Simple Plan celebrate Chuck’s birthday on stage in Toronto

On Saturday, the members of Simple Plan returned to The Danforth Music Hall in Toronto, Canada, also known as the venue where they filmed the concert scenes for the Singing In The Rain music video and SP.cz was there to document this show for you.

Fans started gathering around the venue already after 9am and then patiently waited all the way until 6pm when the doors opened and they were let into the venue.

This show was the only one on this Canadian run, where the fans were able to enjoy one very special opening act – the popular local band called Not By Choice, who have not performed in over 10 years and only reunited for this SP show. Not By Choice was the final opening act right before Simple Plan, preceded by Courage My Love and The Bottom Line.

When Simple Plan hit the stage, one could already tell by the extremely loud cheers from the crowd that we were about to witness quite an astounding show. And indeed we did! Jeff summed the concert in Toronto up with these words:

Toronto was the sickest show of our Canadian-No-Pads tour. Ontario is where it all started for us; we have tons of friends here that I’m really happy to have seen tonight. 

– Jeff Stinco –

The show was filled with enormous energy both from the band and from the crowd to the point where an incredible amount of crowdsurfers enjoyed the sea of people under them – sometimes even multiple times.

Simple Plan performed their usual setlist of this tour, however there was one additional song that appeared during the night, which was when Pierre decided that since we were just about 2 hours away from Chuck’s birthday (today, September 17th), it was time to sing him ‘Happy birthday’. I managed to capture a big of this moment on the video below:

And since we’re already talking videos, here’s a special little treat for you: ‘Opinion Overload’ live at soundcheck in Toronto:

The SimplePlan.cz gallery has now also been updated with a number of our pictures from the show in Toronto, which you can check out below: