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Simple Plan announced for more festivals in 2023 – plans include Europe, Asia and the U.S!

Hold on to your hats, Simple Plan fans! 2023 will be a big touring year for the band! Let’s have a recap of all we know so far and also reveal some of the new additions to the tour plan!

First of all, the band will be stopping by in Asia early next year – it has been announced that they will be part of the Everblast Festival line-up, which will take place from March 4th to 5th in Jakarta, Indonesia. Besides Simple Plan, fans will also get to see acts like Hoobastank or The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. You can check out more info about the festival here. Given how far Asia is, it is very likely that this won’t be SP’s only stop on the continent. We’ll keep you posted once we know more!

Now let’s move on to the summer – that part of the year will (at least partly) belong to Europe! After already announcing their appearance at the Nova Rock festival in Austria (June 7th 2023), Simple Plan have just been also added to the line-up of next year’s Download Festival in the UK (June 8th 2023) and they will also appear at the first ever Slam Dunk Festival in Italy (June 2nd 2023) and France (June 3rd 2023).

And so far, it looks like the end of the year will all about the U.S. again, since Simple Plan are scheduled for at least one show there so far – the When We Were Young Festival in Las Vegas (October 21st 2023). Unfortunately, tickets to this festival are already sold-out.

New interviews from the United Kingdom

Last month, Simple Plan performed two shows in the United Kingdom – first their headlining show at London’s O2 Forum and then the Download Festival. On both days, the band has given out a number of interviews to local media and below you can now check out two of them, which were recently released – one for Gig Goer and the other one for TotalRock Radio featuring Chuck, Jeff and Sebastien:

European festival interviews with Simple Plan

When on tour in Europe in the past few weeks, the members of Simple Plan gave a number of interviews to local media channels. Now, you’ve already seen the SimplePlan.cz interview, but let’s have a look at some of the other interviews that have already been released on YouTube and which you may have missed.

On Saturday, June 10th, Simple Plan attended the Download festival in the UK, where The Pit got ahold of Chuck and Seb for a short interview, in which the two members of the band discussed why their band has a way to connect with a crowd even at heavier festivals like Download and how the pop-punk genre can still be relevant today:

As you can guess from the setting of it, the second interview comes from Prague – from the Aerodrome Festival – where Jeff Stinco got interviewed by the Evropa 2 radio station. Check it out below:

PHOTOS: Download, Budapest Park and Padova

Simple Plan keep on roaming through Europe and are slowly heading to the finish line of this summer tour on the old continent. With two shows still ahead of us, let’s look back at the past couple of shows we have not discussed on the website yet: Download festival in the United Kingdom, Tuesday’s show at Budapest Park in Hungary and finally yesterday’s headlining show in Padova, Italy.

In our gallery, you can now check out some amazing new pictures from all three of these shows: