!
And wear your LPU t-shirt, people!

Linkin Park in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Seoul!

Three new tour dates have been added - Linkin Park will be performing in Singapore (November 13), Hong Kong (November 20), and Seoul, Korea (November 30)!

SINGAPORE - INDOOR STADIUM
November 13 (Tuesday)
8:00 PM

LPU Presale: Sept 3 - Sept 5
On sale: Sept 6 @ Sistic (Sorry, I can't disclose the presale link. It's not searchable.)

Video Updates From Projekt Revolution

Watch the latest video where Chester stops to give us a Projekt Rev tour update in the 100-degree heat in his hometown of Phoenix, AZ! Check in with Madina Lake, Saosin, and Mindless Self Indulgence as they introduce us to the Revolution stage acts. Watch the "Monsoon / Revolution Stage" video now.


To watch other Projekt Revolution videos from the road, visit http://www.projektrevolution.com/.




Don't forget you can also directly connect to Projekt Revolution at www.linkinpark.com/connect by adding the Direct Connection player to your website, fan site, blog, or social network profile. Through the Direct Connection player, you can get more video updates from Linkin Park, shot on their video cell phones and appearing directly on your websites! Go to www.linkinpark.com/connect to connect with Linkin Park and Projekt Revolution now!

My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way: The Six-Pack Q&A

Rolling Stone posed six questions to My Chemical Romance singer/comic book artist/proud Jersey boy Gerard Way. He professed his love of Joan of Arc, squids and Ziggy Stardust (and discussed what it was like being “touched in the head”).

What’s the most rock-star thing you’ve ever done?
That’s really hard to come up with. I haven’t done anything rock star. I walked into a club in Canada with sunglasses on. I thought it would be cool. It was a total dick move.

What was your favorite album at age fourteen?
Live After Death by Iron Maiden. Easily. I listened to that thing for five years straight. That’s one of the things that really made me want to be a live performer.

How do you like to spend downtime on tour?
I write my comic book, which is amazingly fun. And I want to do serious paintings of Joan of Arc and squids. Joan of Arc is my favorite historical-legendary-whatever figure. Number one, it’s a boyish, waifish girl in a suit of armor on a white horse, and that’s badass. I’ve always been attracted to that character because it was somebody who was willing to die for what they believed in, and they were probably fucking crazy and like, touched by the hand of God, and I believe in that shit. I totally believe in that stuff. I believe that it can happen to anybody.
Like when we started this band, there was a brief amount of time where it felt like you drank gasoline and shit glass, and you were always covered in your own sweat, somebody else’s spit or blood or something. And I felt that, you know what I mean? I would make crazy speeches that made no sense onstage. I would talk about purifying flames being shot out of our cabinets at max volume to destroy evil and shit like that. I was, you know, touched in the head. And really, when you get touched in the head like that, I think your job at that point for the rest of your career is to remember what it was like to be touched in the head, and kind of keep that going. ‘Cause that can’t last forever, you’ll be dead, I think. Like Joan of Arc. So, yeah, I love Joan of Arc. And squids. Honestly, the shapes, the disgustingness of them, the suckers, the fact that they’re in the ocean. I’m a huge Hellboy fan so I draw lots of squids.

Who’s the coolest famous person you’ve ever met?
Johnny Marr. It was in Norway at a festival. He was amazing. He came up to get something signed for his daughter, and I basically nerded out on him. We talked a lot about Portland, OR, because he’s living there and I’m thinking of living there.

Name three records on your current playlist.
1) LostAlone, Say No to the World. They’re a really young, three-piece band from Nottingham. It’s a perfect record. There aren’t a lot of those. It’s a rock band but it’s really new-sounding. It’s fresh. It makes me feel angsty again and I haven’t heard anything that makes me feel that way in a long time.

2) David Bowie, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars. I listen to that all the time, but lately I’ve been listening to it front to back. It’s my desert-island album.

3) Mew, Frengers. It’s the album before the new one, and it’s great. They’re one of my favorite new bands ever.

When do you think you’ll know it’s time to retire?
When inside it doesn’t feel special anymore. Or if I can’t keep a personal sense of ownership anymore. If we can’t keep a sense it’s ours anymore, we’ll walk away.

Gerard Way to publish "The Umbrella Academy" in September

My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way has announced the release date for the first issue of his comic book series, The Umbrella Academy. First promised in July of 2006, the series will be published by maverick publisher Dark Horse, home of Hellboy and Conan which became films, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Terminator and Star Wars which took the opposite route.

