Blink-182 Is a Last-Minute Coachella Addition, With Reunited Lineup’s First Gig Since 2014 Set for Friday Slot
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Blink and you might miss it, at least if you were planning to take the weekend off from watching concerts.
The first reunion gig by the classic lineup of Blink-182 will not be waiting till the officially set beginning of the band’s tour in May, as previously expected.
Instead, the reconstituted group’s first gig together since 2014 will be happening this Friday at the Coachella Festival. The late-breaking development was revealed not with any great flourishes or hoopla, but with the group’s name simply showing up on the festival schedule when it was released late Wednesday night, tucked in modestly among set times for hundreds of long-since-announced artists.
The band is set to appear in the Sahara tent at the festival Friday from 6:45-7:35 p.m., in-between some artists who are not nearly on the household-name level that Blink-182 is, well prior to Metro Boomin closing out the night on that stage starting at 10:35 p.m. (See all the newly revealed set times, below.) Blink-182 was not the only surprise to pop up when set times were released.
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