There's nothing worse than that sea wave to beat the heat and feel like you're going to miss your lunch. Now imagine that sweaty nausea in front of tens of thousands of screaming fans. Because that's exactly what happened to Blink-182 guitarist/singer Tom DeLonge earlier this week during a show in Paraguay when he suffered heatstroke during the show.
“It was about 1 minute before the heat stroke hit. I fell to my knees, everything went blurry, then I wobbled to the side of the stage and I threw up for a while. Super fun,” DeLonge wrote on Instagram on Thursday (March 21) alongside a photo of him from backstage with his head hanging.
“@markhoppus and @travisbarker made up for lost time,” he said of his teammates jumping to cover him during the show at Parque Olimpico in Luque, Paraguay on Tuesday. “Man, this was nothing I had ever felt before. 95 Degrees at 23:00 on stage. But… I came back and finished the show. Because that's what Navy Seals do…”
Fan video of the incident shows DeLonge crouched near the side of the stage as the band worked on the 11th song in the set, “More Than You Know,” before taking a break. Hoppus did kill some time to “keep the show rolling,” asking Barker to “go apes–t” on the drums with a solo to stretch things out. Within minutes, DeLonge was back and the band fell into a rocking “Happy Holidays, You Bastard” as fast as it could go, then even faster. The band then played 16 more songs before the show ended.
The trio's next show is tonight (March 22) at Lollapalooza Brazil, before they move on to a run of concerts in Mexico, returning to the US on June 30 for a show at the Kia Center in Orlando.
Check out DeLonge's post below.
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