Gerard Way launches catchy Christmas single Dasher

By Scott Munro
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Gerard Way releases lyric video for his new single Dasher, featuring Lydia Night from The Regrettes

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Gerard Way has released a new single, just in time for Christmas.

It’s titled Dasher and features Lydia Night from The Regrettes – and it follows hot on the heels of the former My Chemical Romance vocalists tracks Getting Down The Germs (opens in new tab) and Baby You’re A Haunted House (opens in new tab).

Way says: “Dasher is about a girl who falls in love with a reindeer. The reindeer thinks she’s pretty great too. They have adventures, they talk about life. The song is also about the magic sometimes hidden in the mundane.”

Watch the lyric video for the track below.

Earlier this week, the first trailer for Way’s new Netflix series The Umbrella Academy received its first trailer (opens in new tab).

The series is based on the singer's comic book series of the same name, written with illustrator Gabriel Ba in 2007. Now it has been adapted for a 10-part live-action Netflix series, due for release February 15, 2019.

The series stars Ellen Page, Tom Hopper, Robert Sheehan, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Mary J. Blige and more. 

Scott Munro
Scott Munro
Louder e-commerce editor

Scott has spent more than 30 years in newspapers and magazines as an editor, production editor, sub-editor, designer, writer and reviewer. After initially joining our news desk in the summer of 2014, he moved to the e-commerce team full-time in 2020. He maintains Louder’s buyer’s guides, scouts out the best deals for music fans and reviews headphones, speakers, books and more. He's written more than 11,000 articles across Louder, Classic Rock, Metal Hammer and Prog and has previous written for publications including IGN, the Sunday Mirror, Daily Record and The Herald covering everything from daily news and weekly features, to video games, travel and whisky. Scott grew up listening to rock and prog, cutting his teeth on bands such as Marillion and Magnum before his focus shifted to alternative and post-punk in the late 80s. His favourite bands are Fields Of The Nephilim, The Cure, New Model Army, All About Eve, The Mission, Ned's Atomic Dustbin and Drab Majesty, but he also still has a deep love of Rush.