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Photo recap: Simple Plan opened for Blink-182 in Toronto (without Sebastien)

Last week, on June 7th, the members of Simple Plan gathered in Toronto, Canada, where they were scheduled to appear (for one night only) as the main supporting act for Blink-182, with Neck Deep being the second opening band.

Unfortunately, due to an unforeseen personal situation, Simple Plan’s guitarist Seb Lefebvre wasn’t able to join his bandmates on this date. Instead, the band’s personal photographer and friend Chady Awad stepped in and helped the band out with his own guitar skills, making sure that the show would go on as planned. In their announcement of this unforeseen change of plans, Simple Plan promised on their Instagram that Seb would be back with them for their next show in Mountain View, CA.

But even despite this little setback however, Simple Plan still managed to rock their set, during which they performed 14 songs, properly warming up the crowd for the main act. Check out SP’s setlist for their opening gig for Blink in Toronto below:

1. I’d Do Anything
2. Shut Up
3. Jump
4. Addicted
5. Jet Lag
6. Your Love Is a Lie
7. Welcome to My Life
8. Boom!
9. Can’t Keep My Hands Off You
10. Perfect World
11. Summer Paradise
12. Crazy
13. I’m Just a Kid
14. Perfect

We’ve already added a bunch of pictures from this special show to the gallery, so make sure to check them all out:

Simple Plan to join Blink-182 and Neck Deep on their tour for one night in Toronto!

This summer, Toronto will witness a truly unforgettable pop-punk night! On July 7th, three of some of the most notorious pop-punk acts will join their forces and perform together at the Budweiser Stage: Blink-182, Simple Plan and Neck Deep.

This Toronto gig is a part of the just-announced North-American Blink-182 & Lil Wayne (who will not be present in Toronto, though) tour with Neck Deep. Simple Plan will only be taking part in the show in Toronto, ON, Canada, as the second opening band. Tickets go on sale this Friday, May 10th.

More information can be found here:

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Chuck had his physical activity studied while playing drums at Warped: see the results!

Back on Warped Tour, Simple Plan’s drummer Chuck Comeau agreed to take part in a very interesting study by Dr. Nadia Azar from the University of Windsor, who’s current research revolves around the topic of drummers’ athletic performance with the goal of “helping drummers play better, faster and stronger while avoiding injuries”, as she states on her university profile.

In order to study Chuck in his natural environment – while playing on stage – two armbands and a heart rate monitor were attached to his body on two different shows on Warped Tour – in Toronto, Canada and in Rochester Hills, MI. The only difference between the sets was that Toronto’s setlist featured one extra song, making it longer and hence the data for each show were expected to differ in some of the results. In her post where she summed up the findings about Chuck’s energy expenditure, Dr. Azar noted that there was one moment furing the show when she was afraid that the collected data might not be as accurate, when Chuck’s armband nearly slipped off during one specific moment of the show. I’m sure you can all guess which one:

‘I knew from the get-go that this was going to be a unique data collection experience. During our first conversation, Chuck mentioned that he does a stage dive/crowd surf at every show…would that be an issue with the equipment? I thought it would probably be fine, but it almost wasn’t…we had a scary moment during the first show where one of the armbands came loose and slipped off his arm! 😱 Thankfully, Chuck managed to catch and hang onto it until the crowd returned him to the stage.. Lesson learned – we locked them down with multiple layers of athletic tape at the next show to make sure it didn’t happen again 😂’

– Dr. Nadia Azar –

And what were the final findings of Dr. Azar’s study of Chuck Comeau’s physical performance while playing drums? Let’s have a look at the published data!

Total calories burned:

Toronto – 390 calories |||| Rochester Hills – 339 calories
Toronto – 12 calories per minute |||| Rochester Hills – 11 calories per minute

Given the show in Toronto was longer, the number of calories was slightly higher there than in Rochester Hills. According to Dr. Azar, Chuck also burns an average of 12 calories per minute while playing drums and the amount is actually even higher while playing the two most energy-demanding songs ‘Jump’ and ‘Welcome To My Life’, when he burns up to 14 calories per minute. ‘Welcome To My Life’ was apparently also the most intense song at both shows (Chuck also reached 14 cal/min during ‘Jump’ in Toronto). The only time Chuck could “catch a break” during the shows was during his crowdsurfing moment, when his calorie burn dropped to “only” 9 cal/min.

