If there’s another two-word phrase besides ‘No Pads’ that has been used as many, if not more times than that one on Simple Plan members’ Instagram profiles in the past few months, then it’s definitely ‘escape rooms’.
While on the Taking One For The Team tour, Simple Plan usually spent their days off playing laser tag in different cities all across the world, on the No Pads tour, the band decided to ditch laser tag for the already mentioned escape rooms, which are much more intellectually challenging. But how did this obsession even start? Set If Off’s lead singer Cody Carson may have the answer.
Cody recently did an interview with Lizzie’s Lowdown and in it he discussed his band’s recent tour with Simple Plan in the U.S. and how he got SP hooked on escaping:
Cody: Oh they are really nice. When we are home we like to play this game called Munchkin. It is this real strategy-based board game. We will do stuff like that instead of going out to a bar. We found out that they are not different to that. We had a day off and we found this place where you can drink and play games. It had arcade games, laser tag and bowling and that is what we did. We drank beer and played 14 games of laser tag. I’ve got them obsessed with escape rooms, so on the next leg we are going to do a bunch of escape rooms.
