Blink-182 (photo: Jack Bridgland)
Blink-182 have announced a massive world tour for 2023 and 2024, with Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker reuniting with original member Tom DeLonge for the first time since 2015. The worldwide tour will begin in Mexico in March of 2023 with dates announced all the way to February of 2024 in Australia and New Zealand. Blink-182 will also appear on multiple festivals throughout the tour, including Lollapalooza Chile and Brazil and the When We Were Young Festival in Las Vegas in October of 2023.
Blink will play Latin America from March 11 – April 2, 2023. The North American leg of the tour kicks off May 4, 2023 in St. Paul, MN, and runs up to July 16, 2023 in Nashville. Their European tour dates start on September 2 in Glasgow, wrapping in Manchester, UK on October 15. The trio will play Australia and New Zealand for seven shows in February 2024.
DeLonge left Blink-182 in 2015 and was replaced by Alkaline Trio‘s Matt Skiba in the band, who released two albums with Skiba in the lineup and toured extensively. In the meantime, DeLonge focused on his other band, Angels & Airwaves, as well as his famous studies and fascination with UFOs and aliens.
Barker has been omnipresent in the music world and the tabloids, collaborating with numerous younger acts and marrying Kourtney Kardashian.
In 2021, Hoppus revealed he had been diagnosed with cancer but months later announced he had been declared cancer free. Earlier this year, Hoppus told People magazine that Barker and DeLonge had visited him in the hospital, bringing the three back together outside of the band environment for the first time in years.
The group will also release a new single, “Edging,” this Friday.
