Fall Out Boy To Miss Boston, New York Stops On ‘Hella Mega Tour’ After Positive COVID-19 Test

Fall Out Boy has announced it will miss the next two shows on the just-started “Hella Mega” stadium tour co-headlined by the band along with Green Day and Weezer after someone on Fall Out Boy’s team tested positive for COVID-19. 

“Out of an abundance of caution, Fall Out Boy will not perform at the New York and Boston shows of the Hella Mega Tour due to an individual on the band’s team testing positive for COVID,” Fall Out Boy posted on its Instagram page Aug. 4. 

Green Day, Weezer, and the Interrupters will perform as scheduled. It’s important to note that everyone on the entire tour, both band and crew, are fully vaccinated. Each band and their crew have operated in a bubble independently to safeguard everyone as much as possible at each show and in between shows. The tour also has a COVID safety protocol officer on staff fulltime that is ensuring everyone is closely following all CDC guidelines.” 

 

The tour resumes tonight at Citi Field in New York, with Thursday’s show at Fenway Park in Boston sold out, according to the band’s website. As of now, Fall Out Boy is scheduled to re-join the tour for Aug. 8’s stop at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C., which Detroit’s Comerica Park coming Aug. 10 followed by Hersheypark Stadium in Pennsylvania Aug. 13, which is also sold out.

With nationwide headlines about breakthrough cases and the delta variant throwing a potential wrench in concert plans, Pollstar took a look at the situation with live events experts as well as artists, who are finding themselves or crew testing positive, sometimes despite being fully vaccinated. 

“What should venues be doing today? They should be following the science as we know it today, and tomorrow, we should continue following the science,” says ESA vice president Steve Adelman, whose law practice, Adelman Law Group, PLLC, specializes in risk and safety at live events.

 “The Delta variant is taking hold in some places more than others, and our knowledge about the facts is changing. … The only reasonable thing to do under these circumstances is to follow the science, pay attention to it, and mitigate our health and safety risks as much as we’re able to, given the circumstances on any particular day, wherever we are located.”

Last month, July Foo Fighters’ planned July 17 reopening of the Forum in Inglewood, Calif., was postponed “out of an abundance of caution” after an unidentified team member’s positive test for COVID-19, according to social media posts by the band July 14. The show will be rescheduled