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Warped Tour: Travis Clark (We The Kings) joined Simple Plan on stage for ‘I’m Just A Kid’ in Mountain View

by Dominika | Jun 24th, 2018 | 2 comments

More than 15 000 people attended the third show of Warped Tour this summer that took place in Mountain View, CA, which was the first show to be sold-out on this final cross-country tun of this traveling tour. And it’s not an overstatement when we say that the crowd was one of the reasons why the shows had such an amazing atmosphere that day – all eagerly joining in in singalongs, hand-waving and jumping as the bands rotated on stage.

The highlight of the Simple Plan set yesterday was definitely when during ‘I’m Just A Kid’, Chuck and Pierre switched places – Pierre went behind the drums, while Chuck crowdsurfed – and since the microphone had no owner at that point, Travis Clark from We The Kings stepped in and joined Simple Plan on stage to sing the chorus of ‘I’m Just A Kid’ [see photos from this show here].

Instagram user @stephiebutton captured this moment on two videos, which you can both check out below (click on the arrow to the right to watch the next one):

Watch Simple Plan’s first show at last Warped Tour in full!

by Dominika | Jun 22nd, 2018 | no comments

The most popular alternative touring summer music festival in the U.S. – Warped Tour – began its final cross-country run yesterday in Pomona, CA with a stellar line-up of acts. Throughout the upcoming two months, Warped Tour will be welcoming back over 100 bands, such as 3OH!3, Black Veil Brides, All Time Low, Bowling For Soup, We The Kings and many many others… including, of course, Simple Plan.

Simple Plan are one of the acts who will be present at every Warped Tour date throughout the summer, so you can catch them at every city the tour hits [see all the tourdates here]. And in preparation for your possible Warped show, below you can have a first look at the very first show Simple Plan played at Warped this year – in Pomona, CA – where they performed the following setlist:

1. I’d Do Anything
2. Jump
3. Addicted
4. Welcome To My Life
5. Boom!
6. I’m Just A Kid
7. Perfect

Watch the full Simple Plan set live at Warped Tour in Pomona, CA, below:

EXCLUSIVE: Song ‘California’ on Story Untold’s new album originally written by Simple Plan

by Dominika | Feb 14th, 2018 | no comments

Story Untold, a young pop-punk band from Canada, has been engraved into the minds of Simple Plan fans for a while now due to their close ties with the members of Simple Plan. Many of you will recognize Janick Thibault, Story Untold’s lead singer, who’s made it big on YouTube thanks to his covers of various pop-punk songs, including some by Simple Plan.

This has eventually led him to open for Simple Plan with his previous band called Amasic and over the years a friendship between him and Simple Plan has flourished. Janick has even co-written a number of songs with the members of Simple Plan for Story Untold’s first official, self-titled, EP.

On February 2nd Story Untold released their debut full-length album called ‘Waves’ and thanks to our reader Conner we found out that the album actually features one song originally written by Simple Plan. This song is called ‘California’ and according to the credits, it has been written by Chuck Comeau, Pierre Bouvier, John Feldmann and Nick Furlong (RAS). If we go back, these four song-writers got together back in November 2014 to do some song-writing for Simple Plan’s then-upcoming album (later becoming ‘Taking One For The Team’), so it is fairly clear to say that this song was written during some of those song-writing sessions.

Check out ‘California’ in full below:

Surely however you still must be wondering how Story Untold got ahold of this song in the first place. That’s why SimplePlan.cz reached out to Janick Thibault himself to give us a little background about this song and this is what he had to say about ‘California’ (thanks, Janick!):

“There is a lot of mature and dark songs on the album but we are all big fans of classic happy pop punk songs. This song stands out a bit from the other songs we have on the album but at the same time I think it’s very fun to listen to and to play live. It basically talks about someone who’s had enough and just want to throw everything away and move to California. It was actually written by Pierre and Chuck from Simple Plan. Back then, I basically emailed Chuck because I wanted to know if he had someone in mind that would and could help me write songs because I wanted to improve my songwriting. And just like that he sent me this song that they recorded with producer John Feldman. It didn’t really fit with the vibe of their latest album so they decided to give it to us and I thank them for that! I think every blink-182 or Good Charlotte fan is going to like it.”

– Janick Thibault (Story Untold) –

Simple Plan return to California with a show in Sacramento

by Dominika | Sep 2nd, 2017 | no comments

The final day of August was reserved for the only show in California on this Simple Plan U.S. tour – in Sacramento. The show took place in the Ace of Spades venue that fits up to 2 500 people and it was completely sold-out, like many other shows on this tour.

Come check out the first pictures from this show in Sacramento in our gallery: