Tom Delonge Talks Potential Future With Blink-182

It’s been a massive week for fans of Blink-182 with the band dropping their first single with Alkaline Trio's Matt Skiba replacing Tom Delonge, and now the founding guitarist/vocalist has spoken out about the possibility of re-joining the band at some stage.

In an interview with Rolling Stone during the week, Delonge said that he was still a member of Blink-182 as he hadn’t officially quit and was never fired, and in a Facebook post presumably responding to the band’s new single, Bored To Death, he has touched on his relationship with Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker and what the future may hold for the three of them.

“I understand all the craziness out there in Internet-land, it is an odd time for fans of the Blink-182 legacy, I know - It's odd for me, too,” Delonge posted.

Delonge had met with Hoppus a day earlier and says he speaks to Barker almost every day.

“We DO have a future together if we want it, but for now we are busy doing separate things,” he continues.

“I am directing a movie this summer, releasing a couple more albums of music and digging deeper into my relationships with the US Government on the Sekret Machines Project."

He goes onto say that fans comparing his work with Angels & Airwaves and the new Blink single is a “failed task”, as both parties are aiming for different things, mentioning Blink-182 enlisting producer/Goldfinger frontman John Feldmann (5 Seconds Of Summer, The Used, Good Charlotte) as a songwriter on the record was an indictor of the some of their artistic “differences that are difficult to overcome”.

“At the time, I was recording the song NEW WORLD (on the DEMOS album titled after my own name) and that was my personal opinion of where we could possibly take Blink for the next album. But we are at different places in our minds, careers and goals, I get it.

“But that said, I obviously want them to make the music they wish. I have always been thankful for them in my life, but I am a forward thinking artist, and sometimes that leads me down a different path…I look forward to my upcoming adventures, and a hell of a lot more - maybe even a bit of Blink-182 if we can build back that 'special something' that was once there.”

Blink-182’s new record, California, is set to drop July 1, with lead single Bored To Death streaming now, while Delonge promotes his new book, Sekret Machines, and also has plans to direct a movie in the near future, release more Angels & Airwaves music and more.

Check out our in-depth analysis of the new Blink-182 single and line-up here.