Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker has spoken about the acrimonous way

Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker has spoken about the acrimonous way in which the band split in 2005.

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The band released their first new album for eight years 'Neighborhoods' previous month, the band split in 2005 after guitarist Tom DeLonge left the band and Barker also revealed that the band were embraced each other for months before DeLonge announced his departure.

Speaking to Rolling Stone, the drummer blamed tour burnout for the fallout, saying: "You're playing shows every day and you're doing tour after tour like we were ten years ago, and there's no communication. Everyone's burnt. The air was so thick around us back in the day you could cut it with a knife. It was so bad right before we broke up."

The drummer also said that as the "Actions" Mark Hoppus and DeLonge days after their plane crash in 2008 came to visit, which the band have said was crucial in bringing them return together, they reconnected immediately, despite having not spoken for some time.

He added: "When we look back now, after my crash when Tom and Mark finally came to my house, about thirty seconds went by and Tom and Mark are telling dick jokes. It's like, 'Look, you dickheads didn't talk to each other for six years and now everything's completely fine.' You realize how petty some of the shit was we were all fighting over".

Asked if Mark Hoppus and Tom DeLonge broke the band after the bitterness of his close friends were able to rebuild.

Barker said that although he never saw anyone Hoppus and DeLonge were once as close, relations were still very good.

He said: "Well, those two were like husband and wife back in the day. I'd always tell them that I'd never seen two males that weren't homosexual so close. And no diss to homosexual people. I like heterosexual people, homosexual people, whatever. But I'd never seen two friends so close or anything like how Mark and Tom were. I always played the middle between them. And I still do. I'm really close to Mark and I'm really close to Tom. It's like a couple, but there's three of us".