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Max Ellis (The Bottom Line): “Touring with Simple Plan was beyond anything we’ve ever done before.”

AUTHOR: Dominika | 7. February 2017 | no comments


European Simple Plan fans surely still have the British band The Bottom Line in their memory, as they famously opened for Simple Plan on both parts of their European tour in 2016 and managed to win the hearts of many SP fans there. Max Ellis, the bassist and vocalist of The Bottom Line, recently gave an interview to Lizzie’s Lowdown, in which he spoke very highly of his band’s times on the road with Simple Plan.

Check out the parts of the interview, where Max discusses SP below:

Last year you toured with one of the biggest names in pop punk Simple Plan, how did that feel?
Amazing. We were absolutely privileged to be on their tour and they are such legit, down to earth guys. The shows were beyond anything we’ve ever done before. Also, to be invited back onto the second leg of the ‘Taking One For The Team’ tour just because they enjoyed our show & company so much blew us away.

If you could tour with any band/artist who would be it and why?
I think this varies for all of us, but the names that usually pop up are New Found Glory, Neck Deep, Sum 41, Blink 182 & of course, another tour with our boys in Simple Plan. Personally I would say Blink, I was (still am) obsessed with them growing up & that’s been my dream tour for as long as I can remember.

Simple Plan to start NPNHJB tour before anniversary: band adds another show in New York!

AUTHOR: Dominika | 6. February 2017 | no comments

After the Simple Plan show in New York City got sold-out, the local fans who didn’t manage to score tickets to the PlayStation Theatre venue, which holds up to 2200 people, were waiting for the band to hopefully announce a second show in the city, just like they did in Chicago and San Francisco, which all have been sold out for a couple of weeks now.

And that is exactly what happened!

However, because Simple Plan did not have time to add a second NYC show anywhere near the original date (March 25th), they were forced to book a show there on March 10th, which means way ahead of the official No Pads anniversary (March 19th) and even before the start of the band’s Canadian tour, which is still as of right now being promoted as a Taking One For The Team tour, not a NPNHJB one.

The tickets for the new New York City date will go on sale this Friday, noon EST.

Check out the details below:

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Hungarian SP show with Four Years Strong to be a part of NPNHJB tour

AUTHOR: Dominika | 6. February 2017 | 1 comment

Earlier, in the announcement of the European No Pads, No Helmets… Just Balls tour, I purposely did not include the show in Budapest, Hungary, as the initial poster for the NPNHJB tour in Europe claimed that this show which is a part of the Budapest Park concert series, would be a festival date.

However, it seems that there was a mistake and the Budapest Park show, where Four Years Strong will be opening for Simple Plan will in fact be a No Pads, No Helmets.. Just Balls show. Simple Plan have already replaced the earlier poster with a new one, which confirms this.

It is currently unknown which bands will be opening for Simple Plan at the rest of the European No Pads shows. Four Years Strong have not commented on whether they would accompany SP on the remaining dates as well.

Check out the details for the Budapest date below:

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Simple Plan announce European leg of NPNHJB tour!

AUTHOR: Dominika | 6. February 2017 | 1 comment

Just as we predicted last week, earlier today Simple Plan revealed all the dates of their upcoming European tour, which will consist not only of the already announced festival dates in the UK, Czech Republic and Austria, but also of nine concert dates of their 15th year anniversary No Pads, No Helmets… Just Balls tour in May and June!

As a part of the NPNHJB tour, Simple Plan will visit Berlin and Hamburg in Germany, Geneva and Pratteln in Switzerland, Paris in France, Tilburg in The Netherlands, London in the UK and finally also Milan and Padova in Italy.

(Update: It has just been confirmed that the show in Budapest, Hungary will also be a part of his tour, therefore it won’t be a festival date – as initially stated.)

Tickets go on sale this Friday, 11am CET. Check out all the newly announced dates in the tour section and the poster below:

European NPNHJB tour to be announced next week!

AUTHOR: Dominika | 4. February 2017 | no comments

European fans – time to get really excited for next week!

Simple Plan posted the following message on their Instagram yesterday: “We got some pretty exciting show announcements coming next week! Can’t wait to share with you!” which they accompanied with the hashtag #NPNHJBtour.

Now, while that may sound as a pretty vague message to some people, not revealing the exact place where in the world this tour is supposed to be taking place, if you really think about it, it’s really not that hard to figure it out.

As of right now, we already know Simple Plan are heading out on a tour in Canada next month, after which they kick off the first part of the No Pads, No Helmets… Just Balls tour in the United States. That tour will last until almost the end of April after which the band will very likely have some time off. The other already announced dates in Simple Plan’s schedule then include three European festivals in June (UK, Czech Republic and Austria) and given that Simple Plan have previously stated that they want to bring this special tour all around the world and we know they are working on tourdates in Europe, it’s not too hard to put two and two together. There is no doubt that these tourdates will be regarding the long-awaited European tourdates of the NPNHJB tour.

This also ties nicely with yesterday’s revelation from the Italian promoters, that there will be some cool announcement coming up on Monday. While it is unknown right now whether the band plans to unveil all the tourdates on Monday as well, it seems very likely.

Which countries do you think SP should visit with this tour? And which bands should SP take with them on this tour?