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==Touring== {{main|Loserkids Tour|The Mark, Tom and Travis Show Tour|Blink-182 and Lil Wayne Tour}} [[File:Reading Festival 2000.jpg|thumb|Blink-182 toured worldwide in support of the record, including a performance at the [[Reading and Leeds Festivals|2000 Reading Festival]], pictured above.]] With massive radio and video play, Blink-182 played to larger crowds when they began touring in support of ''Enema of the State''. The Loserkids Tour commenced in the autumn of 1999 and was the band's first arena tour.<ref name="p99"/> The band was forced to postpone remaining dates of a spring European tour in 2000 when both DeLonge and Barker came down with strep throat.<ref name="strep">{{cite web |last=Basham |first=David |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1426184/blink-182-nixes-european-shows.jhtml |title=Blink-182 Nixes European Shows |publisher=MTV News |date=March 14, 2000 |access-date=July 18, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116132731/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1426184/blink-182-nixes-european-shows.jhtml |archive-date=January 16, 2014}}</ref> The band played to sold-out audiences and performed worldwide during the summer of 2000 on [[The Mark, Tom and Travis Show Tour]]. The tour was staged as a drive-in movie, with a giant retro billboard suspended from the ceiling, and films were projected on the screen behind the band β including vintage gay porn as a joke.<ref name="Edwards 2000">{{cite magazine |last=Edwards |first=Gavin |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-half-naked-truth-about-blink-182-20000803 |title=The Half Naked Truth About Blink-182 |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=August 3, 2000 |access-date=22 Aug 2023 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130203033034/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-half-naked-truth-about-blink-182-20000803 |archive-date=February 3, 2013}}</ref> The tour was one of the most anticipated rock tours of the season and the band headed out on the road with [[Bad Religion]] and [[Fenix TX]]. Barker broke one of his fingers during an altercation with two men who kept flirting with his girlfriend in Ohio, and Damon Delapaz, guitarist of Fenix TX, stepped in on drums for Barker.<ref name="enemaofthestage"/> Hoppus recalled an overwhelming emotional feeling when the band sold out the [[Great Western Forum]] in Los Angeles.<ref name=p99>{{harvnb|Hoppus|2001|p=99}}</ref> The band also performed at the [[Reading and Leeds Festivals]] in August 2000.<ref name="newsong">{{cite web |last=Basham |first=David |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1426178/blink-182-records-new-song-live-album.jhtml |title=Blink-182 Records New Song For Live Album |publisher=MTV News |date=August 28, 2000 |access-date=July 18, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104214140/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1426178/blink-182-records-new-song-live-album.jhtml |archive-date=November 4, 2012}}</ref> To celebrate the success of the tour, the band released a limited edition live album titled ''[[The Mark, Tom, and Travis Show (The Enema Strikes Back!)]]'', which featured snippets of the band's between-song dialogue.<ref name=p100>{{harvnb|Hoppus|2001|p=100}}</ref> Released in November 2000, the band returned to the studio with Finn to complete a song left off the final track listing of ''Enema of the State'': "Man Overboard."<ref name="newsong"/> The final tour in support of ''Enema of the State'' was the 2001 [[Honda Civic Tour]], for which the band designed a [[Honda Civic]] to promote the company.<ref name="honda">{{cite web |last=Moss |first=Corey |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1439500/blink-182-kick-off-civic-tour-2001.jhtml |title=Blink-182 To Kick Off Civic Tour 2001 |publisher=MTV News |date=February 16, 2001 |access-date=July 18, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203053832/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1439500/blink-182-kick-off-civic-tour-2001.jhtml |archive-date=December 3, 2013}}</ref> In 2019, the band conducted [[Blink-182 and Lil Wayne Tour|a tour]] in which they celebrated the 20th anniversary of ''Enema of the State'' by performing the album in its entirety. [[Matt Skiba]], who was the band's guitarist/vocalist from 2015 to 2022, performed DeLonge's parts.<ref>{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/pro/blink-182-enema-state-upcoming-tour/ | title=Blink-182 to Perform 'Enema of the State' in its Entirety on Upcoming Tour | magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] }}</ref>
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