Two worlds collided in Melbourne on Wednesday evening (March 18) when Mark Hoppus welcomed on stage Amy Shark for a performance of Blink-182’s 1997 classic “Dammit.”
On the night, Shark, the Gold Coast-based singer and songwriter, slung an acoustic guitar and got to work with Hoppus, playing his regular bass. “Thank you Mark Hoppus for inviting me to play such an iconic punk rock song with you!,” she writes in a social post, which shares the special moment. “What an incredible evening. Extremely EMOtional.”
Just for fun, she tagged the clip with the line: “I’m no Tom DeLonge but I just played Dammit with Mark Hoppus.”
Hoppus is in Australia for his FAHRENHEIT-182 book tour, which kicked off with a sell-out at Melbourne’s Recital Hall and sees the Blink-182 co-founder delve into his mental health throughout the band’s rise; the fallout with fellow bandmate Tom DeLonge, and his subsequent return to the fold; his public battle (and triumph) over cancer, and more.
He was last here with the classic lineup of Blink-182 — Hoppus, DeLonge, and Travis Barker — playing arenas for the domestic leg of their One More Time world tour in 2024.
Shark has collaborated with all three members of the pop-punk trailblazers. She teamed up with Hoppus on the song “Psycho,” featured on her debut first album from 2018, Love Monster. Then, she cut “C’MON” with Barker, released in 2020 and later housed on her 2021 LP Cry Forever. More recently, DeLonge joined forces with the Aussie on “My Only Friend” from her third studio album Sunday Sadness, which dropped in 2024.
All three of Shark’s album have gone to No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart.
Her fourth album, soft pop, is due out Friday, July 31, and is led by the single “The Biggest Dick.” The forthcoming collection was written solely by Shark, produced by Dann Hume and is “a completely different sound, topics I finally found the words and melodies for,” she writes in a separate social post.
Live Nation is producing Hoppus’s FAHRENHEIT-182 run, which continues Thursday, March 19 in Melbourne, and wraps up Saturday, March 21 at Sydney Opera House.
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