Tonight Alive is a young Australian band that toured with Simple Plan on their tour Down Under in the fall of 2011, where the band’s lead singer Jenna McDougall even performed “Jet Lag” with Simple Plan every day and also at some radio appearances acoustically.

In one of the recently posted videos by Tonight Alive – which is a part of the Vevo Lift series – the members of this Australian band talk about their musical influences and once again name Simple Plan as one of the greatest ones.

Check out what Tonight Alive have said about Simple Plan:

“If we had like a band practice and we finished band practice and still had an afternoon to go, we’d like all sit down and watch a band DVD.” – Jake Hardy

“One of the main ones we used to watch was Simple Plan’s first DVD. It’s called A Big Package For You and it was pretty much a chronicle of the two years they spent from like recording their first album – they went from an absolutely unknown band to just touring the whole world. I guess for us, we would just sit there, watch that and be like: ‘That’s awesome! We wanna go there and we wanna do that!'” – Cam Adler

“I think we’ve worked with like a bunch of artists that have had like a major influence on us when we were growing up – like Simple Plan. When we were touring with them, they were exactly like what they were like on the DVD. Like just the most down-to-earth dudes.” – Jake Hardy

“To be able to support them on the tour in Australia was such an honor, to meet them, to shake their hands. And I think we took a lot away from that tour, even though it was very short. I guess it was just easy to see why they’ve gotten so far.” – Jenna McDougall