Blink-182 pull UK tour and festival shows
Blink-182 have postponed their forthcoming UK summer tour, plus headline festival slots at T In The Park and Oxegen.
The punk-pop trio were due to play a run of arena gigs starting at Birmingham NIA on 1 July. They have rescheduled the gigs to take place in summer 2012. In a statement on their website the group said it was because writing the band's new album was "taking longer than we thought". They added that the album, which was expected to be released to coincide with their summer gigs, "won't be out til later this year". The statement went on: "We hoped we would have some new songs to play rather than do another 'greatest hits tour' which you all saw last summer. New dates "The three of us are working very hard to do what we set out to do when we re-formed, get a new Blink-182 album recorded." Alongside the new dates for the gigs, the band have also announced new shows in Dublin, Belfast and Glasgow. Speaking to Newsbeat in November 2010 bass player Mark Hoppus said the band were using the UK gigs as a target to have their new album completed. At the time he said they were working on "10 songs right now" with three or four finished. "We're starting the next chapter with new music," he said. "The album is both stepping forward and I also see it as reminiscent of songs we've written in the past. It'll have a wider spectrum than on any other Blink album." Meanwhile, T In The Park have announced a host of new additions to their line-up including Peter Doherty, Mona and Slash. The new Blink-182 dates are: