Blink 182 star Travis Barker won’t fly any more after he nearly died in a plane crash — but he’s not going to let that stop him touring the UK and Europe.

The drummer will pack a mobile studio and drums onto the Queen Mary liner and spend 10 days on board for the band’s 2017 tour.

He was lucky to survive when he was thrown from a burning jet which careered off the runway at Columbia airport, South Carolina in 2008. Four of the six people on board, including the two pilots, died. Barker, now 40, suffered second- and third-degree burns covering some two thirds of his body and needed a blood transfusion and several skin grafts.

He will be at the O2 in July with bandmates Mark Hoppus and Matt Skiba and said: “Before the plane accident I was using drugs — abusing drugs. I was going round the world on aeroplanes, being pulled in every direction.

“I started using to deal with my fear of flying. I hate flying. I would get a bunch of drugs to get on the plane. I thank God I got through it — I’m so happy to be here. I totally got a second chance.

“I’m so happy and blessed that I don’t have to deal with that ever again. So unless they find a way of teleporting me, I will just be touring the US and Europe — anywhere I can get to by boat or bus.

“I have been sober since the plane accident. I’m lucky I still get to do what I love. I love my life.”

He said: “I’ll be on the boat for 10 days. I’ll run for about an hour and a half every day and bring a studio out with me with a practice kit and I’ll play for a couple of hours each day.”

Blink 182 play the O2 on July 19.

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