The We Are Pirates Tour is a concert tour by American rock band Blink-182 in support of the group's seventh studio album, '' California'' (2016). It consisted of festival and

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dates and ran between May 14 and July 10, 2016, in North America. Support acts included All Time Low, Hawthorne Heights,

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, and the Used on select dates. Aside from the few club shows and the Musink Festival in 2015, the We Are Pirates tour was their first with guitarist and vocalist Matt Skiba and their first without founding member Tom DeLonge.

Background

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After touring and releasing the band's sixth album '' Neighborhoods'' (2011), it became difficult for Blink-182 to record new material, due to guitarist Tom DeLonge's various projects. After disagreements, the remaining members of the group—vocalist/bassist

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and drummer Travis Barker—sought separation from DeLonge and recruited guitarist Matt Skiba, best known as the frontman of rock band Alkaline Trio, in his place. Blink-182 performed two club shows and a slot at the Musink Tattoo Convention & Music Festival in March 2015 with Skiba "filling in" for DeLonge. Afterwards, they regrouped and recorded the album '' California'' with producer John Feldmann. Prior to the main headlining tour for ''California'', the group embarked on the We Are Pirates Tour. They performed at several festivals, including

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, Firefly Music Festival, Big Field Day,

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, and Kerfuffle 2016. Hoppus and Skiba also performed several acoustic sets in England in June 2016, including for BBC Radio 1's Rock All Dayer and Radio X. They also added four dates in Canada in early July, supported by

and the Used.

Set list

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Shows

Personnel

– vocals, bass guitar * Travis Barker – drums * Matt Skiba – vocals, guitar

References

Notes

Citations

External links

* {{Blink-182 2016 concert tours Blink-182 concert tours Concert tours of the United States Concert tours of Canada