Fall Out Boy’s new video for “I’m Like A Lawyer With The Way I’m Always Trying To Get You Off (Me & You)” has finally premiered. Please take the time to visit invisiblechildren.com to learn more about the cause the video supports.
Hello our European Friends!
So get this, the MTV EMAs (European Music Awards) have been given a makeover. This year, you the fans get to vote who will be NOMINATED. FOB is in the running to be nominated in 5 categories. Yes 5….that could be a nomination for every finger if you guys help us out! The categories are: ‘Rock Out’, ‘Band’, ‘Most Addictive “Thanks for the Memories”‘, ‘Album’, and ‘Inter-Act’ (as in best Interactive Act). So this is where you, the best fans ever, come in….we need you guys to go to here to start racking up the votes. Thank you so much in advance!
So far these tour dates have been unlocked:
10/18 : Columbus, OH @ Schottenstein Center
10/20 : Rosemont, IL @ Allstate Arena
10/24 : Grand Prarie, TX @ Nokia Live
10/28 : New Orleans, LA @ Voodoo Fest
11/01 : Orlando, FL @ UCF Arena
11/09 : Lowell, MA @ Tsongas Arena
11/10 : Bridgeport, CT @ Arena At Harbor Yard
11/14 : New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
From friendsorenemies.com:
Please help FOB take home a Kerrang Award! Click here to start voting in the Best Video, Best International Band and Best Album categories! The awards will take place on Thursday, August 23rd in London.
Chicago based band Fall Out Boy was brought to life in 2001 and since then they have been riding high not only on the US music scene but worldwide.
Their rise to fame all began when Pete Wentz, frontman of admired hardcore band Arma Angelus joined forces with good friend and guitarist Joe Trohman and began writing pop songs for fun. It was then that the vibrant pair stumbled upon the charismatic high schooler Patrick Strump, who then auditioned as a drummer, but after discovering he had an impressive vocal range, he became the lead singer of the newly born band. Now in search of a drummer, the trio auditioned many short-lived members but after using their try-fail-try method they teamed up with an old friend Andy Hurley. At last they had found the perfect combination. (more…)
Rockers FALL OUT BOY feared for their lives during a charity trip to Africa when local bandits held up their convoy and demanded money. The band visited Uganda in July (07) to raise awareness for the Invisible Children charity, which provides healthcare, education and employment for kids displaced by civil war in the country. Bandmember Pete Wentz says, “There was one moment when I really feared for our lives. We were riding motorcycles and these local guys used barricades to lock us in this little patch of ground. They saw that we were American and thought that we should give them money for being on their ground. When they locked us in, I actually thought, ‘We’re going to die, right now.’ “Luckily we had our guide Kenny to bail us out and pay them off but that was really, really terrifying, living through something like that. It was a real Hotel Rwanda moment. “The whole experience brought our band closer together and that’s a great thing.”
Source: Contact Music
As a rule of thumb, Pete Wentz is excited about pretty much everything, so when I was talking to him yesterday about Fall Out Boy’s upcoming arena tour — which he’s dubbed the “Young Wild Things Tour,” in a nod to Maurice Sendak’s “Where the Wild Things Are” — it wasn’t exactly breaking news that he was super-pumped to hit the road. But what was rather interesting was just closely he was following the upcoming Spike Jonze/Dave Eggers adaptation of the book (which is tentatively due from Warner Bros next October (see our first look from the film here).
