- Fall Out Boy gig at Adelaide Entertainment Centre
ILLINOIS rockers Fall Out Boy shook free the group's inappropriate "emo" tag last night in Adelaide, putting on a commanding rock show to the overwhelmingly junior audience.
Supports Hey Monday and The All American Rejects – despite their second string roles – held the young audience’s attention throughout the short and sharp sets, before the Fall Out Boy banner dropped and the lights were dimmed.
A deafening pre-pubescent scream, memorable of The Beatle’s Ed Sullivan performances, rang out through Hindmarsh as the band leapt straight into “Thnks fr the Mmrs”.
The band’s light show was very minimal as the American youngsters span, danced and twirled through hits of its latest CD “Folie à Deux“.
Estelle’s hit “American Boy” made a brief cameo before the anthemic “Sugar We’re Going Down” exploded through the speakers.
Wentz and co. then threw in their atrocious cover of Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” conveniently finishing before Eddy Van Halen’s trademark solo – if you’re going to honour another artist – at least play the full song – heck I can even do the solo on hard on Guitar Hero!
The production values may have been lacking from last night’s performance (apart from the strobe light guitars that appeared for three minutes) but the band’s sound was all but perfect.
Frontman Patrick Stump’s vocals – the most enjoyable aspect of the band remained the night’s centrepiece along with the powerful fretwork of Joe Trohman but we didn’t hear so much as a peep out of the two which for a band this size was mind boggling.
Pete Wentz, the band’s pin up spokesman did most of the chin wagging much to the tween’s delight – even throwing in a few Twilight references.
But by 10:15 the night felt like it passed all too quickly.
There were plenty of omissions from the set list including I’m Like a Lawyer with the Way I’m Always Trying to Get You Off (Me & You) and The Take Over, the Breaks Over.
It was a lacklustre encore.
The band were on stage for little more than and hour and 10 minutes.
Fall Out Boy were tight, reasonably entertaining and produced a great sound but for $87.90 ticket you would expect a band of this calibre to give the kids that are paying for their careers – a value for money show.
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