Monday, 11 June 2012
Friday, 8 June 2012
Tuesday, 15 May 2012
Friday, 11 May 2012
EUROPEAN DATES STILL ON
The North American cancellation does not affect any European tour dates.
blink-182 will start their summer run as planned in Birmingham, UK on June
7th. For the full list of dates please visit the Tour section on the
website.
http://www.blink182.com/news/default.aspx?nid=38470&aid=665&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss&utm_medium=News&utm_content=nid_38470
blink-182 will start their summer run as planned in Birmingham, UK on June
7th. For the full list of dates please visit the Tour section on the
website.
http://www.blink182.com/news/default.aspx?nid=38470&aid=665&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss&utm_medium=News&utm_content=nid_38470
MAY NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES CANCELLED
The members of blink-182 have announced today the cancelation of all their May 2012 tour dates due to a medical emergency. Blink-182’s drummer, Travis Barker, required an urgent tonsillectomy with a recovery period expected to extend beyond the scheduled tour dates. The band apologizes for any inconvenience as a result of these cancelations and thanks their fans for their ongoing support.
The May 10th and 11th concerts at the Winstar Casino in Thackerville, OK have been rescheduled for September 13 and 14, 2012. All previously issued tickets will be honored on the new dates respectively. Refunds are available at point of purchase.
The following tour dates are cancelled and will not be rescheduled:
May 15 at Blue Cross Arena in Rochester, NY
May 17 at the Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester, NH
May 18 at Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, CT
May 19 at The Bamboozle in Asbury Park, NJ (There are no refunds being offered for The Bamboozle)
May 20 at Sands Bethlehem Event Center in Bethlehem, PA
May 22 at Colisee Pepsi Arena in Quebec City, Canada.
Refunds for these performances will be available at point of purchase. Any tickets purchased at www.ticketmaster.com or www.billetech.com will be automatically credited back to the credit card used to make the order. All tickets purchased at venue box offices must be returned to the box office to receive a refund.
For questions regarding Bamboozle contact http://ticketmasterus.custhelp.com/app/askNoTabs
http://www.blink182.com/news/default.aspx?nid=38464&aid=665&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss&utm_medium=News&utm_content=nid_38464
The May 10th and 11th concerts at the Winstar Casino in Thackerville, OK have been rescheduled for September 13 and 14, 2012. All previously issued tickets will be honored on the new dates respectively. Refunds are available at point of purchase.
The following tour dates are cancelled and will not be rescheduled:
May 15 at Blue Cross Arena in Rochester, NY
May 17 at the Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester, NH
May 18 at Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, CT
May 19 at The Bamboozle in Asbury Park, NJ (There are no refunds being offered for The Bamboozle)
May 20 at Sands Bethlehem Event Center in Bethlehem, PA
May 22 at Colisee Pepsi Arena in Quebec City, Canada.
Refunds for these performances will be available at point of purchase. Any tickets purchased at www.ticketmaster.com or www.billetech.com will be automatically credited back to the credit card used to make the order. All tickets purchased at venue box offices must be returned to the box office to receive a refund.
For questions regarding Bamboozle contact http://ticketmasterus.custhelp.com/app/askNoTabs
http://www.blink182.com/news/default.aspx?nid=38464&aid=665&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss&utm_medium=News&utm_content=nid_38464
Saturday, 4 February 2012
Monday, 30 January 2012
Saturday, 31 December 2011
Friday, 9 December 2011
Blink-182's 'After Midnight' An 'Homage' To 'I Miss You' Tom DeLonge jokes that his and Mark Hoppus' lyrics are about 'me and him kissing and making love to each other.'
Blink-182's Neighborhoods album was rather famously recorded in fits and starts,
so it's sort of odd to learn the story behind "After Midnight," the
latest single from the disc, because, unlike pretty much everything
else, this one was easy.
