Blink-182 had been joined by the Descendents’ Stephen Egerton and reunited with Alkaline Trio’s Matt Skiba at Riot Fest 2025 – watch beneath.
The twentieth anniversary of the punk pageant passed off this weekend in Chicago’s Douglass Park, with Inexperienced Day and Weezer topping the invoice on the opposite two days.
Throughout their Friday night time headline present (September 19), Blink-182 had been joined by longtime Descendents guitarist Egerton for a canopy of the latter band’s basic 1982 observe ‘Hope’, from their influential debut album ‘Milo Goes To School’. The track has been an everyday presence on Blink setlists in 2025, though earlier than this 12 months they’d not performed it since 2003.
Watch fan-captured footage of the duvet right here:
Elsewhere within the set, Blink had been joined by Alkaline Trio frontman Skiba, who was additionally a member of Blink-182 as a alternative for Tom DeLonge from 2015 to 2022. They performed ‘Bored To Dying’ – the primary track the band launched with Skiba as a co-vocalist, and a observe that has appeared on Blink setlists sporadically in 2025. Watch right here:
Blink-182 performed:
‘The Rock Present’
‘First Date’
‘Josie’
‘Anthem Half Two’
‘On-line Songs’
‘M+M’s’
‘Fuck Face’
‘Dumpweed’
‘Feeling This’
‘Down’
‘Turpentine’
‘Bored To Dying’ (with Matt Skiba)
‘Wishing Properly’
‘Keep Collectively For The Youngsters’
‘Curler Coaster’
‘Dance With Me’
‘I Miss You’
‘Extra Than You Know’
‘Hope’ (with Stephen Egerton)
‘What’s My Age Once more?’
‘All The Small Issues’
‘Dammit’
Alkaline Trio have been the opening band on Blink-182’s present ‘Missionary Unattainable’ tour, which kicked off in late August and has dates remaining throughout the nation earlier than its conclusion in Palm Desert, California on October 4. See all of the dates and ticket data right here.
When DeLonge left Blink in 2015, Skiba stepped in on guitar and vocals, recording two albums: 2016’s ‘California’ and 2019’s ‘9’. Upon DeLonge’s return to the band, Skiba departed, however he did be part of them once more for ‘Bored To Dying’ throughout their Los Angeles wildfire profit live performance earlier this 12 months.
After DeLonge rejoined, he wrote an open letter to Skiba through which he mentioned, “Hello Matt, Tom DeLonge right here,” he wrote. “I needed to take a minute and say thanks for all that you’ve performed to maintain the band thriving in my absence. I believe you’re enormously proficient (I nonetheless love and take heed to your band to today).”
For his half, Skiba mentioned he was “actually glad” for his former bandmates and DeLonge.
Chatting with NME about becoming a member of Blink-182, Skiba mentioned he bought quite a lot of hate for getting into DeLonge’s sneakers, however “it solely lasted till we began enjoying reveals.”
He added: “The overwhelming quantity of help and graciousness the followers have proven me overpowers any hate or shit-talking. It seems like our band – Mark, Travis, me and the followers. It’s not the identical band with out Tom but it surely has the identical identify, and I believe there’s a very good purpose for that.”
As for Descendents, they performed a joint UK and European tour earlier this 12 months with Circle Jerks.
