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Simple Plan add a medley of fan favorites to the European setlist

AUTHOR: Dominika | 21. January 2024 | no comments

Simple Plan’s setlist on their current European tour keeps evolving day by day and with every coming day we have more surprising additions to look forward to! On their third and last show in Paris, the band replaces some of the previous tracks with The Antidote and The Rest Of Us and also added a brand new “old favorites” medley that included little snippets of Crazy, Perfect World, Save You and This Song Saved My Life (big thanks to @ketchuphysterie for letting us know!).

Check out the full setlist from Paris:

SETLIST (Paris, France / January 20th 2024)

1. I’d Do Anything
2. Shut Up!
3. Jump
4. Jet Lag (French Version)
5. The Rest Of Us
6. Addicted
7. Welcome to My Life
8. Iconic
9. Summer Paradise
10. Take My Hand
11. Astronaut
12. Party medley (All Star / Sk8er Boi / Mr. Brightside)
13. What’s New Scooby Doo?
14. A Million Pictures of You
15. Where I Belong (feat. Derek Discanio from State Champs)

Encore:
16. Old favorites medley (Crazy / Perfect World / Save You / This Song Saved My Life)
17. The Antidote
18. I’m Just a Kid
19. Untitled
20. Perfect

UPDATED: First look at Simple Plan’s European tour setlist!

AUTHOR: Dominika | 19. January 2024 | no comments

Last night, Simple Plan performed their first show of their long-awaited headlining ‘Hard As Rock Tour’ in Europe, which they kicked off in Paris, France, where they managed to sell out 3 shows in a row at the Bataclan venue.

The Simple Plan concert itself was standard length (about hour and half) and before the fans got to enjoy three opening acts: AIR YEL, State Champs and Mayday Parade. In total, the band performed 21 tracks, which you can check out below:

SETLIST (Paris, France / January 18th 2024)

1. I’d Do Anything
2. Shut Up!
3. Jump
4. Jet Lag (French Version)
5. Your Love Is a Lie
6. Addicted
7. You Suck at Love
8. Welcome to My Life
9. Iconic
10. Summer Paradise
11. Take My Hand
12. Astronaut
13. Party medley (All Star / Sk8er Boi / Mr. Brightside)
14. What’s New Scooby Doo?
15. A Million Pictures of You
16. Where I Belong (feat. Derek Discanio from State Champs)

Encore:
17. Wake Me Up (When This Nightmare’s Over)
18. I’m Just a Kid
19. Untitled
20. Cover: Oasis – Wonderwall (shortened)
21. Perfect

The setlist should slightly change every night of the tour (especially possibly during the three Paris shows), so we will keep you updated with any major changes. Most of the setlist’s structure should remain the same, so you can prepare yourself for most of these hits at your show!

UPDATE: Simple Plan did indeed switch things up a little bit on the second night in Paris. Instead of Your Love Is A Lie, they played Can’t Keep My Hands Off You and instead of Wake Me Up, the band performed Congratulations. They also added a French version of What’s New Scooby Doo? feat. Kyoshi Sad. This meant that there was no Oasis cover on the second night.

Check out the second setlist below:

SETLIST (Paris, France / January 19th 2024)

1. I’d Do Anything
2. Shut Up!
3. Jump
4. Jet Lag (French Version)
5. Can’t Keep My Hands Off You
6. Addicted
7. You Suck at Love
8. Welcome to My Life
9. Iconic
10. Summer Paradise
11. Take My Hand
12. Astronaut
13. Party medley (All Star / Sk8er Boi / Mr. Brightside)
14. What’s New Scooby Doo?
15. What’s New Scooby Doo? (French version feat. Kyoshi Sad)
16. A Million Pictures of You
17. Where I Belong (feat. Derek Discanio from State Champs)

Encore:
18. Congratulations
19. I’m Just a Kid
20. Untitled
21. Perfect

Chuck teases the look of European tour’s setlist: greatest hits, focus on new record & new medley!

AUTHOR: Dominika | 29. December 2023 | no comments

With Simple Plan’s European tour with State Champs and Mayday Parade being less than a month away, the local media are starting to pay more attention to the the band, who are coming back to many cities on the old continent as a headlining act for the first time since 2017!

A new Spanish interview for Mondo Sonoro with Chuck Comeau recently came out, in which the drummer was asked several question about the band’s upcoming tour, including what the fans can expect the setlist to look like. Chuck confirmed the tour’s setlist (while it may change from day to day slightly) will include the band’s greatest hits but will also be mostly focused on songs from their new album Harder Than It Looks (2022). Another thing worst mentioning is that Simple Plan want to include a special medley, where they try to incorporate short snippets of their songs to include as many as they can. This is remindful of the “No Pads medley” the band did in 2012 – given that the band is celebrating 20 years since the release of Still Not Getting Any next year, there’s hopes that this new medley could be a SNGA one.

Check out Chuck’s full response below:

“We haven’t done a headlining tour in Europe since 2017. So I think what we want is to just give our fans what they’ve been waiting for for a long time, which is a longer show. A show that spans all eras of Simple Plan, from the early days, which I know our fans love, to the new album that came out last year. So that it’s like a “greatest hits,” but with an emphasis on the new record, of course, and the new music. But we really want to play everything, every song that people want to hear. That’s really what we’re trying to do. And we’re going to change the setlist a little bit and have some songs come in and out and change every night. And we’re even trying to build a medley because we don’t have time to play every song that everyone wants to hear. We thought that maybe if we found a way to not play the whole song, but rather small fragments of several together, we would please more fans, or so we hope.”

