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MOTHERFUCKING FALL OUT BOY, Y'ALL.

So, so. I just came back from Fall Out Boy: Singapore, and it was glorious. Where do I start.

I met

colourmeshocked in person for the first time, and she is every bit as lovely as she is on the intarwebz, and was reunited with

ticking_empathy. I got a Folie A Deux shirt, y'all. It is classy (yeah, I know, who'd have thought) and features two bird silhouettes kissing each other.

And then, blah blah blah, we queue up, wait wait wait wait wait, and Hey Monday came out. HI CASSADEE YOU ARE GORGEOUS, HI. I take back everything bad I've said about Hey Monday (i.e., "meh, their music is pretty sucky") because they are a ton of fun, and they were so young and enthusiastic, ohgod. Cassadee is hot like a hot thing, ok? SOMEONE DIRECT ME TO SOME FIC ABOUT HER. And the guitarist dude who was wearing a purple tee was awesome, too. I AM SORRY I DON'T KNOW ALL THEIR NAMES, I kept mentally calling Cassadee "Haley" after the lead singer of Paramore, but at least I didn't shout it, so. I danced (as far as one can manage to dance in the moshpit) along to allll their songs, which I am now prepared to admit are fucking infectious, and maybe sang along to Homecoming, which was their last. Yeah, I don't know either.

And, the mosh. The mosh, you guys. It was one hundred percent better and worse than anything I'd been led to expect - it was fucking awesome and terrifying, like a huge wall of flesh compressed together, someone's elbow at your kidney, your knuckle under someone's armpit, everyone dancing dancing dancing jiggling the fucking night away and not caring. Only fresh sweat is acceptable. I think my left arm is done in by the ROCK SHAKE, and I kept patting down my jean pockets, yes my camera is still there (gave up taking photos a third of the way into Fall Out Boy's set), yes my phone is still there. We got to know two pairs of brothers and sisters during the concert, one of those random concert camaraderie things. Unfortunately we also got separated from

ticking_empathy. The mosh pit is like a huge fucking wave, and people in front are like "stop pushing", and you're not even pushing, or even really standing, it's just the crowd behind you bearing down on you.

Also: WE GOT BARRIER, YOU GUYS. If barrier counts as "being able to hold onto it", because there were maybe two, three people in front of us. (Dear girl in pink shirt, I know you were very excited to get barrier and wanted to keep it, but the barrier doesn't actually belong to you. Please, prying my hand away from the barrier repeatedly was a shitty thing to do.)

THEN FALL OUT BOY CAME OUT, and we started to roar and the pit got even more condensed and someone yelled Patrick, Patrick! The strobe lights came on and it was like when I had epilepsy back in the day, and had to go to the hospital for weird medical checks, they'd do the strobe lights fast too, only this was a million times more dazzling and then the night really started.

It was fantastic. I'm convinced that Fall Out Boy is meant to be a live band, all right, everyone was screaming and singing and everything in between, and I'm pretty sure I did that all the time even when I wasn't aware of it, but I could hear every beat, every guitar chord and every word. It's like you don't even have a heartbeat any more, the drumbeat takes its place and settles in your chest and sets the whole fucking pace, and I loved it. Patrick was a rock god, you guys. All thighs and guitar flourishes (I see your GUITAR LEAP there, Pete Wentz) and heartfelt heartfelt heartfelt voice.

I'm shit at remembering things like setlists, but this is what I know they played, in no particular order:

Thnks Fr Th Mmrs (well, I know this was the first one)
Thriller (likewise, second)
The Take Over, The Breaks Over (??)
I Don't Care (first Folie A Deux song)
Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown
Disloyal Order of Water Buffaloes
America's Suitehearts
Sugar, We're Going Down
Grand Theft Autumn/Where Is Your Boy
Saturday
Dance, Dance (encore song)

I KNOW THERE WAS MORE, BUT ANYWAY.

At first they played songs exclusively from Cork Tree/Infinity On High, and I was all "oh noooo", because FOLIE A DEUX, guys. But then they launched into I Don't Care and,

Pete: I'm going to teach you a song. It's from our new album, Folie A Deux. Does anyone have it?
Audience: *cheers*
Pete: It's a very simple song, guys. It contains three words.
Audience: I DON'T CARE!
Pete: The words are - I - DON'T - CARE! I DON'T CARE! I DON'T CARE!

*music starts*

Before launching into America's Suitehearts (I think) Patrick told the audience a story about, ironically, why he doesn't like talking on stage - because he talked too much during their first gig, and he concluded with "it's a little like stabbing yourself in the stomach". ILU and your self-deprecatory stories, Patrick. (Also worth noting: the crowd went fucking crazy over Patrick, guys! PATRICK! PATRICK! PATRICK!)

Before they played Headfirst Slide Pete said something like: "This is for all of you who have trouble talking to that girl, those of you who want that boy. For those of you down there in the pit who have a warm feeling squashed against each other." ILU PETE YOU UNDERSTAND ME AND EVERYONE ELSE.

And then they played Headfirst Slide, and we fucking sang all the words and I heard it live, and can die happy now.

Towards the end I looked back and the people the seats weren't standing up, which kind of sucked - but WHO CARES ABOUT THEM, PETE. WE MOSHERS LOVE YOU AND FALL OUT BOY, SO MUCH!

