Fall Out Boy Australian Tour

1 June 2007 | 11:24 am | Staff Writer
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Earlier this year thousands of fans missed out on tickets to the first ever FALL OUT BOY Australian tour. After their brief visit, with sold...

Earlier this year thousands of fans missed out on tickets to the first ever FALL OUT BOY Australian tour. After their brief visit, with sold out shows in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, many would have been in no doubt that a long wait lay ahead before they’d again get a chance to see their heroes in the flesh. Well, those fans have another thing coming - Fall Out Boy will be back in Australia this September as part of their FRIENDS OR ENEMIES world tour!



You didn’t need to be paying close attention to catch a major glimpse of FALL OUT BOY in 2007. The band took a rocket ride to the top with their US Billboard#1 album INFINITY ON HIGH featuring the monster single THIS AIN’T A SCENE IT’S AN ARMS RACE, which has already reached platinum in Australia. This is a song that sees Fall Out Boy at their sneering and reckless best – “guitarist Joe Trohman deploys a slow grind riff and vocalist Patrick Stump goes thermonuclear. It’s almost gangsta” (Blender)


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The big guns are definitely out for 'Infinity On High'. Jay-Z makes a cameo in the opening track, and hip-hop super producer Babyface delivers the band’s stunning follow up single 'Thnks Fr Th Mmrs' (available June 9). The most obvious choice of producer he may not be, but the gamble pays off.



In Australia Fall Out Boy’s steep ascent may have only hit the mainstream radar in recent months, but their major label debut Under The Cork Tree topped 3 million sales in the US, delivering a string of awards including MTV VMA’s, a Grammy nomination for best new artist and appearances on NBC’s Saturday Night Live, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Conan O’Brien, and CBS’s The Late Show with David Letterman. This is a band that remains unfazed - while walking across the stage to receive the MTV2 Award for “Sugar, We’re Going Down,” the only thing on Fall Out Boy bassist and lyricist Pete Wentz’s mind was “please don’t drop an f-bomb.”



For all their success, the band members have stayed true to their roots. Patrick Stump, perhaps the least flappable band member save for vegan drummer Andy Hurley, becomes agitated when people take the reward of music more seriously than the art. "If you gave me 3 million dollars to spend," Stump says, "I'd find 3 million dollars worth of musical equipment to buy."



"We love the songs that we play and sometimes that seems to transfer to the crowd, sincerely." Says Pete Wentz. "This is how our band will always be. We feel indebted to our fans and will always try to pay them back."



It’s certainly pay back time for Fall Out Boy’s Australian fans. The band will be joined by local force Gyroscope who are now putting the finishing touches on their new album, and Californian outfit Jack’s Mannequin, featuring Andrew McMahon from the much loved band Something Corporate.

Here are the tour dates (all shows with Gyroscope and Jack’s Mannequin):


Wednesday 26 September @ Acer Arena


Thursday 27 September @ Riverstage Brisbane


Friday 28 September @ Festival Hall Melbourne


All Ages, Licensed and unlicensed areas


Saturday 29 @ September Challenge Stadium Perth


Tickets on sale @ 9am, Thursday 14th June!