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As you can probably tell I've finally worked out how to use the scanner and upload piccies onto buzznet....
So, I'm busy trawling through old mags and stuff (like that's a chore! ha!) and will be posting loads over the next few days.... keep getting sidetracked by lovely piccies and old interviews that must be read and read again!
Some of the pics are old and have been on here before but some haven't I think. Anyway I don't think anyone will mind seeing pics of Ville and Gerard one more time!
Hope you like them all.... don't forget to comment!

As promised here are theedited highlights of the NME article:

THE WEEK EMO BECAME PUBLIC ENEMY NO.1 (Dan Martin)
The festival bottling tradition has long been a cornerstone of rock democracy and the crowd at the Reading Festival are among its most avid followers... It happened again this year - except this summer it wasn't the novelty turn or the token hip-hop outfit that took the shit. This time the missiles were thrown right into the heart of our own rock culture, and it proved what we've suspected for a while: that our normally happy global nation of alternative rock is in the midst of a bloody civil war, with the emo kids in the firing line.
On Friday afternoon at Reading, just seconds into Panic! At The Disco's opening tune, frontman Brendon Urie was hit in the face by a flying missile and knocked out cold. And this was before their cover of 'Karma Police'. Brendon woke up soon after and continued the show. Later that day he told NME: 'I'm doing all right now. I could be way worse, I could be dead. What I remember is I got hit, got knocked out, woke up and finished the set. We just got on with it. I guess we were sending a message to whoever threw the bottle: you can't stop us!'
Up at the Leeds leg of the festival that day, My Chemical Romance were owning the stage with their new Black Parade get-up, thrilling with their new songs, shocking with Gerard's new hair and keeping a lot of people waiting in the NME Signing Tent's biggest queues of the weekend. It was what you might call a triumph. Yet when they took to the stage two days later at Reading they were met with an ongoing torrent of missiles that made Panic's KOing look like a skirmish. Again it was taken in good spirit, with Gerard shrieking, 'This song is called 'Thanks for all the bottles, thanks for all the piss, thanks for all the golf balls, thanks for all the apples and thanks for all the sticky shit'.'
...anti-emo feeling has been at critical levels for a while now... and the Indie establishment isn't happy.... when NME put Fall Out Boy on our cover back in April, it provoked one of the most furious mailbags in our 54-year history...
Back at Reading Gerard Way, ever the optimist, was already describing his band's experience as 'one of the best sets I've ever had in my entire life'. Despite being primed to take over as biggest band on Earth, Way sees himself as ringleader of the outsiders and you suspect he always will. 'You take that negative energy,' he told NME, 'and you either work it out of them or they get bored of you and move on, which is what I thought happened. So it's a great thing, because negative energy is just hatred and this band has always taken negative energy and turned it into something positive. Which is why I said that thing about The Daily Mail...'
