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For all the music lovers who where left wanting more at our last concert in December, there will be one last performance May 12th. The concert will consist of only high school students rather than having all the bands perform in one night.

The band will be performing great peaces such as Denbridge Way and Dedicatory Overture. They will perform a peace from The Planets called Mars, a loud peace that projects suspense and excitement that will make you sit on the edge of your seats.

Join the band students for a concert that will be held on Thursday, May 12th, at Meeker High School in the auditorium.

On Thursday, April 14th, the Meeker High School Band and Barone Middle School Band traveled to Steam Boat Springs for a large group contest where multiple bands from schools around Western Colorado came to perform in front of judges and hope to beat their own personal scores.

The week before the contest, the bands were rehearsing under extra pressure to sound the best they had all year. Some practiced harder than they ever have this year as well.

They arrived at the high school at around 6:45 a.m. so that they could depart at 7:00 a.m. Through out the day they warmed up, performed, site read and listen to other bands striving to do the performance of the day.

After a long day of bus rides and music, they came home at around 9:30 that night.

The high school band got a 3 in the performance, which is an average score. The middle school got a 2, which is equivalent to being second place.

On November 22nd, 2010, My Chemical Romance released their new approach to making music. Taking a huge step from hard rock with intense and violent lyrics to new wave techno and surprisingly upbeat dance beats. This album is called Danger Days:The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys. Lead singer and songwriter, Gerard Way, said “The hardest thing for us to admit is that we just wanted to be ourselves and have fun with our music. We were trying too hard to be America’s rock band. We’re doing what we want now.”

Although not all members of My Chemical Romance agreed with this change, not only in music, but in style. The band’s second drummer, Bob Bryar, quit during the recording process of the new record. The band’s official website said that he quit over “creative differences”, when other sources have said that Bob quit simply because he wouldn’t support changing everything that they once stood for.

It is expected for some change from their last record because of the guy’s personal lives and how much they have changed.

In the beginning of 2010, Gerard was diagnosed with cancer in his throat and many doctors told him that he would never sing again. The cancer was removed before it spread and the Chemotherapy killed what was left of it.

He ignored doctors and is now singing his heart out every single night on tour. He has to ice his throat every few songs and he family and friends agree that he’s pushing it. Gerard said “This is all I want to do and I can’t let my fans down. They come to the show and expect an amazing show.  If I lose my voice, at least I’ll go out fighting”

Two members of the band recently had children and all members of the band are married now. Mikey Way, the bassist and Gerard’s younger brother, recently had a still born child.  How can you expect normal music or behavior from people whose lives are no longer normal? With all of this going on, they’ve still managed to make a record!

Check out My Chemical Romance’s Danger Days and catch them on their World Contamination Tour from December 2010 until May of 2011!