Keep your head still, Montreal. If you want to catch the Blink-182 reunion show at the Bell Centre, it’s going to cost you.
After a nearly 10-year hiatus, pop-punk group Blink-182 announced they have reunited for an album and world tour and the tickets are not… a small thing.
Tickets to the band’s May 12 show at the Bell Centre went on sale last week and it seems like scalpers got to most of them first.
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On Ticketmaster, the cheapest tickets, at the very back of the arena — section 400 — are going for $222. Resale floor prices range from $917 to an astounding $3,043, and tickets in the usually modest 100 section are going for $376 to $578.
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The band called it in 1999 with the release of “All the Small Things”: always, I know, you’ll be at my show. Watching, waiting, commiserating.
Montreal Blink fans have been complaining that scalpers bought up all the tickets last week and are turning around with a hefty resale price tag, citing that everything left is at least $200.
The damn scalpers got us all in Montreal :-(.
— AEAL (@al_pappii) October 18, 2022
My gf was in line for the presales and prices were ridiculous… Nothing good under 250$…
It’s non sense prices imo.— MikaĂ«l Dufresne (@purplemikey) October 19, 2022
In Montreal the worst seat was $70 at the very very beginning, now it’s $200 minimum
— Simon (@simondudu) October 18, 2022
Just looked at tickets to see Blink-182 in Montreal in May. 200 dollars for the cheapest ticket. NOPE
— Jennifer Poulin (@JenPoulin) October 17, 2022
Was excited to take a trip with my wife to celebrate our anniversary and see @blink182 in Montreal. Just unbelievable pricing. I’d rather miss my favorite bands than continue to support such a horrible company. Good work, @Ticketmaster @TMFanSupport pic.twitter.com/ql47w7vEBy
— Andrew Prentovic (@APrentovic) October 18, 2022
Local music venue Turbo HaĂĽs will be hosting a free cover show on the same day as Blink’s Bell Centre show, calling the trio a “bad live band.” Turbo HaĂĽs says they will get three “good bands playing all the dumb songs that give us that nostalgia boner.”
The Saint-Denis venue says their show will be “fun and free instead of two months’ rent.”
Earlier in October, Blink-182 — who formed in the late ’90s — announced original band member Tom DeLonge would be rejoining Travis Barker and Mark Hoppus, the latter of whom just returned after battling cancer.
Blink-182 is also releasing a new album as part of their massive, albeit expensive, world tour.
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