Blink-182 Go Seventies

LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts) - Blink-182 has been using a three-day break in the cross-Canada Edgefest tour to send a Vancouver suburb into a Seventies time warp. The popular punks are shooting a video for the song "First Date" (from their new album Take Off Your Pants and Jacket) in Burnaby, B.C., for immediate distribution in Europe and a later release in North America.
Directors Emmit and Brendan Malloy -- responsible for the band's last effort, "Rock Show" -- are at the helm.

Blink-182 headlined Edgefest in Vancouver Saturday night and were up bright and early Sunday morning for a shoot at a diner. The production later moved to a quiet residential street and eventually to an area water sports park.
The theme was the Seventies all the way, with band members Tom DeLonge, Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker decked out in bell-bottoms and long-haired wigs and travelling in an old Volkswagen van.

Also appearing in the video were two members of Blink's label and tour mates, A New Found Glory, vocalist Jordan Pundik and guitarist Chad Gilbert.

According to location manager Terry Mialkowsky, the Burnaby neighborhood was chosen for its Seventies-style houses, with the chosen residence getting the nod for its double garage, the setting for the production's key performance scene. The garage was dressed up with skateboards, posters, old lawnmowers and other seventies paraphernalia, all which surrounded the band's dinky high school rock band instruments, including a tiny set of traps housing a bass drum decorated with a photo of Blink-182 made up to look like the Bee Gees.
The shoot is scheduled to continue today in other areas of the city. Blink and New Found Glory continue with the Edgefest tour in Calgary on Tuesday.

A video for Blink's next North American single, "Stay Together for the Kids," will be shot in Los Angeles in September. According to a band spokesperson, both the director and the premise have yet to be finalized.
"First Date," meanwhile, is unlikely to be released in North America until early next year.