'Now it's like we're circling, waiting to land.'
While we all wait for the world to re-open as we hunker down during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, make no mistake: Fall Out Boy are locked and loaded. Speaking to NME this week, bassist/lyricist Pete Wentz made it clear that the band is all rehearsed and ready to hit the road once things open up again.
Though the Asian swing of dates on the tour were canceled due to the global coronavirus outbreak, at press time the outing with Green Day and Weezer was seemingly still slated to kick off on June 13 with a show in Paris.
“Two weeks before quarantine began, we got together and rehearsed our set with our staging, our video and our lights because it’s a stadium, so you can’t just do it the week before,” Wentz told the mag from lockdown.
“Now it’s like we’re circling, waiting to land. Nobody knows anything and it’s hard because we really want to do this tour.” Though organizing a massive global stadium outing with three huge bands was complicated, Wentz said at this point he knows “as much as you do about what’s going to happen with it.”
A spokesperson for Wentz/FOB had not returned a request for comment at press time.
So far, the trio of bands have played one show, at Los Angeles’ Whiskey-A-Go-Go in September. The worldwide pandemic has resulted in the cancelation and postponement of hundreds of shows and festivals; at press time a spokesperson for Live Nation had not returned requests for comment on plans for the Hella Mega Tour kick-off.
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