It's a truth universally acknowledged that when one begins the fast descent towards their 40s that they may on occasion vastly underestimate the time frame in which past events happened. Case in point - emo was surely massive only 10 years ago .... right ..... right???? Well no actually as evidenced by The Barbican's I'm Not Okay retrospective celebrating Emo's explosive era from erm 2004 ....
So on Tuesday my fellow elder emo Hilary and I went up to investigate (appropriately dressed in our My Chemical Romance merch obviously)
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| In 2008 with our friend Alli |
Naturally I had to recreate my standard red and black make-up from the emo era -
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| I can feel Gerard Way's pride in me |
At this juncture I feel it's only appropriate to share some photos of vintage Emo-Jen .... as opposed to current Emo-Jen. And yes Chris I have cut you out of the MCR-gig photo so you still pretend you didn't go 😜  |
| Off to see My Chemical Romance in 2007 |
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| I actually think I look cute here (2008) |
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| Reading Festival 2007 |
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The aforementioned red and black ... no idea what's happened to make the pot noodle so rock n roll though 😐
 | | Christmas 2006 with the obligatory skinny scarf and studded belt |
 | At a 30 Seconds To Mars show in 2008
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Er no my style hasn't really evolved has it? 😂 But back to the subject at hand. We arrived at The Barbican and promptly got lost .... 5 times ...
 | The most confusing place ever
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We finally found the music library and the exhibition and I was instantly transported back to my youth.
It was (no pun intended) actually quite emotional seeing the memory wall with people's photos and memories of the emo-scene. I couldn't have as much fun as they did with hair and piercings because I was 19/20/21 and working when emo was at it's peak so I was living retrospectively through them!
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 | | This made me chuckle |
 | I miss emo 30STM
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The parts of the display that I liked best (read made me feel old) were the display cabinets with merch and magazines of the era.
 | I had this copy ....
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 | Some things really don't change ...
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 | I loved my RAZR phone and I had the MCR tour poster underneath it 😁
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On the way out I found the first candidate for my year-end 2025 in music blog ....
After leaving feeling suitably nostalgic (and getting lost on the way out too) we went to Sandwich Sandwich for some much-needed sustenance. On the way I was reminded just how much I love London's mix of old and new architecture.
We went across to Spitalfields Market for a look around -
 | I love London's skyline at night
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Hilary knew some really cool 'secret' bars so we went on a tour. We started at the Discount Suit Company (not the 'Discount Soup Company' as I originally thought she said). It was a speakeasy style bar underneath a suit shop.
Next up was the London Cocktail Club which was circus themed -
 | I loved that the ice cubes had the key logo shaped into them
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It was a really great day of nostalgia, labyrinthine building, giant sandwiches and cool bars. Now we just need that My Chemical Romance tour ..... please guys?
See you at the Black Parade!
Love Jen XxxX |
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