Fans of My Chemical Romance have protested outside the offices of British newspaper the Daily Mail this afternoon (May 31) in response to their articles they have published about emo.
The protest began at noon (BST) and saw around 40 fans cramming into Derry Street outside the newspaper's building.
The fans filled the street with placards and banners with slogans like "I'm Not Afraid To Keep On Living" and "We're Not A Cult, We're An Army � The MCRMY" and sung a selection of My Chemical Romance songs.
"It's been brilliant, such a good atmosphere. We've all united for a good cause," protestor Katie Hughes, 15, from Dorking told NME.COM. "Most people here always listen to [a]My Chemical Romance positively, people committed suicide before the band were around."
The protest has been peaceful and broadly good natured with police telling NME.COM that the protesters have "kept well within the law and organised everything before hand. It's going fine."
Alongside the protest a bigger group of fans have congregated near by at Marble Arch where they are holding a vigil that is expected to last until around 10pm (BST).
The fans are protesting about a series of articles the paper published in the aftermath of the suicide of Hannah Bond, a My Chemical Romance fan and comments the coroner made at her inquest criticising emo's influence in her death, including one particular piece which claimed that "no child is safe from the sinister cult of emo".
However, the Daily Mail has issued a statement in reaction to the protest insisting that its coverage has been balanced and restrained.
However protestor Dani (who did not giver her surname), 14, from London was not impressed with their coverage.
"This isn't the first time the Mail has had a go at bands as a scapegoat," she declared. "I think most of it is just ignorance, they always have to have someone to blame."
Get next week's issue of NME on UK newsstands from Wednesday (June 4) for more coverage of the emo march.
