Fall Out Boy Light Up Austin With Epic Set: Review and Photos

Fall Out Boy introduced their So A lot (for) Tour Mud trek to Austin’s Moody Middle on Friday, delivering a career-spanning, 27-song set that alternated between era-defining hits and fan-favorite deep cuts.

You’ll be able to see the complete set listing and Loudwire’s unique pictures from the present beneath.

To explain Fall Out Boy’s efficiency as “fiery” could be the understatement of the 12 months. Pyro cannons roared all through the evening, and Pete Wentz shot billowing flames from a bass rigged with a flamethrower. It was simply one among a seemingly countless provide of manufacturing tips used all through the evening, together with smoke, confetti, bubbles, seashore balls and the loudest and most frequent flash pots this reviewer has ever witnessed throughout one set.

Musically, the band was on hearth 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 House Camp,” adopted by “Grand Theft Autumn/The place Is Your Boy” and “Calm Earlier than the Storm.”

The rapturous response from these and different deep cuts — corresponding to Infinity on Excessive‘s “Bang the Doldrums” and 2004’s “It is Not a Facet Impact of the Cocaine, I Suppose It Should 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 “Do not Cease Me Now” and Ozzy Osbourne’s “Loopy Prepare” or The Munsters-sampling “Uma Thurman.”

After all, the set listing leaned most closely on 2023’s So A lot (for) Stardust, which Fall Out Boy are nonetheless supporting. The disco-rock thump of “Maintain 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 in the course of the new-wavey “Pretend Out.” Wentz marveled on the sight, sounding simply as honest as he did throughout the remainder of his stage banter.

“It is fairly loopy to be enjoying these songs, particularly, in an area in Austin in 2024,” he informed the viewers. The importance of his assertion was twofold: Fall Out Boy’s enduring relevance and talent to pack big venues is a rarity amongst trendy rock bands, however their future additionally hung within the stability because the COVID-19 pandemic put the whole 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 may be very fuckin’ vital to me,” he informed the viewers.

The sensation was mutual.

Fall Out Boy, 3/8/24, Moody Middle, Austin Set Checklist

1. “Love From the Different Facet”
2. “The Phoenix”
3. “Sugar, We’re Goin Down”
4. “Uma Thurman”
5. “A Little Much less Sixteen Candles, a Little Extra ‘Contact Me'”
6. “Homesick at House Camp” (tour debut)
7. “Grand Theft Autumn/The place Is Your Boy”
8. “Calm Earlier than the Storm”
9. “This Ain’t a Scene, It is an Arms Race”
10. “Disloyal Order of Water Buffaloes”
11. “Heaven, Iowa”
12. “Bang the Doldrums”
13. “Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown on a Dangerous Guess”
14. “Pretend Out”
15. “It is Not a Facet Impact of the Cocaine, I Suppose It Should Be Love” (reside debut, partial)
16. “What a Catch, Donnie” (partial)
17. “Do not Cease Me Now” (Queen cowl, partial)
18. “So A lot (for) Stardust”
19. “Child Annihilation” (with “20 Greenback Nostril Bleed” spoken-word snippet)
20. “Loopy Prepare” (Ozzy Osbourne cowl, partial)
21. “Dance, Dance”
22. “Maintain Me Like a Grudge”
23. “Do not You Know Who I Suppose I Am?” (tour debut)
24. “My Songs Know What You Did within the Darkish (Mild ‘Em Up)”
25. “Thnks fr th Mmrs”
26. “Centuries”
27. “Saturday”