My Chemical Romance fans' Daily Mail protest: first photos

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by Sean Adams [Edit this content] ▾ 22 comments 11:09 May 31st, 2008

As you should be aware today fans of the popular emo-rock band My Chemical Romance have descended upon Hyde Park at the ungodly hour of 10am to make their stand against the Daily Mail.

By 9:50am there were 100 fans. By 10am over two hundred punctual fans amassed in the morning sunshine to show solidarity and defend their favourite band, who have been blamed for a string of suicides.

DiS' new noisy cousin site ThrashHits.com have the first photos from the rimmel-rimmed frontline...

Visit Thrash Hits.com for more updates throughout the day. And in case you missed it, read Mike Diver's interview with the band from the first time My Chemical Romance were demonised by the Daily Mail.

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JAG

Sibley | 31 May '08, 11:21 | X | Reply

can we have

a country spin-off site called Nash Hits?

Jordan_229_2 | 31 May '08, 11:24 | X | Reply

hey

we could rename the Maccabees board Gash Hits?

OOOOH.

OceanStorm @Jordan_229_2 | 31 May '08, 11:38 | X | Reply

If I had access to a cloning machine

I'd have sent my double along to protest peacefully for a while then slit my wrists.

twentynine | 31 May '08, 12:50 | X | Reply

There must be

more than 200 MCR fans in London?

I think you could muster that number in Wrexham!

Matty_PARIS | 31 May '08, 13:00 | X | Reply

it started early

raz says there's LOADS more there now

sean @Matty_PARIS | 31 May '08, 13:46 | X | Reply

Good on them, seriously

It's this kind of shit which lead to that girl getting killed so horrifically. I don't like MCR, but I can see why people would, and for anyone to run that charge up against a band is morally wrong. But we all knew the vault of morals at The Daily Mail has long been completely empty.

lemonbrickcombo | 31 May '08, 14:32 | X | Reply

^ this

It's easy to poke fun at them, but fair play to them standing up/sitting down defending something they deeply care about. Passion is good.

twentynine @lemonbrickcombo | 31 May '08, 14:42 | X | Reply

Husband saves lives?

elpaulo | 31 May '08, 14:42 | X | Reply

Cypress Hill spin-off...

Hash Hits

Alex-in-Ciderland @Jordan_229_2 | 31 May '08, 15:07 | X | Reply

Gerard Wax?

Bombtrack @elpaulo | 31 May '08, 15:23 | X | Reply

Potato spin-off?

Mash Hits?

-Raz- @Alex-in-Ciderland | 31 May '08, 16:03 | X | Reply

Surely

"THIS BAND SAVES LIVES"- an independant ajudicator would have made more sense.

ChrisJabe | 31 May '08, 16:10 | X | Reply

Reaction is good

Really good they reacted against that..Those cliche prejudices against subcultures spread by mass media are sickening.

Inza | 31 May '08, 19:05 | X | Reply

I'm glad more turned out

The Daily Mail seems to see its mission as killing off everything that may change our country in the slightest, anything 'out of the ordinary' kids shouldn't get into - unless of course it's some sort of revival of the Hitler Youth, then they're more than welcome to get stuck in