Blink-182 Concert Tours
Blink-182 announced the first tour in support of Blink-182 on October 17, 2003, named the DollaBill Tour. The all-ages club tour featured support acts Bubba Sparxxx and The Kinison, and, as the name suggests, tickets were sold for $1. DeLonge explained the first return to small venues in several years in the initial press release for the tour: "For years we played in small clubs and that's where you can really connect with your fans." The tour ended shortly after the release of Blink-182 on November 21, 2003, at local San Diego venue SOMA. An additional concert at the Phoenix Concert Theatre on December 2, 2003 was held in Toronto, Canada with My Chemical Romance as the opener.
A performance at KWOD's Twisted X-Mas show shortly before Christmas 2003 became the final show of the year, and a European tour followed during in mid-February 2004. During an Australian tour in March 2004, Barker injured his foot and the band was forced to cancel tour dates in Japan for the rest of the month. A U.S. tour took place from late April to May 2004, and a highly-publicized tour featuring Blink-182 and No Doubt was performed during June 2004, in support of Blink-182 and No Doubt's The Singles 1992-2003. The cancelled Australian tour dates were rescheduled and performed in August and September 2004. The band appeared on September 17, 2004 at the MTV Icon tribute to The Cure, performing a cover of "A Letter to Elise" and "All of This", which was recorded and later broadcast on October 31, 2004. The band headed to Europe for a two-week tour near the end of the year, which culminated at their final show on December 16, 2004 at the Point Theatre in Dublin, Ireland.
Although the band had planned for a U.S. tour in support of "Always" and the new release Greatest Hits, tensions within the band had risen on the final European tour and the band announced an 'indefinite hiatus' on February 22, 2005 as breakup rumors swirled. After some tragic events involving the band and its entourage, Blink-182 reunited in February 2009.
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