Blink-182 kicked off their ‘Missionary Impossible‘ US tour with Alkaline Trio yesterday (August 29), and they brought back some fan favourites and rarities for the first time in over a decade.
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This is their first tour of the year, and the band brought out some rarities as well as some well-liked favourites for fans who attended the opening gig.
In addition to popular tracks such as ‘What’s My Age Again?’, they also played ‘Online Songs’ and ‘Roller Coaster’ for the first time since 2001. Blink played ‘Josie’ for the first time since 2018, and it was the first time DeLonge played it since 2014 after he reunited with the group in 2022.
Additionally, they played ‘Wishing Well’ for the first time since 2014; and their cover of Descendants’ ‘Hope’ for the first time since 2003.
Check out some fan-captured footage from the gig below, and the full setlist.
Blink-182 played
The Rock Show
First Date
Josie (first time since 2018, first time with Tom since 2014)
Anthem Part Two
Online Songs (first time since 2001)
M+M’s
FUCK FACE
Natives (first time since 2014)
Feeling This
Down
TURPENTINE
CAN’T GO BACK
Wishing Well (first time since 2016, first time with Tom since 2014)
Stay Together for the Kids
Roller Coaster (first time since 2001)
DANCE WITH ME
Bored to Death
I Miss You
MORE THAN YOU KNOW
Hope (Descendents cover) (first time since 2003)
What’s My Age Again?
All the Small Things
Dammit
ONE MORE TIME
The ‘Missionary Impossible’ tour will continue tonight in Tampa, Florida. It will then make stops in cities including Atlanta, Charleston, and Kansas City. You can find any remaining tickets here.
This tour follows their 2024 world tour and their 2023 album ‘One More Time…’, their first album in over a decade with the original trio of Mark Hoppus, Tom DeLonge and Travis Barker after DeLonge left in 2015.
Back in May, the band’s Mark Hoppus spoke to NME about his band’s past rivalry with Green Day, dating back to their shared 2002 ‘Pop Disaster Tour’.
Speaking to NME about the strange competitiveness that the two bands felt towards each other during the tour, Hoppus said: “That was very strange because I grew up listening to Green Day. I literally waited for the day that ‘Dookie’ [1994] came out, and I was in line waiting to buy it.”
“I was a huge fan, then we’re touring with them, but it was a weird thing where Green Day were dipping at the time and Blink were ascendent. We were billed as co-headliners, but Blink were closing every night, and that was a strange sensation for us. Headlining over your idols is a little strange.”
He later added: “We showed up, we thought we were cool, we had a Number One record [‘Take Off Your Pants And Jacket’], we were the first punk band to ever have a Number One record, Green Day were on their way down for a little bit.
“We walked in thinking we were hot shit and Green Day walked in ready to fight – musically of course, they were super cool to us the whole time.”
In the same interview, Hoppus also opened up about his role in “saving the world from Saddam Hussein” and the chance he once had to “make out” with The Cure’s Robert Smith.
Last month, Blink-182’s Travis Barker came together with Tool drummer Danny Carey and Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith for a drum-off at Black Sabbath’s final ever show.
It took place midway through the night, and saw the drummers from Tool, Blink-182 and Red Hot Chili Peppers flex their skills while covering the Sabbath track ‘Symptom Of The Universe’.
