On March 25th, Fall Out Boy will take a 90 minute flight from southern Chile to Antartica. Upon arrival they will set up shop in a gymnasium on a research facility and rock out for a group of scientists. Doing so will earn a spot in the Guiness Book Of World Records as the only band to play on all 7 continents in less than nine months.
"Well, I was just sitting around and wrote [FOB's manager] Bob [McLynn] an e-mail saying, 'Let's be the first band to go to all five continents' — only he wrote wrote me back, 'There are seven,' " Wentz told MTV News. "Since then we have been working on it. Lately it's kind of gone into overdrive though, because after this flight to Antarctica there really aren't any other ones we could get on until winter ends. And yes, we'll be seeing penguins."
The journey began in July with a show in Johannesburg, South Africa followed by gigs in Europe, Asia, Australia and North America in the fall. It's a cool record and all, but they sure took their sweet time doing it. I'm just waiting on another band to pull it off in one months time next year.
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