Blink-182 frontman Tom DeLonge said backstage during the band’s appearance at the U.K.’s Leeds Festival last weekend that fans can get a clue about what the group’s next album will sound like by listening to the solo work from all three members.
DeLonge told the U.K.’s Rock Radio, “The record will be very modern, relevant, fast and fun. It’ll be a mixture of drum ‘n’ bass, indie rock and stadium rock . . . Anyone who listens to my band Angels & Airwaves will know where I sit musically. If you imagine that, mixed in with what the other guys do in their spare time, you get it. It’s going to be a really great collaboration of the best of three different genres of music.”
Blink plans to get down to work on a new record later this year after finishing up their current overseas road trip.
The band reunited after a five-year hiatus in early 2009, partially as a result of drummer Travis Barker‘s near death in a plane crash.
DeLonge says that the punk trio are “getting on better than we ever have, and there’s a confidence there now. We love what we do and we know we do it pretty well.”
In the new issue of Kerrang Mark, Tom and Travis are discussing how it feels like to be back together, how their relationship is now and how the period of the haitus was like.
Check out all the scans of the Kerrang issue with blink-182 at blinkdisasters.com
Last week pop-punk kings Blink 182 completed their five-date whirlwind tour of the UK, after almost a six-year absence. Is it good to be back? We joined Mark, Tom and Travis on the road to find out.
Nu-metal may be old news but Fred Durst’s Limp Bizkit still drew a sizeable crowd to the main stage on Sunday. Even more had gathered by the time Blink 182 appeared. The Californian trio, who reached the peak of their powers around the turn of the millennium, seemed a strange choice of headliner. However, finely crafted pop-punk songs such as What’s My Age Again? were greeted with gusto from a crowd more than happy to party like it was 1999.
A slow start but a strong finish.
blink-182 gave an otherwise quite disappointing Reading festival a strong finish according to Thisislondon.co.uk
Some kind of review of the show yesterday at Reading:
Blink-182 goaded Guns N’ Roses during their Main Stage headline set at Reading Festival tonight (August 29).
Early into their set, frontmen Tom DeLonge and Mark Hoppusreferenced Axl Rose and co’s chaotic Friday night set at the event’s southern site.
“I’m sorry you guys missed out onGuns N’ Roses on Friday night,”Hoppus said. “But Tom‘s going to play the intro to ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine’.”
DeLonge then attempted to play the song, though after trying he said: “I haven’t practised it! Axl Rose is naked with my dad.”
The band had to warn the audience not to get crushed after playing ‘The Rock Show’, and briefly stopped their set.
Elsewhere, they repeated sections of stage banter from last night’s headline set at Leeds Festival, withDeLonge teasing Jedward and saying he wanted to “go down onBarack Obama“.
With Muse drummer Dominic Howard watching from the side of the stage, the band also said theReading crowd was better thanLeeds‘.
“I’m not saying this because we’re here tonight, but Reading kicks the shit out of Leeds,” said DeLonge.
Blink-182 played:
‘Dumpweed’
‘Feeling This’
‘The Rock Show’
‘What’s My Age Again?’
‘Violence’
‘I Miss You’
‘Stay Together’
‘Down’
‘Always’
‘Stockholm’
‘First Date’
‘Man Over Board’
‘Don’t Leave Me’
‘Not Now’
‘All The Small Things’
‘Reckless Abandon’
‘Josie’
‘Anthem Part Two’
‘Carousel’
‘Dammit’
182online.com has posted a few awesome videos from blink-182′s live performance at the Reading festival yesterday. Check them out at 182online’s YouTube page here.
Mark attended British radio yesterday over the phone, where he talked about how he and the band felt when reuniting and that blink-182 have a new song in the pipe line, that Travis has created the base for.
Blink 182 blast back!