– Chuck Comeau –

Are you excited for the Hard As Rock tour in Europe? Get ready! Most tickets are already sold-out and the tour begins on January 18th 2024 in Paris, France!

REPORT: Simple Plan at Rock For People

AUTHOR: Dominika | 18. June 2023 | no comments

Tens of thousands of music fans have gathered last week in the airport area of Hradec Králové in the central part of the Czech Republic to attend the annual Rock For People festival, which traditionally offers four days full of tons of multi-genre performances. This festival was the reason for Simple Plan to return to the Czech Republic yet again not even one year since their last appearance.

A big question mark was however hovering over how Simple Plan would deal with being put on the first festival day, which besides SP included a line-up of rather hardcore and metal acts such as I Prevail, The Architects or Slipknot. Our worries have completely disappeared once we’ve seen the wave of people heading over to the YouTube Music Stage right before the Simple Plan show. On one hand, it might have been rather surprising for some to see more than three quarters of the audience raise their hands when Pierre asked who is seeing Simple Plan for the very first time. The reasoning is simple: it’s very likely that the imbalance of the music genres on the first day of the festival has caused many Simple Plan fans not to attend – because it simply didn’t offer anybody else for them to see. On the other hand it was the perfect opportunity to introduce Simple Plan’s live show to other music fans, who have so far only known this band from the radio. From our point of view, we have to say that the atmosphere that the fans and “not fans” managed to create during this show was marvellous and overall very pleasant. You could tell that for many of the attendees, Simple Plan songs are tied to their teenage years and you just can’t forget those lyrics! No wonder that Pierre actually confided in us later that day that this was one of the best times he’s had on stage in years. And that’s always so nice to hear!

Overall, we could sum up that Simple Plan definitely made their mark at Rock For People and won over the hearts of not only the festival attendees but also of most of the reviewers from the media that reported about the festival later on. Let’s have a look at those!

IReport rated SP’s performance as “great” in its photo report. A positive review also came from the music website Fakker, which stated that “it’s impressive how this group still has so much to say to the world of pop and punk even after nearly two and half decades.” IRozhlas agreed that Simple Plan have truly presented themselves in “the best light”. It also pointed out how much of an interest of the crowd Simple Plan created with their performance at Rock For People and how Pierre Bouvier won the crowd over with his “broken Czech” (note from SimplePlan.cz: Pierre actually consulted us on his Czech backstage right before the show and surprised us by how many phrases he still actually remembers). A no-less positive review came from the news website iDnes.cz, which highlighted the work of Simple Plan’s sound engineer Frank Joly and rated the entire SP performance as an “honest, likeable and most importantly very well-performed and exciting pop-rock show.” Another great summary of the whole concert came from MusicServer. In their post, the authors even mentioned SimplePlan.cz with a short thank you, for which we wholeheartedly thank them right back!

“And a special thank you definitely goes to Dominika from the fantastic fanclub SimplePlan.cz, which alongside other websites about Yellowcard and Foo Fighters belongs to the best Czech fansites ever. And because the band from Montreal has become to know Dominika very well over the years, they often like to thank her at their Czech shows. And we too have to send her a word of thanks because it is thanks to her that the concerts of these pop-punk veterans are so much more heartwarming here than anywhere else.”

– MusicServer.cz [article] –

And it was precisely this thank you from Pierre to SimplePlan.cz right before he kicked off the last song off their set, which has become the highlight of the day for us. Once again big thank you, Pierre! In case you haven’t seen it on our social media yet, we are including it on a video below (big thanks to Hanka for sending in the video!)

It was clear that Simple Plan are very aware of the rock atmosphere of Rock For People, which is why they chose to give their setlist a little bit of a rock spin. The setlist, which consisted of 18 songs, brought us some special tracks we haven’t heard live in a while including “Me Against The World” or “You Suck At Love”. During SP’s performance, the band also invited two female singers to sing with them on stage: Taylor Acorn was featured on Jet Lag and LØLØ helped Simple Plan out with I’m Just A Kid. Check out the full Rock For People setlist below:

I’d Do Anything
Shut Up!
Jump
Jet Lag (feat. Taylor Acorn)
Your Love Is a Lie
Addicted
You Suck at Love
Welcome to My Life
Me Against the World
Iconic
Summer Paradise
Wake Me Up (When This Nightmare’s Over)
Party Medley (All Star / Sk8er Boi / Mr. Brightside)
What’s New Scooby Doo?
Million Pictures of You
Where I Belong
I’m Just a Kid (with LØLØ)
Perfect

Have you also attended SP’s show at Rock For People? What did you think about it? Let us know in the comments under the post or on our social media!

Simple Plan’s first headlining show’s setlist in Europe revealed

AUTHOR: Dominika | 4. June 2023 | no comments

Tonight Simple Plan performed one of the two headlining shows on this short June European tour – in Zurich, Switzerland. The show was circa 90 minutes long, meaning that its setlist might give us a clue about what the setlist for the longer festival slots on this European run might look like! We’ve already shown you the short festival setlist from France – in Italy, the band added What’s New Scooby Doo. In Switzerland however, the fans got to rock out for 21 songs in total.

And thanks to our dearest fans (Yva & Charlotte), we managed to get a closer look at the full setlist! According to them, the band also added The Lucky One on the spot, contrary to the written down setlist.