The We Are Pirates Tour is a concert tour by American rock band Blink-182 in support of the group's seventh studio album, California (2016). It consisted of festival and amphitheater dates and ran between May 14 and July 10, 2016, in North America. Support acts included All Time Low, Hawthorne Heights, Simple Plan, and the Used on select dates. Aside from a few club shows and the Musink Festival in 2015, the We Are Pirates tour was their first with guitarist and vocalist Matt Skiba, and their first without founding member Tom DeLonge.
Background
After touring and releasing the band's sixth album Neighborhoods (2011), it became difficult for Blink-182 to record new material, due to guitarist Tom DeLonge's various projects. After disagreements, the remaining members of the group—vocalist/bassist Mark Hoppus and drummer Travis Barker—sought separation from DeLonge and recruited guitarist Matt Skiba, best known as the frontman of rock band Alkaline Trio, in his place. Blink-182 performed two club shows and a slot at the Musink Tattoo Convention & Music Festival in March 2015 with Skiba "filling in" for DeLonge. Afterwards, they regrouped and recorded the album California with producer John Feldmann.
Prior to the main headlining tour for California, the group embarked on the We Are Pirates Tour. They performed at several festivals, including X Games Austin 2016, Firefly Music Festival, Big Field Day, Amnesia Rockfest, and Kerfuffle 2016. Hoppus and Skiba also performed several acoustic sets in England in June 2016, including for BBC Radio 1's Rock All Dayer and Radio X. They added four dates in Canada in early July, supported by Simple Plan and the Used.
Set list This setlist is representative of the June 4, 2016, performance in Austin. It is not representative of all concerts for the duration of the tour.
"Feeling This" "What's My Age Again?" "Family Reunion" "The Rock Show" "First Date" "Down" "I Miss You" "Up All Night" "Bored to Death" "Built This Pool" "Dumpweed" "Always" "Stay Together for the Kids" "Man Overboard" "Violence" "Josie" "Happy Holidays, You Bastard" "Not Now" "Reckless Abandon" "Carousel" Encore "All the Small Things" "Brohemian Rhapsody" "Dammit"
Tour dates + List of 2016 concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, and support acts Date City Country Venue Support May 14, 2016 IrvineUnited States Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre June 4, 2016 Austin Austin360 Amphitheater All Time Low June 7, 2016 Kingston England Rose Theatre rowspan="4" June 8, 2016 London Maida Vale Studios June 9, 2016 Leicester Square June 12, 2016 Los AngelesUnited States LA Hangar Studios June 16, 2016 Southaven BankPlus Amphitheater at Snowden Grove Hawthorne Heights June 18, 2016 Richmond Innsbrook Pavilion Fun Size, Ann Beretta, The Struts, KONGOS June 19, 2016 Dover The Woodlands of Dover International Speedway June 23, 2016 Bethlehem Sands Bethlehem Event Center Hawthorne Heights June 24, 2016 Montebello Canada Montebello Marina June 26, 2016 ColumbiaUnited States Merriweather Post Pavilion Bear Hands, The Strumbellas, Joywave, Violent Femmes, Cold War Kids, Silversun Pickups June 27, 2016 New York City Ed Sullivan Theater July 5, 2016 Milwaukee Henry Maier Festival Park All Time Low July 7, 2016 WinnipegCanada MTS Centre Simple Plan,The Used July 8, 2016 Saskatoon SaskTel Centre The Used July 9, 2016 Edmonton Northlands Coliseum July 10, 2016 Calgary Cowboys Stampede
Personnel Mark Hoppus – vocals, bass guitar Travis Barker – drums Matt Skiba – vocals, guitar
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