Travis Barker Auctioning Off Hand Signed Qantas Boarding Pass From Australian Tour
Other items from the Australian tour, including signed setlists and drum heads, are also available for purchase.
Blink-182 @ Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney (Credit: Peter Dovgan)
Travis Barker isn’t done giving fans down under some love following blink-182’s ecstatically received recent Australian tour.
Overnight, the drummer placed his Qantas boarding pass from Sydney to Perth for auction – as well as some other items fans will want to get their hands on. At the time of writing, the boarding pass, a limited release of one item, has sold for a whopping $12,547.00.
The one-of-a-kind item, secured in a museum-grade display case, features an authenticated handwritten note from Barker, which reads: “I know I got angels watching over me” – the same message is on his Instagram bio.
Especially poignant, the handwritten note from Barker marks the drummer’s first Australian tour since 2004. Barker was on board a plane that crashed upon taking off in South Carolina back in 2008; everyone on the plane died except for Barker and collaborator Adam Goldstein – aka DJ AM – who later died of a drug overdose.
Due to his fear of flying, Barker didn’t join his bandmates on blink-182’s Soundwave 2013 appearances and Australian tour.
In addition to the boarding pass, Barker has shared other items from the Australian tour that fans can buy or bid for at auction.
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The items include a 296-page “never-seen-before visual tour diary through Australia, New Zealand, South America and Mexico” with handwritten embellishments by Barker, setlists from Sydney, Brisbane and Auckland, with Barker’s hand-drawn pictures and messages, and a limited collection of drum heads from the Australian tour. You can find all the items here.
Blink-182’s 15-date arena and stadium tour of Australia and New Zealand was in support of their latest album, One More Time.
One More Time was the band’s first album starring their most famous line-up – lead vocalist/bassist Mark Hoppus, Barker and singer/guitarist Tom DeLonge – in twelve years. The Australian tour also marked their first dates down under in eleven years.
The Music’s Michael Hollick said of their first show, which took place in Perth: “blink-182’s performance was a time capsule, providing both longtime and newer fans a chance to relive the days when baggy jeans, chains, and dyed spikes were the epitome of cool. The band may have grown older, but their music remains forever young.”
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