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Gerard Way Might Record A New Song On Billie Eilish's Signature Ukulele

The My Chemical Romance frontman recently wrote a song called Ukulele Songs, which could be recorded on Billie Eilish's new signature instrument.

Gerard Way Might Record A New Song On Billie Eilish's Signature Ukulele

Though My Chemical Romance's huge global live comeback has been pushed back to 2021, frontman Gerard Way has been pretty damn active this year, with season two of The Umbrella Academy on Netflix, and some solo material to boot. And now the musician has hinted that even more material could be on the way…

Gerard was recently gifted one of Billie Eilish's signature Fender ukuleles, and as coincidence would have it, he had written a song called Ukulele Songs before the instrument arrived. As such, the frontman has announced that if he goes ahead and records this new number, he'll be using Billie's blohsh-adorned uke for the job.

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"So one of my friends, favorite people in the world, and patron of the arts, Michael Schulz, worked with his company Fender to collab with very cool musician Billie Eilish on her rad looking and sounding ukulele," Gerard posted on Instagram, alongside a photo of the instrument in his garden.

"They were kind enough to send this to B and Linds and myself so I wanted to post a picture of it in our garden. It has a really interesting pattern on it, and you can plug it in, so now I’m going to plug this into a fuzz pedal and see what happens. I may report back with my findings. It’s fun to play. I don’t normally play ukulele but I did in fact recently write a song called Ukulele Songs, which is about ukulele songs. I may share that. I’m not sure, but if I record it, I will use this ukulele. Have a good Saturday. Congrats on the uke, Billie!"

Okay, we would seriously love to hear this.

Catch My Chemical Romance’s reunion tour at the following dates next year:

June 2021

15 St. Avstell Eden Project
17 Milton Keynes Stadium MK
19 Milton Keynes Stadium MK
20 Milton Keynes Stadium MK
22 Dublin Royal Hospital Kilmainham

July 2021

2 Prague Rocks
4 Bologna Sonic Park Festival
6 Bonn Kunst!rasen
7 Bonn Kunst!rasen
9 Kiev U Park Live
11 Moscow Park Live Festival
12 St Petersburg Ice Palace

September 2021

8 Philadelphia, PA – Wells Fargo Center
9 Toronto, Ontario – Scotiabank Arena
11 Brooklyn, NY – Barclays Center
13 Boston, MA – Garden
15 Detroit, MI – Little Caesars Arena
16 St. Paul, MN – Xcel Energy Center
18 Chicago, IL – Riot Fest
19 Atlanta, GA – Music Midtown
21 Newark, NJ – Prudential Center
22 Newark, NJ – Prudential Center
25 Sunrise, FL – BB&T Center
28 Houston, TX – American Airlines Center

October 2021

1 Denver, CO – Pepsi Center
3 Tacoma, WA – Tacoma Dome
6 Oakland, CA – Oakland Arena
8 Las Vegas, NV – T-Mobile Arena
11 Los Angeles, CA – The Forum
12 Los Angeles, CA – The Forum
14 Los Angeles, CA – The Forum
17 Los Angeles, CA – The Forum

November 2021

6 Auckland, NZ – Outer Fields At Western Springs

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