Blink-182 have postponed a handful of their upcoming gigs in Ireland and the UK as drummer Travis Barker “had to return home” due to “an urgent family matter.”

The rock trio were due to play two gigs at Glasgow’s OVO Hydro on Friday (September 1) and Saturday (September 2), followed by gigs in Belfast on Monday (September 4) and Dublin on Tuesday (September 5). .

However, hours before their first night in Glasgow, Blink-182 announced that “due to an urgent family matter, Travis had to return home to the United States.”

“Glasgow, Belfast and Dublin shows postponed,” they wrote on an Instagram story. “More information regarding his return to Europe and rescheduled dates will be provided as soon as available.”

No further information regarding the “urgent family matter” has been released.

Barker, 47, is married to his third wife, Kourtney Kardashian, 44. The two are expecting their first child together. Kardashian made the surprise announcement in June during a Blink-182 concert.

Her announcement came about six months after she publicly announced that she had stopped in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments because it had had harmful consequences on his physical and mental health.

The independent has reached out to representatives for Barker and Kardashian for comment.

The new baby will be Barker’s third child; he shares two children, Landon, 19, and Alabama, 17, with his ex-wife Shanna Moakler, to whom he was married from 2004 to 2008.

Kardashian, meanwhile, shares three children, Mason, 13, Penelope, 12, and Reign, 10, with ex-boyfriend Scott Disick, whom she dated for nine years.

The group “All the Small Things”, currently on a 2023-2024 world tour, concluded its North American leg on July 16 in Nashville, Tennessee.

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They were due to hit the road again, with their Glasgow gigs kicking off their European leg.

Blink-182’s reunion tour marks the first time the original trio — made up of Barker, guitarist Tom DeLonge and singer Mark Hoppos — has performed together since 2015, when DeLonge left the band to focus on his lifelong extraterrestrial passion.

Hoppos, 51, and DeLonge, 47, formed the band in 1992 with drummer Scott Raynor before being fired in 1998 and replaced by Barker.