Pop Disaster Tour

The Pop Disaster Tour was a concert tour co-headlined by American rock bands Blink-182 and Green Day. The two groups, with supporting acts Jimmy Eat World, Kut U Up, and Saves the Day, toured for two months across the United States, as well as one in Canada, mostly in outdoor amphitheatres.

Pop Disaster Tour
Tour by Blink-182 and Green Day
Promotional poster for the tour
Associated albumsInternational Superhits! and Take Off Your Pants and Jacket
Start dateApril 17, 2002
End dateJune 17, 2002
No. of shows47
Green Day tour chronology
Life Without Warning Tour
(1999–2000)		 Pop Disaster Tour
(2002)		 American Idiot World Tour
(2004–05)
Blink-182 tour chronology
Take Off Your Pants and Jacket Tour
(2001)		 Pop Disaster Tour
(2002)		 DollaBill Tour
(2003)

Background

The tour was conceived by Blink-182 to echo the famous Monsters of Rock tours; the idea was to have, effectively, a Monsters of Punk tour.[1] The tour, from the band's point of view, had been put together as a show of unity in the face of consistent accusations of rivalry between the two bands, especially in Europe.[2] Instead, Green Day's Tré Cool acknowledged in a Kerrang! interview that they committed to the tour as an opportunity to regain their status at the top of the tree, as their spotlight had faded over the years.[2] "We set out to reclaim our throne as the most incredible live punk band from you know who", said Cool.[3] Cool contended that "we heard they were going to quit the tour because they were getting smoked so badly […] We didn't want them to quit the tour. They're good for filling up the seats up front."[3]

Riding in Vans with Boys
Riding in Vans with Boys
Directed byMatthew Beauchesne
Release date
  • 2003 (2003)

The 2003 film Riding in Vans with Boys follows the Pop Disaster Tour throughout the U.S from Kut U Up's perspective.[2] DeLonge and Hoppus had the idea for the film, and enlisted Matt Beauchesne, who also worked on their documentary The Urethra Chronicles II: Harder Faster Faster Harder, to direct. It was designed to be "a social experiment that shows exactly what would happen if an average Joe band spent two months with two of the biggest groups in rock."[4]

Set list

Tour dates
Date City Country Venue
April 17, 2002BakersfieldUnited StatesCentennial Garden
April 19, 2002PhoenixAmerica West Arena
April 20, 2002IrvineVerizon Wireless Amphitheatre
April 21, 2002
April 23, 2002Las VegasMGM Grand Garden Arena
April 24, 2002InglewoodThe Forum
April 25, 2002Chula VistaCoors Amphitheater
April 27, 2002Mountain ViewShoreline Amphitheatre
April 28, 2002SacramentoSacramento Valley Amphitheater
April 29, 2002OaklandOakland Arena
May 1, 2002TacomaTacoma Dome
May 3, 2002West Valley CityE Center
May 4, 2002Greenwood VillageFiddler's Green Amphitheatre
May 6, 2002Maryland HeightsRiverport Amphitheater
May 7, 2002Bonner SpringsSandstone Amphitheater
May 9, 2002DallasSmirnoff Music Center
May 10, 2002SelmaVerizon Wireless Amphiteheatre
May 11, 2002The WoodlandsCynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
May 13, 2002PelhamOak Mountain Amphitheatre
May 14, 2002TampaIce Palace
May 15, 2002West Palm BeachMars Music Amphitheatre
May 16, 2002OrlandoTD Waterhouse Centre
May 18, 2002AtlantaHiFi Buys Amphitheatre
May 19, 2002RaleighAlltell Pavilion
May 20, 2002CharlotteVerizon Wireless Amphitheatre Charlotte
May 22, 2002Virginia BeachVerizon Wireless Amphitheatre Virginia Beach
May 23, 2002HersheyHershey Park Pavilion
May 24, 2002HolmdelPNC Bank Arts Center
May 25, 2002BurgettstownPost-Gazette Pavilion
May 27, 2002HartfordNew England Dodge Music Center
May 28, 2002CamdenTweeter Center at the Waterfront
May 30, 2002WantaghJones Beach Theater
May 31, 2002New York CityMadison Square Garden
June 1, 2002DarienDarien Lake Performing Arts Center
June 2, 2002MansfieldTweeter Center for the Performing Arts
June 4, 2002Saratoga SpringsSaratoga Performing Arts Center
June 5, 2002Washington, D.C.MCI Center
June 7, 2002TorontoCanadaMolson Amphitheatre
June 8, 2002Grand RapidsUnited StatesVan Andel Arena
June 9, 2002ColumbusJerome Schottenstein Center
June 11, 2002Auburn HillsThe Palace of Auburn Hills
June 12, 2002Cuyahoga FallsBlossom Music Center
June 14, 2002NoblesvilleVerizon Wireless Music Center
June 15, 2002Tinley ParkTweeter Center (World Music Center)
June 16, 2002MilwaukeeMarcus Amphitheater
June 17, 2002MinneapolisTarget Center

Reception

Many reviewers were unimpressed with Blink-182's headlining set following Green Day. "Sometimes playing last at a rock show is more a curse than a privilege […] Pity the headliner, for instance, that gets blown off the stage by the band before it. Blink-182 endured that indignity Saturday at the Shoreline Amphitheatre", a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle wrote in 2002.[5]

The Pop Disaster Tour as a whole grossed nearly $20 million from 45 shows.[6]

Personnel

See also

References
  • Shooman, Joe (June 24, 2010). Blink-182: The Bands, The Breakdown & The Return. Independent Music Press. ISBN 978-1-906191-10-8.

Notes
  1. Shooman, 2010. p. 99
  2. Shooman, 2010. p. 101
  3. Ian Winwood (February 1, 2006). "Blink-182 vs. Green Day". Kerrang!. London (1090): 44–45. ISSN 0262-6624.
  4. Corey Moss (September 12, 2003). "Butt Branding, Drunken Weddings Captured On Hoppus And DeLonge's 'Boys'". MTV News. Retrieved July 26, 2016.
  5. Shooman, 2010. p. 100
  6. "No Doubt, Blink-182 Link For Tour". Billboard. February 4, 2004. Retrieved November 30, 2013.
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