Simple Plan announced a large number of additional tourdates for their second leg of their European tour in May that will now also include dates in Belgium, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
Check them out below:
| Date | City | Country | Info |
| 08/05/2016 | Ghent | Belgium | here |
| 26/05/2016 | Stockholm | Sweden | here |
| 30/05/2016 | Tallin | Estonia | here |
| 31/05/2016 | Riga | Latvia | here |
| 01/06/2016 | Vilnius | Lithuania | here |
Check out all the upcoming Simple Plan tourdates.
With the start of this European tour, Simple Plan introduced for the first time the VIP upgrade to their show, the so-called “Post-Game” or “Pizza party” which a limited number of fans at each show is able to purchase for 95€.
This ticket-less experience allows the attendees to enter the venue the earliest, get first access to merch and after the show hang out with Simple Plan, have a pizza, take selfies and receive a bunch of goodies, such as a poster and a laminate.
However, the addition of this paid experience has caused an outrage among many fans (even though they have not changed any other experiences – such as the soundcheck party [except for the change in early entry] and or hanging out with fans after shows behind the venue) and this problem was even mentioned in a recent interview with Jeff for Brainstorming Magazine, where Jeff discussed Simple Plan’s reasons for adding this VIP upgrade to their shows.
Check out what Jeff had to say about this below:
You have introduced a VIP ticket, and something has changed for your fan club – not all fans are happy about that. What do you think about it?
Jeff: Really? What I know is that nothing is changed for the fan club. You get in, you get the sound check. Basically for us the principle is that when you’re a fan, you love to see the sound check and meet the band.
What’s special for the VIP is that it allows us to have less people but to spend more time with them; the reality of it is that we have a lot of people to meet. The VIP adds one more thing for us: we have a pre-show now, we have the sound check, we have the show, and we still go outside and meet the fans afterwards. So it’s a big day for us, but those people have an exclusive experience with the band.
And if you want honesty, we don’t sell records anymore, nobody does, so if you want to stay on the road you have to think about a new way of doing things.
After Prague, Simple Plan headed a little to the south to Vienna, Austria, where they once again played at the Gasometer venue. I was also present at this particular show, so I managed to get you a little glimpse at the soundcheck which you might enjoy. There, the band (minus Pierre) performed the song ‘Everything Sucks’ to the lucky soundcheck attendees and around the middle of the song, Pierre joined the fans under the stage (after been hugged by tons of fans) and rocked out to his own band while taking selfies.
Check out this hilarious video below:
When it comes to the show itself, the band once again changed up their setlist and this time around played the following songs:
Encore:
16. Shut Up!
17. Perfect World
18. Astronaut (no drums)
19. Perfect
Below, you can check out some of the pictures from both the soundcheck party and also the concert in Vienna:
As you might have read already, SimplePlan.cz’s ‘Czech Out The Rest Of Us’ project at the Simple Plan show in Prague was an extreme success. Now, you can finally check out some more pictures of the crowd with their hand-made signs they held during the song ‘The Rest Of Us’ thanks to the following pictures I have just received from Simple Plan’s photographer Sim (thanks again!):
On Saturday, March 5th, I once again had the opportunity to interview the members of Simple Plan backstage – this time around right before their show in Prague, Czech Republic. Most of the interview was dedicated to a little harder-to-speak-about topics – such as the real/hidden meaning behind Farewell and all the rumors regarding the band’s possible break-up (which is not happening – don’t worry!).
I’d like to say big thanks to Viola for filming and editing, Libor from Warner Music and Devi from Coalition Music for the help with the set-up of this interview and of course Chuck and Seb for taking part in it.
Check out SimplePlan.cz’s 5th interview with Simple Plan below: