In just a couple of days, Simple Plan will hit the road again and embark on another part of their Taking One For The Team tour. First, they’ll hit Asia and Australia in September, October is reserved for the U.S. tour, in November they’ll return to their homeland, Canada, and finally in December, Simple Plan will fly to South America for the last part of their TOFTT tour in 2016.
On these tours, Simple Plan will be bringing in a number of opening acts – from the already very popular (All Time Low and PVRIS in Canada) to some newer and less known bands. Among the less known acts, we can name two that are already extremely excited about touring with Simple Plan in the coming months – Forever Ends Here and Story Untold.
The members of Forever Ends Here [pictured left], an Australian pop-punk band, have recently spoken to Music Injection about their upcoming tour with Simple Plan in Australia. The band members already seem smitten by Simple Plan, who they claim to be one of their favorite bands growing up and look forward to touring with them:
‘I still don’t think it’s sunk in,’ says Luke [McChesney, singer] when talking about the opportunity given to them to perform with one of his favourite bands growing up. ‘It is a dream come true and a huge opportunity for us to reach as many new fans as possible,’ adds Kane [McChesney, drummer].
Story Untold [pictured right], formerly known as AMASIC, is already known to Simple Plan fans as this Canadian band has opened for them a number of times and the members of the band have previously co-wrote a couple of songs with Chuck and Pierre from Simple Plan. Janick Thibault, the lead singer of the band, recently opened up to Alternative Press about his band’s first U.S. tour and about the excitement that accompanies them touring with Simple Plan:
‘We are also very excited about our upcoming tour with Simple Plan! It’s a pretty big deal for us because we’ve been fans since we were about 10,’ says Thibault. ‘They definitely influenced me and the rest of the band not just with their songs, but also with their perseverance and how they’re always trying to do better than what they already did in the past. We also wrote three songs with them and they’re really nice guys. Simple Plan is one of the biggest, if not the biggest band, here in Quebec, so I think it’s really cool for our band to have the chance to go on our first U.S. tour with them.’
If you’d like to see where excatly you can check these bands out on tours with Simple Plan, have a look into the list of upcoming shows.