"We'd have gone over and been given bread with a slice of cheese": Mark Hoppus on blink-182's near miss with Fyre Festival Mark Hoppus and his band blink-182 give off the vibe of being the wise dads of pop-punk music. Starting out in 1992, it’s no easy feat that songs they wrote 20 years ago are still classed as iconic and probably will be years from now.Metro