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July 24: Las Vegas (the Joint)

July 28: Vancouver (GM Place)

July 30: Calgary, AB (Saddledome)

July 31: Edmonton, AB (Rexall Place)

Aug. 1: Saskatoon, SK (Credit Union Center)

Aug. 2: Winnipeg, MB (MTS Centre)

Aug. 4: Milwaukee (Marcus Amphitheater)

Aug. 6: Boston (Comcast Center)

Aug. 7 Quebec City, QC (Colisee Pepsi)

Aug. 8: Montreal (Bell Centre)

Aug. 9: Wantagh, N.Y. (Nikon Theater at Jones Beach)

Aug. 12: Hershey, Pa. (the Star Pavilion)

Aug. 13: Cincinnati (Riverbend Music Center)

Aug. 14: Pittsburgh (Post Gazette Pavilion)

Aug. 15: Chicago (First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre)

Aug. 16: Omaha, Neb. (Westfair Amphitheater)

Aug. 18: Minneapolis (Xcel Energy Center)

Aug. 20: Indianapolis (Verizon Wireless Amphitheater)

Aug. 21: Buffalo, N.Y. (Darien Lakes Performing Arts Center)

Aug. 22: Detroit (DTE Energy Music Theatre)

Aug. 23: Toronto (Molson Amphitheater)

Aug. 25: Holmdel, N.J. (PNC Bank Arts Center)

Aug. 27: Saratoga, N.Y. (Saratoga Performing Arts Center)

Aug. 28: Camden, Pa. (Susquehanna Bank Center)

Aug. 29: Hartford, Conn. (New England Dodge Music Center)

Aug. 30: Washington, D.C. (TBD)

Aug. 31: Wantagh, N.Y. (Nikon Theater at Jones Beach)

Sept. 2: Cleveland (Blossom Music Center)

Sept. 3: St. Louis (Verizon Wireless Amphitheater)

Sept. 4: Kansas City, Kan. (Capitol Federal Park at Sandstone)

Sept. 6: Denver (Fiddlers Green Amphitheater)

Sept. 7: Salt Lake City (David O. McKay Events Center)

Sept. 10: Seattle (White River Amphitheater)

Sept. 12: Sacramento, Calif. (Sleep Train Amphitheater)

Sept. 13: Mountain View, Calif. (Shoreline Amphitheater)

Sept. 14: Santa Barbara, Calif. (Santa Barbara Bowl)

Sept. 16: San Diego (Cricket Wireless Amphitheater)

Sept. 17: Irvine, Calif. (Verizon Wireless Amphitheater)

Sept. 19: Phoenix (Tempe Beach Park)

Sept. 21: Albuquerque, N.M. (Journal Pavilion)

Sept. 23: Dallas (Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion)

Sept. 24: Houston (Superpages.com Center)

Sept. 26: West Palm Beach, Fla. (Cruzan Amphitheater)

Sept. 27: Tampa, Fla. (Ford Amphitheater)

Sept. 29: Atlanta (Lakewood Amphitheater)

Oct. 1: Charlotte, N.C. (Verizon Wireless Amphitheater)

Oct. 2: Virginia Beach, Va. (Verizon Wireless Amphitheater)

Oct. 3: Atlantic City, N.J. (Borgata Events Center)

FALL OUT BOY :w00t:

if they have same support here.

 

 

 

IM SO IN THE BAR FOR FALL OUT $h!t.

 

 

Weezer though :o, there on the list of bands to see for me, (just under Blink).

from MTV.com

Blink-182, Weezer And Fall Out Boy To Tour Together This Summer

 

Well, it’s official. More than a month after rumors of a Blink-182/Weezer tour started circulating — but were never actually confirmed — and less than a week after the All-American Rejects hinted they’d be joining the bill, we’ve finally gotten to the bottom of what’s sure to be one of the biggest rock tours of the summer.

 

As first reported in Rolling Stone (then subsequently posted on Blink bassist/singer Mark Hoppus’ blog and confirmed by the band’s label, Interscope), Blink and Weezer will be touring together this summer, and they’re taking Fall Out Boy with them.

 

The tour kicks off July 24 and will run until October, according to RS, with tickets starting at $20 (and going up to $60). Hoppus told the mag that Blink are planning to mix old favorites and a few new tunes into their set (and jokingly said the band is actually rehearsing for this one) and that — since this is their first tour since 2005 — they’re getting “artistic,” having recruited Kanye West’s set designer to give the tour some flair.

