Blink 182 Reschedule 2011 European Tour
When bands reschedule a tour, it is usually due to sudden illness, poor sales or some sort of inner band scandal. And when they do, it is usually by a couple of months, not by a year. But still, if we have learnt anything from them over the years, it’s that Blink 182 don’t do anything by halves.
The Californian trio thrilled thousands when they first announced the tour, considering that it was their first in several years following their hiatus between 2005 and 2009. Following a hugely successful appearance headlining the Reading and Leeds festival in 2010, the band were expected to tour the largest arena venues across England, Ireland and Wales, as well as appearing at T in the Park and Oxygen Festivals in summer 2011. However, this morning the band announced that they would be cancelling both festival appearances and postponing the tour with the following statement:
“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 until 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. 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.”
– Mark, Tom and Travis.
Although all ticket buyers will find that their original tickets remain valid for 2012 rescheduling, it is expected that many fans will be chasing refunds as the highly popular support act, Weybridge pop punk outfit You Me At Six announced on twitter the same evening that they would no longer be part of the line-up. In a series of tweets, frontman Josh Franceschi stated “I’ve just woken up in L.A to loads of you talking about it; I guess you now know the Blink tour has been postponed. I can’t speak for everyone in You Me At Six but I am personally gutted we’ll no longer be touring with people we’ve looked up to growing up. But I guess everything happens for a reason. I’m assuming you all want to know if we’ll still be doing the tour, which is a no… hope that clears up any misunderstanding. We’ll still see you at Sonisphere and T in the Park… we’ve got an album to write!”
The rearranged dates are as follows. Dates with a * mark dates that have been newly introduced:
Birmingham NIA (June 7 2012 – moved from July 1 2011)
London O2 Arena (June 8, 9 2012 – moved from July 18, 19)
Dublin O2 Arena (June 12 2012)*
Belfast Odyssey Arena (June 13 2012)*
Manchester Evening News Arena (June 15 2012 – moved from July 8 2011)
Birmingham LG Arena (June 16 2012 – moved from July 15 2011)
Sheffield Motorpoint Arena (June 17 2012 – moved from July 7 2012)
Newcastle Metro Radio Arena (June 19 2012 – moved from July 12 2011)
Glasgow S.E.C.C (June 20 2012)*
Cardiff Motorpoint Arena (July 10 2012 – moved from July 16 2011)
Nottingham Capital FM Arena (July 11 2012 – moved from July 13 2011)
Liverpool Echo Arena (July 12 2012 – moved from July 4 2011)