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We can disagree about the new direction of the band, Feldy's influence, Tom's behavior and so on but Blink only playing 70 minute sets should piss off everybody. They just became super lazy and this is the perfect example that Mark is in it for the money a similar way as Tom was in it for the $$$. If Mark enjoys "Blink-4-life" that much why doesn't he want to play longer. At least 90 min...that's the minimum. Overall, Blink just became a joke recently. Tom at least tries to be creative and tries new stuff, even if he fails doing it 99% of the time, while Mark is trying to do the same stuff over and over again.

Well, I have some news about the set length and it's still from my friend who was there yesterday. He was at the soundcheck and a girl asked Mark about the 70 minutes. He was kinda pissed off to hear that question but he said that 70 minutes is fine for everyone, for them it is a perfect set length and then people could go home in time catching a bus or some trains. Yeah yeah yeah. The girl then said that it wasn't a big deal because it's still early and people could catch a bus or a train 30 minutes later as well but our Marky boy didn't answer and started talking to his tech. Just say you don't want to play more songs because you can't be arsed to relearn them.

Tom L ? V E S Mark.

Was at the show last night. My honest opinion was that I really enjoyed it, but it wasn't the best I've seen them. I was lucky enough to see Blink pre-hiatus. The tour for untitled/self-titled remains the best I've ever been too. I've seen them on every tour since the hiatus too and the best show since then was when Mark and Tom did the acoustic songs mid show. The show tonight just wasn't at that level. I love Skiba, I really do and thought the Enema/TOYPAJ/Cali songs sounded great with his guitar tone, probably the best I've heard enema songs live. However, that same guitar tone takes a dump on everything on Untitled/Self-titled, it's too in your face and loud for songs like I Miss You, Down and Violence. Also agree with everyone else saying the set was way too short. Should be 90 mins at the minimum. The curfew for all of these venues is 11pm the UK. They were on at 9pm and off for 10 past 10. Only 20 minutes longer than Frank Turner - who was incredible. He was a great support act, who actually interacted more with the crowd. I don't want to sound too negative as I did enjoy myself and I'm looking forward to the show in Manchester next week. Hope they play m+m's there.

Totally, I hate it, but it's the kind of catchy that would work for pop radio.

I love Earl!!! Saw Joey live. Didn't disappoint.

Sober is a Fall Out Boy song and it literally has writing credits that go to their lead singer. Mark has always been buddies with those guys for some reason (Pete Wentz). The song wouldn't even exist if Tom was around. He wouldnt allow it Its catchy in a bad way

How can Mark come off stage and possibly believe that 70 minutes is worth the fans money. It's ridiculous. I saw AC/DC a few months back and they played for over 2 hours. These are men going into their 60's and they run around on stage like they are 25.

Nice. I'm in Manayunk.

It's called a joke damn lol. p.s. That forums broken and likely won't ever return because all of the phpbb data is fucked up. I'm trying to fix it, but it's likely all is lost.

I'm in center city a block from Chinatown 9th street

yeah the 70 min setlist is absolutely bonkers, somebody needs to tweet more at mark/the band and be like wtf? it's certainly not worth the money, considering they play to goddamn click now and there's no banter. @prankerd14 was unfortunately right, blink's show to me earlier this year was boring as shit.

Seriously whether people like the new stuff is about personal taste and whatever, but playing for 70 minutes is straight up bullshit to everyone. Why pump out this massive amount of new songs if the live shows are suffering like crazy? It's like they forgot they put out 28 songs within the last year haha. If they added more new songs then the All-Tom "cover" sounding songs wouldn't stick out as much.

That's because ATL sucks ass

Fuck you this made me miss Tom. "Where the fuck, is my guitar. Idk where the fucks my guitar?" Edit: just watched the first video. Matt is a joke sometimes. How can you be that unintentionally bad?

A friend of mine who was there just told me that they didn't play any of those older songs tonight.

Yeah I have several friends who really don't care about music or Blink at all, but they were listening to California and talking to me about the songs when it came out and I can guarantee they don't even know Neighborhoods exists. California definitely has more mass appeal than the niche Neighborhoods record IMHO (Feldy FTW). Even if you throw out sales numbers/chart success, imagine your Mom or younger siblings getting in your car and you have to play a song from Cali or Neighborhoods for them to like, they are going to enjoy the Cali songs more. If I was hosting a big party with a diverse group I would throw on Sober/BTD/SOOHM way before GOTDF/UAN/After Midnight, and I LOVE Neighborhoods. It totally bums me out that Trav/Mark dislike that entire "era", but in the end the songs just aren't as catchy, and it's a little too much AVA for mass appeal IMHO. I've been playing the Neighborhoods record in the car with my wife for 6 years, and she only knows a few parts of "Wishing Well" (mostly LADADADA), she knew damn near every chorus/bridge on California within a month or two...

True ! @daveyjones, @Q182 and @Elisa you guys did some really good job at identifying every stickers ! Really impressive !!!!

doubt we'll ever get an 'untitled' sounding record ever again with fedlmann involved. so, that response does nothing for me.

Tom clearly liked it as he was singing songs from it on instagram or whatever. Mark at the time liked it (he'll probably say the next record they do is the best, etc). Travis said the cliché "it's the best record we've done" as he always does. At the time, the band was into it. The label just didn't utilize what they had.

It is barely represented because it had the worst promotion for any album for a big time band I can ever remember

Dude. Lol. So petty.