" 'After Midnight' was one of the last songs that we actually wrote for the album, and it originated from a beat that Travis [Barker] made up one day when he was working in the studio," Mark Hoppus told MTV News on the set of the "Midnight" video in California. "We went in, listened to the beat, [and] it grabbed us immediately. It was one of those moments on the album where everybody just had a bunch of ideas all at once, and it came together pretty quickly. I think like in two or three hours, we had the basics of the song all written out."
"Midnight" is like most older Blink songs in its speedy creation, and its similarities with the band's back catalog don't end there: Much like "I Miss You," a single from Blink's 2003 self-titled album, the lyrics were handled by both Hoppus and DeLonge.
"Tom and I divided the responsibility of writing the lyrics — Tom did the verses and I did the chorus — and we didn't necessarily know what the other was writing about, but it fit together pretty well," Hoppus explained.
And DeLonge took things one step further by including lyrical nods to "I Miss You" in his verses on "Midnight."
Of course, he explained, that was only mostly intentional. And it's not that he's running out of ideas, he said.
"Well, maybe a little bit, but not totally," DeLonge said. "I threw in a little homage to 'I Miss You,' because, specifically on this song, I remember Travis saying that we should have something in the category of 'I Miss You' [on this album], and that's when he showed us the beat. So when we wrote that, I remember that was in my mind."
Then again, DeLonge said he had ulterior motives for co-writing the song with Hoppus — ones that bordered (of course) on the sexual.
"What's cool about this song and 'I Miss You,' when Mark and I both write lyrics in different places, they come together and they're both about the same thing, usually me and him kissing and making love to each other," he laughed. "We end up writing super romantic songs. And I think it worked out really good on this one."
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1675555/blink-182-after-midnight-video.jhtml
" 'After Midnight' was one of the last songs that we actually wrote for the album, and it originated from a beat that Travis [Barker] made up one day when he was working in the studio," Mark Hoppus told MTV News on the set of the "Midnight" video in California. "We went in, listened to the beat, [and] it grabbed us immediately. It was one of those moments on the album where everybody just had a bunch of ideas all at once, and it came together pretty quickly. I think like in two or three hours, we had the basics of the song all written out."
"Midnight" is like most older Blink songs in its speedy creation, and its similarities with the band's back catalog don't end there: Much like "I Miss You," a single from Blink's 2003 self-titled album, the lyrics were handled by both Hoppus and DeLonge.
"Tom and I divided the responsibility of writing the lyrics — Tom did the verses and I did the chorus — and we didn't necessarily know what the other was writing about, but it fit together pretty well," Hoppus explained.
And DeLonge took things one step further by including lyrical nods to "I Miss You" in his verses on "Midnight."
Of course, he explained, that was only mostly intentional. And it's not that he's running out of ideas, he said.
"Well, maybe a little bit, but not totally," DeLonge said. "I threw in a little homage to 'I Miss You,' because, specifically on this song, I remember Travis saying that we should have something in the category of 'I Miss You' [on this album], and that's when he showed us the beat. So when we wrote that, I remember that was in my mind."
Then again, DeLonge said he had ulterior motives for co-writing the song with Hoppus — ones that bordered (of course) on the sexual.
"What's cool about this song and 'I Miss You,' when Mark and I both write lyrics in different places, they come together and they're both about the same thing, usually me and him kissing and making love to each other," he laughed. "We end up writing super romantic songs. And I think it worked out really good on this one."
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1675555/blink-182-after-midnight-video.jhtml
Wednesday, 23 November 2011
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Friday, 28 October 2011
Wednesday, 12 October 2011
Blink-182: 'The air was so thick around us you could cut it with a knife'
Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker has spoken about the acrimonous way in which the band split up in 2005.
The band, who released 'Neighborhoods', their first new album for eight years, last month, split in 2005 after guitarist Tom DeLonge quit and Barker has now revealed that they were at each others' throats for months before DeLonge announced his departure.
Speaking to Rolling Stone, the drummer blamed tour burnout, saying: "You're playing shows every day and you're doing tour after tour like we were 10 years ago, and there's no communication. Everyone's burnt. The air was so thick around us back in the day you could cut it with a knife. It was so bad right before we broke up."
