Fall Out Boy
When: 28th October 2023
Location: OVO Hydro
Fall Out Boy are one of rock music’s biggest-selling bands. Coming to Glasgow’s OVO Hydro on 28th October 2023.
In January 2023, Fall Out Boy announced that their eighth studio album So Much (For) Stardust. It will be released on March 24 2023 on Fueled By Ramen/Elektra. The album marks the band’s first new album in more than five years.
2021
In July 2021, Fall Out Boy embarked on The Hella Mega Tour alongside Green Day and Weezer. Playing live in front of over one million fans on a sold-out global stadium tour. This marked the first time the three bands had headed out on the road together. The U.S. leg included numerous sold-out stadium gigs – including renowned venues like Chicago’s Wrigley Field. As well as Boston’s Fenway Park and Los Angeles’ Dodger Stadium.
Critical and fan acclaim poured in, with USA Today hailing it “the most stacked line-up of any rock tour in 2021,”. Billboard noting that each night was “serving up a buffet of hits in front of one of the largest concert crowds,”. With Rolling Stone calling it “wildly entertaining.” The tour was nominated for both Major Tour of the Year and Best Rock Tour at the Pollstar Awards in 2021. The international leg of the tour took place throughout the summer of 2022.
2018
Fall Out Boy’s seventh studio album M A N I A debuted at No.1 on the Billboard 200 in January 2018. It garnered a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Album. The record marked the band’s third consecutive and fourth overall No.1 album respectively in the US. As well as their third consecutive No.2 album in the UK. The album featured the global smash ‘The Last of the Real Ones’.
2015
In 2015, Fall Out Boy released their platinum, sixth studio album American Beauty/American Psycho. Which debuted at No.1 on the Billboard 200, No.2 on the UK Official Albums Chart. Peaking at No.1 on iTunes in more than 22 countries upon its January 2015 release. The album’s first two singles ‘Centuries’ and ‘Uma Thurman’ have been RIAA-certified quadruple and double platinum, respectively.
American Beauty/American Psycho followed the Grammy-nominated band’s gold-certified album Save Rock And Roll. This debuted at No.1 on the Billboard 200, No.2 on the UK’s Official Albums Chart. As well as No.1 on iTunes in 27 countries. Upon its April 2012 release and features the hits ‘My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light Em Up)’ and ‘Alone Together’. Save Rock And Roll was the band’s second No.1 debut; platinum-selling Infinity On High topped the US chart in 2007, reached No.3 in the UK and followed multi-platinum breakthrough album From Under The Cork Tree, released in 2005.
Awards
The band were nominated for a 2019 MTV Video Music Award for Best Rock Video (‘Bishop’s Knife Trick’) and have won Favorite Artist: Alternative Rock at the 2015 American Music Awards, Best Rock Video at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards and Best Alternative Band at the 2014 People’s Choice Awards. Fall Out Boy also wrote the song ‘Immortals’, featured in the Oscar-nominated Disney movie Big Hero 6.
Hailing from Chicago, Fall Out Boy – Patrick Stump (vocals/guitar), Pete Wentz (bass), Joe Trohman (guitar) and Andy Hurley (drums) – have appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone and other prestigious publications. They have performed on Saturday Night Live, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Today Show, America’s Got Talent, The Voice, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Conan, The Late Show with David Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Good Morning America and many more.
