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RECAP: Chuck reveals more info about NPNHJB anniversary tour in a live webchat

by Dominika | Jan 17th, 2017 | no comments

As announced earlier, Alternative Press hosted a special Simple Plan webchat on their Facebook page regarding their upcoming NPNHJB tour yesterday, which was initially supposed to feature both Pierre and Chuck, however it was only Chuck who eventually turned up for the 50-minutes-long livestream.

In the webchat, Chuck opened up about the band’s plans for the NPNHJB anniversary tour, places they want to visit with this tour, what the setlist could look like and a lot more.

Since the webchat was quite long and some questions from fans kept repeating, if you don’t wish to watch the whole thing again, let me bring you up to speed of what has been said in the following recap:

NPNHJB 15th anniversary tour

– The band wishes to bring this tour to many countries throughout the whole of 2017

– The closest plans for this tour as of right now is Europe in spring/summer around the already announced tourdates, which translates to May/June – dates should be announced “as soon as possible”, as the guys are still sorting out the scheduling for these shows

– Other places that SP wish to bring the tour to (and which Chuck mentioned in this webchat) include Mexico, South America, Australia, Japan and Canada. Most, if not all of these countries should get their No Pads tour around fall 2017.

– Regarding Canada, the band is aware that they are doing a tour in march that includes only 4 cities, which will not get the “No Pads” treatment, which is why they plan on doing a proper cross-country Canadian tour sometime in 2017.

The setlist

– It seems that the setlist will follow the order of the songs on the NPNHJB album – the band will play all the songs from the album and throw in also a couple of No Pads b-sides (such as Grow Up, One By One, Surrender etc.)

– After playing the whole No Pads album, for an encore, the band will return to the stage with a series of their greatest hits, which will include songs like Welcome To My Life, Jet Lag, Shut Up, Your Love Is A Lie, Boom etc.

Other info

– Chuck mentioned he wanted to put a cover of Justin Timberlake’s ‘Can’t Stop The Feeling’ on the band’s party medley for the TOFTT tour, however his bandmates said no

– David will be back for the Canadian shows in March (first SP shows this year)

– Chuck will try to get Mark Hoppus from Blink 182 (who was featured on I’d Do Anything) to come to one of the NPNHJB shows

– there are plans on the release of special NPNHJB 15th anniversary merch for this tour

‘I’m Just A Kid’ among AP’s best music videos set in high school

by Dominika | Jan 6th, 2017 | no comments

Alternative Press released a new article, in which the magazine’s editors looked at the alternative music scene’s past music videos and tried to find the best ones that were set in high school. The final list that includes 15 bands’ music videos cannot be missing the good old classics, such as Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’, Paramore’s ‘Misery Business’, My Chemical Romance’s ‘I’m Not Okay’… and of course: Simple Plan’s ‘I’m Just A Kid’, which will coincidentally also celebrate 15 years since its release this year!

However, ‘I’m Just A Kid’ also wasn’t the only music video by Simple Plan that was set in high school – in 2011 the band made a return to the high school grounds for prom, which was the main theme of the music video for ‘Can’t Keep My Hands Off You’.

Check out what Alternative Press had to say about Simple Plan’s first music video and remind yourselves of the younger versions of our SP boys in ‘I’m Just A Kid’ itself below:

“I’M JUST A KID” – SIMPLE PLAN (2002)
If there were ever a song that perfectly described the youthful sentiment of “Nobody understands me!” this would be it. Filled with Schadenfreude, the video features the members of the band getting injured while trying to win over the same girl, while the nerd gets the girl in the end.
FUN FACT: “I’m Just A Kid” has been featured in three different movies: Grind, The New Guy and Cheaper By The Dozen.

Simple Plan’s ‘Astronaut’ among AP’s ’10 essential songs about space’

by Dominika | Jan 3rd, 2017 | no comments

The latest issue of the Alternative Press magazine features a page dedicated to the ‘TOP 10 essential songs about space’ and with that theme in mind, it would be a shame not to include Simple Plan’s second single from Get Your Heart On! – “Astronaut”.

Besides Simple Plan, the article also included other space-themed songs by bands such as Blink-182 (‘Aliens Exist’), 5 Seconds Of Summer (‘Outer Space / Carry On’) or Misfits (‘Mars Attacks’).

Check out what AP wrote about SP’s song below and have a look at the full page from AP in the gallery (thanks Theresa for the picture)

10 ESSENTIAL SONGS ABOUT SPACE

Simple Plan – “Astronaut”
The single off Simple Plan’s fourth album is astronaut-approved. Apparently Canadian spaceman (and musician) Chris Hadfield played the song while in orbit. The emotional track is filled with space imagery and related to the loneliness astronauts must feel when they are out here in the great unknown.

VIDEO: 10 things you (maybe) didn’t know about Simple Plan

by Dominika | Nov 8th, 2016 | 2 comments

Chuck and Seb from Simple Plan recently filmed a rather extensive video for Alternative Press, in which they revealed 10 things their fans may not know about the band.

The 10 things the guys mentioned include stories such as not getting Punk’d by Ashton Kutcher, number of kids they have in total, number of pets they have in total, Chuck’s visit of Gene Simmons’ house, or Chuck getting punched in the face at an airport in Singapore.

Check out the video below and let us know how many of the facts you really didn’t know!

Simple Plan among AP’s TOP 10 most influential pop punk bands

by Dominika | Jun 14th, 2016 | no comments

In their latest article, Alternative Press, one of the most respected music magazines of the alternative music scene, named the TOP 10 most influential pop punk bands, which shaped today’s pop punk other other styles of music. It surely was very hard to narrow down all the incredible pop punk acts into a list of only 10, but still, the writers of Alternative Press couldn’t forget to include Simple Plan, who have been one of the most persistent bands on this scene for over 17 years (14 years, if we could from the year of their debut album’s release).

Check out Alternative Press’ reasoning for including Simple Plan in the list that also features Sum 41, MXPX, Blink 182, Green Day, Good Charlotte, Jimmy Eat World, New Found Glory, Yellowcard and Fall Out Boy:

Simple Plan

“These Canadian natives hit the scene hard with their debut, No Pads, No Helmets…Just Balls. While the album titles have gotten a tad more mature, their music still sounds made for every summer vacation. And now, 14 years into their career, they’re collabing with…Nelly? Yeah, you read that right. Just goes to show Simple Plan aren’t afraid to take risks and still keep coming out with awesome pop-influence albums.”