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Jason Tate? More like Jason Taint, amiright?

His site sucked ass and looked like shit, he sold it for easy cash, and he won't acknowledge blink online as the oldest running blink board. I'm saying fuck that dude.

… I mean… cancer is a pretty good reason.

the tate rumors. the Q101 stuff. general radio silence from the band. it’s clear something is going on with blink, so i think it’s time to start this thread to round up the rumors and speculation. let’s recap: the band has not publicly played shows in almost three years; mark has confirmed the band in any capacity will play shows in ‘23 the last recorded material, quarantine, had no contributions from skiba; other appearances including oliver tree's song had only mark and travis as members of the band the halloween live performance in 2021 featured a stand-in guitarist last year, tom, mark and travis met for the first time since 2015 at mark’s home after his diagnosis strong speculation surrounding the aug 30th anniversary prompted a response from a tight-lipped mark w/ no news (contractually-bound?) skiba outright responded to a fan comment on insta that “your guess is as good as mine” whether or not he is still a blink member this summer jason tate — longtime industry insider who back in ‘08 called the band’s grammy reunion — has been dropping hints in his newsletter about the "worst-kept secret in music" and on chorus.fm about a world tour, potentially with turnstile travis flies again, opening the doors for more dates (and $$$) in places like brazil or oz likewise, rumors of blink headlining lollapalooza in brazil have been swirling since the summer a radio station in chicago, q101, announced tom was back live on air in august. this week, a VP at cumulus media on a podcast confirmed the band has dates booked for 2023, including the united center, suggesting an arena tour multiple online blogs and sites have been speculating tom is back for months; tom has always maintained the door is open and mark has been optimistic for some time publicly though not super important, mark and travis re-followed tom on social media, and vice versa so what do we think? according to tate we’re weeks away from an announcement. what would you like to hear the band play? will there be new music? how do you feel about tom’s potential return? will they play kings of the weekend? off we go!

I’m rolling my eyes so fucking hard at all of you. Ain’t shit going on . These are literally the same exact excuses and thoughts people made up to believe a month ago

You're a right unfunny prick.

Sweet reggae/rock cover of Dammit

i am extremely pleased this has devolved so rapidly. i thought it might take a couple pages but no, we’re off to the races!

chorusfm has to be the worst music site ever. how you go from absolutepunk to that is beyond me.

I feel like it’s definitely happening now that italia has posted about it. Not because he is legit but because he piggybacks on other peoples sources and news lol

Lol italia has been denying anything was likely to happen for ages. Now that it seems more than likely he’s trying to act like he was in the know. What a cunt.

Son, i'm gonna have to spank you again

The Blink/Paramore arena tour thing actually makes a lot of sense. Hope that rumor is true, would be fun. Major upgrade from that neckbeard band on the California tour.

While I also think the rumours are bullshit, Jason Tate was quite in the know. My reason for not taking his word seriously is the days of him knowing shit and being in the know is a fuckin’ long time ago so I just don’t really see it.

this would be the smart thing to do. however they are fucking awful at these kind of things.

I have no clue who Jason Tate is.

that weird moan edit on "fuck it is such a blur" takes me back... was the only version available on some peer-to-peer sites for some time!

Cheers mate! You too Yep I remember when an early version of Action leaked, I think from the soundtrack of some Madden video game? Really loved that which I guess contributed to disappointment when hearing the rest of the album There is one exception for my general ambivalence to that album btw - Here's Your Letter. Absolutely love that song!!

The chorus fucking slaps tbh, I’m into it.

I like the idea of Tom coming back for a special show or a special tour once in a while, but I feel like if Tom is officially back and blink and Matt is gone, we’re going to get a lot less of blink-182 from here on out. Tom has proven time and again that he can’t balance band life with his other shit. Especially not with two bands.

Have we discussed that paramore single? Not gonna be going on any of my playlists 😢

This JT bloke does seem more in the know but everybody else is just piggybacking off his shit to try and be the guy that gets it right.

We all just need to keep calm and let blinkitalia fill us in on the real news.

No Queens of the Weekend either. Sexist. What about Queens who are Kings or Kings who are Queens? Transphobic much?

I just want to know why they excluded people who have to work on the weekends and therefore are unable to be Kings. What about Kings of the Weekdays? It's racist.

sweet jesus enough already

A post by Jason Tate on his website’s forums. Not 100% confirmed but said he’s pretty sure he knows. Just to summarise what he’s said: blink tour to be announced with Tom this month for next summer. still to be confirmed: Matt’s situation exact date of the announcement I get people are burned out from the last round of rumours but they were the smoke and I’m confident the fire is coming 🔥

Reddit tells me tour dates will be announced

You guys are really biting on this again? 🤦🏼‍♂️

god can you imagine the work they're going to have to do to Tom's vocals to make this sound anything other than awful?

You had me at kings of the weekend, let's go!

Damn, same here. That is some bizarre Mandela Effect stuff haha

It’s a good reason to be inactive but I’m confused why they seemingly threw a significant amount of music they already finished and mentioned publicly in the garbage. Unless I’m remembering wrong? I’ll admit I haven’t been following the band as closely these last few years. Also the fact that Matt doesn’t seem to have a clue about whether he’s still in the band or not. It all just feels weird. Again, it just feels like the kind of thing that we’d usually blame on Tom.

We haven’t gotten anything from blink in three years and I’ve barely noticed. I’d rather them just do one big album cycle every five years then whatever we got before. They’re old as fuck now you’re not going to get an every two year full time job blink-182 ever again.

Lil Wayne opened for blink. His numbers destroys Paramore. They aren't too big to open for blink.

I mean he's got a couple of the best rap albums ever written period, but the dude is a full scale moron now.

So does your mother, and you do too. It’s ok, go ahead and tell ‘em about the mushroom tattoo Diddy gave you on the forehead

Nothing better than someone you know for sure you can’t knock up!

Has anyone ever laughed at this shtick? I’m just wondering if it’s time to move on from it and find something else.

Sure bud. Sounds like you got probed in the anus by aliens just like Tom

If Jason saying it, it’s essentially confirmed. Cant wait!

N GoD INvENtEd CHiLLS

Here's the ticket stub: The opening band on the mexican shows was a mexican band from Monterrey called "Panda", these are two pictures and a video of Blink with Panda recorded on the same day: And here's a review of the show (in Spanish) that contains the setlist at the bottom of the page: http://www.oocities.org/mx/blink_182_mexico/

Kings of the Weekend is a legit bop. I just don't like the lyrics or the song title for it. Instrumentally and melodically it's a great song though.

If Mark does the opposite of what pestering fans ask of him, I'm going to start pestering him to play every single blink song ever written EXCEPT for Online Songs. Then we'll get a blink show that's just Online Songs 20 times in a row 😎 The Online Songs Tour will be great and you can thank me for it later.

As if most of those fans didn't disown them around the time Enema came out.

They do need to play Online Songs though. Untitled and Enema have both gotten anniversary treatments. Maybe TOYPAJ will get some 25th anniversary attention.

New date addition to the timeline website! found new show with proof of ticket (huge and massive credits to Numbskull Shows on Twitter for sharing this gem!) 1/25/1997: The band performs at the Trinity Hall in San Luis Obispo, California for the premiere of Taylor Steele's surf movie "Drifting".

This dude had it right all along.