Patrick Stump remembers Fall Out Boy’s first gig in 2001: “We were really terrible!”
Next year, Fall Out Boy will tick off ‘headlining Download Festival’ for the first time ever – a feat that follows in an incredibly long line of career accomplishments. And it’ll be a far cry from the Chicago heroes’ first-ever gig in 2001, which frontman Patrick Stump remembers was, um, “really terrible”. In the brand-new winter issue of Kerrang!, we catch up with Patrick while out on FOB’s incredible So Much For (Tour) Dust arena run to look back at all the different shows they’ve played over the years – from their first time hitting the UK, to their final show before they went on hiatus, to the Monumentour with Paramore in 2014. And while these days they are total pros, thinking back to the first Fall Out Boy gig at the DePaul University Cafeteria in Chicago some 2...
