Simple Plan kept their promise and only a year since their last show in Prague, they returned to the Czech Republic yesterday. This time around, however, it was a return to a completely different experience – a festival for 25 000 people.
Earlier this year it was announced that Simple Plan would be joining Linkin Park for this year’s edition of the Aerodrome Festival. Besides these two major acts, other bands such as Enter Shikari, Machine Gun Kelly, Royal Republic, Counterfeit and Mallory Knox were set to perform at this event as well. Unfortunately just a few minutes after the gates to the festival opened up for all the fans, it was announced that Mallory Knox would not be performing due to a car accident in Germany (fortunately the band is ok).
Simple Plan arrived on the festival grounds in the early afternoon as this was their only stop on this European tour, where they had to take a plane from their previous location (Download festival in United Kingdom the night before, so taking the tourbus was not an option). After their arrival, it was time for them to do a meet&greet with a number of lucky contest winners and then also do a couple of interviews. SimplePlan.cz was there, of course, so you can already start looking forward to another interview with our already established interview duo – Seb and Chuck. Besides the interview, I also helped Pierre learned a couple of Czech phrases that he very accurately used throughout the whole show to loud cheers from the audience. Click on the picture on the right to check out Pierre’s own spelling of these phrases.
Simple Plan kicked off their 1-hour set at 7:30pm. All four band members (and Chady stepping in for David) jumped on stage and started their fourth show in Prague with their festival setlist of this tour. Check out all the songs Simple Plan played at Aerodrome below:
1. I’d Do Anything
2. Jet Lag
3. Jump
4. Your Love Is A Lie
5. Welcome To My Life
6. Boom
7. Can’t Keep My Hands Off You
8. Summer Paradise
9. Addicted
10. Grow Up
11. I’m Just A Kid
12. Crazy
13. Shut Up
14. Perfect
Simple Plan’s classic audience-engaging performance that featured lots of arm-waving, singing and jumping (sometimes by a band member right into the crowd) managed to break even some of the most hardcore Linkin Park fans and many were singing along to the popular tunes that this setlist was filled with. It was just a shame their set didn’t start a little bit later in the evening, when dark would start setting in, as the show’s atmosphere could have been even greater if the light show was a bit more visible.
Big thanks goes to the promoters of the festival for making it happen, to the band’s crew for all their work, all the fans for coming even though this wasn’t a headlining show and last but not least Simple Plan, of course, for coming back and possibly turning some more people into Simple Plan fans.
Speaking of fans – huge shout-out to those of you who came up to me to ask for their own SimplePlan.cz pin! You guys are the best – thank you so much for all your support! I posted most of your pictures with your new pins on the SimplePlan.cz Instagram (and they’ll be featured on Facebook soon too), so check them out!
And finally – besides the interview, SimplePlan.cz also had access to the photo pit, where I had the opportunity to take some pictures of Simple Plan during their set. Check them out in the gallery:
This past Sunday, June 11th, when Simple Plan returned to the Czech Republic – for the Aerodrome Festival, I got to sit down with Chuck Comeau and Seb Lefebvre from Simple Plan (a.k.a. our already established interview duo) backstage and talk to them about a number of interesting topics.
