The famous Vans’ Warped Tour, an American festival-kind-of-tour which brings about one hundred punk-rock, pop-rock, punk, rock and other bands on stages across the whole US every summer, has after many years welcomed back the Canadian band Simple Plan, who are definitely no newbies on this tour.
Back when Reset was around (Pierre’s and Chuck’s (and later David’s) first band) the guys were invited to play on Warped Tour and kept performing there even with their next band: Simple Plan. They haven’t missed a single tour from 1999 to 2005. After that they went on a little break surring summers: wrote music or played festivals/tours on other places in the world. But this year they are back on the American ground ready to rock Vans’ Warped Tour 2011 and keep rocking it almost till the end of July.
Simple Plan started off the tour with their kick-ass show in Dallas, Texas, where they performed the following setlist:
1. Shut Up!
2. Can’t Keep My Hands Off You
3. I Gotta Feeling (Black Eyed Peas cover)
4. Jump
5. Thank You
6. Welcome To My Life
7. Loser Of The Year
8. Addicted
9. I’d Do Anything
It’s pretty clear why Simple Plan haven’t added any songs from their third album on the setlist and focused more on the songs from the first and the second album, plus adding some from Get Your Heart On! The reason is that Simple Plan’s self-titled record didn’t reach (by far) the success the previous records have and the promotion of this album in the States was very minimal. But now, with a new record on the horizon, the guys are trying to avoid making the same mistakes as last time and pay more attention to their US fans.
You can already check out the first pictures from the show in Dallas in the gallery:
And below you can check out a pretty cool video of Simple Plan’s performance of one of their new songs from Get Your Heart On! – Loser Of The Year, which they introduced to Dallas yesterday:
The I-day Festival in Bologna, Italy was a wonderful experience. Simple Plan’s show rocked on so many levels! Also, Simple Plan’s setlist was pretty surprising. The guys played not only the usual songs like Shut Up, Jump, When I’m Gone, Take My Hand, Addicted, I’d Do Anything, Time To Say Goodbye, Save You, Your Love Is A Lie, You Suck At Love and Perfect but they also played I’m Just A Kid, Promise and acoustic version of Crazy.