No, that headline didn’t come from 2003 – it’s actually happening! The American pop-punk legends Blink-182 will be playing a show at the MTS Centre in Winnipeg, MB, Canada to promote their new album ‘California’ [coming out July 1st] and they invited two other well-known old-school bands to open for them – Simple Plan and The Used.
Simple Plan have quite a history with both of these bands – Pierre used to sing on stage with The Used on the 2003 Warped Tour and the bands played together many times over the past almost two decades. And even richer history can be found when it comes to Simple Plan and Blink-182: Chuck got to know Mark Hoppus back when he was still in Reset and Mark was also one of the first people to ever hear one of the first demos of ‘I’d Do Anything’ [just called ‘Anything’ at that point], which he loved and which is why the band later on asked him to sing on the song as well as appear in the music video. Since then, Blink-182 and Simple Plan have appeared alongside many times, both on and off stage and the band members have kept in touch.
All three bands will be reunited in Winnipeg on July 7th, prices of the tickets [which go on sale June 4th, 10am CDT] are: $35, $49, $65, $79 and $89. The Winnipeg date is a part of a number of recently added Canadian dates of the summer Blink-182 tour, which continues all over North America, and which has previously made headlines by including other well-known opening acts, such as All Time Low, The All-American Rejects or A Day To Remember. The Winnipeg will be the only date Simple Plan will appear at.
Check out the details below:
| Date | City | Country | Info |
| 07/07/2016 | Winnipeg | Canada | here |
Check out all the upcoming Simple Plan tourdates.
