Yesterday’s evening must have been one of the most important in Simple Plan’s career – the guys had the first opportunity to play the new songs from their upcoming album Get Your Heart On! in front of their Canadian audience and therefore capture the first reactions to the new tracks and find out if all the 2-years-long work was not just a complete waste of time.
It has been pretty obvious for the whole day that the night was going to be very emotional for the guys in the band. ” Not gonna lie, I’m a bit nervous for tonight: never played the new songs before… Last night, I couldn’t fall asleep: my mind couldn’t stop practicing the new songs,” admitted Jeff to his Twitter followers before the concert. “The most stressful thing is that we don’t want to disappoint each other.”
Thankfully the night went on great. According to Le Journal De Montreal, Simple Plan started off the sold out show in Le National in Montreal, Canada with You Suck At Love, and then continued with the following: Can’t Keep My Hands Off You, Astronaut, Loser Of The Year, Anywhere Else But Here, Last One Standing, Summer Paradise, This Song Saved My Life, Freaking Me Out and Jet Lag – for the last mentioned song, the guys were joined by Marie-Mai, who sings on the French version.
The fans were informed this was an exclusive show and were asked not to record it. All this in order to keep the songs a mystery till the new record’s official release date.
Journal Metro wrote that the guys really did play only 10 songs out of 11 (from Get Your Heart On!), which means Gone Too Soon has not been played live yet. Also, it is now clear that the only ballads on the album will be “This Song Saved My Life” and “Astronaut”.
According to Canoe.ca, the fans reacted amazingly to all the new songs, but Freaking Me Out was definitely perceived by the audience as the best song of the show.
The rest of the show was then devoted to songs from the previous three albums.
Apart from their own songs, Simple Plan also came up with a cover versions of Cee Lo’s “Fuck You”, Taio Cruz’s “Dynamite” and Pink’s “Raise Your Glass”, check it out:
You can check out the first photos from the concert and from backstage in the gallery and keep checking back for updates during the whole day.
What about “Gone Too Soon”? This is the only song that’s not on the setlist. I thought they were going to play the entire album.
According to what I read, the guys played only 10 songs out of the 11, which means they probably didn’t play Gone Too Soon.
I was there and they didn’t play Gone Too Soon. Pierre said that they want to keep the surprise for the release of the album in june.