To celebrate Pierre’s newly reached 182 000 followers on his Instagram, he and his band decided to pay respect to this very important pop-punk number – 182 – by performing a cover of one of their most influential bands of their early beginnings: Blink 182.
Simple Plan performed the cover of Blink 182’s hit ‘All The Small Things’ at the soundcheck in Lawrence, KS yesterday and captured it on a video that was featured on Pierre’s Instagram Stories (thx SPB for putting it up). Check it out below:
Simple Plan are keeping up to their promise and after a very successful two-part European tour, they will be back on the old continent next summer – and that has just been oficially confirmed by the first released date of this return to the festival season by their announcement at the Nova Rock festival in Austria!
The festival, which takes place from June 14th to June 17th, is offering an exquisite line-up for all pop-punk/alternative rock fans, as besides Simple Plan, the attendees of this festival will also be able to check out Green Day, Blink 182 or Linkin Park! Simple Plan will perform on the first day of the festival – on June 14th.
More dates for Simple Plan’s summer stay in Europe should be announced in the upcoming months, and apparently we should be getting both festival appearances as well as regular headlining shows.
Check out the details for Nova Rock below:
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As promised, you can now find a bunch of new pictures from the recent show in Winnipeg, Canada, where Simple Plan opened for Blink 182 alongside The Used. Lots of the pictures were submitted by Colleen (thanks!) and some are also from the cameras of the official SP photographers. Check them out:
After weeks of touring the U.S. just acoustically in a foursome, the whole band was finally reunited yesterday in Winnipeg, Canada, where they had an opening spot scheduled for a show with a sick line-up! As it was previously announced, Simple Plan were added for one single date as the opening band alongside The Used for the pop-punk legends that are Blink 182, who recently released a new album called California.
And while we’re still waiting for a group picture of SP and Blink, Chuck already shared a throwback picture of him and Blink’s drummer Travis Barker, which was taken in 1999. Check it out:
The Winnipeg concert took place in the MTS Centre arena, which holds up to 16 000 fans, making it one of the largest shows for Simple Plan this year. The show itself kicked off with The Used’s set at 7pm, after which Simple Plan took the stage at 8pm before the headliners Blink 182 took over at 9:15pm. From the reactions on social media, we can tell that Simple Plan were received extremely well and their show was a major success. The exact order of the songs on the setlist is yet unknown, but the list of the songs the band played is as follows: ‘Opinion Overload’, ‘Jet Lag’, ‘Jump’, ‘Boom’, ‘Summer Paradise’, ‘Farewell’, ‘Shut Up’, ‘Welcome To My Life’, ‘Perfect’ and the guys couldn’t have missed playing ‘I’d Do Anything’, whose original cameo [Mark Hoppus from Blink 182] unfortunately didn’t join the band for the live version of the song.
Have a look at the amazing moment when the whole arena sung ‘Perfect’ all together at the end of Simple Plan’s set in Winnipeg last night:
Have a look at the first live photos from Simple Plan’s opening gig in Winnipeg in the gallery. More pictures coming soon!
No, that headline didn’t come from 2003 – it’s actually happening! The American pop-punk legends Blink-182 will be playing a show at the MTS Centre in Winnipeg, MB, Canada to promote their new album ‘California’ [coming out July 1st] and they invited two other well-known old-school bands to open for them – Simple Plan and The Used.
Simple Plan have quite a history with both of these bands – Pierre used to sing on stage with The Used on the 2003 Warped Tour and the bands played together many times over the past almost two decades. And even richer history can be found when it comes to Simple Plan and Blink-182: Chuck got to know Mark Hoppus back when he was still in Reset and Mark was also one of the first people to ever hear one of the first demos of ‘I’d Do Anything’ [just called ‘Anything’ at that point], which he loved and which is why the band later on asked him to sing on the song as well as appear in the music video. Since then, Blink-182 and Simple Plan have appeared alongside many times, both on and off stage and the band members have kept in touch.
All three bands will be reunited in Winnipeg on July 7th, prices of the tickets [which go on sale June 4th, 10am CDT] are: $35, $49, $65, $79 and $89. The Winnipeg date is a part of a number of recently added Canadian dates of the summer Blink-182 tour, which continues all over North America, and which has previously made headlines by including other well-known opening acts, such as All Time Low, The All-American Rejects or A Day To Remember. The Winnipeg will be the only date Simple Plan will appear at.
Check out the details below:
| Date | City | Country | Info |
| 07/07/2016 | Winnipeg | Canada | here |
Check out all the upcoming Simple Plan tourdates.