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Fall Out Boy Misses Historic Gig

Bad weather in Antarctica snarls plan to play on all the continents

By Jonas Oransky,  Newser Staff

Posted Mar 27, 2008 6:04 PM CDT

(Newser) – MTV faves Fall Out Boy won’t be taking its place alongside champion hand-walkers and fingernail-growers in the Guinness Book of World Records, NME reports: Nasty weather has kept the band from traveling to Antarctica, where it was to become the first group to have played on all seven continents. Said bassist Pete Wentz, “It’s an utter f---ing disappointment."

When commercial planes wouldn’t take the musicians—and a Guinness official—through the storm, they tried chartering a special four-propeller plane, but it also refused to make the rough journey. So the Greenpeace-supported trip was cut short, and the band’s frontman worries it might not be attempted again: “I’m sure Guinness won’t ever return our phone calls.”

Fall Out Boy band members from left, Patrick Stump, Pete Wentz, Joe Trohman and Andrew Hurley pose backstage at Z100's Jingle Ball, Friday, Dec. 14, 2007 at Madison Square Garden in New York.
Fall Out Boy band members from left, Patrick Stump, Pete Wentz, Joe Trohman and Andrew Hurley pose backstage at Z100's Jingle Ball, Friday, Dec. 14, 2007 at Madison Square Garden in New York.   (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)
The band Fall Out Boy arrives at People Magazine 50th Annual Grammy Awards kick-off party in Los Angeles, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2007.
The band Fall Out Boy arrives at People Magazine 50th Annual Grammy Awards kick-off party in Los Angeles, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2007.   (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)
Pete Wentz, of Fall Out Boy, performs with the band at the Hennessy Artistry finale event in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007.
Pete Wentz, of Fall Out Boy, performs with the band at the Hennessy Artistry finale event in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007.   (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)
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