 

“We want to use the entire arena as a lighting rig and stage,” Hoppus told the magazine. “We’re being as ambitious as possible.”

 

There’s no mention of the Rejects anywhere in the story, but don’t consider them off the tour just yet. According to Blink’s Interscope spokesperson, there’s an “official announcement [about the tour] coming next week,” which could mean that even more acts (perhaps sharing a revolving fourth slot?) will be announced very shortly.

Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz Calls Blink-182 Tour ‘A Dream Come True’

 

Weezer will also be on the jaunt, which kicks off July 24 and runs until October.

 

The hardest part for Pete Wentz was the waiting. He and his Fall Out Boy mates knew about the possibility of landing a slot on this summer’s Blink-182/Weezer tour for months, but they had to keep it under wraps, because, well, the thing hadn’t been announced yet.

 

So Wentz was committed to silence, even though he was bursting at the seams with excitement. But now — thanks to a Rolling Stone article that confirmed the tour (it kicks off July 24 and will run until October, with tickets starting at $20) — he is free to let that excitement loose. Because, as he told MTV News, the Blink tour is a fulfillment of pretty much everything he and the rest of FOB have wanted to do since they first picked up their instruments.

 

“Pretty much since this band started, we had a list of bands we wanted to meet and hang out with,” Wentz wrote in an e-mail. “Blink-182 was at the top of that list.”

 

Seems that Blink-182 are one of the main reasons Wentz decided to start a band, and Blink bassist/singer Mark Hoppus inspired him to choose the instrument he did. So while touring with Blink is the fulfillment of a dream, the friendship he and Hoppus have formed — one that started when FOB shared the stage with Hoppus’ former band, +44, on the 2007 Honda Civic Tour and has since grown to includesome serious Twitter sessions and 100 very high-tech Octopus-themed flash drives — is sort of like the icing on a very awesome cake.

 

“To be touring together this summer is a dream come true for us,” Wentz wrote. “Not just as a band, but as fans and friends too.”

Blink-182 Recruit Fall Out Boy, Weezer for Reunion Tour: Hoppus and Wentz Speak Out

 

Blink-182 bassist Mark Hoppus breaks some big news in the Summer Tour Preview in the new issue of Rolling Stone: the reunited band is bringing Weezer and Fall Out Boy on the road this summer to open Blink’s first tour since 2005. The news resulted in a big reaction from fans yesterday afternoon when Hoppus posted our story on his blog — and we’ve got more from Hoppus on the lineup, and what to expect on the road right here:

 

“We started talking about bands to tour with and Weezer was actually one of the first ones that came up,” Hoppus tells Rolling Stone. “They wanted to do the tour, and so did Fall Out Boy. It worked out perfectly.” But fans hoping to catch all three acts together on the tour, which begins July 24th, may be out of luck: Fall Out Boy are on board for two-thirds of the dates and Weezer will play the other third. Dates for the tour, and which bands are opening in which cites, haven’t been announced at press time.

 

This won’t be the first time members of Blink share the stage with Weezer and Fall Out Boy. Blink guitarist Tom DeLonge’s side project Angel & Airwaves toured with Weezer last year, while Hoppus and Blink drummer Travis Barker toured with Fall Out Boy when their side project, +44, opened FOB’s summer tour in 2007.

 

“When we started our band, we were like, ‘Man, that’d be so awesome to meet Blink-182,’” Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz says, adding his band is looking forward to the change an opening slot will bring. “It’s been a great stretch of headlining tours the last few years, but there’s something interesting about opening up for bands when you have to rope the audience in.”

 

Blink-182 are also working to make this tour accessible to as many fans as possible. While the most expensive tickets will go for $60, Hoppus says the band has secured a $20 ticket fee (charges included) for the arenas. “We want this to be an experience that brings the show out to the audience,” Hoppus adds, noting the band has partnered with the set designer Kanye West and Daft Punk use for a light show that will incorporate the entire venue into the band’s performance.

 

And Blink will debut at least one new tune on the road alongisde favorites like “Rock Show” and “What’s My Age Again,” which may have a more polished feel thanks to the band deciding to do some serious rehearsals before hitting the road. “We used to go on stage and forget our parts,” Hoppus says. “This time we want to be more artistic. We really want the live show on this tour to be something nobody would ever expect from Blink.”