Gerard described the storyline to MTV:

A closet space alien has adopted seven extraordinary children to save the world. He never tells [them] from what. He's a really bad father, and he dies of a heart attack, and they are all kind of stuck to figure out the rest." The biggest idea with the comic for me was, number one, writing a comic, I've been wanting to write one. It's fun. I think I can say something I can't necessarily say with my music. But also, I wanted to get people into comic shops, people who normally wouldn't [go], because I love the medium.

Way is no fly-by-night comic book geek either, mentioning an obscure Watchmen reference that appeared on the band's major label debut, Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge.

He also addressed fan speculation about the band's follow up to The Black Parade:

We're not working on a record, We're touring and getting some distance from writing music. We'll finish out touring, take a break and then come back and write. It will be quite awhile before there's another My Chemical Romance album.

Comic news sites Newsarama and Comic Book Resources each spoke with the frontman on the project. The CBR feature displays numerous pages of art from the first issue.

2007 MTV Video Music Awards

The annual VMA is back on 9th September. The full list of nominees is HERE.

Linkin Park is up for 3 categories. They are:

• Best Group
  The vocal interplay between Mike Shinoda and Chester Bennington already makes Linkin Park one of the most distinct sounding bands in their genre. Even so, this year they stretched alt.metal even further, collaborating with legendary producer Rick Rubin. From where we sit, the effort paid off.



• Best Director
  Although best known as Linkin Park's turntablist, Joe Hahn has leveraged his band's success to build a flourishing career in music video direction. Aside from directing most of Linkin Park's videos, Hahn has also worked with Static-X, Story of the Year, Xzibit and others. Shot in the California desert, "What I've Done," hits close to the band's heart as it address a number of environmental issues.



• Best Editing
  Linkin Park's nature-loving desert epic mixes stop-action, stock footage and live performances to make a political statement about the condition of the Earth.
  

Wooo hooooooooooooo, congrats to LP for the nominations. Bravo! Now, let's just hope they win. Which is kinda hard because all these major music awards favoured pop music. If you look at the nominees list, it is dominated by the likes of Justin Timberlake, Beyonce, Rihanna et cetera. Can we have a major annual Rock Music Awards or something?

Updates: Linkin Park

SECOND SHOWS ADDED IN SYDNEY & AUCKLAND!
Two more Linkin Park shows just got added in Sydney and Auckland, with a chance to get LPU presales for the Auckland show!

Tickets are on sale NOW for the October 21 Sydney show - get them here.

For the new October 11 Auckland date, LPU presales start on Thursday, August 9 at 9:00am (local time) and ends on Friday, August 10. Public on-sales begin on Monday, August 13 at 9:00am (local time). The password to access the exclusive LPU presale is LPUG06 and you will be able to purchase up to 4 presale tickets. Login to LPunderground.com on the day of the presale to access the ticket site!

Australia in Oct and Japan in Nov... Does that mean they'll be coming to Singapore/Malaysia in between these shows?

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LINKIN PARK NOMINATED FOR 3 VMAs!
Congratulations to Linkin Park for being nominated for Best Group, Best Editor and Best Director for the 2007 Video Music Awards! The VMAs airs live on Sunday, September 9 at 9pm ET/8pm CT on MTV. Go to MTV.com now for more details.

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MTV MUSIC PREMIERE - BLEED IT OUT
Bleed It Out video premiere on MTV. It says "Copyrights restrict us from playing this video outside of US". *duh*

Or you can try to view it on MTV2. As for MTV2, my pc lacks some software updates that they needed to play the video. So, anyone who reads this, go try if you can view and let me know ok?!

My Chemical Romance's Gerard Way Hopes To Get Fans 'Into Comic Shops'; Says Band Isn't Prepping New LP

MTV Asia News, July 31, 2007

My Chemical Romance's Gerard Way has always loved comic books.

His first job, in high school, was at a local comic book shop in New Jersey. He didn't actually collect a paycheck each week — his compensation came in the form of free comic books. He idolized the likes of Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore, Frank Miller and Grant Morrison. Long before the band was formed, Way attended the School of Visual Arts in New York, where he majored in illustration and cartooning. He wanted to be a comic book artist so badly that he later interned at DC Comics.

That dream never panned out, which is perhaps for the best. Now that Way has made a name for himself as the leader of My Chemical Romance, it's been much easier for him to launch The Umbrella Academy, a new book he's been working on with artist Gabriel Bá. The volume hits stores through Dark Horse Comics on September 19.

Way unveiled the book over the weekend at San Diego's Comic-Con 2007, where he admitted that it's kind of hard to describe just what The Umbrella Academy is all about.

"It's much like when we were starting the band — the band was very hard to explain to people, and they just kind of had to hear it," he said between signings. "I tell people they just have to read the comic. But in short, a [closeted] space alien has adopted seven extraordinary children to save the world. He never tells [them] from what. He's a really bad father, and he dies of a heart attack, and they are all kind of stuck to figure out the rest."