Heart rate:

Toronto – 166 beats per minute |||| Rochester Hills – 160 beats per minute

As far as Chuck’s heart rate goes, his average heart rate in Toronto was again a bit higher than in Rochester Hills. What is very impressive, however is that the results showed that his heart rate in Toronto and Rochester Hills represented 91% and 88% of his age-predicted maximum heart rate, respectively, which, as Dr. Azar notes, are levels that could be compared to those seen in elite football players!

Excercise intensity:

Percentage of time spent at near/at maximum intensity (94 %-100 % of max. heart rate):
Toronto – 28 |||| Rochester Hills – 17

Percentage of time spent in vigorous intensity (77 %-94 % of max. heart rate):
Toronto – 68 |||| Rochester Hills – 77

And finally, Chuck’s overall excercise intensity results tell us that he spends over 70 % of the show in a “vigorous intensity” state, which could be compared to that of a running session and he then spends pretty much the rest of the concert (about 30 %) in an even higher intensity activity level – at his maximum heart rate.

If all of that tells us anything, it’s that (if it wasn’t clear before) – Chuck is definitely not the one to slack off during his performance! We’re definitely all very impressed with his results! And Chuck was certainly also very impressed, as he decided to share them on his social media, adding:

‘I didn’t post this to brag (ok, ok…maybe a little…lol) but I take a lot of pride in the fact that I always give all the energy I have on stage for our fans and I’m stoked that these results indicate that I don’t ever “cheat” and just phone it in and that I truly go all out playing our shows. And I’m also excited to share this with everyone to encourage you to find an activity that will help you push yourself and your body. Maybe you can try drums, a new sport, running or anything else that you will enjoy.’

– Chuck Comeau –

New surprise guest for I’m Just A Kid: Rob Damiani (Don Broco) joined Simple Plan in Toronto

For the one-off stop in Canada of the final Vans Warped Tour, Simple Plan decided to treat their fellow Canadian fans with another new surprise guest during I’m Just A Kid. After having invited musicians like Travis Clark (We The Kings), Yungblud, Nate Motte (3OH!3), Jenna McDougall (Tonight Alive), Jaret Reddick (Bowling For Soup) and most recently Awsten Knight (Waterparks) with the honor of singing one of the band’s most notorious hits in North America, in Toronto, Simple Plan asked one of their newest buddies Rob Damiani from the British band Don Broco on stage alongside Travis Clark from We The Kings.

Check out Rob’s and Travis’ vocal support during I’m Just a Kid, while Chuck stagedived into the crowd and Pierre got ahold of the drumset:

Simple Plan celebrate Chuck’s birthday on stage in Toronto

On Saturday, the members of Simple Plan returned to The Danforth Music Hall in Toronto, Canada, also known as the venue where they filmed the concert scenes for the Singing In The Rain music video and SP.cz was there to document this show for you.

Fans started gathering around the venue already after 9am and then patiently waited all the way until 6pm when the doors opened and they were let into the venue.

This show was the only one on this Canadian run, where the fans were able to enjoy one very special opening act – the popular local band called Not By Choice, who have not performed in over 10 years and only reunited for this SP show. Not By Choice was the final opening act right before Simple Plan, preceded by Courage My Love and The Bottom Line.

When Simple Plan hit the stage, one could already tell by the extremely loud cheers from the crowd that we were about to witness quite an astounding show. And indeed we did! Jeff summed the concert in Toronto up with these words:

Toronto was the sickest show of our Canadian-No-Pads tour. Ontario is where it all started for us; we have tons of friends here that I’m really happy to have seen tonight. 

– Jeff Stinco –

The show was filled with enormous energy both from the band and from the crowd to the point where an incredible amount of crowdsurfers enjoyed the sea of people under them – sometimes even multiple times.

Simple Plan performed their usual setlist of this tour, however there was one additional song that appeared during the night, which was when Pierre decided that since we were just about 2 hours away from Chuck’s birthday (today, September 17th), it was time to sing him ‘Happy birthday’. I managed to capture a big of this moment on the video below:

And since we’re already talking videos, here’s a special little treat for you: ‘Opinion Overload’ live at soundcheck in Toronto:

The SimplePlan.cz gallery has now also been updated with a number of our pictures from the show in Toronto, which you can check out below: