Forgotten blink songs

[box182]

anyone has the artwork or cover of the 21 days demo? just to add the image tag to the mp3 files

[ruaraidhlando45]

On 8/5/2022 at 11:16 PM, not the worst here said:

Peak moment

I was in the crowd for that, Old Billingsgate Market in London on September 17th 2004. They played All Of This with Robert Smith too.
Was taking a piss in the urinals then some guy comes in and goes to the urinal next to me, I look up and it's Mark ?
Also got my guitar signed by them that night
One of best nights of my life. Got in so much trouble at home for sneaking out but so worth it

[Cheerios4u98]

1 hour ago, ruaraidhlando45 said:

I was in the crowd for that, Old Billingsgate Market in London on September 17th 2004. They played All Of This with Robert Smith too.
Was taking a piss in the urinals then some guy comes in and goes to the urinal next to me, I look up and it's Mark ?
Also got my guitar signed by them that night
One of best nights of my life. Got in so much trouble at home for sneaking out but so worth it

I've watched/listened to this countless times. So cool that you were there to see it in person! My favorite cover blink has ever done by far.

[ruaraidhlando45]

3 hours ago, Cheerios4u98 said:

I've watched/listened to this countless times. So cool that you were there to see it in person! My favorite cover blink has ever done by far.

Just going through my shoebox of old Blink stuff, found this old piece of paper which I think functioned as the ticket (we had our names on a list)
 

And the flipside had this text on it:

[Cheerios4u98]

13 minutes ago, ruaraidhlando45 said:

Just going through my shoebox of old Blink stuff, found this old piece of paper which I think functioned as the ticket (we had our names on a list)
 

And the flipside had this text on it:

that's so cool. It says "congratulations on being selected." what did you have to do to get into the show?

[ruaraidhlando45]

3 minutes ago, Cheerios4u98 said:

that's so cool. It says "congratulations on being selected." what did you have to do to get into the show?

This will probably sound made-up but fcuk it ?

Found out a few days beforehand about the show - no tickets were available for sale to general public, but went on Google and found out the name of the production company running the event. Got the address of their office (was somewhere in London) and skipped school  (I was only 15) one afternoon with my friend Nick to go up to their office and ask if they can put us on the list

We thought because it was an MTV Event dedicated to The Cure, that we should pretend to be really big Cure fans. So we spent the entire train journey memorising as many Cure songs/albums as we could in case the production company asked us what our favourite songs/albums were ?

I only vaguely remember being in their office but we lied through our teeth about being huge Cure fans, I remember they took a photo of me and my friend, then wrote our names down on a list and gave us the above flyer. Honestly never ever expected it to work in a million years, when we got out the office and safely round the corner we were bouncing around screaming like idiots

If anyone remembers @Roxy from back in the day, she was there that night too, outside the venue to meet Blink. Not sure if she got into the show though

[Cheerios4u98]

2 minutes ago, ruaraidhlando45 said:

This will probably sound made-up but fcuk it ?

Found out a few days beforehand about the show - no tickets were available for sale to general public, but went on Google and found out the name of the production company running the event. Got the address of their office (was somewhere in London) and skipped school  (I was only 15) one afternoon with my friend Nick to go up to their office and ask if they can put us on the list

We thought because it was an MTV Event dedicated to The Cure, that we should pretend to be really big Cure fans. So we spent the entire train journey memorising as many Cure songs/albums as we could in case the production company asked us what our favourite songs/albums were ?

I only vaguely remember being in their office but we lied through our teeth about being huge Cure fans, I remember they took a photo of me and my friend, then wrote our names down on a list and gave us the above flyer. Honestly never ever expected it to work in a million years, when we got out the office and safely round the corner we were bouncing around screaming like idiots

If anyone remembers @Roxy from back in the day, she was there that night too, outside the venue to meet Blink. Not sure if she got into the show though

that's an amazing story haha. so cool!!

[Champ182]

23 minutes ago, ruaraidhlando45 said:

This will probably sound made-up but fcuk it ?

Found out a few days beforehand about the show - no tickets were available for sale to general public, but went on Google and found out the name of the production company running the event. Got the address of their office (was somewhere in London) and skipped school  (I was only 15) one afternoon with my friend Nick to go up to their office and ask if they can put us on the list

We thought because it was an MTV Event dedicated to The Cure, that we should pretend to be really big Cure fans. So we spent the entire train journey memorising as many Cure songs/albums as we could in case the production company asked us what our favourite songs/albums were ?

I only vaguely remember being in their office but we lied through our teeth about being huge Cure fans, I remember they took a photo of me and my friend, then wrote our names down on a list and gave us the above flyer. Honestly never ever expected it to work in a million years, when we got out the office and safely round the corner we were bouncing around screaming like idiots

If anyone remembers @Roxy from back in the day, she was there that night too, outside the venue to meet Blink. Not sure if she got into the show though

Amazing haha. Was this the night you ended up in that lost documentary??

[ruaraidhlando45]

2 minutes ago, Champ182 said:

Amazing haha. Was this the night you ended up in that lost documentary??

