Far beyond what the band is to me is Mark’s health and his friendship. So Mark and I would talk, but we weren’t really talking about the band. And since COVID happened, of course, and almost in tandem with COVID, Mark was diagnosed with lymphoma. But people were trying to get in touch with me. So I found out on Tuesday is the short answer. I forget when the video, the “they’re coming” thing came out. Mark had reached out to me to talk, and I’ve been home dealing with a sick dad. But I didn’t see the text until - basically, I found out when everyone else found out, but it wasn’t their fault. So Mark texted me, I guess it would’ve been Sunday or Monday. And I didn’t see any mention of you, but there was this clip that had Tom, Mark, and Travis. I’m really like a caveman, dude - I do not pay attention. I’d heard that there was an announcement, but I didn’t see it myself. When did you find out that this was going to happen? And then implicit in that announcement is that you’re no longer performing with them. We get an announcement earlier this week that Tom is back in the band. I want to walk through the past few days. And it really is a cool thing to be able to step outside of something that I’ve been so closely involved in and be a fan of it.” “Blink, I put my all into it, but while I was involved, I couldn’t see what everybody else saw. “With Alkaline Trio, there’s so much of me in it that I can’t see it any other way,” Skiba says. And, yes, he’s psyched to watch this new era of Blink-182 as a fan again. He’s been writing, too, and is excited to return to the studio to work on the band’s tenth album. Since touring returned, Alkaline Trio has been his focus, with a steady run of dates set to end later this month at the much-anticipated, nostalgia-fueled festival When We Were Young in Las Vegas. Skiba found a way to be in both Blink and Alkaline Trio (where he shares vocal and lyrical duties with bassist Dan Andriano), releasing their last album, Is This Thing Cursed?, in 2018, and an EP called E.P. “I was like, ‘It’s a pretty crazy idea, but if you guys think it’ll work, I’m down to give it a shot.’” “I didn’t really have to think about it - the only thing I was juggling in my head was Alkaline Trio’s schedule,” he remembers. In their tight-knit scene, it wasn’t uncommon for musicians to split their time between groups, but the singer of one prominent act joining another still turned heads. Alkaline Trio even supported Blink on tour for the 2001 album Take Off Your Pants and Jacket. Joining the group had always been an unlikely turn of events for Skiba, who came up admiring the band as peers in the turn-of-the-century pop-punk boom. And even if the non-tech-savvy Skiba thought it was a bit clumsy of DeLonge to post a thank-you text to him on Instagram, he appreciated the gesture itself, replying with his own statement days after this interview: “I am truly grateful for my time with blink and I am truly happy you guys are a band and a family again.” Skiba, best known for co-founding the punk outfit Alkaline Trio, insists he wasn’t blindsided by last week’s announcement bassist and singer Mark Hoppus had previously informed him he was putting the pieces in place for DeLonge’s return. But after the trio announced original singer-guitarist Tom DeLonge would rejoin the band for a world tour, prompting speculation about Skiba’s future in the project, he wanted to “say something without making a huge deal about it.’”īecause, to him, it’s not a huge deal. The now-former Blink-182 singer-guitarist has been in the Illinois suburbs for the past few weeks caring for his sick father. Matt Skiba hasn’t had time to dwell on the news.
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