Tonight Alive about Simple Plan: “They’d really care about what you had to say!”

A couple weeks ago, I posted a recent interview with the members of Tonight Alive, in which they talked about opening for Simple Plan in Australia in 2011. So it’s only fitting that now that we’re just days away from another Simple Plan show where Tonight Alive will be opening for them (Perth, Australia – on December 3rd), Noise11 published a rather old interview with Tonight Alive – back from 2011 – from right after the band’s tour with SP and below you can check out what Jenna McDougall and Whakaio Taahi, where they once again talk about how great it was to tour with the boys from SP and for Jenna to sing on Jet Lag every night.

Interviewer: Did you have fun on stage with Simple Plan doing Jet Lag?

Jenna: Oh, yeah! I had so much fun!

Interviewer: So every night you were doing it?

Jenna: Yeah, I did. It was only four shows, but it just felt so good to be on stage with them. I’ve listened to them since I was 12 years old so it was just just really cool.

Interviewer: You looked really chummy – I saw some videos…

Jenna: Yeah? Well they were really friendly! They were just so welcoming to us

Interviewer: They are Canadians!

Jenna: They were just like… hugs all around.

Whakaio: Yeah, they were such genuinely nice people and like… they’d really care about what you had to say and there wasn’t anything fake about it. It was just great.

Jenna: There was no arrogance, there was nothing about them that was like disappointing. They are really refreshing.

You can check out the full interview with Jenna and Whakaio on the video below – the SP part starts at mark 10:35:

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