Mexican fans can officially rejoice! Their country will in fact be the first foreign country (if we don’t count the U.S., where two out of four of the members reside) Simple Plan will visit next year.
Earlier this week, the line-up for this year’s Tecate Pa’l Norte festival, which takes place in Monterrey, Mexico on April 1st and 2nd, has been announced and Simple Plan are one of the many acts on the list, which also includes acts such as Maroon 5, The Strokes or Papa Roach.
Tickets go on sale today, December 3rd at 11am Mexico Central Time. Check out more info below:
It didn’t take long and the guys from Simple Plan were at it last night again, performing for a bunch of lucky people at the Bourbon Room Hollywood in Los Angeles, California. The main goal of this “secret” or “private” show was to pre-record a “livestream” with Mola Chills, which is set to are around the 22th December.
In the crowd one could spot a number of influencers and tiktokers as well as a number of Simple Plan fans who got to be there because of Simple Plan’s message on Instagram asking for their (vaccinated) fans to attend this event if they’re around the area at that time. As opposed to the filming of the music video for The Antidote, the attendees didn’t have to sign any NDA this time around, so we’re bringing you a bunch of photos from the show in our gallery as well as the full setlist. As you can see, this was the first time Simple Plan performed The Antidote live all together in front of a crowd:
1. I’d Do Anything
2. Shut Up!
3. Addicted
4. Boom!
5. Your Love Is A Lie
6. Welcome To My Life
7. Jet Lag
8. Can’t Keep My Hands Off You
9. The Antidote
10. Crazy
11. Where I Belong
12. Summer Paradise
13. What’s New Scooby Doo?
14. I’m Just A Kid
15. Perfect
Thanks to SPB you can also check out the second half of the show (from The Antidote on) on the video below:
Sebastien Lefebvre and Jeff Stinco got to California this week to join their Cali-based friends Pierre Bouvier and Chuck Comeau. The purpose of their trip was simple: film the music video for their new single ‘The Antidote’.
Ahead of the videoshoot, Simple Plan fans from the area were asked to sign up and if chosen to attend one part of the videoshoot, which was supposed to be a concert scene. This filming took place yesterday, Friday November 19th 2021 at The Villas at the Marymount California University. This campus, as you can see on its introduction video, comprises of multiple villas and offers the MCU student’s a very comfortable residential housing. We don’t know about you, guys, but we’re getting some serious ‘Perfect’ vibes from the houses on the campus.
Not a lot is known about the concept of the video itself so far, the only thing we know is that it won’t just be a “concert video” but it should include an actual storyline as well. One of the special guests in the crowd was Chad Tepper, who recently did a song with Pierre.
During the day, Sebastien decided to film short clips throughout the videoshoot and posted them all in his Instagram reel today. Check it out for a couple sneak peeks:
After the concert filming session with the fans, the guys from the band gathered the fans, hung out with them for a while and Pierre even decided to do an impromptu acoustic session for the fans and played them some of the greatest hits including I’d Do Anything, Welcome To My Life, Perfect and even I Hate Everybody with Chad Tepper.
Check out a photo in our gallery that we’ve received from one of the fans Jacqueline and also have a look at the videos below that will give you a little look at what the acoustic session with Pierre was like later on:
Canadian fans, rejoice! Your favorite band is coming home in early 2022!
That’s right! Simple Plan just announced that they will be supporting the rock legends The Offspring on their Canadian tour in early 2022. The tour will commence in Moncton, New Brunswick on January 27th 2022 and the two bands will play together for the following month and something all the way until March 3rd, when they’ll finish the tour off in Vancouver.
Simple Plan are obviously very excited to be sharing the stage with one of their early influences. Check out what they said about the tour:
“We’re super excited to share that we’ll be joining our friends The Offspring on their “Let the Bad Times Roll” Canadian Tour in 2022! We grew up listening to their music and it will be such an honor and so much fun to share the stage with them again!
We can’t wait to kick off the new year playing shows and new music in our home country! 🤘🇨🇦🤘 Pre-sale starts on October 31st and tickets are officially on-sale November 5th – stay tuned for more info!
P.S. Our brand new song, “The Antidote”, comes out in 7 days! Pre-save it now.” 🤘⚡️🤘
It took over a year and a half, dozens of canceled shows and lots of nerves but finally, after all that the covid pandemic has brought, Simple Plan were finally able to once again step on the stage for the first time in forever – at Riot Fest in Chicago, IL yesterday, September 19th 2021.
Many fans have been wondering how come Simple Plan have canceled their appearance at the Pop Punk’s Still Not Dead tour with New Found Glory, yet they still decided to go ahead and perform at such a huge festival. The answer is simple – the danger of any of the crew contracting COVID-19 (and therefore endangering the cancelation of more dates) is way smaller at one outdoor festival than it would have been at a month-long tour, where they would have likely interacted with a lot more people in much smaller and enclosed spaces for a much longer time.
But let’s get going with the Riot Fest recap, yeah? The band kicked off their set at 5:30pm local Chicago time and what did the setlist looked like:
1. I’d Do Anything
2. Shut Up!
3. Jump
4. Addicted
5. Boom!
6. Your Love Is A Lie
7. Welcome To My Life
8. Jet Lag
9. Can’t Keep My Hands Off You
10. Crazy
11. Where I Belong
12. What’s New Scooby Doo?
13. I’m Just A Kid
14. Perfect
And do we have any first-hand scoops from the show? Of course we do! Our long-time reader May was there and she let us know that Pierre mentioned on the stage that the band will be releasing “new stuff in a few weeks” – turning the band’s “soon” into something slightly more concrete and less vague. According to May, Pierre did not specify whether that meant new song or new album, but we can definitely count on the word “music”.
In our gallery you can finally have a look at some of the first photos posted on Simple Plan’s official accounts from their appearance at Riot Fest:
And finally, get a glimpse at what being at a Simple Plan show in 2021 is like and check out this video capturing the band performing I’m Just A Kid at Riot Fest yesterday. Enjoy:
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