Missionary Impossible was a concert tour by the American rock band Blink-182. The tour began on August 28, 2025, in Hollywood, Florida and concluded on October 19, 2025, in Las Vegas. 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.
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". 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. The set's backdrop was adorned with dozens of flyers, designed to look like a grimy punk club, with an industrial lighting rig overhead.
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.
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". 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.
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." 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." 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."
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." On the other hand, Selena Fragassi from the Chicago Sun-Times found the band's juvenile humor "stale" and unfunny.
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.
"The Rock Show" "First Date" "Josie" "Anthem Part Two" "Online Songs" "M+M's" "Fuck Face" "Natives" (Stage backdrop changes) "Feeling This" "Down" "Turpentine" "Can't Go Back" "Wishing Well" "Stay Together for the Kids" "Roller Coaster" "Dance with Me" "Bored to Death" "I Miss You" "More Than You Know" "Hope" (Descendents cover) "What's My Age Again?" "All the Small Things" "Dammit" "One More Time"
Tour dates + List of 2025 concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, and opening act(s) Date City Country Venue Opening acts August 28, 2025 HollywoodUnited States Hard Rock LiveAlkaline TrioBeauty 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 CenterAlkaline TrioDrug Church September 9, 2025 Gilford BankNH Pavilion September 11, 2025 Darien Center Darien Lake AmphitheaterSeptember 13, 2025WashingtonEQT Park rowspan="2" September 14, 2025 Asbury Park Asbury Park Beach & Boardwalk September 16, 2025 Cincinnati Riverbend Music CenterAlkaline TrioDrug Church September 17, 2025 Noblesville Ruoff Music Center September 19, 2025 Chicago Douglass Park rowspan="2" September 21, 2025 Atlanta Piedmont Park September 22, 2025 Huntsville Orion AmphitheaterAlkaline TrioScowl September 24, 2025 Rogers Walmart Arkansas Music Pavilion September 26, 2025 Maryland Heights Hollywood Casino AmphitheatreAlkaline TrioEnd It September 27, 2025 Kansas City T-Mobile Center October 2, 2025 Sacramento Discovery Park October 4, 2025 Thousand Palms Acrisure Arena Alkaline TrioLandon BarkerOctober 5, 2025 Alkaline TrioLiilyOctober 18, 2025WinchesterLas Vegas Festival Grounds rowspan="2" October 19, 2025
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