Followers of Blink-182 have been shocked this week when Tom DeLonge introduced he was rejoining the band, with the unique lineup to document a brand new album and hit the highway for a world tour.
The band made it official with a tongue-in-cheek video launched on Tuesday.
DeLonge initially exited in 2005, however returned in 2009; he left once more in 2015, with Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio stepping in after DeLonge was out of the image.
Now that DeLonge has reunited with Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker, Skiba’s function within the band has formally vanished, one thing that DeLonge acknowledged with a gratitude-filled open letter to Skiba that he shared through Instagram on Thursday.
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“Hello Matt- Tom DeLonge right here. I wished to take a minute and say thanks for all that you’ve got completed to maintain the band thriving in my absence,” DeLonge wrote.
“I believe you might be enormously proficient (I nonetheless love and take heed to your band to today). You might have all the time been so variety to me, not solely within the press, but additionally to others. I actually observed. Feelings between the three of us in blink have all the time been difficult, however Mark’s most cancers actually put issues in perspective,” he continued.
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“However to be trustworthy, the band wouldn’t even be right here at present if it weren’t to your means to leap in and save the day. So from my coronary heart to yours, thanks for being a member of our band,” he concluded.
The reformed unique lineup of Blink-182 will likely be releasing their new single, “Edging”, on Friday, Oct. 14, with the tour kicking off in March 2023 and lengthening by means of till 2024.
Thus far, Canadian dates have been confirmed for Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Edmonton and Calgary.