Ah yes, the good old Daily Mail. After surviving the pelting Gerard then stood up and led the crowd in a chant of 'Fuck The Daily Mail!' in response to a feature written by a journalist called Sarah Sands on August 17, warning parents of the 'dark cult' of emo... (check out The Daily Mail website www.dailymail.co.uk and search 'emo cult') ... Sands article lived on as a comedy email forward for weeks, but beneath it are some scary implications, not least that My Chemical Romance are responsible for taking demure, Aryan young virgins and turning them into wrist-slashing goth deviants.
'That was a very negative article written about the band and the band's fans and it was completely ignorant,' says Gerard Way. 'It was unfounded, there was no factual information at all. We do not promote self harm but we encourage kids to find other ways to get out their frustrations... My objective that day was to get that across, pretty much to the whole country, that that's not what we represent. We represent the exact opposite.'
Indeed, one mother was so outraged at the article that she wrote a letter to The Daily Mail on behalf of her daughter, a My Chemical Romance fan...'I have a teenage daughter who possibly would not be here today if it weren't for the love and support of one of the bands mentioned in this article - My Chemical Romance. She had suffered from depression - caused by a chemical imbalance, not music - for a long time. Being under 18, it was difficult to get treatment for her and I was watching a beautiful, intelligent person fall apart in front of me. It was totally heartbreaking and I had nowhere else to go to for help, until Gerard Way took the time and effort to talk to her, providing a meaningful role model and giving her hope. I have met this band, I have watched Gerard Way encourage anyone in their audience who feels depressed or likely to harm themselves, to seek help, to talk to someone ... Bands like this provide a forum for teenagers to talk about their feelings, and also give a sense of belonging which is so often missing in everyday life for them.'
...Some of the biggest attacks on this movement come from its own backyard. 'I've never heard any band ever call themselves 'emo',' says Mike Davies, presenter of Radio 1's The Lock Up. 'It's a derogatory term.'
Indeed, the phrase 'emotional hardcore', as it was first dubbed by the US underground hardcore punk scene in the 1980s, has since evolved, been upgraded, amended and bastardised until the word 'emo' itself has come to stand as either a lifeline for misfits everywhere or the music you hear on The OC depending on which side of the fence you sit. Mike Davies doesn't mind Fall Out Boy 'because thay write really good pop songs' and thinks MCR are 'a straight-up rock'n'roll band', but believes P!ATD 'appeal to the lowest common denominator..'. He regualrly disses them on The Lock Up....
Put all this hatred together with the genre's tendency not to fight back (because they're, you know, emo) and you've got one hell of a lot of isolated people. But the freaks are growing in number and influence....
Even scene godfather Gerard Way thinks it's time to break free of the 'emo' shackles - he denounced the genre tag in last week's NME while discussing MCR's deranged new rock opera 'The Black Parade': 'I think we're bigger than that (emo),' says Gerard, 'and I think all these bands and all or our fans...are bigger than just one subgenre that's hot for a minute.'
It's unlikely his words are going to stop the Daily Mail's witch hunt turning introverted rock kids into public enemy No.1. Or thugs in Whitechapel beating up our bands because they look different. But hopefully it'll be enough to stop the fans fighting the fans. After all, when we all signed up to rock'n'roll in the first place, was it not based on an open mind, a shared feeling of outsiderdom and a hatred of intolerance? Even if we were all cutting ourselves, would we not all bleed the same?

