MCR Compare Themselves To Queen, Plan “Special” Reading & Leeds Set

As if they didn’t borrow from the band enough already, My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way has likened his bottling at 2006’s Reading Festival to a similar experience Queen had at an Australian event in the 70s.

Speaking to NME, Way said: ‘I said to the guys, ‘I never want to play this again until we headline’. Kind of what Freddie Mercury once said when Queen were booed offstage at [Sunbury] festival.’

He went on to say MCR’s 2011 headline set will be ‘something special’.

Reading & Leeds Festival will take place from 26th - 28th August, with My Chemical Romance, Pulp (both Friday Reading and Saturday Leeds), The Strokes (Saturday Reading and Sunday Leeds) and Muse (Sunday Reading and Friday Leeds) headlining.

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