T-Mobile BTN Kickoff Concert Headlined by Fall Out Boy on Friday, Dec. 6

CHICAGO, Ill. – Big Ten fans and Un-carrier customers traveling to Indianapolis for the 2019 Big Ten Football Championship Game presented by Discover – get ready to rock. Today, Big Ten Network and T-Mobile announced the return of the  T-Mobile BTN Kickoff Concert  headlined by multi-platinum, Grammy-nominated rock band Fall Out Boy. The free concert in downtown Indy begins at 9 p.m. ET on Friday, Dec. 6, from The Pavilion at Pan Am, with early access for T-Mobile customers.
 
As the Official Wireless Partner of the Big Ten Conference, T-Mobile is once again teaming up with BTN to give fans the MVP treatment with a free concert and spectacular preshow tailgate on Georgia Street. The Georgia Street Tailgate will be complete with a live band, an array of food and beverages, games and a DJ outside the Pavilion at Pan Am and opens to the public at 6 p.m. ET.
 
As part of their headline performance, Fall Out Boy will perform their Top 10 single “Dear Future Self (Hands Up)” which features Wyclef Jean and is the single from the band’s latest record Greatest Hits: Believers Never Die - Volume Two. Next summer, Fall Out Boy will embark on THE HELLA MEGA TOUR alongside Green Day & Weezer. 
 
Fans ages 18 and older interested in attending must register in advance at  BTN.com/KickoffConcert . Doors to the concert will open for those with registered tickets at 8 p.m. ET. BUT, T-Mobile customers can get early priority access starting at 7:30 p.m. ET with registered tickets. All they have to do is show their phone upon entry.
 
The 2019 Big Ten Football Championship Game from Lucas Oil Stadium will air live on FOX on Saturday, Dec. 7 at 8 p.m. ET.
 
About BTN: A joint venture between the Big Ten Conference and Fox Networks, BTN is the first internationally distributed network dedicated to covering one of the premier collegiate conferences in the country. With more than 1,700 events across all platforms, the 24/7 network is the ultimate destination for Big Ten fans and alumni across the country, allowing them to see their favorite teams, regardless of where they live. The Fox Sports App is the digital extension of the Big Ten Network, delivering live games and on-demand programming to Big Ten Network customers via the web, smartphones, and tablets. Network events include football, men’s and women’s basketball games, dozens of Big Ten Olympic sports and championship events, studio shows and classic games. Original programming highlights activities and accomplishments of some of the nation’s finest universities, including the Emmy-nominated TheJourney. The network is in more than 60 million homes across the United States and Canada, including carriage by all the major video distributors, such as DIRECTV, DISH, Verizon FiOS, AT&T U-Verse, Charter Communications, Comcast Xfinity, Altice USA, Cox Communications, Mediacom, RCN, WOW!, and approximately 300 additional video providers across North America. BTN is also available through the majority of OTT providers, including AT&T TV NOW, YouTube TV, Hulu, PlayStation Vue and fuboTV. For additional information, please visit  www.btn.com .
 
About Fall Out Boy:
Fall Out Boy have cemented their position as one of rock music’s biggest-selling bands. Their seventh studio album M A  N  I  A  debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 in January 2018 and garnered a GRAMMY nomination for Best Rock Album. The record, released on Island Records/DCD2 Records, marks the band’s third consecutive and fourth overall #1 album respectively, and features the hit tracks “The Last of the Real Ones,” “Champion” and “HOLD ME TIGHT OR DON’T.” Their worldwide M A  N   I    A  tour in support of the record included a hometown show at Wrigley Field. Fall Out Boy most recently released Greatest Hits: Believers Never Die – Volume Two, which features the Top 10 single “Dear Future Self (Hands Up)” ft. Wyclef Jean. Next summer, Fall Out Boy will embark on THE HELLA MEGA TOUR alongside Green Day & Weezer. The global tour, which marks the first time these three bands have head out on the road together, kicks off June 13, 2020 in Paris and will visit cities across Europe and the UK throughout the month including Glasgow, London, and Dublin. All three UK dates on the tour are sold out. Presented by Harley-Davidson and produced by Live Nation, the 20-city North American outing beginning July 17 will bring the bands to some of the most renowned stadiums including sold out dates at Chicago’s Wrigley Field & Boston’s Fenway Park. Other stadiums will include Dodger Stadium, Citi Field, and more. In 2015, Fall Out Boy released their platinum, sixth studio album AMERICAN BEAUTY/AMERICAN PSYCHO, which debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 and peaked at #1 on iTunes in more than 22 countries upon its January 2015 release. The album’s first two singles “Centuries” and “Uma Thurman” have been RIAA-certified 4x and 2x platinum, respectively. AMERICAN BEAUTY/AMERICAN PSYCHO followed the GRAMMY-nominated band’s gold-certified album SAVE ROCK AND ROLL, which debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 and #1 on iTunes in 27 countries upon its April 2012 release and features the multiplatinum hit “My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light Em Up)” and hit “Alone Together.” SAVE ROCK AND ROLL was the band’s second #1 debut; Platinum selling “Infinity On High” topped the chart in 2007 which followed multi-platinum breakthrough album “From Under The Cork Tree” released in 2005. They were most recently nominated for a 2019 MTV Video Music Award for BEST ROCK VIDEO (“Bishops Knife Trick”) and have won FAVORITE ARTIST: ALTERNATIVE ROCK at the 2015 American Music Awards, BEST ROCK VIDEO at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards and BEST ALTERNATIVE BAND at the 2014 People’s Choice Awards. Fall Out Boy has also written the song “Immortals,” featured in the Oscar®-nominated Disney hit movie Big Hero 6, which topped the box office upon its November 2014 release and has already surpassed $222 million at the domestic U.S. box office and topped $650 million globally. Hailing from Chicago, Fall Out Boy—Patrick Stump (vocals/guitar), Pete Wentz (bass), Joe Trohman (guitar) and Andy Hurley (drums)—has appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone and other prestigious publications. They have performed on Saturday Night Live, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Today Show, America’s Got Talent, The Voice, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Conan, The Late Show with David Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Good Morning America and many more. More information can be found at  www.falloutboy.com .