Missionary Impossible (Blink-182)

Missionary Impossible
Tour by Blink-182
Location
  • United States
Start dateAugust 28, 2025
End dateOctober 19, 2025
Legs1
No. of shows24
Supporting acts
Blink-182 concert chronology

Missionary Impossible was a concert tour by the American rock band Blink-182.[1] The tour began on August 28, 2025, in Hollywood, Florida and concluded on October 19, 2025, in Las Vegas.[2] The tour was promoted as a return to the band’s punk roots, with a career-spanning setlist featuring major hits, fan favorites, and songs not performed live in decades. The production featured a stage backdrop designed to resemble a grimy punk club covered in flyers. It included main support from Alkaline Trio, as well as Drug Church, Scowl, Landon Barker, Beauty School Dropout, End It and Liily on select dates.[3]

Reviews of the tour were largely positive, with critics praising the band’s energetic performances, chemistry, and ability to balance nostalgic pop-punk anthems with a more seasoned stage presence.

Background

For this tour, the band announced that it would "lean into [their] punk roots, with a setlist packed with classics spanning their entire catalogue".[4] The tour was announced on April 8, 2025. Each show began with a humorous intro from Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) announcer Bruce Buffer, as though the band are fighters in a match.[5] The set's backdrop was adorned with dozens of flyers, designed to look like a grimy punk club, with an industrial lighting rig overhead.[6]

blink-182 performing in Palm Springs, California on October 4, 2025

The tour's setlist included both hits and deep cuts, including several songs the band has not played live in decades. These included "Josie" from Dude Ranch (1997), "Roller Coaster" and "Online Songs" from Take Off Your Pants and Jacket (2001), "Wishing Well" and "Natives" from Neighborhoods (2011), as well as a cover of the Descendents' "Hope", which the band had not played live since 2003.[7]

Highlights of the tour included Matt Skiba, who replaced Tom DeLonge from 2015 to 2022, occasionally joining the band on stage to play "Bored to Death".[8] Additionally, the band had Descendents guitarist Stephen Egerton sit in on their "Hope" cover both at their Riot Fest headlining set and at another show the following week in Rogers, Arkansas.[9]

Reception

Reviews of the Missionary Impossible Tour were mostly positive, praising the band's energetic nostalgia, strong chemistry, and seasoned performances. Jim Shahen Jr., for the Times Union, called the Saratoga Springs gig “nostalgia-fueled [and] energetic."[10] Shawn Macomber of the Miami New Times reviewed the tour's first stop and marveled at "vital and alive Blink-182 sounds more than three decades in," describing their onstage unity as "something transcendent and multifaceted [...] If this is growing up, may we all age so gracefully."[5] Scott Mervis, reporting from the Four Chord Fest for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, praised the "intrac[ies]" that their more mature material added to the set, overall commending their "goofy, frantic fun and great teen angst anthems."[11]

Murjani Rawls, reviewing their Sea Hear Now set for NJ.com, called "the trio very much on top of their game. As much as they joked about taking a break and swigging Gatorade backstage in their "old age," the Southern Californian threesome met each song with a veteran mindset."[12] On the other hand, Selena Fragassi from the Chicago Sun-Times found the band's juvenile humor "stale" and unfunny.[9]

Set list

This set list is from the concert on August 28, 2025 in Hollywood, Florida. It is not intended to represent all shows from the tour.[6]

  1. "The Rock Show"
  2. "First Date"
  3. "Josie"
  4. "Anthem Part Two"
  5. "Online Songs"
  6. "M+M's"
  7. "Fuck Face"
  8. "Natives" (Stage backdrop changes)
  9. "Feeling This"
  10. "Down"
  11. "Turpentine"
  12. "Can't Go Back"
  13. "Wishing Well"
  14. "Stay Together for the Kids"
  15. "Roller Coaster"
  16. "Dance with Me"
  17. "Bored to Death"
  18. "I Miss You"
  19. "More Than You Know"
  20. "Hope" (Descendents cover)
  21. "What's My Age Again?"
  22. "All the Small Things"
  23. "Dammit"
  24. "One More Time"

