If things turned out differently, the fans in the Czech Republic would have witnessed their third Simple Plan show – this time at the Prague City Festival.

But to a huge disappointment of the fans and all the artists, who were supposed to perform there, the festival has been canceled only two weeks in advance.

After that, there were many fans who thought that after such bad experience with the local promoters, the bands would never want to come back to the Czech Republic again. They were wrong. Well, at least with Simple Plan.

Yesterday, right after the band left their last stop in Europe – the Hungarian VOLT festival, Chuck gave the Czech fans some hope when he tweeted:

“So sad that we are not playing Prague City Festival because the event got cancelled. I was so stoked to see @blink182 and @markhoppus :-( Sorry to all our amazing Czech fans! I promise you: we will be back and will make it up to you with a kick-ass show.”

Simple Plan are currently planning their next European (and also probably the last before heading back home to work on the next record)tour for the end of 2012 – either in November or December.

Were you looking forward to seeing Simple Plan in Prague at the end of June – even planning on travelling from foreign countries just to see them and the rest of the fantastic line-up play in the heart of Europe, but then after it being canceled you were at least looking forward to getting your money back? Well, don’t count on it… cause in fact you may never see the money again.

The following statement has been written only in Czech, regarding the Czech ticket provider Ticketportal, so it only concerns those ticket holders, who purchased their tickets via this distributor. After more than a week of total silence the promoters of the festival posted this on their official Facebook page, in order to inform their customers about the situation with the refunds.

Here is the English translation of the promoters’ statement:

Due to the termination of the Prague City Festival, that we were forced to cancel because of the unexpected drop of funds, we are bringing you the information about the refunding of the tickets purchased via Ticketportal.

The distributor (Ticketportal), adverting to the “contract of the arrangement of ticket sales“, has notified us that they will not be refunding the tickets.

In such case, the obligation of refunding the tickets is transfered to the organizers – “Punx Not Dead” – (also with the fact that the agency will not be getting back any of the deposits for the artists’ royalties) meaning that the agency will most definitely be entered into an insolvent liquidation. Punx Not Dead has no other choice but to file bankruptcy. The owners of the purchased tickets for the Prague City Festival will be informed about how to sing up for the insolvency and request a refund.

At the same time, we would like to state that we have appealed to Ticketportal to provide us with all the neccessary information that is needed to identify the sold tickets and how to verify their authenticity.

Regarding the planned concerts, also organised by Punx Not Dead, if Ticketportal (in compliance with the forementioned contract) releases the deposits from the sold tickets to Punx Not Dead, these concerts will be realized (despite the insolvency procedure). This is regarding the performances of G3 on July 31st at the Tipsport Arena and of All Time Low on August 31st at Palace Akropolis.

It is fair to add that the ticket distributors only serve as a medium between the promoters and the customers, and according to Ticketportal, they have already transfered all the money to Punx Not Dead, which is the reason why they are not refunding the tickets.

Despite there not being any official words on the refunds of the tickets purchased via other distributors – such as Eventim – according to one of SP.cz readers, Sari, Eventim is deifnitely refunding the tickets purchased on their website.

What we’ve been hoping for to be only rumors has unfortunately turned out to be true. The promoters of the Prague City Festival, where Simple Plan were supposed to perform on June 29th (among other acts) – in Prague, Czech Republic – have officially confirmed today that the event is definitely canceled, due to financial reasons.

Below you can read the full official statement by the festival’s head promoter, Mr. Borek Jiřík:

In Prague, June 15th 2012: With our deepest regrets we are forced to announce that Prague City Festival will not take place due to immediate and unexpected drop of funds which we had to face and despite all attempts to save the event, we have not found any.

We deeply apologize to all the fans and artists.

Tickets bought at Tickets.de and Eventim will be refunded at the place of purchase. Returns for tickets bought via Ticketportal network will be advised within next 7 working days.

Chuck was the first from the band to react to the news right after the band landed in Darwin, Australia. Here is what he has said about it:

“Just landed in Darwin & just heard that the Prague City Festival got cancelled. So bummed. Was so stoked to play with Blink 182, AAR and LP. So sad for all our awesome Czech fans and everyone who was looking forward to this show. The situation is completely out of our hands. We don’t have any further information right now but we will keep you updated.”

Let’s just hope that Simple Plan will manage to fit a Prague date into their next European tour at the end of this year…

Time flies. There’s no doubt. Today, on April 27th 2012, the Czech fans commemorate 4 years since the first ever Simple Plan show in the Czech Republic. The guys stopped in this country during their tour to promote their third, self-titled record, and with thier concert managed to blow away the crowd that consisted of about 3 000 people.

Ever since then, the band has appeared in the Czech Republic once again – in September 2011 and not even a year after that – and just in 2 months, they will play here again – at the Prague City Festival, on June 29th 2012.

If you haven’t yet, make sure to check out the first ever SimplePlan.cz’s interview, that was made with the members of Simple Plan exactly 4 years ago.

The organisers of the Prague City Festival (that takes place in Prague, Czech Republic) have finally released on their Facebook page the official time schedule for the bands performing at this festival.

As you can see, Simple Plan’s set will be one hour long, just like the bands like The All-American Rejects or Lostprophets. The headliner of the festival, Blink 182, will have an 80-minutes-long set.

Here is the time schedule for Friday, June 29th, when Simple Plan will be performing:

MAIN STAGE:

13:30 doors

14:30-15:20 THE POOH
16:00-16:50 BLACK STONE CHERRY
17:40-18:40 SIMPLE PLAN
19:30-20:30 LOSTPROPHETS
21:40-23:00 BLINK-182

B STAGE: INCHEBA ARENA

17:00 doors

18:10-19:00 WINNER OF THE YOUTUBE FEST – tba
20:40-21:30 CLOU
23:30-00:30 THE ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS
01:00-01:50 STREET DRUM CORPS
02:00-04:30 DJs

Ever since last September, when SimplePlan.cz has organized the Czech fans to hold up the “Thank You” signs in paper hearts during the Simple Plan show in Prague, Czech Republic, I’ve been trying to get the picture that the guys took on stage. They have posted one a few days after the show – only it was in a pretty low quality, so my goal has become to somehow get the original version.

And finally after this year’s European tour I managed to receive it, so huge thanks goes to Amanda, Sean and Sim, each of them helping me to get it. You can see that the picture is a bit different than the one before, but most importantly it’s in much higher quality. Enjoy: