On Wednesday evening (March 18), two worlds collided in Melbourne when Mark Hoppus welcomed Amy Shark on stage for a performance of Blink-182’s 1997 classic “Dammit.”
On that night, Shark, the Gold Coast-based singer and songwriter, slung an acoustic guitar and collaborated with Hoppus, who played his regular bass. “Thank you Mark Hoppus for inviting me to play such an iconic punk rock song with you!,” she shared in a social post about 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 began with a sell-out at Melbourne’s Recital Hall. The tour sees the Blink-182 co-founder delve into his mental health throughout the band’s rise, the fallout with fellow bandmate Tom DeLonge, his subsequent return to the fold, and his public battle (and triumph) over cancer.
He last performed 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 album from 2018, Love Monster. Then, she worked with Barker on “C’MON,” released in 2020 and later included on her 2021 LP Cry Forever. More recently, DeLonge collaborated with the Aussie on “My Only Friend” from her third studio album Sunday Sadness, which dropped in 2024.
All three of Shark’s albums have reached No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart.
Her fourth album, soft pop, is set to release on Friday, July 31, led by the single “The Biggest Dick.” The forthcoming collection was written solely by Shark, produced by Dann Hume, and represents “a completely different sound and topics I finally found the words and melodies for,” she stated 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.
