Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz has revealed to Kerrang! that the band feared for their lives during a recent trip to Africa to raise awareness for Invisible Children, a charity set up to provide health care, safety, education and employment for the people of Northern Uganda affected by its 20-year war.
"There was one moment when I really feared for our life," says Wentz. "We were riding motorcycles and these local guys used barricades to lock us in this little patch of ground. They saw that we were American and thought that we should give them money for being on their ground. When they locked us in, I actually thought 'We're going to die, right now'.
Luckily, we had our guide Kenny to bail us out and pay them off but that was really, really terrifying, living through something like that.
"It probably doesn't seem much in retrospect but at the time when we were going through it, it was a real 'Hotel Rwanda' moment," he adds. "The whole experience brought our band closer together and that's a great thing."
For the full sory, pick up a copy of this week's Kerrang! magazine.
YAY!! IM GOING!! ME AND MY SISTER!! SO EXCITE...
