Fall Out Boy are getting ready to dance-dance in the far south.

The band will perform at a research station in Antarctica on March 25, in an attempt to enter the world record books as the first band to play on all seven continents in less than nine months.

According to bassist Pete Wentz, he came up with the plan on a whim.

“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.”

Fall Out Boy want to do more than set a record, though. The band will be accompanied on their trip by Greenpeace, in the hopes of documenting the effects of global warming.






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