Blink-182 has plans to return to Brazil, says website

The band Blink 182 would be planning to return to Brazil after 18 years. The Brazilian fanpage Action182 announced that sources connected to the band’s productions confirmed the possibility of the group coming to Brazil. The show would be to remember the first visit to Latin America and the 30 years of the band.

“For the first time since 2004, the possibility of the band coming to Brazil is in fact real, no longer the impediment of the logistical issue of Travis Barker due to the plane crash in 2008.”

According to the statement, the performance would have “four members”, an unprecedented feat with Tom DeLonge to celebrate the album. Take Off Your Pants and Jacket (2001)“with the famous F#CK burning in the background.”

Travis Barker and the fear of airplanes

After Travis Barker witness a plane crash that took the lives of two close friends and third-degree burns on 65% of his body, the drummer spent 13 years without getting on an aircraft – which even made it impossible for the band to tour dates in countries in that other means of transport did not arrive.

in 2021 barker hinted that after a decade he would be ready to travel on a plane again. In a tweet on his personal account, he wrote: “I can fly again.” (via NME)

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according to TMZin August of last year, Travis Barker would have boarded a private flight to Cabo, Mexico, from Los Angeles, accompanied by his girlfriend Kourtney Kardashian.

This week, the drummer returned home after seven days in hospital for pancreatitis. “I am very grateful that with the intensive treatment I am currently doing much better.” he said on his social media.