And then. Towards the end of the encore Pete jumped off the stage and a security dude lifted him over the mosh pit and he extended his hand, as you do, and basically the point of this is that I got to touch Pete Wentz. Yes, I am that girl, shut up. Maybe I just like his tattoos, okay? (:DDDDD)

Far less happymaking was when everyone pushed and I ended up collapsing on the floor on top of like, four other girls, and loads of people fell down, the crowd thronging all around us. I really felt pretty apprehensive then, but I felt worse for the girls I was on top off. It was the same old mosh pit thing again - I'm so sorry I'm on top of you! I didn't mean to do it! D: But it was okay, I don't think anyone was injured, although throughout the course of the concert at least three or four people had to be lifted out of the moshpit. I just lay on top of those poor girls screaming and croaking until two rather nice boys gave me a hand, so there was that.

In conclusion: A+++ concert, guys. I'm sure at least some of it was my wow, moshpits! What a novelty virginity, but it was fucking awesome, and I think I may be hooked on moshpits in general, and I want the setlist now, please, so I can make a proper playlist on iTunes.

ps. Sorry, guys - no pictures (yet), because I don't know where the memory card reader is, also I sort of gave up on taking pictures early on so I have maybe one million blurry pictures of Cassadee strutting around the stage and about three of Patrick, ahahaha.

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After a while I think your organs begin to relocate to the best positions to not get owned in moshpits.anyway!sounds brilliant man! I still have to decide if I am going to go and see them over here, seen them once though and go barrier, was rather amazing, he he he oh fob and their sparkles.

YES HE HE HE AND HIM, THE WHOLE FUCKING BAND AND THEIR DARLINGS WITH THEIR KNOWING WHAT YOU'RE GOING THROUGH. I melted, I think - I'd always thought of Headfirst Slide as a sexy song, but now it's about love, too, and hopelessness and everything in between and I think I may be overly invested in this song.

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Aw, yay for losing your pit virginity! They really are my favourite things in the world, there's no buzz like it. I'm glad you had a kickass time. :D

It was fantastic and awesome and any other adjective you can think of! My favourite part was maybe when the person next to me and I, and maybe, I don't know, the whole fucking pit, jerked our bodies around in complete and total sync, and it was the rhythm and for a while, the pushing was just a part of it too.

I did have a kickass time, thank you! ♥

hell yeah, that feeling when you've got your footing and you're a couple of hundred people all at once moving as one. It's just a case of going with it.

♥

I don't have epilepsy but strobe lights make me feel ill :/

But I'm glad you had fun! Yay FOB!

Yeah, strobe lights are pretty special that way - it really added to the sick strange hyped crowded atmosphere of it all, and I'm not really making sense here but they are goddamn rock stars, oh man. I did have so much fun, thank you!

That is awesome! I'm glad you had such a good time, and rocked that moshpit.

Thanks! I just realised I didn't reply to this comment, urgh fail. The post-concert high has pretty much worn off by this point, but I'll think about it occasionally and well, it makes me smile like a dope.

Omg, this is making me so scared for I see then on Saturday. ;) I'm kind of freaking out about it.

I'm glad you had such a good time! :)

Ooh, that's lovely! I'm so excited for you, you're going to have such a lovely time. The mosh should be okay, after a while being pressed up against a hundred or thousand other people just becomes part of the ~experience. Do tell how it goes!

heee. oh what a marvellous recap!

i'm so glad you had such a wonderful time.

Well, it was an amazing experience. Thank you! You're going to see them soon, right?

sure am! end of next week. *glee*

not the pit though.*sigh*

You have to tell us allll about it! I'm sure it'll be great anyway, it was such a fantastic show.

WOW. Yeah, I need to get my ass to a Fall Out Boy concert, asap.

Sounds AMAZING, bb! I'm so glad it was everything you expected and more. I went to my first live show (voluntariy) sometime last year (yeah, it took me that long) and it's. It's more than the music, you know? There was this girl in front of me, and she accidentally ashed on my shoes and she was so incredibly apologetic: she bought me a drink and gave me a smoke and we ended up in the front row, arms wrapped around each other and singing as loud as we could.

Again, it sounds like it was amazing! Was Joe's hair as epic in real life as it seems on camera? the things I would do to touch that hair, you have no idea. :D

Oh man, SO EPIC. It was like I couldn't even see his faaaaaace. And live shows are awesome, and that story is made of win. The spirit of rock does that to you :D, eventually I ended up wedged behind a boy who was pretty much unmovable since he was clinging to the barrier and I felt safe, for a subjective value of "safe".

WELL SAIDDD!

im effing lazy to bloggg but i enjoyed myself so much!

ME TOO, DUDE. TILL NEXT TIME.

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OH MAN THAT SUCKS SO HARDCORE. :((((

I hear you about the promoters/sponsors thing, dude, that really bugs me too. I mean, it's a rock concert! By bagging the best seats you're really just dragging down the atmosphere of the entire show down, because I take it that these people aren't really interested in dancing along.

Oh man, I get totally paranoid about that too. Far more likely that electronic equipment gets stomped on in the pit, than stolen.

I'm not sure if you still receive email notifications, or if you're even willing to read this, but I'm pretty sure they didn't play Headfirst, because that's my favorite song and I was upset that they didn't play it.

Now, let's don't question why I'm commenting on an entry that has been posted seven months ago, but it's called procrastination.

Oh, dude, I didn't know you were at the concert! But funnily enough, Headfirst is my favourite song too (it is such a song) and I remember being pleased, because they did play it. This setlist agrees.

*facepalm* I should have checked my journal before saying this. I even wrote out the setlist on my Facebook note.

Well, lesson learnt: this is why I shouldn't be up at 1:17am. :(

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I've spent more time in moshpits than I have studying,washing dishes or walking my dog.

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