The series starts off when the members of the Umbrella Academy, now well into their adult years and disbanded, learn that their adoptive father, Sir Reginald Hargreeves, has died. When news of a world-ending threat is made public, the former team members must put their differences aside and unite to do what they've been trained to do — save us all from impending doom. Think X-Men, but with a more gothic feel.

"The biggest idea with the comic for me was, number one, writing a comic," he explained. "I've been wanting to write one. It's fun. I think I can say something I can't necessarily say with my music. But also, I wanted to get people into comic shops, people who normally wouldn't [go], because I love the medium.

"A lot of books had a very big impact on me, and they kind of shaped my lyrics, the band's aesthetic, everything," he continued. "There's a song called 'The Ghost of You' on [2004's Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge], which is named after a perfume ad in the Watchmen [graphic-novel series]. Comics have been such a big part of me and the band for such a long time, and I just want people to check out comics."

As for the rumors that My Chemical Romance had begun writing material for the follow-up to 2006's The Black Parade, Way said there's no truth to them.

"We're not working on a record," he said. "We're touring and getting some distance from writing music. We'll finish out touring, take a break and then come back and write. It will be quite awhile before there's another My Chemical Romance album. We said a lot of what we wanted to say with Black Parade, so we're going to have to find something completely new to say, and that could take some living, some touring, some hardships. It's all about finding what the next thing is for yourself, for your band, and we're still searching for that. We'll be searching for a while, I think."

The band has quashed its beef with Marilyn Manson, which is good, Way said, "because I hate talking about it." A couple of months back, Manson said in an interview with The London Paper that he'd written the song "Mutilation Is the Most Sincere Form of Flattery," from his new album Eat Me, Drink Me, as an attack on My Chemical Romance. Said Manson: "I'm embarrassed to be me because these people are doing a really sad, pitiful, shallow version of what I've done." Way later responded that nothing Manson could say would bring the band down, writing it off as Manson using the MCR name to promote his latest LP.

"There's really nothing going on there," he said. "We played a festival in Norway with them, and [guitarist] Frank [Iero] just went up to them, said hi and asked if there was anything wrong. They said no, and that was the end of it."

-- Chris Harris, with reporting by Brian Jacks (MTV.com)

Update on Brett Anderson Live in Singapore

Message from Lushington Entertainment:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JULY 19, 2007


It is with sincere regret that Lushington Entertainments announces the cancellation of the Brett Anderson’s scheduled show at Suntec Convention Centre, slated for August 16th, 2007 due to unforeseen circumstances.

Kindly be informed that refunds will be made available 25th - 29th July 2007. Refunds are through original mode of payment. For purchases made by credit card, refunds will be automatically credited to the same card without the need to return the physical tickets. Purchases made through cash or Nets will require the physical tickets & NRIC/passport/FIN card to be presented at the SISTIC Box Office, Singapore Indoor Stadium.

Refund hours are from Mondays to Saturdays, from 12 noon to 8pm, and on Sundays and Public Holidays, from 1pm to 7pm

For customers who have purchased tickets via Cash through overseas agents, please call them directly for your refund.

For more information, please call the SISTIC hotline at 6345 5555.

We sincerely apologies for the inconvenience caused to those who have purchased tickets.

Updates: Linkin Park

NEW TOUR DATES IN JAPAN
Linkin Park is returning to Japan in November! Stay tuned for ticket details, as well as info on how you can get presales through the LPU!

Japan Tour Dates

Friday, Nov 23, Saitama Super Arena Chou-ku, Saitama-Shi
Saturday, Nov 24, Saitama Super Arena Chou-ku, Saitama-Shi
Monday, Nov 26, Nippon Gaisha Hall (Rainbow Hall) Minami-ku, Nagoya
Tuesday, Nov 27, Prefectural Gymnasium Naniwa, Osaka

Go to www.creativeman.co.jp for more info.

Note from Mike - Styles Of Beyond

hey everyone,

i'm back with a little bit of news for you guys, for those of you who are familiar with STYLES OF BEYOND aka S.O.B. from my fort minor project:

S.O.B. just released a brand new song called "second to none." i produced the track, so i thought you might like to check it out. verses by me, tak, and ryu, plus scratches by cheapshot. it's on the new TRANSFORMERS soundtrack (available on iTunes…put it on your new iPhone, ya heard?)

anyway, that song should be a little taste of one of the many sides of their forthcoming album, "Rocket Surgery," which will be out later this year on machine shop / warner bros. records. hope you enjoy it.

thanks,
-m shinoda

Visit www.stylesofbeyondmusic.com for more on Styles of Beyond.