Mark Hoppus, of Blink-182 fame, announced a new memoir, Fahrenheit-182, to be released on April 8th, 2025. According to the book’s promotional page on the HarperCollins website, the book is a memoir that “paints a vivid picture of what it was like to grow up in the 1980s as a latchkey kid hooked on punk rock, skateboards, and MTV.”
The book will cover how Mark Hoppus formed Blink-182, “one of the biggest bands of his generation”; the book will also detail his struggles with anxiety and his public battle with and triumph over cancer. The website calls the book “a delight for fans” and “a funny, smart, and relatable memoir for anyone who has wanted to quit but kept going.”
Blink-182 and Mark Hoppus: One More Time
Mark Hoppus is fresh out of Blink-182’s most extensive tour to date, the One More Time Tour, during which the band revealed their new album, One More Time. The tour sold out arenas and stadiums all around the world, including in North America, Australia, Europe, New Zealand, and Latin America.
Emma Gleason, a reporter for The New Zealand Herald, attended the band’s sold-out Auckland show, the last show on their tour. After the band dissed Christchurch, they cancelled their show in that city. Writing about the concert in the Herald, Gleason said, “Is that high-energy performance style still there? They’re not 20 anymore. The crowd, mostly in its 30s, 40s and 50s. Fans filling Spark Arena for the sold-out show. They were there early, crowds spanned everyone from elder Millennials and Gen-X wearing old merch and new, and younger punters too — teens, some with their parents, some kids.”
Gleason did have nice things to say about the community, though, noting that the vibes were “chill” and “friendly” and that “everyone was stoked to be there and keen to chat.” She particularly pointed out one fan who “had skated on the famous Warped Tours in the US that had Blink-182 on the lineup.”
Critical reception to their new album has been somewhat mixed as well. Arielle Gordon, a writer for Pitchfork.com, described their latest album as “clamoring with the frustrated energy of a band too engrossed in its own mythology to innovate on the form it helped create.”
Conclusion
Farhenheit-182 seems to be the next logical step in the continuing the resurgence of the band. Mark Hoppus officially announced the book on social media on September 16th, 2024.
Set to be published via Dey Street Books, the memoir will share with readers Hoppus’s story of a kid born in the California desert who ended up “conquering the world” in a punk rock band and battling with and defeating a stage IV cancer diagnosis. In his own words, “this sh*t gets dark.” Still, the book sounds like an interesting read that any fan of Blink-182 will want to check out once it’s published next year.
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