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

by Dominika | Nov 18th, 2023 | no comments

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 

check out all the upcoming tourdates!

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

by Dominika | Nov 25th, 2022 | no comments

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.

LISTEN TO: Italian artist’s GionnyScandal’s new song ‘Nicotina’ feat. Pierre Bouvier

by Dominika | May 8th, 2021 | no comments

During his time in the pandemic, Pierre Bouvier tried to keep himself busy by getting involved in multiple music projects outside of Simple Plan, helping out talented new and also some established artists and working with them to make their new releases better. One of these artists, a 29-year-old Italian singer/rapper GionnyScandal, who’s made his name known in Italy all the way back in 2011 with his first album, which then immediately topped the Italian TOP 10 best-selling records on iTunes of that time.

GionnyScandal was the one to contact Pierre on his Instagram, with zero hopes that his message would even be read. To his surprise however, Pierre not only read his message, he replied and a collaboration between the two artists was suddenly underway. Pierre worked with GionnyScandal via videochat and together they came up with the chorus of the song ‘Nicotina’, which Pierre is also featured on.

Read what GionnyScandal said about this collaboration with one of his favorite musicians:

“I have his poster in my bedroom, I told myself that to give credibility to a project of this kind I have to rely on one of the greatest exponents of the genre, and it doesn’t cost anything to try. So, without going through the bureaucracy of the record company, I wrote to him on Instagram directly, asking to do a piece with him. [After I lost all hope] and after twenty days, he simply replied: ‘Yes, let’s do it.’ I called everyone as if I had won the lottery! I sent him a piece already complete, he answered me after another 15 days, he gave me his number and we did the feat on a video-call writing the ‘Nicotina’ refrain with the chords. I was struck by the fact that he is a very humble rock star and this paradox is great. Later, on Whatsapp, he thanked me for having him on my record and that was crazy because for me it was exactly the opposite. I think I will print and hang that Whatsapp screenshot on my wall.”

– GionnyScandal [source] –

The song ‘Nicotina’ (feat. Pierre Bouvier) is featured as track no. 6 on GionnnyScandal’s new album “Anti”, released on May 7th 2021. Check out the full song below and make sure to let us know what you think:

Alternative Press features Simple Plan among 5 bands who stood up to security

by Dominika | Aug 5th, 2017 | no comments

In one of their latest articles, Alternative Press named 5 examples of times when bands stood up to security, when they treated their fans badly or didn’t do their job correctly. The bands that Alternative Press mentioned included Tonight Alive, State Champs, Knocked Loose, The Story So Far and… you’ve guessed it: Simple Plan.

The incident happened on the 2012 European tour in Milan, Italy [we reported about it here, back in March 2012]. In case you don’t recall, here’s a little recap of what happened: A fan first jumped on stage out of fun, after which he was escorted off the stage by security. Usually, the story would end here and we would say job well done, security. However, the security then proceeded to beat-up this fan on the side of the venue. When the members of Simple Plan noticed that, they stopped the show (right during one of their biggest hits ‘Welcome To My Life’) and Jeff even went to get the fan out of the security’s hands and brought him back on stage.

Check out what Alternative Press had to say about the band’s quick step-in into the incident and remind yourselves of the video of what all went down that night below:

“Security have a responsibility to step in if a fan jumps on stage because it poses a danger to the artist, but no fan deserves a full beatdown. Simple Plan brought this fan back on stage to make up for it!”

– Alternative Press [link] –

VIDEO: Italian band Room On The 3rd Floor jams with Simple Plan at soundcheck in Milan

by Dominika | Jun 25th, 2017 | no comments

The guys from the Italian band Room On The 3rd Floor, who are all very big fans of Simple Plan attended the soundcheck party in Milan, Italy on June 16th and Jeff Stinco invited them to play ‘Addicted’ on stage with them with Pierre sang below the stage among the fans.

This was of course an amazing opportunity and a dream come true for the three young musicians and this is what they later wrote about this experience:

“Simple Plan is one of the main reason we’ve loved pop punk when we were kids and why we have a band today so, being on stage with them, play their instruments and sing with them was a surreal moment that we’ll surely never never ever forget!”

– Room On The 3rd Floor –

Check out the video of the guys from Room On The 3rd Floor rocking out alongside Jeff and Pierre: