Missionary Impossible (Blink-182)

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Missionary Impossible
Tour by Blink-182
Missionary Impossible tour poster.jpg
Location
  • United States
Start dateAugust 28, 2025
End dateOctober 5, 2025
Legs1
No. of shows22
Supporting acts Alkaline Trio
Blink-182 concert chronology

Missionary Impossible is a concert tour by the American rock band Blink-182. [1] The tour began on August 28, 2025, in Hollywood, Florida and is set to conclude on October 5, 2025, in Palm Desert, California. [2] It includes main support from Alkaline Trio, as well as Drug Church, Scowl, Landon Barker, Beauty School Dropout, End It and Liily on select dates. [3]

Contents

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 begins 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 is adorned with dozens of flyers, designed to look like a grimy punk club, with an industrial lighting rig overhead. [6] The tour's setlist has included both hits and deep cuts, including several songs the band has not played live in decades. These have included "Josie" from Dude Ranch , "Roller Coaster" and "Online Songs" from Take Off Your Pants and Jacket , "Wishing Well" and "Natives" from 2011's Neighborhoods , as well as a cover of the Descendents' "Hope", which the band had not played live since 2003. [7] [8]

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"
  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) [9] [10]
DateCityCountryVenueOpening 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
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
September 21, 2025 [d] Atlanta Piedmont Park
September 22, 2025 Huntsville The Orion AmphitheaterAlkaline 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
October 4, 2025 Palm Desert Acrisure Arena Alkaline Trio
Landon Barker
October 5, 2025Alkaline Trio
Liily

Reception

Jim Shahen Jr., for the Times Union , called the Saratoga Springs gig “nostalgia-fueled [and] energetic." [11] 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]

Notes

  1. The September 13, 2025, concert is set to be part of Four Chord Music Fest.
  2. The September 14, 2025, concert is set to be part of Sea.Hear.Now Festival.
  3. The September 19, 2025, concert is set to be part of Riot Fest.
  4. The September 21, 2025, concert is set to be part of Shaky Knees Music Festival.
  5. Promoted as St. Louis.
  6. The October 2, 2025, concert is set to be part of Aftershock Festival.

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. Farrell, Margaret (August 29, 2025). "Blink-182 Kick Off Tour With Two Songs They Hadn't Played Since 2001". Stereogum. Retrieved September 8, 2025.
  9. Wilson-Taylor, James (April 8, 2025). "Blink-182 & Alkaline Trio Announce US Tour". Rock Sound . Retrieved April 8, 2025.
  10. Lonsdale, John (April 25, 2025). "HOW TO GET BLINK-182 MISSIONARY IMPOSSIBLE TOUR TICKETS ONLINE". rollingstone.com. Rolling Stone . Retrieved May 9, 2025.
  11. Shahen, Jim Jr. (September 8, 2025). "Review: Blink-182 turns back the clock at SPAC". Times Union. Retrieved September 8, 2025.