My Chemical Romance have been telling NME how much they enjoyed being, erm, bottled during their Reading set at the weekend. The band continued with their festival set despite certain parts of the crowd throwing bottles on stage.
The band's Gerard Way told NME: "I feel that that was one of the best sets I have ever had in my entire life and it's a set that I'll always remember. When we face some kind of adversity we always, always plough through it and we did it for our fans and I think not only that but we completely won people over. Negative energy is just hatred and this band has always taken negative energy and turned it into something positive. That is why I gave that speech about the Daily Mail [who recently wrote an article about the band, claiming they encouraged fans to 'self-harm']. That was a very negative article written about the band and the band's fans and it was completely ignorant, 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 across, pretty much to the whole country, that that's not what we represent. We represent the exact opposite. We also represent all the outsiders out there and I thought there were a lot more outsiders there."