Fall Out Boy
The Fall Out Boy concert schedule is where you look when it’s time to buy Fall Out Boy tickets. This is one popular band, folks. Who doesn’t like at least one song by these Emo-Punks? Let’s take a little tour down memory lane, to the early days of Fall Out Boy in the Chicago suburb they call home. Wilmette, Illinois is one of Chicago’s North Shore bedroom comunities, the perfect spawning ground for a fresh-sounding Pop-Punk band who spotlighted the dreams of middle America. Those northern suburbs were where guitarists Joe Trohman and Pete Wentz met drummer-cum-guitarist Patrick Stump and began their assault on the Illinois music scene. Together with guitarist T. J. Raccine and an anonymous drummer simply called Mike, Fall Out Boy was born. They performed without a name in the beginning. Tickets to Fall Out Boy concerts weren’t called Fall Out Boy tickets back then. Despite the anonymity, Fall Out Boy attracted fans from all around the area. The band’s first video was a perfect depiction of a typical Fall Out Boy gig, filmed in a local Knights of Columbus Hall where Fall Out Boy had indeed performed many shows.
This was no conventional band; they took their name from a suggestion yelled by an audience member and released a mini-album called Fall Out Boy’s Evening Out with Your Girlfriend, on Uprising Records. They then signed for eclectically hip label Fueled By Ramen and in 2003 released Take It to Your Grave. Island Records saw the talent bursting from this unfazeable crop of youngsters and presented Fall Out Boy with an offer they couldn’t refuse; an advance and a studio in Wisonsin to record. Their Island debut, From Under the Cork Tree, eventually hit double-platinum status and was responsible for a slew of excellent tracks, including their first single, Sugar, We’re Goin Down, and Dance, Dance which featured on Playstation 2 and made Number Two on the Modern Rock Charts.
Since then, the band has enjoyed the limelight in the form of huge international tours and collaborations with the likes of Kanye West. They are planning an album for release around Election Day 2008 but the nature of that album remains something of a mystery. Practical joker Wentz has hinted that the album will contain elements of both Rap and Folk, influenced in part by old-style bands like Oasis. But Wentz is renowned for misinforming the public and so America waits and wonders for this latest offering from Fall Out Boy!