Tour dates

List of 2025 concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, and opening act(s)[13][14]
Date City Country Venue Opening acts
August 28, 2025 Hollywood United States Hard Rock Live Alkaline Trio
Beauty School Dropout
August 29, 2025 Tampa MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre
September 1, 2025 Charleston Credit One Stadium
September 3, 2025 Raleigh Coastal Credit Union Music Park
September 4, 2025 Virginia Beach Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater
September 6, 2025 Bethel Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
September 7, 2025 Saratoga Springs Saratoga Performing Arts Center Alkaline Trio
Drug Church
September 9, 2025 Gilford BankNH Pavilion
September 11, 2025 Darien Center Darien Lake Amphitheater
September 13, 2025[a] Washington EQT Park N/a
September 14, 2025[b] Asbury Park Asbury Park Beach & Boardwalk
September 16, 2025 Cincinnati Riverbend Music Center Alkaline Trio
Drug Church
September 17, 2025 Noblesville Ruoff Music Center
September 19, 2025[c] Chicago Douglass Park N/a
September 21, 2025[d] Atlanta Piedmont Park
September 22, 2025 Huntsville Orion Amphitheater Alkaline Trio
Scowl
September 24, 2025 Rogers Walmart Arkansas Music Pavilion
September 26, 2025 Maryland Heights[e] Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre Alkaline Trio
End It
September 27, 2025 Kansas City T-Mobile Center
October 2, 2025[f] Sacramento Discovery Park N/a
October 4, 2025 Thousand Palms[g] Acrisure Arena Alkaline Trio
Landon Barker
October 5, 2025 Alkaline Trio
Liily
October 18, 2025[h] Winchester[i] Las Vegas Festival Grounds N/a
October 19, 2025[h]

Notes

  1. ↑ The September 13, 2025, concert was part of Four Chord Music Fest.
  2. ↑ The September 14, 2025, concert was part of Sea.Hear.Now Festival.
  3. ↑ The September 19, 2025, concert was part of Riot Fest.
  4. ↑ The September 21, 2025, concert was part of Shaky Knees Music Festival.
  5. ↑ Promoted as St. Louis.
  6. ↑ The October 2, 2025, concert was part of Aftershock Festival.
  7. ↑ Promoted as Palm Desert.
  8. 1 2 These concerts are part of the When We Were Young Fest
  9. ↑ Promoted as Las Vegas

References

  1. ↑ "BLINK-182 Announces 2025 'Missionary Impossible' U.S. Tour". Blabbermouth. April 8, 2025. Retrieved April 8, 2025.
  2. ↑ Harrison, Scoop (April 8, 2025). "Blink-182 Announce 2025 US Tour with Alkaline Trio As Special Guests". Consequence. Retrieved April 8, 2025.
  3. ↑ "blink-182 announce supports for their Missionary Impossible tour". Kerrang!. June 24, 2025. Retrieved June 24, 2025.
  4. ↑ Garner, Emily (April 8, 2025). "blink-182 announce Missionary Impossible tour with Alkaline Trio". Kerrang. Retrieved April 8, 2025.
  5. 1 2 Macomber, Shawn (August 29, 2025). "Review: Blink-182 Delivered an Epic Tour Kickoff at Hard Rock Live". Miami New Times. Retrieved September 8, 2025.
  6. 1 2 Ragusa, Paolo (August 29, 2025). "blink-182 Perform a Bunch of Rarities to Kick Off "Missionary Impossible Tour"". Consequence. Retrieved September 8, 2025.
  7. ↑ Blistein, Jon (August 29, 2025). "Blink-182 Play 'Take Off Your Pants and Jacket' Rarities for First Time Since 2001 at Tour Opener". Rolling Stone. Retrieved September 8, 2025.
  8. ↑ Pilley, Max (2025-09-20). "Blink-182 joined by Descendents' Stephen Egerton and reunite with Alkaline Trio's Matt Skiba at Riot Fest 2025". NME. Retrieved 2025-09-25.
  9. 1 2 Fragassi, Selena (September 20, 2025). "Blink-182 brings out Matt Skiba, Stephen Egerton in headlining set anchored in the past: Riot Fest review". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved May 12, 2026.
  10. ↑ Shahen, Jim Jr. (September 8, 2025). "Review: Blink-182 turns back the clock at SPAC". Times Union. Retrieved September 8, 2025.
  11. ↑ Mervis, Scott (September 14, 2025). "Review: Blink-182, Bowling for Soup crush it at Four Chord 11". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved May 12, 2026.
  12. ↑ Rawls, Murjani (September 15, 2025). "At Sea Hear Now, Blink-182 unloads pop-punk mayhem, gets goofy with massive N.J. crowd". nj. Retrieved May 12, 2026.
  13. ↑ Wilson-Taylor, James (April 8, 2025). "Blink-182 & Alkaline Trio Announce US Tour". Rock Sound. Retrieved April 8, 2025.
  14. ↑ Lonsdale, John (April 25, 2025). "HOW TO GET BLINK-182 MISSIONARY IMPOSSIBLE TOUR TICKETS ONLINE". rollingstone.com. Rolling Stone. Retrieved May 9, 2025.
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