After over a month of laying low after the Canadian tour had to be rescheduled to March [read more about that here], the Taking One For The Team tour will finally bring Simple Plan to South America this week. And in the first place: Simple Plan are ready to come to Brazil again! As Sebastien has already revealed, he is flying to Brazil later tonight and similarly all the other members of Simple Plan are expected to head to South America today, while some crew members are already there, enjoying the local sights.
In Brazil the band will perform at 4 shows in total – in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro [sold-out!], Belo Horizonte and Porto Alegre. As many of you are aware, Brazil has of course one of the most enthusiastic and devoted fans in the world, so we expect this trip to be one hell of an adventure for the SP guys. Due to that, the security might be a little bit tighter than we are used to with Simple Plan and we can also see less of after-show behind-the-venue signing sessions than we are normally used to in other parts of the world. However that does not mean it will be impossible for the local fans to meet SP (besides soundcheck and pizza party) – if you recall the last time SP were in Brazil, the guys spontaneously decided to hold a signing session for the fans at their hotel, which they announced on Twitter. So surely, the guys will take the time to see their Brazilian fans this time around as well.
Besides Brazil, the boys will later also head to Argentina (sold-out!), Paraguay, Chile and Peru – playing one show in each of these countries. These shows will also be the last shows for Simple Plan in 2016.
So what can we expect from these shows?
The first thing on everyone’s mind is the setlist, of course. We’ve gotten used to the fact that Simple Plan do not like to change up their setlist a lot, so the core of it has stayed the same pretty much for the whole course of the TOFTT tour so far [check out the setlist here]. But, the guys do try to switch up usually one or two songs in between shows and sometimes add some surprises as well.
With the recent release of the music video for ‘Perfectly Perfect’ (which hit 1 million views on YouTube today!) and the overall positive reaction the song has been receiving, it is fairly certain that the band will very likely include this song on the setlist permanently (unlike the U.S. tour, where the song was performed very sporadically). A question mark is still over the newly released song ‘Christmas Every Day’ – while it would surely be cool for all the concert attendees to hear this new song live with Christmas just around the corner, it is unsure whether SP had any time to practice this song together yet and whether they want to put it into the already packed setlist. Let’s just wait and hopefully be happily surprised, eh?
Of course, with how big Simple Plan are in South America, there will be lots of media coverage of all of these shows, so we can expect lots of pictures, videos and other information from all these concerts. As always: if you’re attending any of these concerts and would like to help make the subsequent reviews of each show on SimplePlan.cz a bit richer with any input, please feel free to contact me [Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, e-mail… you know the drill :)]. I’ll be glad for any help.
Stay tuned for more info from the South American tour. It kicks off this Wednesday, December 7th in Sao Paulo, Brazil! More news coming soon.
A very sad news shocked not only the South American fans today, when Simple Plan announced that “due to personal reasons, David will unfortunately not be able to travel with [SP] and play the upcoming shows in South America.”