Tag Archives: Melbourne

How Chuck and Jeff became DJs in Melbourne for a night

This Tuesday night in Melbourne, Australia was very special. After Simple Plan finished their second sold-out show in this city (and we’ll get to reporting about that and the earlier ones that we missed in the next post), Chuck and Jeff left to the local PLASTIC club, where they were scheduled to appear at a special guest DJ afterparty that they would be DJing themselves!

The party started at 1am and tons of people gathered to check out the drummer and the guitar player spinning the records and making sure everyone had a great time. The guys put on quite a lot of pop-punk classics – from Blink 182 all the way to Simple Plan of course – which you can after all check out for yourself from the collection of Instagram Stories that were published on Simple Plan’s Instagram throughout the night:

Also make sure to have a look inside the gallery for a couple of pictures from Chuck’s and Jeff’s special DJ set:

Simple Plan add an additional Melbourne show after first one sells out

Just like in 2016, after the first show in Melbourne sold out so quickly, the band decided to act fast and secured an additional concert in Melbourne, which gives the local fans more chance to catch the band while they’re in their city.

The added show will preceed the sold-out Melbourne show and will take place on April 23rd, which was originally set out to be a day off. This will be a rare occassion when the band breaks their “no more than 3 shows in a row” rule. With this rule in place, there doesn’t seem to be much place for any other additional shows, so make sure to get tickets while they last!

Tickets and VIP tickets for the added Melbourne show go on sale this coming Monday, January 22nd at 10am local time.
 

[add_single_eventon id=”27760″ ]

Simple Plan show in Melbourne is SOLD OUT!

Simple Plan’s fans in Melbourne once again let the band know how popular they are in this Australian city. Just few hours after tickets for the band’s 15th anniversary No Pads, No Helmets… Just Balls tour went on sale on Wednesday, the tickets for the Melbourne gig were all gone.

This is not the first time that has happened in Melbourne. You may recall 2016, when Simple Plan added two additional Melbourne shows of the TOFTT tour due to selling out the first one so quickly and all three shows became sold out in the end!

At this moment, there is no indication that Simple Plan would be adding an additional date in Melbourne, but keep checking back – you never know! UPDATE: Simple Plan just announced an additional Melbourne show! Get more details here!

If you’d like to attend any of the remaining shows in Australia or New Zealand, make sure to hurry up! They are all selling out quite fast! You can check out all of the dates in our Tour section!
 

[add_single_eventon id=”27566″ ]

Simple Plan brought back ‘When I’m Gone’ & ‘Everytime’ for final show in Australia

On Wednesday, Simple Plan finished their short Australian tour, that consisted of 5 shows in 3 cities: Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne. And all of the concerts were sold-out.

As you already know, Melbourne had the honor of becoming the first city on the Taking One For The Team to get three shows in a row. The final concert took place once again in the Prince Bandroom venue, and still brought in a very excited crowd of fans, even though some of them had seen the band on the first two shows during the previous two nights.

Regarding the setlist, the guys kept the surprising adddition of ‘Addicted’ from previous day – but that is not where the surprises ended! Quite possibly for the first time on this tour, ‘When I’m Gone’ has returned to the setlist (performed instead of ‘Take My Hand’ or ‘Your Love Is A Lie’), and the band also re-added ‘Everytime’ in its acoustic form to their encore, which has been played a number of times during the European tour. Compared to setlist from the second show in Melbourne though, there was no ‘The Rest Of Us’ and the boys also once again replaced – very fittingly, since this was their last show in Australia – ‘I Refuse’ for ‘Farewell’.

Have a look at the full setlist below:

1. Opinion Overload
2. Jet Lag
3. Jump (‚I Gotta Feeling‘ snippet)
4. I’d Do Anything
5. Boom
6. Welcome to My Life
7. Kiss Me Like Nobody’s Watching
8. When I’m Gone
9. Addicted
10. Party medley – Uptown Funk (Mark Ronson/Bruno Mars cover) & Can’t Feel My Face (The Weeknd cover)
11. Can’t Keep My Hands Off You
12. Farewell
13. Summer Paradise
14. Crazy
15. I’m Just a Kid

Encore:
16. Shut Up!
17. Perfect World
18. This Song Saved My Life
19. Everytime (acoustic)
20. Perfect

Check out the gallery for some of the first fan-taken pictures from the #2 and #3 shows in Melbourne:

Simple Plan surprise 2nd Melbourne crowd with Addicted and more & tease return to Australia in 2017

Tonight was Simple Plan’s second gig in Melbourne – another sold-out show in the Prince Bandroom venue. And while uptil now, Simple Plan’s setlist haven’t been changing much – usually with just two songs, being switched every other show, tonight the band decided to go all out and introduce a few more new songs to the Australian crowd!

If you manage to stumple upon a photo of the Melbourne show setlist, you might get the idea that the band performed 19 songs as usual – but that was not the case, as the band did in fact play 20 songs in total. Whether it was a planned surprise, or a spur of the moment decision, Simple Plan decided to bring back the old-school classic ‘Addicted’ to the setlist – right after ‘Take My Hand’ (which appeared on the setlist tonight instead of ‘Your Love Is A Lie’) and right before ‘The Rest Of Us’ which finally got re-added to the setlist as well – sadly for the fans of ‘Singing In The Rain’, which was not played on Melbourne show #2. The guys also switched to ‘I Refuse’ instead of ‘Farewell’.

Check out the full setlist from Melbourne below (big thanks to Sara & Brooke for the info):

1. Opinion Overload
2. Jet Lag
3. Jump (‚I Gotta Feeling‘ snippet)
4. I’d Do Anything
5. Boom
6. Welcome to My Life
7. Kiss Me Like Nobody’s Watching
8. Take My Hand
9. Addicted
10. The Rest Of Us
11. Party medley – Uptown Funk (Mark Ronson/Bruno Mars cover) & Can’t Feel My Face (The Weeknd cover)
12. Can’t Keep My Hands Off You
13. I Refuse
14. Summer Paradise
15. Crazy
16. I’m Just a Kid

Encore:
17. Shut Up!
18 Perfect World
19. This Song Saved My Life (acoustic)
20. Perfect

There is just one last Australian show left for Simple Plan – Melbourne show #3 (which has officially also sold-out today!). But all you Australians don’t have to be sad [sad, sad no more]! According to Chuck, the band is already planning its return to Australia for next year! And what’s even better is that this time around they want to do a full tour across the whole continent, which should bring hope mostly to the residents of the western part of Australia, which they skipped on this first Australian run this year.

So far, Simple Plan’s plans for 2017 include Europe and Australia. What else? We’ll have to wait and see.