 

They BETTER tour here!! I would SOOOOO PAY to see them!

I like how you say you would pay to see them as if paying to go to a gig makes you some massive fan :heehee:

FROM BILLBOARD:

 

If it hadn’t been for drummer Travis Barker’s near-fatal airplane crash last year, Blink-182 might not be touring this summer.

 

But after a five-year hiatus, Blink-182 members Mark Hoppus, Travis Barker and Tom DeLonge will embark on a nearly 50-date North American arena and amphitheater tour, beginning July 24 at the Joint in Las Vegas, and wrapping Oct. 3 at the Borgata Events Center in Atlantic City, N.J.

 

The Live Nation-produced trek will feature support on various dates from Weezer, Fall Out Boy, Panic at the Disco, All-American Rejects, Taking Back Sunday, Asher Roth and Chester French.

 

 

 

 

“My goal was to have name-brand acts all the way,” Blink-182 manager Rick Devoe tells Billboard.com.

 

The rock act has also tapped stage designer Martin Phillips to help create “the most ridiculous display of lights and images we can imagine,” Hoppus said in a statement. Phillips has worked on tours stage designs for such artists as Kanye West, Daft Punk and Nine Inch Nails, among others.

 

Rumors that Blink-182 could reunite after its messy split in 2005 started last year after Hoppus posted a blog saying that Barker’s survival and the death of Blink-182 producer Jerry Finn put the band members back in touch.

 

“Unfortunately it took something catastrophic to do it, but sometimes that’s how life is,” Devoe says. “These guys got together for the right reasons.”

 

Although Blink-182 confirms it is writing new songs, “the word on the street is that this tour is about the hits,” says Devoe, who couldn’t say when a new album might be released. “As the rehearsals go by, we’re hoping to have at least one new song in the repertoire.”

 

The manager adds that Blink-182 fans who are short on cash this summer will be happy to learn that amphitheater lawn tickets will be available for $20. “If you have $20, you get in. No fees or anything,” he says.

 

 

 

 

Tickets for the tour go on sale May 30 at livenation.com. Presenting sponsors of trek include T-Mobile Sidekick LX, State Farm Insurance and MySpace.

 

Beyond October, Blink-182 has offers to play Australia’s Big Day Out and other European music festivals in 2010, according to Devoe. “That’s what I’m hoping is going to happen,” the manager says. “And in between these tours is when they’re going to be working on an album.”

 

Blink-182 doesn’t plan to route another North American tour until the band releases a new album, Devoe says. He notes that Blink-182 can’t work as quickly as it used to because the band members have family obligations and some live in different cities.

 

“Everyone has got full lives,” the manager says. “It’s a different Blink, in the sense that you have to pick your kids up after school, and one of your kids has dance class and the other kid has this.”

 

Blink-182’s last tour in 2004 grossed $14.4 million from 42 concerts that drew more than 421,000 fans, according to Billboard Boxscore. The trio’s self-titled album in 2003 has sold 2.2 million copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

 

Here are Blink-182’s upcoming tour dates:

 

July 24: Las Vegas (the Joint)

July 28: Vancouver (GM Place)

July 30: Calgary, AB (Saddledome)

July 31: Edmonton, AB (Rexall Place)

Aug. 1: Saskatoon, SK (Credit Union Center)

Aug. 2: Winnipeg, MB (MTS Centre)

Aug. 4: Milwaukee (Marcus Amphitheater)

Aug. 6: Boston (Comcast Center)

Aug. 7 Quebec City, QC (Colisee Pepsi)

Aug. 8: Montreal (Bell Centre)

Aug. 9: Wantagh, N.Y. (Nikon Theater at Jones Beach)

Aug. 12: Hershey, Pa. (the Star Pavilion)

Aug. 13: Cincinnati (Riverbend Music Center)

Aug. 14: Pittsburgh (Post Gazette Pavilion)

Aug. 15: Chicago (First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre)

Aug. 16: Omaha, Neb. (Westfair Amphitheater)

Aug. 18: Minneapolis (Xcel Energy Center)

Aug. 20: Indianapolis (Verizon Wireless Amphitheater)

Aug. 21: Buffalo, N.Y. (Darien Lakes Performing Arts Center)

Aug. 22: Detroit (DTE Energy Music Theatre)

Aug. 23: Toronto (Molson Amphitheater)

Aug. 25: Holmdel, N.J. (PNC Bank Arts Center)

