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Merlin Alderslade

Fall Out Boy at the London O2: emo's poppiest graduates have evolved into a slick, showy, hit-stacked rock 'n' roll machine

Patrick Stump and Pete Wentz on stage.

We're not saying this crowd is pumped for Fall Out Boy tonight, but the fact that their well-meaning but slightly bizarre cover of Billy Joel's We Didn't Start The Fire, played over the PA before the emo icons hit the stage, is drawing bigger singalongs than this writer has seen during many an actual performance at this big ol' venue suggests we are in for one hell of an evening.

Before we get to all that, though, there's the not inconsiderable matter of tonight's main support, Pvris - a band who many tipped for a similar level of superstardom as this evening's headliners when their fantastic debut White Noise dropped almost a decade ago. It's not quite happened for them on that kinda of scale (yet?), but they certainly do enough to show that they're more than comfortable on stages of this size.

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