Simple Plan to release a special Japanese “tour edition” of No Pads with bonus tracks!

To celebrate the 15th anniversary of their first record (released in 2002), Simple Plan will be releasing a special Japanese limited edition of No Pads, No Helmets… Just Balls this year.

Right ahead of their October return to this country, which was the first foreign country where Simple Plan experienced a big break, a rerelease of No Pads, entitled No Pads, No Helmets… Just Balls [Tour edition] will hit the Japanese stores on September 27th. Japanese limited editions are known for their exlusivity and for often including some never-seen-before (or never-heard-before in this case) content. So what special features can we expect from this Tour edition of No Pads?

According to the press release, it seems that the album will contain all songs from the No Pads record and possibly also a selection of “best of” songs – which may be those that are commonly features on the encore of the No Pads’ tour set (most probably: Shut Up!, Jump, Boom, Your Love Is A Lie, Jet Lag, Summer Paradise, Crazy and Welcome To My Life). Besides that, three bonus songs are promised to appear on this reissue. These bonus songs are supposed to be live recordings of three songs from this year’s 15th anniversary tour – it is however currently unknown which songs these will include.

As to the origin of the live recordings, it is quite possible they will be coming from the show in Anaheim, CA, where Simple Plan filmed their entire set for possible future project (with both audio and video recorded from that show – from our interview with the band you already know that the guys plan on releasing the video footage from that show as well at some point).

This commemorative Tour edition of No Pads is already available for pre-order on CD Japan for $17.91.