The Texas state capital has been chosen as a stop on one of the most anticipated reunion tours this decade.
Generation Z favorite Blink-182 – with its classic lineup of bassist Mark Hoppus, guitarist Tom DeLonge and drummer Travis Barker – announced on Tuesday the yet-to-be-named tour on their Instagram page, with a show at the Moody Center on the University of Texas (UT) campus slated for July 7, 2023, Austin-based media outlets reported.
“We’re coming. Tour’s coming. Album’s coming. Tom’s coming,” the pop-punk trio proclaimed in a post.
Austin ABC affiliate KVUE reported that Blink-182 will call on Austin a couple of days after a performance in Dallas.
The world tour will kick off on March 11, 2023 in South America and work its way north to the U.S., according to the station.
Maryland-based hardcore punk band Turnstile will serve as the opening act during the North American leg.
According to Austin NBC affiliate KXAN, Blink-182 has designated Houston as the final Texas stop of the tour, which will visit a total of four continents and run through 2024.
The band divulged on Instagram that their first song with DeLonge in about a decade, “Edging,” will be released on Friday.
Blink-182 was founded in the early 1990s in Southern California by Hoppus and DeLonge and became one of the leading figures in the pop-punk craze of the early 21st century that also elevated groups like Green Day and Jimmy Eat World.
KXAN reported that it’s DeLonge’s second reunion with the band, the first time being in 2009 during their self-imposed hiatus.
After DeLonge exited again in 2014, Hoppus and Barker enlisted The Alkaline Trio lead singer Matt Skiba as Blink-182’s permanent guitarist.
People reported that Skiba, who worked on two albums with the group, has departed.
Tickets for the tour will go on sale on the band’s website on Monday at 10 a.m. local time, per KXAN.