No, that was the Brixton Academy show on 14 December 2004
I made a massive fcuk-up then. On the day of the show they announced that the first 50 (I think) people to go to the Atticus tent inside the venue, would get a "Meet & Greet" with Mark
So my same friend Nick and I went to queue up at the venue really early, and we were in the first 50. So we all got taken backstage down a corridor towards the room where Mark was (this is where the clip from the lost documentary was filmed)
And as we were walking down the corridor, a security guy said you can take photos but absolutely no flash photography. I had one of those disposable Kodak cameras where you needed to "charge up" the flash. When we got into the room with Mark, I took a photo of him but somehow the flash went off ? and the asshole security guard threw me out before I got to meet him. I was raging!!

[Champ182]

39 minutes ago, ruaraidhlando45 said:

No, that was the Brixton Academy show on 14 December 2004
I made a massive fcuk-up then. On the day of the show they announced that the first 50 (I think) people to go to the Atticus tent inside the venue, would get a "Meet & Greet" with Mark
So my same friend Nick and I went to queue up at the venue really early, and we were in the first 50. So we all got taken backstage down a corridor towards the room where Mark was (this is where the clip from the lost documentary was filmed)
And as we were walking down the corridor, a security guy said you can take photos but absolutely no flash photography. I had one of those disposable Kodak cameras where you needed to "charge up" the flash. When we got into the room with Mark, I took a photo of him but somehow the flash went off ? and the asshole security guard threw me out before I got to meet him. I was raging!!

Hahaha nooooo!!!

[logangage]

the first thing that comes to mind regarding this topic are the songs from They Came To Conquer Uranus E.P. Zulu and especially Wrecked Him are two of my all-time favorite blink songs. It's such a bummer they aren't on Spotify, as I can only find mid-quality uploads on YouTube. It'd be nice to have an official audio release. Outside of that, pretty much all of the bonus songs off of TOYPAJ.🤙

[Styleiseternal]

@daveyjones I am really interested in the knowledge you have about the demos, particularly 21 days. Just wondering if you are still on this site?

[Patient #48273]

Davey quit the boards a while back. Last I heard, he lives on the Hoppus discord.

[Just Good Chats]

On 8/3/2022 at 10:16 PM, M!ke said:

In this ever increasingly streaming world, I'm sure there are many out there that have moved to playing most or all their regular music directly through the likes of Spotify.  And that's legit, who can blame you, the vast majority of music is on there, and for a small monthly fee you get legal access to it all.  It's a great model, but it does mean that some music slips away, like b-sides, rarities, many live recordings, etc.  Now you can integrate your personal library of songs you actually own into your streaming service, but not everyone does that, and I'm not saying NOBODY remembers these songs, I'm just saying that I do believe some music is becoming more obscure than it may have originally been to begin with.

One that I've always loved, but seen next to no appreciation for over the years, is the official Tom Lord Alge Arrangement of Down, a b-side for the single release of Down, which if you haven't heard, is pretty much the single version of Down, with an interesting extra little refrain of Down Down Down at the end that hits differently than the other ways that Down, Down, Down is sang in the song:

In that same vein, they also released the James Guthrie Mix of I Miss You back then too.  Was interesting how they kinda toyed with doing more remixes and stuff back then.  But this isn't limited just to the Untitled album, it can be anything and everything like that Good Times cover or that unreleased song from the Nine sessions, Falling, etc. etc.  What's your favorite blink recording that seems to be getting forgotten with time?

i was listening to it thinking, did i miss it, was it an extra round of down down down, at the end when its quiet before they stop signing, and then out of nowhere it came in, almost fell of my chair

dindt know that version did that, never had listened to it in full since i peaked at it back in 2003 i peaked fast enough that i didnt notice that extra chorus part

[Just Good Chats]

3 hours ago, Patient #48273 said:

Davey quit the boards a while back. Last I heard, he lives on the Hoppus discord.

i think he responded to a quesiton on here the other day

[Just Good Chats]

what id like to hear is ideas/unreleaed demos from blink from 90s are 2000s

if theres one thing we've never gotten alot of is b-sides and demos

 

[Just Good Chats]

also for mark and his "so many leggalities excuse"

not to say that this isnt ever the case but that sounds like a big cope especialy when he says hes not willing to do his part... sight..

id tell him to his face, this is important to you, to your legacy and to all of ur fans who made u be the band that you are today, u owe it to them, stop being lazy mark 

yes id tell him to his face, from there he may insult me, eject me from his place, or tell me "who the heck are you get out of my car or im calling the cops right now" 

but i know the seed would have been planted in his head and that would expedite the process, idk about yall but im getting older and id like for these things to be released before life ends me

 

[Patient #48273]

2 hours ago, Just Good Chats said:

i think he responded to a quesiton on here the other day

He hasn't logged in in over a year.

[Just Good Chats]

1 hour ago, Patient #48273 said:

He hasn't logged in in over a year.

my mistake, i saw him respond and tough it was a new response

[dave900]

On 5/25/2026 at 11:34 AM, Styleiseternal said:

@daveyjones I am really interested in the knowledge you have about the demos, particularly 21 days. Just wondering if you are still on this site?

He's on Instagram, if you really wanted to relay a message to him I'm sure you can just find him and message him there. He seemed like a good guy so I'm sure he would probably respond.