Indie scenesters Fall Out Boy will fly out to Antarctica on the March 25th to end their nine-month tour with a record-setting gig.
The band will play a ninety minute set in the gymnasium of a research facility for an audience of scientists and an adjudicator from the Guinness Book Of Records, before entering the books as the only band to play a concert in all seven continents in less than nine months.
According to MTV News, the idea came to emo hero Peter Wentz when he was just ‘sitting around’.
He immediately e-mailed his manager Bob McLynn with the immortal line: “Let’s be the first band to play all five continents.”
Geographical indiscretion aside, the record-setting event will take place at the Base Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva, a Chilean research base located ninety minutes south of mainland Chile.
It’s been an eventful few months for Fall Out Boy, who rose to emo super-stardom with their 2005 album ‘Under The Cork Tree’.
Just last February the band, whose infamous bassist was once described by Rolling Stone Magazine as a ‘tortured egomaniac’, pulled a stunt called Infinity Flight 206, playing New York, Chicago and Illinois on the same day.
Fall Out Boy’s latest publicity-hungry exploits won’t entirely pass without a nod to more worthy causes, however.
The band have teamed up with Greenpeace for their Antarctic antics to raise awareness about global warming.
However Wentz clearly had more important things on his mind in a statement to MTV News, saying, “we’ll be seeing penguins.”
