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Blink-182 Press Release Re: 2011 Tour Reschedule

• 19th Apr 2011

FROM MARK, TOM AND TRAVIS: It is with heavy hearts that we have to announce our planned 2011 European Summer tour has been rescheduled.  When we booked the tour last year, we were confident that we would have the new album out before the Summer. Turns out we were mistaken as the album is taking longer than we thought and won't be out till later this year.  We hoped we would have some new songs to play rather than do another 'greatest hits tour' which you all saw last Summer.  As much as we know our fans would be cool with that, we feel that we owe you guys something new when you spend your money to come see us. Frankly, it's what needs to continue for us to remain vital.  The three of us are working very hard to do what we set out to do when we re-formed…get a new blink-182 album recorded.  Apologies to all of our fans who have bought tickets and were looking forward to the Summer shows but we'll be back soon with the rescheduled dates in Summer 2012, have a new album out and be able to play new songs for you all. Thanks for all of the continued support and understanding.

So there. Social media was abuzz regarding this not-entirely-unexpected news – it's not the first time they've postponed a UK tour. The rescheduled dates are for pretty much a year to the day after they should've been – you can find out more about them by clicking this link.

Whether or not fans take their second UK stadium tour postponement to heart remains to be seen, and twelve months is a large amount of time to delay a tour; I just hope the album doesn't disappoint.

MSD