How old are they already? Tom DeLonge joins blink-182 for a world tour that comes seven years after he was replaced in the San Diego punk-pop band in 2015.
Next year’s tour reunites guitarist-vocalist DeLonge, 46, with bassist-vocalist Mark Hoppus, 50, and drummer Travis Barker, 46. It opens March 11 in Mexico at Imperial GNP Festival at Parque Morelos in Tijuana. The US leg will begin May 4 in Minnesota at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul and end July 16 in Tennessee at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville.
Between the two, two dates in southern California: June 16 at Banc of California Stadium in Los Angeles and June 20 at Pechanga Arena in San Diego. The band will also play two other dates in California: June 22 at the SAP Center in San Jose and June 23 at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento. All tour dates appear below.
“Edging”, a new single from the group, will be released on Friday. It is billed as the first new recording by Hoppus, DeLonge and Barker in a decade.
Ticket prices for the blink-182 concert in San Diego next June range from $39.50 to $169.50, plus service charges. Sale information for the entire tour appears later in this article.
Hoppus and DeLonge co-founded blink-182 in Poway in 1992 with the band’s original drummer, Scott Traynor. Barker replaced Traynor in 1998. The band achieved international fame with their next album, 1999’s “Enema of the State”, which included “All the Small Things”, “What’s My Age Again?” and other songs that quickly became fan favorites.
The trio broke up in 2005, then reunited in 2009 after Barker was one of two survivors of a plane crash that killed four others.
blink-182’s Tom DeLonge, Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker are shown in Los Angeles June 4, 2009, after their first reunion show after a four-year hiatus. DeLonge, who was replaced in the band in 2015, has now joined the trio.
(KC Alfred/San Diego Union-Tribune)
In January 2015, Hoppus and Barker announced that DeLonge had left the band. DeLonge to release a statement denying that he had left the band and emphasizing that he had no intention of doing so.
But whatever.
During the last week of January 2015, Hoppus and Barker announced their first show with DeLonge’s replacement, which they initially billed as “blink-182, starring Matt Skiba”. The revamped trio released their first recording with Skiba, “Bored to Death”, in April 2016.
With Skiba on board, blink-182 went on to release two albums, Grammy-nominated “California” in 2016 and “Nine” in 2019. DeLonge, meanwhile, released his first solo album in 2015, followed last year from the latest album by Angels & Airwaves, the band he founded in 2005 while blink-182 was on a four-year hiatus.
DeLonge also co-wrote four books through his To The Stars Academy which focused on his interest in extraterrestrial life forms and UFOs. In May of this year, he released the first preview of “Monsters of California”, his directorial debut.
After six years apart, DeLonge and Hoppus renewed their friendship last year after DeLonge learned that Hoppus was being treated for B-cell lymphoma. Hoppus completed treatment for the disease last year and returned to the stage for a Halloween concert with Barker and his musical pal Kevin Gruft of the band Escape the Fate.
Hoppus is currently working on his memoir, which will focus on his years in Blink-182 and his battle with lymphoma. This year, he attended Barker’s May wedding to Kourtney Kardashian.
Tickets for next year’s blink-182 tour will go on sale to the general public at 10 a.m. blink182.com. The group will hold a presale on its website from 10 a.m. Wednesday to 10 p.m. Sunday.
Live Nation, the tour promoter, will be hosting an online presale Thursday 10 a.m. through Friday 10 p.m. The presale password is: PUMPKIN. A Spotify online presale will be held Friday from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
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Latin American Tour Dates
+ = With the opening act Wallows
March 14: Estadio San Marcos, Lima, Peru
March 17-19: Lollapalooza Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina
March 17-19: Lollapalooza Chile, Santiago, Chile
March 21-22: Venue TBD, Asuncion, Paraguay
March 23-26: Picnic Estereo, Bogotá, Colombia
March 24-26: Lollapalooza Brasil, São Paulo, Brazil
March 28: Palacio de los Deportes, Mexico City, MX
April 1-2: Location TBD, – Monterrey, MX
North American Tour Dates
* = With Turnstile opening act
May 4 – St. Paul, MN – Xcel Energy Center*
May 6 – Chicago, Illinois – United Center*
May 9 – Detroit, MI – Little Caesars Arena*
May 11 – Toronto, ON – Scotiabank Arena*
May 12 – Montreal, QC – Bell Center*
May 16 – Cleveland, OH – Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse*
May 17 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – PPG Paints Arena*
May 19 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden*
May 20 – Belmont Park, NY – UBS Arena*
May 21 – Boston, MA – TD Garden*
May 23 – Washington, DC – Capital One Arena*
May 24 – Brooklyn, NY – Barclays Center*
May 26 – Baltimore, MD – Baltimore Arena*
May 27 – Hershey, Pennsylvania – Hersheypark Stadium*
June 14 – Phoenix, AZ – Footprint Center*
June 16 – Los Angeles, California – Banc of California Stadium*
June 20 – San Diego, California – Pechanga Arena*
June 22 – San Jose, California – SAP Center*
June 23 – Sacramento, California – Golden 1 Center*
June 25 – Seattle, WA – Climate Pledge Arena*
June 27 – Vancouver, BC – Rogers Arena*
June 39 – Edmonton, AB – Rogers Place*
June 30 – Calgary, AB – Scotiabank Saddledome*
July 3 – Denver, CO – Ball Arena*
July 5 – Dallas, Texas – American Airlines Center*
July 7 – Austin, TX – Moody Center*
July 8 – Houston, Texas – Toyota Center*
July 10 – Tampa, Florida – Amalie Arena*
July 11 – Strong. Lauderdale, Florida – FLA Live Arena*
July 13 – Atlanta, Georgia – State Farm Arena*
July 14 – Charlotte, North Carolina – Spectrum Center*
July 16 – Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena*
European Tour Dates
^ = With opening act The Story So Far
September 2 – Glasgow, UK – OVO Hydro^
September 4 – Belfast, UK – SSE Arena^
September 5 – Dublin, Ireland – 3Arena^
September 8 – Antwerp, Belgium – Sportpaleis^
September 9 – Cologne, Germany – Lanxess Arena^
September 12 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Royal Arena^
September 13 – Stockholm, Sweden – Avicii Arena^
September 14 – Oslo, Norway – Spektrum^
September 16 – Berlin, Germany – Mercedes-Benz Arena^
September 17 – Hamburg, Germany – Barclays Arena^
September 19 – Prague, Czech Republic – O2 Arena^
September 20 – Vienna, Austria – Stadthalle^
October 2 – Lisbon, Portugal – Altice Arena^
October 3 – Madrid, Spain – Wizink Center^
October 4 – Barcelona, Spain – Palau Sant Jordi^
October 6 – Bologna, Italy – Unipol Arena^
October 8 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Ziggo Dome^
October 9 – Paris, France – Accor Arena^
October 11 – London, UK – The O2 ^
October 14 – Birmingham, UK – Utilita Arena^
October 15 – Manchester, UK – AO Arena^
October 21 – Las Vegas, NV – When We Were Young Festival
Australia/New Zealand Tour Dates
! = With the opening act Rise Against
February 9 – Perth, Western Australia – RAC Arena!
February 11 – Adelaide, South Australia – Entertainment Hub!
February 13 – Melbourne, Victoria – Rod Laver Arena!
February 16 – Sydney, New South Wales – Qudos Bank Arena!
February 19 – Brisbane, Queensland – Entertainment Hub!
February 23 – Auckland, New Zealand – Spark Arena!
February 26 – Christchurch, New Zealand – Christchurch Arena!