Blink-182 announces new concert

Blink 182 backstage before a concert at The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, September 2012. (/ Media Punch / Rex Features)

March 10, 2015

11:09 AM

If you were wondering if the embattled blink-182 would perform a warm-up gig prior to its March 22 headlining performance at the 8th annual MUSINK Tattoo & Music Festival in Orange County, wonder no more.

The Poway-bred punk-pop trio announced Tuesday morning that it will play March 20 at SOMA, the all-ages San Diego venue where the young band built a loyal following in the 1990s before becoming a national, and then international, phenomenon.

This will be blink’s first announced performance since bassist-singer Mark Hoppus and drummer Travis Barker announced in late January that guitarist-singer Tom DeLonge had left the band and that Alkaline Trio guitarist-singer Matt Skiba would be subbing for DeLonge at blink’s March 22 MUSINK show. DeLonge denied he had quit blink, which led to a series of increasingly testy charges and counter-charges between him, Hoppus and Barker.

Tickets for blink’s SOMA show, which is sure to sell out in a near-instant, go on sale Wednesday at 10 a.m. at all Ticketmaster outlets, online at ticketmaster.com and by phone at (800) 745-3000.

Tickets are priced at $50 each, plus service charges, which brings the total to $61.65 per ticket. All tickets are standing-room-only, general admission.

This won’t be the first time Hoppus and Barker have performed at SOMA without DeLonge. incidentally. In 2006, the two played a SOMA date with (+44), the four-man band they launched after blink-182 publicly split up for the first time.

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Source: DiscoverSD

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George Varga

Veteran San Diego Union-Tribune pop music critic George Varga began drumming in rock bands at 12 and writing professionally about music at 15. A Louisiana native who grew up mostly in Germany, Varga has earned three Pulitzer Prize nominations for his writing at the U-T and is a voting member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In addition to providing live coverage of the Grammy Awards and festivals from Coachella and KAABOO to the 1994 edition of Woodstock, he has interviewed everyone from Ray Charles, Miles Davis and Britney Spears to Willie Nelson, Kanye West and Bruno Mars. A double first-prize winner at the 2018 Society of Professional Journalists awards, Varga is also a contributing writer for Jazz Times magazine and has written for Billboard, Spin and other publications. After attending San Diego City College and San Diego State University, he created and taught the 2002 UC San Diego Extension course, “Jazz in a Post-Ken-Burns World.” Varga lives with his wife in North Park.