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Where are Blink-182 going on tour in 2023 and can you buy tickets?-Robert Oliver-Entertainment – Metro
The pop punk veterans are back.
The iconic trio are going back on tour for the first time in almost a decade (Picture: Kevin Winter/Getty)
Calling all Blink-182 fans, where are yewwww? The pop punk veterans’ reunion tour is officially happening in 2023, and Tom DeLonge is coming along(e) for the ride!
The worldwide series of shows will begin in March 2023 and extend all the way to February 2024, featuring five dates in the UK this time next year.
Blink-182 have also announced that a new single, entitled Edging, will be released this Friday on October 14 – it is Tom’s first release with the band for a decade.
The tour will also mark the band’s first set of live concerts with co-founder Tom, 46, since before he left to work on solo music and side-projects in 2015.
This will also be Blink-182’s first tour since Mark Hoppus revealed his battle with stage 4 lymphoma. He revealed he was cancer free in September 2021.
Blink-182 have spawned numerous side-projects and, since DeLonge initially departed, have toured with Alkaline Trio’s Matt Skiba as their third member.
Where are Blink-182 going on tour in 2023?
They’re a little older now, and, truthfully, so are we, but they’re raring to go (Picture: Blink-182)
Blink-182’s 2023 tour is a global one. It will begin in Mexico in March 2023, before journeying through South America for the next two months. The tour will then continue in May, with a string of consecutive dates across the United States.
The band will then make a brief stopover in Scotland, Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland before heading into continental Europe for dates in Germany, Sweden, and Spain, amongst many others.
They will then head back northwards to the UK to play dates in London, Birmingham, and Manchester, before making the long trip back to the States for the much-anticipated When We Were Young festival in Las Vegas.
The tour will finish in February 2024, with several dates planned across Australia and New Zealand.
The UK dates are below:
2 September – OVO Hydro, Glasgow4th September – SSE Arena, Belfast11th October – London, The O2 Arena14th October – Birmingham, Utilita Arena16th October – Manchester, AO Arena
Can you get tickets yet?
Back in their younger days (Picture: SGranitz/WireImage)
LiveNation presale tickets will be available on Thursday, October 13. Users can access presale tickets by signing up for a My LiveNation account.
General sale tickets for the tour are set to be made available on Monday, October 17 at 10am local time, depending on where you are in the world.
There’s no word yet on how much tickets are going to cost.
Which members of Blink-182 will be involved?
Matt Skiba joined Blink-182 in 2015, filling in for Tom DeLonge (Picture: Steve Jennings/Getty)
The band’s most iconic line-up of Mark Hoppus, drummer Travis Barker, and, of course, Tom DeLonge will be going along on the tour. Mark and Tom first formed the band in 1992, exactly three decades ago.
Travis Barker was the last to join up. He replaced the band’s first drummer Scott Raynor before their breakout third album, Enema of the State. It is not expected that any additional members of the band’s numerous side-projects – including Angels & Airwaves, +44, and Box Car Racer – will be joining the touring line-up.
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By all accounts, it appears that Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio, who stepped in for DeLonge when he left the band in 2015 and has been writing, touring, and performing with the All the Small Things hitmakers ever since, will also not be coming on the 2023 tour.
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