Blink-182 Announce Reunite 2023 World Tour Dates
Blink-182 has announced reunion 2023 tour dates with original guitarist-vocalist Tom DeLonge. DeLonge, known for his departure from the band in 2015, was replaced by Alkaline Trio singer Matt Skiba. Check the Blink-182 band’s 2023 tour dates below!
A new album and a new single from Blink-182, “Edging,” will be released on Friday. This will be the band’s first performance and creation of new music since DeLonge’s leaving date. For Blink-182’s return, the band shared a video showing their next track and asking fans to visit the official website for tour information.
The band will perform and kick off the 2023 tour at Banc of California Stadium in Los Angeles on June 16 before heading to San Diego (June 20), San Jose (June 22), and Sacramento (June 23). (June 23).
Blink-182 and Turnstile 2023 world dates:
May 2023:
- May 4 – St. Paul, MN – Xcel Energy Center
- May 6 – Chicago, IL – United Center
- May 9 – Detroit, MI – Little Caesars Arena
- May 11 – Toronto, ON – Scotiabank Arena
- May 12 – Montreal, QC – Bell Centre
- May 16 – Cleveland, OH – Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse
- May 17 – Pittsburgh, PA – PPG Paints Arena
- May 19 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden
- May 20 – Belmont Park, NY – UBS Arena
- May 21 – Boston, MA – TD Garden
- May 23 – Washington, DC – Capital One Arena
- May 24 – Brooklyn, NY – Barclays Center
- May 26 – Baltimore, MD – Baltimore Arena
- May 27 – Hershey, PA – Hersheypark Stadium
June 2023:
- Jun 14 – Phoenix, AZ – Footprint Center
- Jun 16 – Los Angeles, CA – Banc of California Stadium
- Jun 20 – San Diego, CA – Pechanga Arena
- Jun 22 – San Jose, CA – SAP Center
- Jun 23 – Sacramento, CA – Golden 1 Center
- Jun 25 – Seattle, WA – Climate Pledge Arena
- Jun 27 – Vancouver, BC – Rogers Arena
- Jun 39 – Edmonton, AB – Rogers Place
- Jun 30 – Calgary, AB – Scotiabank Saddledome
July 2023:
- Jul 3 – Denver, CO – Ball Arena
- Jul 5 – Dallas, TX – American Airlines Center
- Jul 7 – Austin, TX – Moody Center
- Jul 8 – Houston, TX – Toyota Center
- Jul 10 – Tampa, FL – Amalie Arena
- Jul 11 – Ft. Lauderdale, FL – FLA Live Arena
- Jul 13 – Atlanta, GA – State Farm Arena
- Jul 14 – Charlotte, NC – Spectrum Center
- Jul 16 – Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena
The impending reunion of Blink-182 comes after many band members recently recovered from serious health challenges. Hoppus stated in June 2021 that he had been diagnosed with cancer. After battling Stage 4 diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, the 50-year-old bassist and vocalist was cancer-free by September 2021.
Blink-182’s first reunion after their tumultuous separation in 2015. What Hoppus first portrayed as a “friendly divorce” turned sour when Hoppus and Barker lambasted DeLonge as “ungrateful and dishonest” following his departure.
Blink-182 tour tickets for 2023 will go on sale Monday at 10 a.m. Pacific Time. Watch the Blink-182 comeback announcement video below!
Besides this when Tom DeLonge leave the band, he shared a letter for fans:
“Where to begin?
The truth is always a good place. Let’s go there.
I love Blink and am incredibly grateful for having it in my life. It has given me everything. Everything. I started this band, it was in my garage where I dreamed up the mischief. So what have I been doing behind the scenes? Well, I’ve tried to make things work. I’ve tried to help move this band down 50 different paths using my people, or other people, and people we don’t even know. I tried to put forth ideas about how we can grow and challenge ourselves to become a better band. I’m not sitting around waiting for someone else to do the work. I’m not wired that way.
The big reset was when I tried to put together a band summit in Utah where we’d talk and work things out. It quickly was narrowed down to three hours in someone’s dressing room in a … casino. What I hoped would be a positive get-together away from everything turned into an awkward meeting in a smelly convention hall dressing room. But it was there that I told Mark and Travis that as long as we talked, and things were good between us as real friends, that I would be engaged and work passionately. I’d mirror our personal relationship. Exact words.
Then, the EP was the test. Months later, we’re recording those songs. I was in the studio for two months and they came in for around 11 days. I didn’t mind leading the charge, but we had all agreed to give it 100%. And this time, no baggage.
Despite that, we still somehow managed to self-sabotage.
At one point, squabbling and politics forced me to pull the EP down at a time when 60,000 fans were trying to purchase it. And that blew my mind. I’d been trying so hard but that moment ultimately broke my spirit. I then realized that this band couldn’t lose the years of ill will.
It was after that episode that I promised myself I would never be in that position again — to rely on the words we said to each other.
I remember asking one of them on the phone, “did you try your best? Like we all agreed to?” He was silent.
Are they at fault?
Am I? Of course. I’m nuts.
But there’s three of us — we’re all accountable. At the end of the day, we’ve always been dysfunctional, which is why we haven’t talked in months. But we never did. In the 8 years we have been together it has always been that way.
Over the past two and a half years, while a recording partner was being sought for a new Blink record, I launched a media company. I just put out a new Angels & Airwaves record and as some of you know, there’s a lot more coming — comics, books, a film, etc. The books will all come with music. This is a wheel that’s already in motion. So you can imagine my frustration when I was handed a 60-page Blink contract saying I couldn’t release an Angels album for 9 months and that the Blink album had to be recorded in 6 months, which was impossible for me. Doing so would force me to breach several artist contracts. Authors, Concept Artists, Animators… Many people.
They did eventually drop the Angels provision, but the part about having to finish a Blink album in 6 months remained. All of these other projects are being worked, exist in contract form — I can’t just slam the brakes and drop years of development, partnerships and commitments at the snap of a finger.
I told my manager that I will do Blink 182 as long as it was fun and worked with the other commitments in my life, including my family.
But Mark and Travis know all of this.
I wrote this same letter to them a year ago. But it created a massive argument, the biggest one yet actually. I just wanted us to do things we all agreed on. But that was their moment to dig in. From their view I was controlling everything. In reality, I was scared to put myself out there again. To repeat the EP experience.
I also wrote all of this to their managers this past December (who told me my bandmates weren’t angry and agreed with some of my ideas of how to grow the band).
So you can imagine my surprise when a press release went out yesterday — without my knowledge — about the band’s future. This is new to me. It’s not in my nature to fuel negativity about the legacy of the band on something as trashy as the Internet world.
But I guess that’s another example of how I differ from most. I follow the light… I follow passion and I make art. I hang with my son, my daughter and my wife.
At the end of the day, all of this makes me really sad.
Sad for us.
Sad for you that you’re witnessing this immaturity.
I know them very well, and their current actions are defensive and divisive.
I suppose they’re doing this as a way to protect themselves from being hurt.
Like we all do.
And even as I watch them act so different to what I know of them to be, I still care deeply for them. Like brothers, and like old friends. But our relationship got poisoned yesterday.
Never planned on quitting, just find it hard … to commit.
Tom.”