hi, dreamwidth! if you’re one of my bandom mutuals, you already probably know that my chemical romance, my all-time favorite band, is on tour right now. if you’re on bluesky, you know that i’ve been watching all the shows through streams and liveblogging my reactions.

(watching tour streams is a big thing in music fandoms right now! if the act is big enough, multiple people will livestream the show from their phones to places like instagram, tiktok, and twitter. i know a lot of people who followed along during taylor swift’s eras tour, for example. i started doing it in earnest when mcr played las vegas’s emo festival when we were young, this past october.)

however, even if you know my chem, if you’re not following along with the shows themselves and the lore around them, my bluesky threads are probably mostly or completely random. no longer! this post is intended to be a guide to follow along. if you’re inspired, maybe you can watch the streams too. it's written for someone with little-to-no initial knowledge, but there's definitely new info if you're a fan and not actively following along.

however again! there are a bunch of reasons why my observations might not be precise or accurate: i watch the show through someone else’s cellphone camera while i’m sitting at my computer, i watch the show while typing observations, my sources are ephemeral, the staging is a bit closed-in, etc. i’ll be editing this primer as the tour continues and as i watch shows, but i encourage seeing this as a jumping-off point to look into details yourself vs. a definitive/accurate guide to what’s happening.

oh, and if you’re seeing the band on this tour, obviously there’s going to be some spoilers here. best to avoid if you want to go in cold.

got it? now we just get up and go!

( table of contents. )

( sources. )

( the band. )

( the album and old performances. )

( the long-live conceit. )

( the shows, part one. )

( the shows, part two. )

( extra/various details. )