In what is indisputably one of the most anticipated tours of the summer, Fall Out Boy brought “So Much For (Tour) Dust” to Mountain View’s Shoreline Amphitheater in support of their latest release So Much (for) Stardust along with Daisy Grenade, Royal & the Serpent, and the might Bring Me The Horizon.
In spite of the mid-week show and any lingering Fourth of July hangovers, the Bay Area crowd turned out in force, providing openers Daisy Grenade and Royal & the Serpent with warm welcomes before the blazing sun had even set behind the general admission lawn.
Bring Me the Horizon took the stage in front of a now-packed house and proceeded to deliver a blistering set that unexpectedly skewed heavily towards the band’s more recent POST HUMAN releases. Whether or not they were familiar with the new tunes, the crowd went ballistic. Anyone that’s seen this band knows that frontman Oliver Sykes knows how to command a stage so it was understandable that the band left him plenty of room to move. In fact, the Shoreline stage wasn’t big enough to contain Ollie as he proceeded to work his way into the crowd.
With the sun finally set it was time for Fall Out Boy and while Independence Day was in the rearview mirror, the fireworks were far from being over. In an interesting move, FOB chose to pump up the crowd pre-set with a few of their own tunes—“The Middle” as well as their rendition of Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire”—pretty much ensuring that neither of those songs would make it onto the evening’s expansive setlist.
What became immediately clear as the band took the stage and launched into “Love From the Other Side” is that So Much (for) Stardust would be playing a prominent role this evening. And what started as a relatively mundane stage with a red curtain draping the rear quickly transformed with pyro, spewing fire and Pete Wentz’s flame throwing bass.
Fall Out Boy is one of those bands where the casual listener might not fully appreciate their catalog. If Tuesday’s setlist did nothing else, it underscored the impact that this band has had—people were losing their shit banger after banger as the production continued to morph. A giant Doberman Pinscher head? That had to be a first for pretty much everyone in the sold out amphitheater.
As the band wrapped the set with “Saturday” to say that Fall Out Boy lit up the Shoreline would be a tremendous understatement. They literally blew that place up!
BRING ME THE HORIZON
DAISY GRENADE
ROYAL & THE SERPENT
