Apparently building new ground isn't as easy as grabbing the bats and pulling out the old dead horses. Blink 182 have scrapped their plans to write a new album for the time being, calling the idea "too ambitious" before its upcoming tour. Instead, they'll have one new song ready before they hit the road on July 23, kicking off in Las Vegas.
Guitarist Tom DeLonge tells Billboard.com that the track, titled "Up All Night," has "got a little bit of (Pink) Floyd, a little bit of Rush, a little bit of blink in there. It's crazy, but it somehow sounds exactly like where we left off (in 2005). It's an amazing song." I bet. DeLonge says the tune is nearly finished, waiting just for Travis Barker to complete his drum tracks. Release plans haven't been determined yet.
The guitarist explains that he, Barker and bassist Mark Hoppus had all the best intentions, but they're just victims of their own success, really. "I think nobody realized how massive this tour was going to be," DeLonge says. "The tickets outsold what the promoters expected, three to one. So everyone's trying to play catch-up right now and really nail this tour to be the best it can be and get everything ready, so there's no studio time right now. Everyone's so busy just trying to make this thing happen, I think."
DeLonge says Blink-182 fans can expect to hear plenty of their old hits (duh) in a two-hour set that will feature "massive production and arcs in the show that involve lots of bad words...The talks this morning were hot to incorporate the word '****' in such a way that it somehow is parallel if not better than when it was lit on fire 10 years ago." Sounds like the boys are all grownsd up.