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Recap of Simple Plan’s UK tour: band teases a possible European tour in the fall!

by Dominika | Feb 17th, 2020 | no comments

A week has gone by and by now, the members of Simple Plan have already packed their bags are headed back home across the big pond, after their 6-stop UK tour with Bowling For Soup, where they’ve visited Glasgow, Birmingham, Manchester, Newcastle, London and Brighton.

This pretty much sold-out tour (the only not sold-out date was Brighton) entitled ‘Together Again: You’re Welcome’ brought together old friends Bowling For Soup and Simple Plan on tour for the first time in almost 16 years. The result of it was a jam-packed night in every city they’ve visited and thousands of happy pop-punk fans.

Over the course of the tour, Simple Plan’s setlist has remained the same pretty much every night, besides Manchester, where Pierre apparently performed a cover of Oasis’ ‘Wonderwall’. The setlist was of course much shorter than Simple Plan’s regular show setlists, as they were the opening band on this tour:

1. I’d Do Anything
2. Jump
3. Welcome To My Life
4. Shut Up!
5. Boom!
6. Addicted
7. What’s New Scooby Doo?
8. Summer Paradise
9. Where I Belong
10. I’m Just A Kid
11. Perfect

The most important news that we can share with you from our attendance of the Simple Plan show in London, is that on stage Pierre mentioned that the band plans to return to Europe for a proper tour by the end of the year, hopefully around fall. For the dates however, we’re going to have to wait for a bit.

Until then, make sure to browse through the following albums in our gallery for some of the first photos from the Simple Plan/Bowling For Soup UK tour:

GLASGOW | NEWCASTLE | BIRMINGHAM | MANCHESTER | LONDON | BRIGHTON

Half of the Bowling For Soup/Simple Plan tour in the UK is now sold-out!

by Dominika | Jan 8th, 2020 | no comments

In just about a month, Simple Plan will be returning to Europe, where they are going to join their old friends Bowling For Soup on the ‘Together Again: You’re Welcome’ tour in the United Kingdom. Last night, Simple Plan announced that in fact another date of this tour is now sold-out: Manchester. That officially makes half of the tour sold-out with tickets remaining only for the concerts in Glasgow, London and Brighton.

Check out the whole tour below and make sure to secure your tickets to Simple Plan’s first tour in Europe in 2020:

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Members of Simple Plan react to Manchester concert terrorist attack

by Dominika | May 23rd, 2017 | 3 comments

By now, you have surely heard about the terrifying terrorist attack that happened after the end of the Ariana Grande show at the Manchester Arena in Manchester, UK. An explosion caused by a suicide bomber that took place in the corridors connecting the venue with the close-by subway station took the lives of 22 people and left over 50 people injured. The incident is still being investigated by the local authorities and the international terrorism threat level has now been set to severe in the United Kingdom.

This attacks comes a year and half after another terrorist attack that involved a European concert venue – the 2015 attack of the Bataclan venue in Paris, France. Back then, Simple Plan were just about to head out to Europe to perform at a secret show in Paris two days after the attack and David was even initially planning to attend the Bataclan concert. However after this (and several more happening in Paris that day) they decided to cancel their trip [read more about that here].

With last night’s terrorist attack in Manchester hitting so close to home to many music fans and musicians – once again with a concert venue being the target, some members of Simple Plan offered their condolences to the families who lost their loved ones and expressed solidarity with the city of Manchester. You can read their words below:

“This is a photo from our show in Manchester last year. We love this city and it literally breaks our hearts to see what happened last night at the Ariana Grande show. 💔💔💔 We would like to send our thoughts of love and deepest condolences to all the music fans, parents, venue staff and security personnel, artists and families affected by this tragedy. Music is a way to connect together, to celebrate life and provide an escape from our everyday troubles. It should never be a target for hate and senseless violence. We stand with you, Manchester. Stay strong! Please use the comment section below to leave your thoughts and messages for Manchester and everyone affected by this tragedy.”

– Simple Plan [official statement on band’s Instagram] –

“Completely speechless… My thoughts are with you [United Kingdom].”

– Sebastien Lefebvre –

“I can’t believe what just happened in Manchester. My thoughts and prayers go out to this beautiful city and its people.”

– Pierre Bouvier –

“Manchester – Ariana Grande’s concert – A concert is a communion of people sharing their love for music. As humans, we strive to make social connections and we often identify ourselves with a culture, an esthetic, an artist, a movement that allow us to meet like minded people. Attacking the expression of one of our most beautiful human traits is horrible. My prayers and thoughts are with the victims and their families. Don’t get desensitized to these events even if they occur more often now. “

– Jeff Stinco –

“Absolutely heartbreaking to see what is happening in Manchester right now. Terrifying to think that concerts are a target again. 💔 My heart goes out to all the music fans and people affected by this horrific event.”

– Chuck Comeau –

Day with SP in Manchester through the lenses of an analog camera

by Dominika | Apr 26th, 2016 | no comments

The British server Clash Music recently released a series of vintage looking photos, which seemed to have been taken by an old-school analogue camera on March 23rd, when Simple Plan were in Manchester, UK. The photography follows the members of Simple Plan from their early afternoon walkabouts around the city of Manchester, their arrival to the venue and also some backstage time.

Check out this very interesting and rather different view at a day in the life of Simple Plan through these pictures in the gallery: