Career
His first gig with Skin was on the V Stage for the V Festival in 2003. Blackburn also played with Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros, filling in for Scott Shields on the 2000 tour supporting The Who during the United Kingdom leg, and is featured as a Mescalero in A. Davie"s book Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros. Vision of a Homeland.
Blackburn and his family now live in Auckland, New Zealand.