Aug. 27: Saratoga, N.Y. (Saratoga Performing Arts Center)

Aug. 28: Camden, Pa. (Susquehanna Bank Center)

Aug. 29: Hartford, Conn. (New England Dodge Music Center)

Aug. 30: Washington, D.C. (TBD)

Aug. 31: Wantagh, N.Y. (Nikon Theater at Jones Beach)

Sept. 2: Cleveland (Blossom Music Center)

Sept. 3: St. Louis (Verizon Wireless Amphitheater)

Sept. 4: Kansas City, Kan. (Capitol Federal Park at Sandstone)

Sept. 6: Denver (Fiddlers Green Amphitheater)

Sept. 7: Salt Lake City (David O. McKay Events Center)

Sept. 10: Seattle (White River Amphitheater)

Sept. 12: Sacramento, Calif. (Sleep Train Amphitheater)

Sept. 13: Mountain View, Calif. (Shoreline Amphitheater)

Sept. 14: Santa Barbara, Calif. (Santa Barbara Bowl)

Sept. 16: San Diego (Cricket Wireless Amphitheater)

Sept. 17: Irvine, Calif. (Verizon Wireless Amphitheater)

Sept. 19: Phoenix (Tempe Beach Park)

Sept. 21: Albuquerque, N.M. (Journal Pavilion)

Sept. 23: Dallas (Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion)

Sept. 24: Houston (Superpages.com Center)

Sept. 26: West Palm Beach, Fla. (Cruzan Amphitheater)

Sept. 27: Tampa, Fla. (Ford Amphitheater)

Sept. 29: Atlanta (Lakewood Amphitheater)

Oct. 1: Charlotte, N.C. (Verizon Wireless Amphitheater)

Oct. 2: Virginia Beach, Va. (Verizon Wireless Amphitheater)

Oct. 3: Atlantic City, N.J. (Borgata Events Center)

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Mark and Tom interview with MTV:

 

On Thursday night in Hollywood, Blink-182 ended a four-and-a-half year hiatus with a surprise performance at a T-Mobile party at Paramount Studios. And now that they're officially, 100 percent back, how would they rate the reunion so far?

 

"Awkward, weird ... a little standoffish. Me and Travis are on one side [of the studio], behind a brick wall, and Tom is outside the wall knocking," Blink's Mark Hoppus told MTV News at event. "You ever seen that episode of 'The Odd Couple' where they drew the line down the middle of the room? Yeah, it's kind of like that."

 

"And there's a couple holes where we stick various parts of our bodies through," Tom DeLonge added. "It's really super strange and weird. But it rocks."

 

And judging by what we heard on stage Thursday night, it does, indeed, rock. So now that they've got one performance under the belt, what about Blink's much-hyped summer tour with Weezer, Fall Out Boy and a rotating list of huge acts (Taking Back Sunday, All-American Rejects, Panic at the Disco, Asher Roth and Chester French)? What can fans expect to see out on the road? Well, lots and lots of lasers, apparently.

 

"I think it's gonna be amazing. There are amazing bands, they're all big. When we started talking about doing the tour again ... we had all these options start popping up. It was really amazing to be able to end up on the bands we had," DeLonge said. "Usually when you go out on tour, there's a lot of negotiations as far as time and who can do what and when they can do it, or whatever ... I'm gonna be honest right now. The tour is gonna be good. Mark, after f---ing 17 years, might let me have lasers!"

 

"It's true," Hoppus laughed. "[Lasers] broke up our band at one point, and now it's lasers that are bringing us back together."

 

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All of the supporting bands have been added to their respective tour dates on Livenation. They’ve also added ticket pre-sale and on-sale dates for select shows. Not all of the tickets go on sale on 5/30.

Blink-182 Tour Openers Possibly More Excited Than You Are

 

Blink-182’s multi-band summer extravaganza — a.k.a. “the tour that may or may not be called One-Way Ticket to Bonerville” — doesn’t kick off until July 24, but it’s already a huge deal … and not just for long-suffering Blink fans, but for the bands Blink are taking on the road too.

 

Last week, MTV News spoke to Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz, who called his band’s slot on the bill “a dream come true.” And as we’ve spoken to the other acts on the tour — a list that also includes Weezer, the All-American Rejects, Panic at the Disco, Taking Back Sunday, Asher Roth and Chester French — we’ve been hearing much of the same.

