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Simple Plan announce more shows for 2024: Brazil sideshow, European festivals and another When We Were Young!

2024 is already shaping up to be quite the tour year for Simple Plan! As you all already know, the beginning of the year will be dedicated to their first headlining tour with Harder Than It Looks and they will be bringing it to Europe in January and February. After that, SP will finally make a grand return to Brazil in March, after which they will head over to Australia in April. And in June and July the guys will be back in Europe for the summer festival season.

Now, recently, Simple Plan announced a few more dates for 2024! So, let’s have a look at them.

First, Simple Plan added an I Wanna Be Tour sideshow in Sao Paulo, Brazil, as their Sao Paulo on March 1st, I Wanna Be Tour date a day later sold-out within just a few hours. This is a great way to see Simple Plan on their own smaller headlining show before the bigger festival type of gigs in Brazil with the I Wanna Be Tour, which comprises of multiple bands on the line-up.

Another additions on the 2024 tourlist are some new festival dates in Europe: Simple Plan added some dates in France, Netherlands and Italy, which means they will be staying in Europe at least until the beginning of July, meaning there will very likely be more European dates in the beginning of July.

And finally! The extremely successful When We Were Young festival will be repeated next year again and after this year’s excellent two shows, the SP boys will of course be back for the 2024 edition. While We Were Young will take place on October 19th (which has already sold-out) and also 20th in Las Vegas. Oh, and one more exciting bit: all bands present at the festival will be playing one chosen album in full – Simple Plan picked their debut album, No Pads, No Helmets… Just Balls. Exciting!

Here’s a recap of the newly added dates:

1/MAR/2024 – I Wanna Be tour – Sao Paulo, Brazil

26/JUN/2024 – Festival de Nîmes – Nîmes, France 

28/JUN/2024 – Jera On Air Festival – Ysselsteyn, Netherlands 

07/JUL/2024 – I-Days – Milan, Italy 

19/OCT/2024 – When We Were Young – Las Vegas, NV, USA – SOLD-OUT

20/OCT/2024 – When We Were Young – Las Vegas, NV, USA 

Simple Plan are coming back to Brazil in a big way: with a massive amount of additional bands!

No more “come to Brazil” posts needed! Simple Plan are finally coming back to Brazil… and they are not alone!

Today, the band has announced that they will be headlining a major “I Wanna Be Tour”, which will make stops in 5 cities in Brazil (Sao Paulo, Curitiba, Recife, Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte) and will not only be featuring Simple Plan but also other major pop-punk and alternative rock bands including The All-American Rejects, All Time Low, A Day To Remember, The Used, Asking Alexandria, NX Zero, Boys Like Girls, The Plain White T’s, Pitty, Mayday Parade and Fresno. Yes. You read that correctly!

Oh.. and one more thing: this tour will be MASSIVE. Some of the venues have a capacity of over 45 000 people. So get ready for some giant gigs in March 2024!

Full list of tourdates can be found below:

March 2nd 2024 – Sao Paulo, Brazil
March 3rd 2024 – Curitiba, Brazil
March 6th 2024 – Recife, Brazil
March 9th 2024 – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
March 10th 2024 – Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Tickets go on sale October 4th at 11am EST! And VIP upgrades will be available too, including a Pre-Show VIP Party, the Ultimate VIP Side Stage Experience and our Post-Show Pizza Party.

Check out the full poster for the tour below:

Chuck on next Simple Plan album: “Our goal is to make the next record faster”

The final No Pads anniversary tour, which took Simple Plan to Brazil in the end, is now over and the first video interviews are just starting to come out! Below, we offer you a couple of the latest ones, which are definitely worth watching.

The first interview was filmed by the promoters Queremos in the backstage of the show in Rio de Janeiro with all four of the currently touring members of SP. The interview is very interestingly made and mostly features footage from the show in Rio with the voices of the members of the band in the background, discussing topics such as their fans in Brazil, the venue Circo Voador in Rio, the No Pads anniversary and the meaning of this album.

Have a look:

In the second interview for Ponto POP the guys once again discussed the importance of their first record but Chuck also mentioned the future plans for the band, which mostly revolve around making a new record. According to Chuck’s answer, it looks like the guys are still sticking to their goal to try to make their sixth release a bit quicker than the previous ones – as you may we aware, Simple Plan usually take about a year and half off to write songs and record an album. If this time were to be cut shorter, we could possibly expect a new album next year.

Check out what Chuck exactly said about album #6 and watch the full interview below:

After [Warped Tour], we’re gonna probably just slow down on touring and just focus on new music. And make a new record. I’m not sure exactly how long it’s gonna take but our goal is to try to make it a little faster than the previous albums and then just go back on tour, man! Just keep playing and, you know.. just have new music out there.

– Chuck Comeau –

Do you think Simple Plan will keep their word and we’ll get to hold the next album in our hands sooner than in 2020? Let us know in the comments below!

Simple Plan change setlist in Rio and officially add Vacation!

The second-to-last show of the No Pads tour in Brazil took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Wednesday and just like the one in Sao Paulo, it was completely sold-out.

Prior to the day of the show, Simple Plan’s photographer Chady Awad left the tour to tour with Parkway Drive in Europe and since Chady was the one to step in for David in certain parts of the show and play bass, it was Chris Adolph, Simple Plan’s technician, who was there to help out in this matter.

The biggest and fairly unexpected change on this show however was the sudden addition of ‘Vacation’ on the No Pads part of the setlist – which has only been played at soundchecks until now. To keep the total count of the songs still 21 however, Simple Plan did not play ‘Your Love Is A Lie’ in the encore. During the show, Jeff also made an homage to a popular local pop singer called Anitta by playing a solo of the song ‘Vai Malandra’ (thx Bruno for the info). Check out the full setlist from Rio below:

1. I’d Do Anything
2. The Worst Day Ever
3. You Don’t Mean Anything
4. I’m Just A Kid
5. When I’m With You
6. Meet You There
7. Addicted
8. My Alien
9. God Must Hate Me
10. I Won’t Be There
11. One Day
12. Vacation
13. Grow Up
14. Perfect
Encore:
15. Shut Up!
16. Jump
17. Boom
18. Jet Lag
19. Summer Paradise
20. Crazy
21. Welcome To My Life

And make sure to also check out the following video that captures ‘Vacation’ live in Rio:

The gallery has also been updated with a bunch of pictures both from the backstage of the show, where Simple Plan did some interviews and also attended the pizza party before the show, as well as pictures from the show in Rio itself. Have a look:

Simple Plan appeared on Brazil’s most popular talk show The Noite

Tuesday was the first of two days off for Simple Plan before their show in Rio de Janeiro tomorrow, yet still the members of the band chose to spend it by working – as they headed off to the studios of Brazil’s most populare late night talk show called The Noite.

The full interview with Simple Plan from The Noite, which has caused quite a controversy on social media since then (e.g. due to the host pulling up a gun in the middle of the interview or him asking the band members where the hottest girls are at), is now available on YouTube. Have a look at it as well as the band’s performance of ‘I’d Do Anything’ on the videos below:

You can also already check out some pictures from Simple Plan’s appearance on The Noite: