Tour by Fall Out Boy | |
Associated album | American Beauty/American Psycho |
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Start date | May 3, 2015 |
End date | October 25, 2015 |
No. of shows | 60 |
Fall Out Boy concert chronology |
The American Beauty/American Psycho Tour was a concert tour by American rock band Fall Out Boy. Supporting the band's sixth studio album American Beauty/American Psycho (2015), the tour visited North America and Europe in 2015. The North American leg was co-headlined with American rapper Wiz Khalifa under the name The Boys of Zummer. The Boys of Zummer leg with Wiz Khalifa ranked fifty-ninth for Pollstar's Year End Top 200 North American Tours of 2015, grossing $18.2 million. [1]
In 2013, the band released their fifth album Save Rock and Roll . To support the record, the band toured between 2013 and 2014, during the Save Rock and Roll Tour and the Monumentour with Paramore. In late 2014 during Momunentour, the band started working on the new album, which was almost finished around November and was released in January 2015.
The band played two small venue release shows in January 2015, in London and Chicago. [2] In February and March, they played four full-length sets at the Australian music festival Soundwave for the first time, [3] with additional headlining sideshows in Sydney and Brisbane. They also performed at the Soundwave spin-off Westfest in New Zealand. [4] Next was a headlining performance in a stadium at RodeoHouston on March 8. [5] They are on the bill for the Pot of Gold festival in Tempe and are headlining three Punkspring festival dates with Rancid in Japan in late March 2015. [6] On January 14, 2015, a 7-date October UK tour was announced and shortly expanded to 8 dates. [7] [8] On January 15, a co-headlining 39-date Boys of Zummer tour with rapper Wiz Khalifa was announced for a North America leg from June to August. [9] [10] A nine date European tour was announced to visit six countries in October 2015. [11] Fall Out Boy headlined SunFest on May 3. [12]
Joseph Mark Trohman is an American musician. He is best known as the lead guitarist and backing vocalist of the American rock band Fall Out Boy, as well as the lead guitarist for heavy metal supergroup the Damned Things. Fall Out Boy began in 2001 as Trohman and Pete Wentz's side project from the hardcore punk scene they were involved with, and the band has scored four number one albums on the US Billboard 200, as well as numerous platinum and multi platinum singles in the US and abroad.
Cameron Jibril Thomaz, better known by his stage name Wiz Khalifa, is an American rapper from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He signed with the local independent label Rostrum Records to release his debut studio album, Show and Prove (2006). His contract entered a short-lived joint venture with Warner Bros. Records the following year. His Eurodance-influenced 2008 single, "Say Yeah" received urban radio airplay and entered both the Rhythmic Top 40 and Hot Rap Songs charts, becoming his first minor hit.
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Supports in the first leg of Europe was come from the bands Bring Me the Horizon, Devildriver and Darkest Hour. Robb Flynn made a statement saying that: "This will no doubt be the heaviest show you're going to see this year. A lot of the greatest shows of our last touring cycle were in Europe and the UK, so the prospect of this lineup combined with these crowds has us extremely stoked to get out there and tear it up! New material, great venues, killer fans... we absolutely cannot wait!"
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Wintour is Coming was a concert tour by American rock band Fall Out Boy in support of their sixth studio album, American Beauty/American Psycho. It began on February 25, 2016 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and concluded on March 27, 2016 in San Francisco, California. The opening acts for the tour included Puerto Rican pop punk band Late Night Drive in San Juan, PVRIS and Awolnation in most of the tour dates and Finish Ticket in San Francisco. The tour played a total of twenty-three concerts over the course one month in North America, with one of them at Universal Orlando Resort's Mardi Gras 2016. A San Francisco date was announced on January 5, 2016.
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