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Pierre covered ‘Basket Case’ by Green Day at 24h Tremblant

AUTHOR: Dominika | 10. December 2017 | no comments

Two years after their first appearance at 24h Tremblant in Canada, Simple Plan revisited the Mont Tremblant mountain for another edition of this largest philantropic sporting event in North America yesterday. At 24h Tremblant, the participants take on three different sports challenges at the same time: ski, run and walk. The teams, made up of 6 to 12 members, register in one of the three sports and take part in a 24-hour relay. Participants raise funds with all proceeds going to three major children’s foundations – this year raising over 3 million dollars. And every year this event is accompanied by a number of concerts.

Just like last time, Simple Plan once again had to perform as a foursome – except this time without a different band member. You may recall that at the 2015 edition of 24h Tremblant, Pierre Bouvier had to excuse himself from performing, as he had suffered a vocal haemorrhage, so the band had to call up a few of their friends to help out with the vocal parts. The substituting singers then included Marie-Mai, Janick Thibault, Rémi Chassé, Bobby Bazini and Jonas. This year as promised, Pierre was all ready to finally perform at this event, so the only band member still missing was David.

Before heading to the stage to perform in front of thousands of people who gathered to enjoy this exclusive sporting event, the members of Simple Plan put on some winter jackets, hats and gloves and came to check out the event from the inside and even took part in some activities. Chuck for instance played ice-hockey with a group of children and all of the SP guys also took part in a snowball fight. Audrey captured this moment on the video below:

Later that evening it was finally time for Simple Plan to come up on stage and give it all they got at the last performance before the Christmas holidays. To make the night even more special, Pierre very unexpectedly performed a cover of Green Day’s song ‘Basket Case’. Once again captured by Audrey, check out the video of this moment below:

And finally, have a look at a couple of pictures taken of the guys during yesterday at 24h Tremblant:

Last No Pads show of 2017: Simple Plan played at Niagara Falls, NY

AUTHOR: Dominika | 9. December 2017 | no comments

Last night, Simple Plan ended their 15th anniversary No Pads, No Helmets… Just Balls tour this year with at the final stop of the tour at the Rapids Theatre in Niagara Falls, NY.

As the band explained in their recent nostalgic post on Instagram regarding this year’s No Pads tour, this won’t be the last time fans will get to see the No Pads show in action as Simple Plan will be expanding the tour into some more countries early next year. In the meantime, SP still have two concerts left this year: the appearance at the 24h Tremblant ski event today and they will also ring in the new year at the New Year’s celebrations back at Niagara Falls – this time however on the Canadian side.

Have a look at the first photos from the final No Pads show of 2017 in Niagara Falls in our gallery:

Simple Plan reminisce about 2017’s No Pads tour & promise to start working on new album in 2018

AUTHOR: Dominika | 8. December 2017 | 1 comment

With only one show (tonight in Niagara Falls, NY) of the No Pads tour left this year, the year Simple Plan’s first album officially celebrated its 15th anniversary, the band reminisced a bit on their Instagram today about this quite eventful year and mostly about what this tour has meant for them, as well for the fans.

In the message, Simple Plan confirmed that they will be expanding the No Pads tour in 2018 with some additional dates in some countries they didn’t manage to visit on this tour yet (as of right now we know of South America and Australia) and we can expect the new tourdates in just a few weeks. Plus – the band also promised that besides concerts, 2018 will also be the year when they would start working on their next studio album.

Check out the full post below:

Tonight in Niagara Falls will be the last No Pads show of 2017 in the US. It’s been an incredible adventure for us and we’re so grateful for everyone who came to see us play all year. 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

We wanted to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the album that changed our lives by playing these special shows and we were hoping that some of you would want to join us and come sing along. We never expected it would turn into a whole year of shows all over the world, 3 tours in the US and such an outpouring of love and support for the music we created so long ago. It has been an incredibly rewarding and beautiful year, playing some absolutely magical shows and meeting so many passionate fans. You have made us realize all over again just how lucky we are to be able to do what we love the most in life. It really touched our hearts and impacted all of us to see the level of dedication, love and loyalty our fans have for this band. We heard so many stories about how our music has helped you deal with the tough moments in life, saw hundreds of SP lyric and logo tattoos and realized just how many friendships and relationships still exist today because of the band we started in our parents’ basement back in Montreal…

It has been one of the greatest experiences of our career so far. Once again, thank you all so much for everything.

– Pierre, Chuck, Sebastien, Jeff a David –

P.S.: There’s still a few places we haven’t visited on this tour and we know you’ve been waiting for us…In the next few weeks, we will be announcing the final legs of the No Pads tour. Can’t wait to see you at the shows in 2018 and to start working on a new album!

Watch Simple Plan perform ‘My Christmas List’ at soundcheck in Maryland

AUTHOR: Dominika | 7. December 2017 | no comments

Simple Plan’s tour across the United States is slowly heading to its finish line and very soon the boys will be back home to spend Christmas with their loved ones. So in order to bring a little bit of a festive atmosphere to the No Pads tour, Simple Plan chose to perform their very first Christmas song – ‘My Christmas List’ at yesterday’s soundcheck in Silver Springs, MD.

Both Simple Plan and their sound engineer Frank Joly posted some videos from this moment on their Instagram Stories, which (in case you missed them) you can now check out below:

As always, during their show in Silver Springs, Simple Plan performed their regular 20-songs-long setlist, which looked as follows:

1. I’d Do Anything
2. The Worst Day Ever
3. You Don’t Mean Anything
4. I’m Just A Kid
5. When I’m With You
6. Meet You There
7. Addicted
8. My Alien
9. God Must Hate Me
10. I Won’t Be There
11. One Day
12. Grow Up
13. Perfect

Encore:
14. Shut Up!
15. Jump
16. Boom
17. Your Love Is A Lie
18. Summer Paradise
19. Crazy
20. Welcome To My Life

Make sure to also check out our gallery for the first photos from the two most recent shows: in Huntington, NY and Silver Springs, MD:

Photos from recent shows in Nashville and Louisville

AUTHOR: Dominika | 5. December 2017 | no comments

The No Pads tour in the United States continues and most recently it has brought the four members of Simple Plan to Tennessee, where they performed for the very first time in Nashville and also in Louisville.

The band has already posted a couple of images from these two shows on their social media and you can now check them out too in our gallery: