We made a MAJOR break in the case for the second FOB show. We all know the story from the oral history of TTTYG that their second show was at a southern Illinois university and opened for The Killing Tree. For the longest time, it was unknown where this mysterious college was. BUT we finally found our answer, Western Illinois University. Not only the college they played it, BUT we found the date of the show, November 30th, 2001. We know this because of a guestbook signing from Patrick’s old band website, Patterson.
After finding this, We went through multiple websites. We then landed on an old record label that Arma Angelus was on before being on Eulogy Records, Happy Couples Never Last Records. On the page about arma, there are shows listed on the page and one of those shows said they were playing the Western.
We then thought about looking up the other bands that were on the line-up as well. After searching through a few sites, we found the website for the band Backup. And Backup has past shows listed on their site that were thankfully saved on wayback. And we found the same show listed on their site and confirmed that the Western is Western Illinois University.
We then wondered, okay let’s see if there is anything listed in the student newspaper on the university archive website. Usually with university archives, they usually have student newspapers archive from over the years. Thankfully, we found the newspaper from November 2001. We found out there was a column of the newspaper called “The Edge”. This Column had a listing for shows that were up and coming. AND THAT'S HOW WE FOUND THIS:
This was super exciting to see this show listed, BUT what made us very, VERY confused is that they are listed as falloutboy and not the alternate name they had before falloutboy, which was Short Story; Unhappy Ending. In the same paper, on page 7, at the bottom they are describing the bands that will be playing tonight, and they are referred to Short Story; Unhappy Ending.
Which doesn’t help with the listing that is show in page 2 where all the shows are listed, and it's falloutboy and not Short Story; Unhappy Ending. We also found a review from December 7th, 2001
Also to note, Andy was at this show he played with project rocket. Here is a photo that was shown in that same review.
We leave this with more questions (but also with answers), We figured out what the western was, we found proof of the show happening. BUT the names are making us confused. Was the listing published after the show? Why were they referred to Short Story; Unhappy Ending on one page, then Falloutboy on the next one?
