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Matt Skiba Talks Future with Vulture

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  1. Melody Bot Oct 17, 2022
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    Vulture:

    So Mark and I would talk, but we weren’t really talking about the band. We’re friends before we’re a band. Far beyond what the band is to me is Mark’s health and his friendship. So we just were talking. And over the course of, I don’t remember the exact timeframe, but Mark said that they were talking to Tom and starting to work on things. So it didn’t come as any — it was just as far as the actual information dropping and the schedule of everything was revealed to me when it was to everyone else, but I knew that it was coming. It wasn’t this huge surprise, nor was it a stab in the back. Those guys, we were friends — and this includes Tom. Tom especially has been a friend and a fan of my band for many years. Long before I started playing with Blink, Alkaline Trio was out on tour opening for Blink. And Tom had, if not everything to do with it, a lot to do with that. So we’ve always been buddies. We haven’t talked in recent years.

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  2. AlwaysEvolving21 Oct 17, 2022
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    Skiba got to live the dream of a million fans by being in blink-182.

    He was smart enough to know and understand their dynamic with Tom and how his role could have ended anytime, so he lived it up with no expectations. He stepped up to the plate, saved this band's legacy, and came out on top.
     
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  3. rbf737 Oct 17, 2022
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    Nice to hear that there's zero drama here.
     
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  4. Jason Tolpin Oct 17, 2022
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    .... and now he has a whole bunch of new fans for his band :)
     
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  6. Drew Beringer Oct 17, 2022
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    so I took this away as the most interesting part of the interview haha

    You want to hear something? Whether I’m supposed to, or not supposed to say anything, I guess, is immaterial. It makes the conversation more fun. But that festival — initially, they announced all those bands playing before anybody said yes.Vulture has reached out to representatives for We Were Young Festival for a response.It was a Fyre Festival kind of stunt that worked. And I only know that because my band was on that initial flyer, wih every other band from our whole ilk. And they almost expertly started advertising it before they had a single band on the bill. And somehow, all the bands agreed to do it. I’m not making this up. Somebody may correct me, but I know that Alkaline Trio, we hadn’t confirmed anything. And when we read that, we called other bands that were playing, and nobody knew about it.
     
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  7. .K. Oct 17, 2022
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    Again, Skiba sounds like a class act. He’s definitely a different guy, but this is the guy so many Blink fans having been ripping over the past few years simply because he’s not Tom.

    It would have been cool if they released that last 8-9 songs he did with them for an EP, plus the eventual new Trio and Blink Records. Maybe they could do a split EP (eventually) and have Dan/Tom/Derek do the other side of a split, release them and never have fans big them about the songs again. Maybe on a tour where Trio opens for Blink.
     
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  8. Jason Tolpin Oct 17, 2022
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    How about a double album mess of all the side project songs from anyone from Blink/Alkaline Trio, include Dan, Travis, etc....
     
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  9. benschuyler Oct 17, 2022
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    Really cool interview. Skiba is the man.
     
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  10. benschuyler Oct 17, 2022
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    This was a total trip. I'm hesitant to call it a success until the festival comes and goes, but it really is such a wild story.
     
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  11. CampfireColorado Oct 17, 2022
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    if you book them, they will come
     
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  12. Yourbiggestflan Oct 17, 2022
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    Yo, that is WILD.
     
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  13. RaginCajun Oct 17, 2022
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    Better than you, sorry

    I’m still on the edge. If you look at it funny I’m done. Don’t even say skiba
     
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  15. Former Planets Oct 17, 2022
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    Aaaachem!

    Uh…. What?
     
  16. RaginCajun Oct 17, 2022
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    Better than you, sorry

  17. helloiamzach Oct 19, 2022
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    I'm not sure that's entirely true. Hawthorne Heights have confirmed they were asked before it was announced, but that all they knew was My Chemical Romance were booked and that it'd be in mid/late October 2022.

    Buddy from Senses Fail also confirmed they were asked before it was announced.