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Fall Out Boy at Hammersmith Palais |
Contributed By: Sybru
Created On: Thursday, 01 February 2007
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 Fall Out Boy While Killswitch Engage are across town ripping people's faces off, here there is a party atmosphere as balloons, smiles and lots of screams (some of the crowd had been waiting in the queue for over five hours) greet Fall Out Boy on their final date of this ice-breaking tour. Given how those cheeky chappies like to write essays for titles, the full setlist is a fifth of my word allocation so forgive a few abbreviations!
While the initial reception was excitable when they broke in Sugar We're Goin Down, things really kicked off with a fairly hefty mosh pit developing, and was admiringly consistent throughout the gig. The usually squeaky clean recorded output transitioned tonight into a heavier and more chunky sound. This is usually a positive, but tonight not so, as the songs became muddied loosing some of the pop rock sound that makes the albums so enjoyable.
One exception was This Ain't A Scene - already one of the songs of 2007 - sent everyone into a delirious frenzy. The band did tongue-in-cheekly admit to mistakes: "I think we had better practice that one a bit more!" after slopping their way through Patron Saints, but this is a warm up tour, and when the audience sing along so passionately and loudly (Grand Theft Autumn intro proving this impeccably) they grant their own forgiveness on the lads from Wilmette.
With fun-poking music videos, the onstage persona of FOB is surprising, although not goth-level serious. They focused on their performance, lead singer Patrick Stump is pretty much rooted to the spot behind his cap, leaving the dizzying antics of Pete Wentz and Joe Trohman (who pulls moves akin to the Churchill dog on speed with an afro wig) to add the movement on the stage.
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