Blink 182 Reunion Gig and Tour Updates

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Blink 182 played their first gig in four years at a T-Mobile party at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles, California Thursday night. The Southern California trio are back and better than ever, what are their thoughts on this reunion?

"Awkward, weird...a little standoffish. Me and Travis are on one side of the studio, behind a brick wall, and Tom is outside the wall knocking. You ever seen that episode of 'The Odd Couple' where they drew the line down the middle of the room? Yeah, it's kinda like that," Mark Hoppus tells MTV News.

Tom Delonge chimes in his thoughts, "and there's a couple holes where we stick various parts of our bodies through. It's really super strange and weird. But it rocks."

There's more on the big reunion tour happening this summer, the trio will hit the road with Fall Out Boy and Weezer. Also, they'll have another set of opening acts such as, Taking Back Sunday, Panic at the Disco, Asher Roth, Chester French, and according to the MTV article, All-American Rejects. I guess that takes care of that buzzing rumor!

Along with the slew of great supporting bands, what else is there to look forward to? LASERS! Lots and lots of shiny, colorful lasers!

Delonge shares what to expect from this huge tour, "I think it's gonna be amazing. There are amazing bands, they're all big. When we started talking about doing the tour again...we had all these options start popping up. It was really amazing to be able to end up on the bands we had. Usually when you go out on tour, there's a lot of negotiations as far as time and who can do what and when they can do it, or whatever...I'm gonna be honest right now. The tour is gonna be good. Mark, after fucking 17 years, might let me have some lasers!"

"It's true, Lasers broke up our band at one point, and now it's lasers that are bringing us back together," Hoppus jokes. 

Billboard.com posted an article about summer tour plans for the reunited punk rock trio. The guys will rock out on a 50-date North American tour playing in amphitheaters. It kicks off July 24 at the Joint in Vegas, and ends October 3rd at Borgota Events Center in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Martin Phillips has been hired to work on designing the set,  he's worked with Kanye West, Daft Punk and Nine Inch Nails. The band's bass player describes his awesome stage set as, "the most ridiculous display of lights and images we can imagine."

Blink's manager, Rick Devoe, lets Billboard in on some rumors, "the word on the street is that this tour is about the hits. As the rehearsals go by, we're hoping to have at least one new song in the repertoire."

If you're scrapped for cash for tours this summer, you'll be happy to know that amphitheater lawn passes will be accessible to anyone, "if you have $20, you get in. No fees or anything," Devoe shares.

Tickets for this tour go on sale nationwide May 30th at livenation.com, tour sponsors include: T-Mobile Sidekick LX, State Farm Insurance and Myspace.

When October comes around, Blink has agreed to play a gig at Australia's Big Day Out and other music festivals around Europe in 2010. "That's what I'm hoping is going to happen. And in between these tours is when they're going to be working on an album," Devoe says.

There are no plans for another US tour until their next album is released. Due to to Blink's families, some of which live in different cities, "everyone has got full lives. It's a different Blink, in the sense that you have to pick up your kids up after school, and one of your kids has dance class and the other kid has this," shares their manager.

Blink's tour in 2004 drew in 421,000 fans and racked up a nice $14.4 million from a total of 42 gigs as stated in Billboard Boxscore. Their self-titled album from 2003 sold 2.2. million copies in the states according to Nielsen SoundScan.

See the full tour schedule here.

Here's a video of Blink's Thursday night gig, enjoy it guys!

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