{"id":974321,"date":"2020-01-09T03:29:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T10:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/news\/read\/my-chemical-romances-comeback-show-is-the-highest-grossing-show-in-the-shri"},"modified":"2020-01-09T03:29:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T10:29:00","slug":"my-chemical-romances-comeback-show-is-the-highest-grossing-show-in-the-shrine-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/my-chemical-romances-comeback-show-is-the-highest-grossing-show-in-the-shrine-history\/","title":{"rendered":"My Chemical Romance\u2019s Comeback Show Is The Highest-Grossing Show In The Shrine History"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"excerpt\">\n<p>Truly monumental.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt src=\"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/assets\/uploads\/MCR_12-21.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>It has been <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2020\/music\/news\/my-chemical-romance-underplay-grosses-nearly-1-5-million-a-record-for-the-shrine-1203461425\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">revealed<\/a> by&nbsp;<strong>My Chemical Romance<\/strong>&#8216;s booking agent that their huge comeback show in Los Angeles last month smashed records for the venue, taking the crown for the highest-grossing show in The Shrine&#8217;s 95-year history.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My Chem announced a one-off comeback show on Halloween last year, with tickets to the show going on sale the following day. The show unsurpisingly sold out immediately, at a full capacity of 4,997 tickets &#8211; which equates to a gross of&nbsp;$1,451,745.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They also out-performed all previous shows at the venue in merchandise sales.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"4.3875\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">My Chemical Romance just opened their Return show with \u2018I\u2019m Not Okay (I Promise)\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PZSN33rkEi\">pic.twitter.com\/PZSN33rkEi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rock Sound (@rocksound) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rocksound\/status\/1208265012206157825?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 21, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Speaking to Variety about the comeback show, My Chemical Romance&#8217;s booking agent Matt Galle shared that he had been <em>&#8220;getting offers for the last seven to eight years&#8221; <\/em>for the band to perform. According to their agent, My Chem considered the offers, but were waiting for <em>&#8220;the right time&#8221;.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Their agent also added that<em> &#8220;2019&nbsp;was a year that that made sense to them. They had some backstory with their [2010 album] \u2018Danger Days&#8230;\u2019. They knew they wanted to do one show and\u2026&nbsp; they\u2019re excited about the demand and the response and what else is coming for next year.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So far, MCR have five live appearances scheduled for 2020, across Australia, New Zealand and Japan. Check out the full list of announced tour dates below:<\/p>\n<p><strong>MARCH<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>20 &#8211; MELBOURNE Download Festival<br \/>21 &#8211; SYDNEY Download Festival<br \/>25 &#8211; AUCKLAND Western Springs<br \/>28 &#8211; OSAKA Intex<br \/>29 &#8211; TOKYO Download Festival<\/p>\n<p>They have also started teasing their return to the UK, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/news\/read\/my-chemical-romance-uk-tour-dates-teaser-rumours\">a cryptic teaser<\/a> posted across social media late last week.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"2.8191489361702\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\">\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RP1ab5eAr7\">pic.twitter.com\/RP1ab5eAr7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 My Chemical Romance (@MCRofficial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MCRofficial\/status\/1213190987113058304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/news\/read\/my-chemical-romances-comeback-show-is-the-highest-grossing-show-in-the-shri\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rock Sound News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Truly monumental. It has been revealed by&nbsp;My Chemical Romance&#8216;s booking agent that their huge comeback show in Los Angeles last month smashed records for the venue, taking the crown for the highest-grossing show in The Shrine&#8217;s 95-year history.&nbsp; My Chem announced a one-off comeback show on Halloween last year, with tickets to the show going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-974321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 14:33:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}