Issue 14 of Stencil Mag

After patiently waiting a year for Blink-182 to perform at their re-scheduled Cardiff date, it was to say that everyone in the crowd was extremely eager to see the band perform! Kicking straight in with Feeling This the band received an outstanding response from the crowd, with the usual crowd surfers and circle pits kicking straight into motion you knew that it was going to be a good night. It's amazing to see how strong and confident this band still is after all of these years, Mark Hoppus still gives the biggest grins to the crowd, Tom Delogne still makes the occasional joke, and Travis Barker still puts everything he has got into his drumming and shows it off with every beat, in short, it was just awesome to see the band still doing what they love twenty years on. As the set progresses we get treated to some new tracks like 'Up All Night' 'After Midnight' 'Wishing Well' 'Hearts All Gone' which all go down really well with the crowd and show that maybe waiting that year extra to see some new songs in the set, was indeed worth it, as for me it showed a perfect progression from their material on the self titled record to neighborhoods! Mixed in with new tracks we are treated to anthems such as 'All The Small Things' 'What's My Age Again' 'Rock Show' which again, all get the crowd going insane. If all of this wasn't enough for the audience the band went on to add an acoustic performance in the middle of the crowd where they did 'Reckless Abandon' and 'Wasting Time' before the crowd had time to turn around Travis Barker was already on the stage blasting out a huge drum solo which was absolutely fantastic. To conclude the show we were treated with 'Carousel' 'Dammit' and the awesome yet iconic tune 'Family Reunion'. Blink-182 have spent the last twenty years proving how good they are with their pop punk anthems, and without a doubt they will be playing arenas until the end of their career, because shows like tonight, have earnt them the right to do so.