Fall Out Boy introduced their So Much (for) Tour Dust trek to Austin’s Moody Center on Friday, delivering a career-spanning, 27-song set that alternated between era-defining hits and fan-favorite deep cuts.
You can see the complete set record and Loudwire’s unique pictures from the present beneath.
To describe Fall Out Boy’s efficiency as “fiery” can be the understatement of the yr. Pyro cannons roared all through the night time, and Pete Wentz shot billowing flames from a bass rigged with a flamethrower. It was simply one among a seemingly infinite provide of manufacturing methods used all through the night time, together with smoke, confetti, bubbles, seaside balls and the loudest and most frequent flash pots this reviewer has ever witnessed throughout one set.
Musically, the band was on fireplace too, enjoying their theatrical, arena-sized pop-punk smashes with a ferocity that betrayed their Chicago hardcore roots. This was particularly obvious throughout a trio of songs off their 2003 debut Take This to Your Grave that appeared early within the set: the tour debut of “Homesick at Space Camp,” adopted by “Grand Theft Autumn/Where Is Your Boy” and “Calm Before the Storm.”
The rapturous response from these and different deep cuts — comparable to Infinity on High‘s “Bang the Doldrums” and 2004’s “It’s Not a Side Effect of the Cocaine, I Think It Must Be Love” — made it clear this was not an viewers of fair-weather followers. They have been alongside for the entire experience, be it covers of Queen’s “Don’t Stop Me Now” and Ozzy Osbourne’s “Crazy Train” or The Munsters-sampling “Uma Thurman.”
Of course, the set record leaned most closely on 2023’s So Much (for) Stardust, which Fall Out Boy are nonetheless supporting. The disco-rock thump of “Hold Me Like a Grudge” and the melodramatic energy ballad “Heaven, Iowa” match completely alongside established hits, and followers lit up the venue with pink and white cellphone lights throughout the new-wavey “Fake Out.” Wentz marveled on the sight, sounding simply as honest as he did throughout the remainder of his stage banter.
“It’s pretty crazy to be playing these songs, specifically, in an arena in Austin in 2024,” he advised the viewers. The significance of his assertion was twofold: Fall Out Boy’s enduring relevance and skill to pack enormous venues is a rarity amongst fashionable rock bands, however their future additionally hung within the stability because the COVID-19 pandemic put your entire music trade on maintain.
Wentz confessed he felt existential dread throughout these painfully sluggish, unsure months, however he discovered refuge in making artwork and watching his followers do the identical. “The shit you make is very fuckin’ important to me,” he advised the viewers.
The feeling was mutual.
Fall Out Boy, 3/8/24, Moody Center, Austin Set List
1. “Love From the Other Side”
2. “The Phoenix”
3. “Sugar, We’re Goin Down”
4. “Uma Thurman”
5. “A Little Less Sixteen Candles, a Little More ‘Touch Me'”
6. “Homesick at Space Camp” (tour debut)
7. “Grand Theft Autumn/Where Is Your Boy”
8. “Calm Before the Storm”
9. “This Ain’t a Scene, It’s an Arms Race”
10. “Disloyal Order of Water Buffaloes”
11. “Heaven, Iowa”
12. “Bang the Doldrums”
13. “Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown on a Bad Bet”
14. “Fake Out”
15. “It’s Not a Side Effect of the Cocaine, I Think It Must Be Love” (dwell debut, partial)
16. “What a Catch, Donnie” (partial)
17. “Don’t Stop Me Now” (Queen cowl, partial)
18. “So Much (for) Stardust”
19. “Baby Annihilation” (with “20 Dollar Nose Bleed” spoken-word snippet)
20. “Crazy Train” (Ozzy Osbourne cowl, partial)
21. “Dance, Dance”
22. “Hold Me Like a Grudge”
23. “Don’t You Know Who I Think I Am?” (tour debut)
24. “My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light ‘Em Up)”
25. “Thnks fr th Mmrs”
26. “Centuries”
27. “Saturday”
Fall Out Boy Live in Austin, March 8, 2024
Pop-punk veterans packed the Moody Center in assist of their newest album, So Much (for) Stardust.
Gallery Credit: Bryan Rolli
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