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Sao Paulo: Chuck’s new drumkit design & sign surprise & on-stage marriage proposal

by Dominika | May 28th, 2018 | no comments

Simple Plan’s tour across Brazil continues and last night the band dropped by the city of Sao Paulo, where they were looking forward to greeting all 3000 fans who have managed to sell out the Audio venue.

And they were in for a night full of surprises! Firstly, some fans might have noticed that Chuck didn’t use his regular No Pads transparent bass drum head, but instead kicked the show off with a new simple ‘SP’ on a black background [see the picture above] on his bass drum head (thanks Bruno for the info). Will he keep it for the rest of the tour? We’ll see!

As far as the show itself concerns, the fans surprised the band with a bunch of ‘David is here’ signs during Addicted to show their support of the band’s bass player, who currently remains home, where he’s doing his best at battling depression.

And finally, during the intermission between Boom! and Jet Lag in the encore part of the concert, Pierre invited a fan on stage, who got on his knee to propose to his girlfriend. Surrounded by loud emotional cheers and applause, the couple became another pair, who got engaged on a Simple Plan stage. Check out the cute moment on the video captured by SP:BR below:

After these exhausting three shows in Brazil, the members of Simple Plan can now rest for two days before their next gig, which will take place in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday. In the meantime, check out all of the new pictures from last night’s show in Sao Paulo, Brazil:

First two No Pads shows in Brazil: political chants & scheduling changes

by Dominika | May 27th, 2018 | no comments

Two days ago Simple Plan started their Brazilian tour in the city of Porto Alegre and continued with it last night in Curitiba, both located on the southern side of the country. Both shows were nearly sold out and fans seemed to have enjoyed their first look at the No Pads sets very much.

The setlist remained the same as in Argentina and seems like it will remain that way for the rest of the tour. As far as specifics goes, besides of many caipirinha jokes, there’s one little moment from Porto Alegre worth mentioning further. With the country currently being in a massive crisis – politically and socially, right before Perfect during the Porto Alegre show, many Brazilian fans in Curitiba began chanting against the current president of Brazil. Pierre obviously did not understand the Portuguese chants and replied (in Portuguese) “Thank you very much, Porto Alegre”), which of course resulted in a wave of laughter from the crowd, who’s politically-inspired chants have been misunderstood for cheering for Simple Plan [thanks Bruno for the info].

Besides that, the only change that seem to be exclusive to Brazil right now due to scheduling issues, is that the VIP post-game pizza parties now take place before the show (after SP Crew’s soundcheck). Only the Sao Paulo one might take place after since there is also a pre-game scheduled for that day.

Let’s have a look now at the atmosphere of last night’s show in Curitiba! Simple Plan posted a video taken during Crazy that will give you a glimpse of what a show in Brazil is like:

And don’t forget to check out the first official photos from these two shows in the gallery! The left image will lead you to the album for Porto Alegre pictures and the right one to the pics from Curitiba.

Chuck explained why South American tour only includes 2 countries

by Dominika | May 24th, 2018 | no comments

When Simple Plan’s South American No Pads tour was announced a few months ago, the fans from Argentina and Brazil cheered, but the fans of the remaining Latin countries were left disappointed, as there were no shows planned for their countries.

A recent comment made by a Colombian fan on Simple Plan’s account on Instagram regarding the band’s South American tour being organized in only two countries made Chuck Comeau react and respond to this issue in order to explain why Simple Plan were not able to tour more countries on this tour.

Check out Chuck’s response below:

Let me address this: First, we played in Colombia before and we absolutely loved it. We tried really hard to come back but for many reasons, it couldn’t work out this time. There’s no one more disappointed than us about this. We love playing everywhere, especially in South America. We did 2 very extensive tours in the region and they were among the best shows we ever did. It breaks my heart to not be able to bring this tour to your country and it was a very tough decision. But what really bums me out is that you could think that we don’t care or didn’t make a lot of efforts to make it happen. I spent weeks discussing how it could work with our agent and our manager and sadly, we just couldn’t make it work with the schedule this time. I’m sorry and I promise you we will keep trying our best to always come play for all our fans all over the world.

Love and respect, Chuck.

– Chuck Comeau –

Simple Plan performed ‘Vacation’ on soundcheck in Argentina & new merch revealed

by Dominika | May 24th, 2018 | no comments

On Tuesday, May 22nd, Simple Plan opened their final run of the No Pads tour in South America, at the Teatro Vorterix venue in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Before the show, the band as always greeted some lucky SP Crew fans at soundcheck, where they performed a very rare song to be performed live – ‘Vacation’.

Remind yourselves of this popular New York Minute track live in Argentina below:

The addition of ‘Vacation’ on the soundcheck setlist did not however change anything on the regular show setlist and the guys went with the same-old No Pads one [check it out here]. The show was a lot of fun, even included a long chant by fans and overall the guys seemed to enjoy themselves on stage – as you can tell from the new pictures from the show in Argentina:

What was however surprising was the new merch that was available at the show in Buenos Aires and might be available on the remaining South American shows too. The image, published by HellMerch, shows us two new t-shirt designs – one featuring a picture of the whole band with red scribbles over their faces and one featuring the band’s name on a ribbon ties around four arrows (UPDATE: According to SPB, the arrow design would only be available in Argentina). You can see the merch more clearly on the video HellMerch also posted here.


Merch sold at the Simple Plan show in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Simple Plan’s South American tour kicks off today: David not to attend

by Dominika | May 22nd, 2018 | 2 comments

The final leg of Simple Plan’s 15th anniversary tour of their debut album No Pads, No Helmets… Just Balls will kick off tonight, May 22nd, when the band walks up on stage in Buenos Aires, Argentina before leaving for a week-long tour in Brazil.

The members of Simple Plan are already present in Argentina since yesterday – some even managed to already get some tourist stuff done in the afternoon, such as Seb, who already published a bunch of pictures [check them out].

Unfortunately, just as we’ve expected, the local fans will once again get to see Simple Plan only as a quartet, as their bass player David Desrosiers is still absent from touring due to his on-going battle with depression. The band will very likely discuss his absence on stage, as they’ve done frequently on all the shows during the past year.

What can we expect from this tour?

But even without David, Simple Plan have proved over the last year that they are more than capable of running a fantastic show even with this little handicap. As far as bass goes – sometimes David’s pre-recorded tracks are be used and sometimes Chady will be there to lend a hand on the bass guitar during some parts of the shows.

Fans who will be attending the shows are surely also curious about the setlist. Given that the shows have rarely changed over the course of the past year, we are fairly sure about the following setlist to be used – as always, Simple Plan will be playing their first album NPNHJB in its entirety, followed by a “best of” encore of songs from their other records. Check it out 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. Grow Up
13. Perfect
Encore:
14. Shut Up!
15. Jump
16. Boom
17. Your Love Is A Lie
18. Jet Lag
19. Summer Paradise
20. Crazy
21. Welcome To My Life

But most of all, this will be the very last opportunity for the fans to see this special anniversary show as these will be the last shows SP will be performing it at. Simple Plan have exactly 6 upcoming No Pads shows planned for South America – one in Argentina (Buenos Aires) and 5 in Brazil (Porto Alegre, Curitiba, Sao Paulo, Rio De Janeiro and Uberlandia). Out of all of these, so far only Sao Paulo is sold-out. The remaining shows still have tickets available.

If you’re attending any of the upcoming shows and would like to help us with the updates – info, pictures etc. – hit us up on social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram) or send us an e-mail!

Let’s get touring again!