Back in 2006, Fall Out Boy were live from New York on Saturday night for an episode of SNL, and it was a performance that vocalist Patrick Stump still sees as a dream come true.

The band were the musical guest on Season 31, Episode 13 of the show, which aired on March 04 and was hosted by Natalie Portman.

Delivering both ‘Dance, Dance’ and ‘Sugar, We’re Going Down’, Patrick still looks back on the appearance fondly today.

In our new interview with him, found in Made In Chicago: A Rock Sound Tribute, he describes how it felt to live out a real ambition.

“I’m not an ambitious person but SNL was this thing that I was obsessed with as a kid, and I’m still kind of obsessed with it. It was literal dream stuff to even imagine being there.

I didn’t consider myself a singer. I was a smartass who was pretending to sing as a joke and accidentally discovered that I was an okay singer. And now I’m singing on SNL. I remember we played right after Natalie Portman did her famous rap video with The Lonely Island.

We got to interact with some of the cast. I remember Kristen Wiig was really sweet to me. I was really nervous and scared and terrified of being on TV. And it wasn’t much, but she came over and was like, ‘Hey, you know, you’re really talented. That was really good’. I needed that so bad at that moment.”

But before the show even aired, the band’s style of performance almost got them into hot water…

You do a dress rehearsal which they film and then you do the real live show and the dress is there in case there’s anything that goes wrong and they can play it in.

“So we did the dress and we played ‘Sugar…’ and Pete and Joe are just doing their thing, like we do in any other club, jumping off the walls. The thing I didn’t realise at SNL is that all of the staging is interconnected. So the backside of one set is the front of another set.

So they bounce off the walls, and all of SNL wobbles. The stage director came over, and he was not impolite but it was very firm – ‘Ok, thanks, don’t ever fucking do that again’.

So that was the big thing I remember, almost collapsing SNL.”

Iconic, as always.

You can read the full interview with Patrick, alongside chats with Pete Went, Joe Trohman and Andy Hurley, in our special edition magazine.

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