Blink 182 sets ticket prices at $1 for brief club tour
Pop-punkers Blink 182 issue a new, self-titled album on Nov. 18, and launch their support of the set with a nine-city club tour that sports $1 ticket prices.
Tickets for the outing, dubbed the DollaBill Tour and presented by MTV, go on sale exclusively via MTV's website on Thursday (10/23), according to Geffen Records. A percentage of the tickets for each show will be held back from the Internet sale, and will hit the market on Oct. 25 at ticket outlets to be announced by MTV, organizers announced.
Tickets for the DollaBill shows are sure to be snapped up quickly; Blink-182 's previous tour sold more than 500,000 tickets over more than 40 dates, according to Geffen.
"For years we played in small clubs and that's where you can really connect with your fans," singer/guitarist Tom DeLonge said in a statement. "We're super stoked that we're at the point in our career that we can bring a tour like this around for only a dollar."
The all-ages tour, which includes a two-night stand in Los Angeles, will also feature opening acts Bubba Sparxxx and The Kinison.
"Feeling This," the first single from Blink 182's forthcoming fifth album, was released to radio earlier this month, and currently sits at No. 13 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart.
The new album is the follow-up to 2001's "Take Off Your Pants and Jacket," which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart. Blink 182's previous albums have sold more than 10 million copies in the U.S., according to Geffen.
"Having over nine months to record this CD gave us a chance to explore avenues that we never have before," singer/bassist Mark Hoppus said in a statement. "We weren't rushed, so the ideas on this record are fully fleshed out and go in directions that sometimes even surprised us."
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