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Probs this one. I have & love it.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-we...-matt-zoller-seitz/12387025?ean=9780810997417

 

thanks ordered one

 

Oh I’m going to both!! I just meant a debate in terms of which night do I splurge for either fancy seats or pit?

 

I always do seats but it’s because I’m old and don’t like people all over me haha.

 

”Obvious” tonight

 

If they follow the every other night approach, then I’m most likely getting Obvious / Carousel even though I prefer Easy Target / M+M’s. But if you don’t count Lollapalooza where they might abridge their set since it’s a festival, then it’s possible I’d get Target and M+M’s in Minneapolis. Crossing my fingers!

 

They need to play other One More Time songs on the One More Time tour.

 

AKA please play Turpentine at Fenway show. I'd like that.

 

https://www.amazon.com/dp/081099741X/?tag=absolutepunk-20

The interviews are so good

 

I felt that way before the show, but the setlist is the best I’ve ever seen from them. Honor’s the legacy of the band while feeling very fresh. All of the songs they have been playing forever are the best they’ve ever sounded so nothing feels tired. Even Always hit in a way it hasn’t live since Untitled era. I do hope they do one NINE song at some point on this tour to bring it all in the fold. Cynical would be cool to hear as well.

 

From Denver the other night

 

+ Lollapalooza
+ St. Louis

 

wait. isn't this supposed to be in the horror thread????

 

The only thing Facebook is good for... reminding me that 16 years ago today I took this picture while I directed a "Warped Tour - Tour Bus Cribs" episode with AVA... featuring a very sweaty Tom

 

You caught me! haha

 

Great show yesterday in Phoenix. If you haven’t yet gotten your tickets, I’d highly recommend getting seats on Tom’s side. It felt like most of the set was facing us (see below) or facing the front aside from a few songs. However, I also preferred Tom’s side to perhaps even floor/pit because the seats are level with the stage and you’re not looking up.

blink-182 - Bored to Death Live at the Desert Diamond Arena in Phoenix, Arizona - 7/2/24

 

People on Reddit were saying they won’t do the “in the round” at the Hartford show..

 

they didn’t do it in San Diego (one of the few stadium dates) but the stage turned anyway lol

 

Isn't the Hartford show the amphitheater

In the round wouldn't be possible

 

Easy Target and Wendy Clear tonight. Mark also apparently said on stage tonight they’re considering taking Always out of the setlist

 

Taking “Always” out but leaving “Down” would definitely be a choice.

 

Those are the two songs I’d take out if I were building my perfect setlist (a realistic one anyway), but Down would get cut first, so I’m only half mad about it lol

 

I know Down is technically a more popular song than Always, but I always felt that Always was a better written and more fun song, especially in a live environment.

Of course if they replace it with a song like Stockholm Syndrome or Turpentine, I wouldn't be mad, but it definitely feels like the wrong song to cut.

 

Fine with moving away from Always live

 

Bit the bullet and bought a Reading Festival day ticket - £130 essentially just for Blink, but hey. Debating whether to try and go to one of the rearranged Irish/Scottish dates too - but figure the set will be the same for all the UK dates, and be the same as the US setlist at the moment.

Set is great - in a dream world, I'd love to hear more than two of the rotating songs (Obvious/Easy Target, Carousel/M&Ms/GoingAway/Wendy) - as others have said, could easily take out some of the 'non-hit' singles after all these years (Down being the prime candidate - likewise Up All Night, Always or even STFTK or Man Overboard).

And would love a couple more One More Time songs in there - Turpentine being the key omission. If they felt they needed to take a OMT song out in its place, would swap it with More Than You Know.