 

“We got asked by Blink-182 to join them on their big tour, and we could not turn it down,” Panic drummer Spencer Smith told MTV News. “We’re huge fans of that band. They’re kind of the reason we started the band.”

 

“We were absolutely thrilled,” Chester French’s D.A. Wallach said. “This is the first tour I think we’ve ever done with artists that we ourselves had gone to see, and to be out here with musicians who have inspired us is like the coolest thing an up-and-coming artist could ask for. We’re thrilled. I mean, I’ve seen Blink-182 when I was a kid and Weezer when I was in college, so this is a huge deal for us. Hopefully we can collaborate with some people or learn some things.”

 

And even if they’ve been around the block a time or two — like Taking Back Sunday, who actually toured with Blink back in 2004 — they’re still beyond excited to hit the road with Mark, Tom and Travis again.

 

“It’s really huge for us, because we grew up with Blink-182, so for them to call and ask us to join them again on the road, it just feels really nice,” TBS frontman Adam Lazzara said. “It’s funny, because the last tour they did before their hiatus, we were on that tour as well. So it’s nice of them to ask again. It’s like they can’t live without us.”

 

“For us, that tour was our first time being in arenas and amphitheaters and stuff like that,” TBS bassist Matt Rubano added. “So it really kind of exposed us to a new way of playing shows. And, of course, getting to watch Blink every night shred 10,000-and-above audiences was really inspiring and gave us a little bit of an education in how to do it. And we’ve had the chance to then go on and do it ourselves. It was helpful. And listen to Tom tell awesome di– jokes every night. You really can’t beat that.”

 

Of course, other artists on the bill have ulterior motives for saying yes to Blink. And really, you can’t blame them.

 

“It’s gonna be real fun,” Asher Roth said. “Travis [barker] and I have a large respect for each other, so I’m pretty sure he was the one who was like, ‘Yo, let’s get Asher to come rock with us,’ so I’m very excited. We got to spend some time in Vegas together, so hopefully the reunion tour leads to many more Vegas trips.”

 

 

from MTV.

I love Blink 182!! I'm so glad they're back together. Definitely going to the Santa Barbara, Calif show!

I already have my ticket for the August 9th show!!!!!!!!!! I am F***ing excited.

ooooof lucky, i have said it before, but if I could afford it I would fly out for a show or couple of shows!

pretty cool poster:

 

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If any Blink-182 fans attending the opening show of the band’s tour had been wondering whether the band had matured during their five-year breakup, they quickly had their answer. After the group’s second song, “Feeling This,” guitarist Tom DeLonge announced, apropos of nothing, “Motherf*** f*** $h!t.”

 

“Good point,” agreed bassist Mark Hoppus.

 

Playing the Joint at the Hard Rock Casino in Las Vegas last night, the band played 22 vintage Blink-182 songs in an hour and a half, seasoning the set with plenty of wisecracks. Hoppus congratulated the crowd at being present at the first real Blink-182 concert in five years—and then, following that thought to its logical conclusion, announced that the audiences at all the other shows on this tour could “suck it.”

 

The especially good news: Travis Barker, who nearly died in a plane crash last September, is not only up and around, but remains a beast on the drums. He attacked his kit like it had insulted his mother—and for an encore, did a show-stopping solo to a hip-hop track while spinning around on a giant turntable. (In larger venues than the 1,400-person capacity Joint, Barker’s drum riser will also have a rigging system that allows it to levitate during his solo.)

 

The set list was mostly drawn from the band’s last three albums (Enema of the State, Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, and Blink-182), and ranged from the pop-punk of “All the Small Things” to moodier material such as “Always.” The audience moshed and crowd-surfed like it was 1999, and shouted enthusiastically, if somewhat inchoately, at the stage. “We need

an elected representative to speak for you,” suggested Hoppus. “When you all speak at once, it gets jumbled.”

 

Set List:

“Dumpweed”

“Feeling This”

“The Rock Show”

“Easy Target”

“What’s My Age Again?”

“Obvious”

“I Miss You”

“Stay Together for the Kids”

“Down”

“Always”

“Stockholm Syndrome”

“First Date”

“Man Overboard”

“Going Away to College”

“Not Now”

“All the Small Things”

“Adam’s Song”

“Reckless Abandon”

“Josie”

“Anthem Part Two”

Drum solo

“Carousel”

“Dammit (Growing Up)”

best vids i can find so far: