This is our first ever guest blog and it comes from our dear friend Andrew Cramb. He's been a huge help in launching Good Future Club including shooting photos of the Line 1 collection. Check out his shots in the store link above. And on to Andrew's blog about the Fall Out Boy 'The Mania Tour Pop-Up Shop' that took place in LA this past weekend. Follow Andrew on Instagram.
This weekend was a cool one.
Rewind to a few weeks ago. I get a phone call from a long time friend, Travis McGee. He told me he was coming from NYC to LA from Nov. 17-19 and asked if I’d want to hang out and help him with a pop-up shop his company was putting together.
Blindly, I said yes for two reasons.
1) Travis is one of the funniest people I know, so doing anything with him is a good time.
2) Coming from Florida the idea of pop-up shops is generally something you only see online and don’t get to experience in person.
Shortly after I found out it was for Fall Out Boy which made it even cooler! Mixing a legendary band from the scene with the modern style and culture of a pop-up shop is a concept that I was happy to be a part of in any capacity.
Alright, on to some photos!
Day 1. Set up with Travis.
This is Eddie the corgi. The owners of the space brought him to work and he hung with us the entire time we were setting up. He was rad!
Finished and ready for business.
They made an extremely limited run of exclusive pop up merch including a denim jacket, tour posters, tees, hoodies, and accessories in addition to the tour merch being sold.
It wasn’t a vibe of too cool for school hype beast kinda kids buying it however. It was simply die hard FOB fans who were stoked to get some unique new merch to rock and support their favorite band. I loved seeing that.
To wrap things up on Sunday - Pete Wentz came in to do a meet and greet with 200+ fans. The line was an entire city block long! Throughout the whole thing Pete was so cool to all the fans and genuinely stoked to be there. Much respect.
My OG friend Elliott Ingham was also there to document which was rad. Elliott did all the photo and video on the Mania tour so it was awesome to hang and hear some tour stories while Pete was signing.
After the signing, it was on to tear down. Here’s the final shot once the room was cleared out. Nuts seeing it totally empty after all that!
-Andrew