I though this was a really good article. I'm not  ahuge fan of NME cos it's indie-biased and tends to take the piss out of rock a bit much for my liking but this was unbiased and honest and really informative.
I hope you all like it!

Here is a transcript of the Kerrang! article about tabloid scaremongering over EMO


'HOW EMO BECAME A TABLOID SCARE STORY
SELF HARM? VESPAS? THE PRESS HAVE FOUND A NEW WAY TO DEMONISE ROCK FANS. SHAME THEY GOT IT COMPLETELY FUCKING WRONG...

On Sunday, August 27, My Chemical Romance took to the stage at the Reading Festival and started a ferocious, arena-wide chant of: 'Fuck the Daily Mail!'
Gerard Way and his bandmates were responding to an article written in the tabloid, titled 'Emo Cult Warning for Parents', that has been doing the rounds on the internet ever since its publication before the festival.
The poorly-researched feature claimed that the emo genre encouraged both self-harm and siucide (as well as Vespa riding!); pointed the finger at My Chemical Romance and - confusingly, despite having nothing to do with the genre - Green Day; attempted to explain to parents how to recognise if their child was 'an emo'; saying that fans refuse to open their curtains', that 'their world is dark and airless', and that they indulge in 'self-pity, introspection', and 'self-dramatisation'. Parents are also advised to be on the look out for 'small T-shirts and black hair'.
Thgis isn't the first time the mainstream press has touched on the genre - The Times also explored emo with their July story 'Emotionally Challenged', but came to the logical conclusion that there was 'no relationship between emo and depression, or cutting, or suicidal tendencies' and that 'emo kids are just more open about it'. It concluded that the real concern should be why more kids in general are experiencing these things', not the music those kids are listening to.
Sarah Sands, who wrote the Daily Mial article, denies the paper was scaremongering. 'Statistically,' she says, 'teenagers are extremely vunerable to self pity and to self harm and the Daily Mail would not be behaving responsibly towards parents if it did not point this out. To you, 'she continues, 'emo may be a fashion statement, but teachers and some parents are deeply uneasy about the associated cult of self-harm.'
But as one reader, Louie from Manchester, points out on the @Mail's website , 'The link between emo and self-harm is unfair. I am yet to meet an 'emo' who self-harms or has any reason to self-harm, in all honesty. Self-harm is a serious issue, not a trend.'
Fat Wreck Chords rising stars Love Equals Death were also mentioned in the piece; Sands claiminng they were part of a genre called 'Death Pop', which is, according to the Mail, 'popular in Germany'.
Bassist for the Bay Area punk quartet, Dominic Davi, is amused: 'I find this so damn funny, I can hardly contain myself,' he laughs. 'Death Pop is a totally ficticious genre; a term that has been tossed around a few times as a joke. If we are the head of a huge cult forming in Germany someone didn't send us the memo.'
'Honestly though,' Davi continues, 'as funny as I would like to think this is, and as much as I would like to dismiss this garbage, I am sure there are parents who will take this far too seriously, look at their children's style od dress and their CD collections and assume the worst about their own child. The Daily Mail should be more responsible.'
Indeed it should. Sands - who claims in her article (without providing any source for the accusation) that 'emos exchange competetive messages on their teenage websites about the scars on their wrists and how best to display them' - and was, back in 1995, criticised as a sensationalist when a memo she had wrote to a colleague at the Daily Telegraph was leaked to the public.
In it she stated that 'The Mail gets the best out of people through fear' and that 'The Telegraph should 'sell stories hard, but just stop short of distortion'. 'We should be freindly and fair-minded,' she stated, 'but then take people aback with ferocious militia-style attacks.'
Clearly Sands still favours this style of journalism, but the consequences of writing in this manner are far-reaching and dangerous.
'Children who cut themselves need honest help and understanding,' concludes Dominic Davi, 'and targeting their choices of fashion and music and labelling it a possible cult just misinforms those who are in a position to help them.
And that,' he emphasises, 'is what's really sad and alarming.'


Sorry about the typos but I was getting kinda riled as I typed.
Thank you Kerrang!
And to all of you out there whose parents read the Daily Mail and the like, I'm feeling really sorry for you right now!

Bloody idiots! What can I say?! I'm gonna get painted the bitch in this but I wasn't the one who shagged someone else's boyfriend...
Was out with some girlfriends tonight and this girl turns up.... never met her but I'd heard of her... Anyway she starts crying on my shoulder about how she loves this guy and I was a bit pisssed so I said 'oh, aren't you so and so who shagged exhibit A's boyfriend but you were her best friend?' And she was!
And then everyone, ok well, the blokes, came down on me like a ton of bricks cos she got upset!
Hmm.
So, thing was she was the  best friend of this girl who I kinda know and then she splits up with her long time boyfriend. Put it this way she (kind of friend) was pregnant and lost it and then they split up so it was kinda nasty...Then Slut no.1 shags said ex-boyfriend and 'falls in love with him'... Needless to say he didn't feel the same about her but wasn't going to turn down a shag!
but of course they didn't tell my friend what was going on... Kinda friend... anyway you know what I mean.... so then she finds out and Slut no.1 tells her it was all for her own good!
You won't believe this one... along the lines of ... well you didn't want him, so it's your own fault and if he's going to be with anyone, better me than anyone else!
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM! No! You're just a slut!
So tonight I'm out and this girl turns up and I've never met her before but I've heard about it.... but I think give her the benefit of the doubt cos there's always two sides... Anyway she ends up crying on my shoulder cos of this bloke and I'm like trying to be sympathetic but at the same time saying 'you shouldn't have shagged you best mate's bloke, I don't care how'ex' he was, you just don't!'
Fair comment me thinks!
Then she gets really upset and leaves, but not before telling me I'm right, and then all the blokes start having a go at me for upsetting her!
Men!
But I'm in the right here... you just don't shag your best mate's bloke.... EVER.... and if you do and it all goes tits up well you've no-one to blame but yourself and you can't expect sympathy off other people!
Grr! Idiots! And if I'm the wicked witch of the west then so be it, go to hell.