With Simple Plan’s European tour with State Champs and Mayday Parade being less than a month away, the local media are starting to pay more attention to the the band, who are coming back to many cities on the old continent as a headlining act for the first time since 2017!
A new Spanish interview for Mondo Sonoro with Chuck Comeau recently came out, in which the drummer was asked several question about the band’s upcoming tour, including what the fans can expect the setlist to look like. Chuck confirmed the tour’s setlist (while it may change from day to day slightly) will include the band’s greatest hits but will also be mostly focused on songs from their new album Harder Than It Looks (2022). Another thing worst mentioning is that Simple Plan want to include a special medley, where they try to incorporate short snippets of their songs to include as many as they can. This is remindful of the “No Pads medley” the band did in 2012 – given that the band is celebrating 20 years since the release of Still Not Getting Any next year, there’s hopes that this new medley could be a SNGA one.
Check out Chuck’s full response below:
“We haven’t done a headlining tour in Europe since 2017. So I think what we want is to just give our fans what they’ve been waiting for for a long time, which is a longer show. A show that spans all eras of Simple Plan, from the early days, which I know our fans love, to the new album that came out last year. So that it’s like a “greatest hits,” but with an emphasis on the new record, of course, and the new music. But we really want to play everything, every song that people want to hear. That’s really what we’re trying to do. And we’re going to change the setlist a little bit and have some songs come in and out and change every night. And we’re even trying to build a medley because we don’t have time to play every song that everyone wants to hear. We thought that maybe if we found a way to not play the whole song, but rather small fragments of several together, we would please more fans, or so we hope.”
Are you excited for the Hard As Rock tour in Europe? Get ready! Most tickets are already sold-out and the tour begins on January 18th 2024 in Paris, France!
