Blink 182 Confirm UK Live Return with Summer 2011 Tour & Tickets
Monday, 22 November 2010
Written by Nigel Sachdev
Blink 182 fans - it's now official! Following a 5 year hiatus, breaking the merchandise sales record at Reading & Leeds Festivals this year and sold out shows in Scotland and Eire in August, Pop punk pioneers Blink 182, have confirmed a run of UK arena dates next summer - their first UK headlining Arena tour in over 7 years. Tickets for Blink 182 will go onsale this Friday at 9.30am.
Blink 182 were formed in San Diego in 1992 by Mark Hoppus and Tom De Longe and later joined by drummer Travis Barker. The bands breakthrough album, 'Enema Of The State', was released in 1999 and went on to sell in excess of 15 million copies worldwide. Their next two albums, 'Take Off Your Pants And Jacket' (2001) and 'blink 182' (2003) cemented their position as a pop punk supergroup. Additionally the band have won a number of MTV Awards throughout their career.
The new Blink 182 album will be released in Summer 2011, their first album since reuniting - and first new Blink 182 LP in over eight years. Mark Hoppus revealed last week that a number of new songs are very near to completion.
"We've been busy with new songs and ideas," Hoppus wrote on his blog. "Some tracks are very near complete. In rough terms, I'd say we're working with the better part of ten or so songs at this point."
"There's still a long way to go before the album is done," he said. "But already it seems like the songs are both taking a step even further than we took on the last album, while also going back to the sound of some of the earlier albums."
"We have a date for the completion of the album," he added. "We want to deliver the record in April or May, for release very soon afterward. That being said, the only thing more important to us than getting the record out in that time is getting a great record out. If it isn't absolutely ready at that point, we'll keep working until it is."
Friday 8th July MANCHESTER MEN Arena
Tuesday 12th July NEWCASTLE Metro Radio Arena
Wednesday 13th July NOTTINGHAM Trent FM Arena
Friday 15th July BIRMINGHAM LG Arena
Monday 18th July LONDON The 02 Arena
Tickets for Blink 182 will go on sale on Friday 26th November at 9.30am and are priced at £32.50 regionally and £35.00 in London.
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