The drummer also said that, after Mark Hoppus and DeLonge came to visit him in the days after his 2008 plane crash, they reconnected instantly, despite having not spoken for some time.
He added:
The band, who released 'Neighborhoods', their first new album for eight years, last month, split in 2005 after guitarist Tom DeLonge quit and Barker has now revealed that they were at each others' throats for months before DeLonge announced his departure.
Speaking to Rolling Stone, the drummer blamed tour burnout, saying: "You're playing shows every day and you're doing tour after tour like we were 10 years ago, and there's no communication. Everyone's burnt. The air was so thick around us back in the day you could cut it with a knife. It was so bad right before we broke up."The drummer also said that, after Mark Hoppus and DeLonge came to visit him in the days after his 2008 plane crash, they reconnected instantly, despite having not spoken for some time.
He added:
When we look back now, after my crash when Tom and Mark finally came to my house, about 30 seconds went by and Tom and Mark are telling dick jokes. It's like, 'Look, you dickheads didn't talk to each other for six years and now everything's completely fine.' You realise how petty some of the shit was we were all fighting over.
Asked if Hoppus and DeLonge had been able to rebuild their close friendship after the acrimony of the band's break up, Barker replied that though he'd never seen anyone as close as Hoppus and DeLonge once were, relations were still pretty good.
He said:
Well, those two were like husband and wife back in the day. I'd always tell them that I'd never seen two males that weren't homosexual so close. And no diss to homosexual people. I like heterosexual people, homosexual people, whatever. But I'd never seen two friends so close or anything like how Mark and Tom were. I always played the middle between them. And I still do. I'm really close to Mark and I'm really close to Tom. It's like a couple, but there's three of us.http://www.nme.com/news/blink-182/59753
Tuesday, 4 October 2011
Blink-182's Travis Barker: 'I am considering hypnotherapy so I can fly again'
Blink-182's Travis Barker has revealed he is considering hypnotherapy to overcome his fear of flying following a plane crash in 2008, which claimed the lives of his two friends.
The drummer suffered severe burns after he stumbled out of a blazing jet which burst into flames after failing to take-off in South Carolina, and he spent months in recovery.
He still refuses to fly anywhere and admits his phobia has become a big problem in his professional life. "Unfortunately I can't do as much touring as I would like because I don't fly," he said. "It's an obstacle. I'm working on it though.
"I'm trying to get hypnotised, trying to talk to a doctor who retrains your brain. Maybe he'll help me fly again one day."
The sticksman also admitted that the accident made him more health conscious and it helped him overcome a painkiller addiction.
He told Rolling Stone: "I run every day now. I never ran before. In the hospital, I promised myself that if I ever walked again, that I would eat well and swim every day."
Barker went on: "I've been vegan since I got out of the hospital... and before the plane crash, I was battling a painkiller addiction. For years.
"I can proudly say I didn't even take any pain medication after I got out of the hospital. They told me I'd be on some of the medicine for the rest of my life, but I got off all of them. They made me a completely different person."
http://www.nme.com/news/blink-182/59558
The drummer suffered severe burns after he stumbled out of a blazing jet which burst into flames after failing to take-off in South Carolina, and he spent months in recovery.
He still refuses to fly anywhere and admits his phobia has become a big problem in his professional life. "Unfortunately I can't do as much touring as I would like because I don't fly," he said. "It's an obstacle. I'm working on it though.
"I'm trying to get hypnotised, trying to talk to a doctor who retrains your brain. Maybe he'll help me fly again one day."The sticksman also admitted that the accident made him more health conscious and it helped him overcome a painkiller addiction.
He told Rolling Stone: "I run every day now. I never ran before. In the hospital, I promised myself that if I ever walked again, that I would eat well and swim every day."
Barker went on: "I've been vegan since I got out of the hospital... and before the plane crash, I was battling a painkiller addiction. For years.
"I can proudly say I didn't even take any pain medication after I got out of the hospital. They told me I'd be on some of the medicine for the rest of my life, but I got off all of them. They made me a completely different person."
http://www.nme.com/news/blink-182/59558
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