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Simple Plan change up setlist in Bordeaux and Bilbao – add Iconic!

AUTHOR: Dominika | 25. September 2022 | no comments

Simple Plan are currently on tour in Europe supporting Sum 41 and after the first show’s setlist was revealed, some fans felt a little let down over the amount of songs from SP’s new album ‘Harder Than It Looks’, as the original setlist for the first few shows included only one song from this record – ‘Wake Me Up (When This Nightmare’s Over)’.

Of course, given the status of an opening band, it’s understandable that the band only has a fairly limited time to perform, but even so, they still try to fit in as many hits as possible on the setlist.

As we’ve mentioned in the previous article, though, there was a strong possibility the band would switch things up during the tour, so that every show would not be as predictable, as exactly that happened in Bordeaux, France and Bilbao, Spain. According to the fans from both of these shows, Simple Plan switched ‘Wake Me Up’ for another HTIL song – ‘Iconic’. Also, they had to cut the setlist by one song and did not perform ‘What’s New Scooby Doo’ – this might again change at future shows though.

Check out the full setlist from Bordeaux below:

  1. I’d Do Anything
  2. Shut Up!
  3. Jump
  4. Jet Lag (French version)
  5. Your Love Is a Lie
  6. Addicted
  7. Welcome to My Life
  8. Iconic
  9. Summer Paradise
  10. All Star / Sk8er Boi / Mr. Brightside
  11. Where I Belong
  12. I’m Just a Kid
  13. Perfect

Simple Plan’s setlist for European tour revealed

AUTHOR: Dominika | 21. September 2022 | no comments
Last night, Simple Plan and Sum 41 kicked off their fall European tour in Stuttgart, Germany and therefore revealed what might be in store for the fans for the rest of the tour.

As far as the setlist goes, being the opening band on this tour, Simple Plan performed 14 songs in total and overall decided to mostly focus on their most known hits and therefore their new album ‘Harder Than It Looks’ is represented only by one song (‘Wake Me Up When This Nightmare’s Over’). And while the setlist might still slightly change throughout the tour, we can be sure that it will more or less probably look like this.

Check it out below:

  1. I’d Do Anything
  2. Shut Up!
  3. Jump
  4. Jet Lag
  5. Your Love Is a Lie
  6. Welcome to My Life
  7. Summer Paradise
  8. Wake Me Up (When This Nightmare’s Over)
  9. Addicted
  10. All Star / Sk8er Boi / Mr. Brightside (covers)
  11. What’s New Scooby Doo
  12. Where I Belong
  13. I’m Just a Kid
  14. Perfect

Singer Cassyette added as opening act for Sum 41/Simple Plan European tour

AUTHOR: Dominika | 16. September 2022 | no comments

In just a week, Simple Plan and Sum 41 will finally return to Europe to kick off Sum 41’s Does This Look All Killer No Filler tour, where Simple Plan are the main special guest and they won’t be the only ones on this tour! The opening act for the tour has just been announced to be the British singer-songwriter Cassyette.

The singer will be joined the two Canadian bands on all of the dates of their European tour which will continue throughout the end of September and most of October.

Simple Plan to return to Canada this fall with The Offspring

AUTHOR: Dominika | 7. September 2022 | no comments

The ‘Let The Bad Times Roll Tour’ has already been through a lot (of bad times). You may recall that last year it was announced that Simple Plan would be opening for The Offspring on their cross-Canadian tour in early 2022, however due to another surge of the covid-19 pandemic, this tour has been canceled. However, things are finally starting to look up and the Canadian fans will finally get to see these two bands together on an unforgettable tour later this fall!

The Offspring will be taking Simple Plan as a special guest on a Canadian tour that will kick off on Halloween in Halifax, NS and continue throughout all of November and finishing in Victoria, BC. Overall the tour will be making stops in 18 different cities.

Tickets go on sale this Friday, September 9th, at 10am EST but if you want to get them early you can use the pre-sale code JUSTAKID and get your tickets already on Thursday, September 8th from 10pm local time.

Check out the entire tourlist and the promotional video below:

‘Summer Paradise’ certified silver in the UK

AUTHOR: Dominika | 3. September 2022 | no comments

One of Simple Plan’s biggest hits to date – their summer bop ‘Summer Paradise’ has recently reached another important honor. The song’s version featuring Sean Paul has been certified silver in the United Kingdom.

According to the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), the song was issued the Brit Certified Silver Award on August 12th after it sold over 200 000 units in the UK, as measured by The Official Charts Company.

Besides this certification, Summer Paradise is also certified 3x platinum in Canada (240 000 units), 2x platinum in Australia (140 000 units), and 1x platinum in Italy and Switzerland, after selling 30 000 units each.

Originally the song was first released on the album Get Your Heart On in 2011 featuring K’Naan, however once the time has come for the band to release the song as a single, it unfortunately collided with K’Naan’s own releases and because of that his version could not be the one to become a single. Simple Plan however trusted the song had big potential and asked rapper Sean Paul to be featured on the song instead and even appear in its music video. The single was released on February 27th 2012 and the music video came out on March 30th 2012, soon to become SP’s biggest music video to date – as of writing this article, the video has over 137 million views on YouTube.

Remind yourselves of the music video here: