It took Simple Plan 8 years to finally return to Scotland and they finally did so last night, when they joined Bowling For Soup’s ‘Together Again: You’re Welcome’ tour, which kicked off in Glasgow, UK yesterday and will continue for the rest of the week in Newcastle, Birmingham, Manchester, London and Brighton.
As far as the stage design, Simple Plan once again used their backdrop from the 2016 Taking One For The Team tour and with that behind them, they kicked off their one hour long set that consisted of 11 songs in total – including ‘What’s New Scooby-Doo?’ and their newest song ‘Where I Belong’. Check out Simple Plan’s setlist from Glasgow:
1. I’d Do Anything
2. Jump
3. Welcome To My Life
4. Shut Up!
5. Boom!
6. Addicted
7. What’s New Scooby Doo?
8. Summer Paradise
9. Where I Belong
10. I’m Just A Kid
11. Perfect
We’ll continue following the tour closely and you can expect a more insightful review from the show in London, which we’ll be attending. In the meantime, check out some of the already released photos from last night’s show in Glasgow:
The main reason for Simple Plan to travel all the way to Australia this December was their invitation to the Good Things Festival, where they band performed for the very first time alongside acts such as Simple Creatures, Bad Religion, The Veronicas, A Day To Remember or Parkway Drive.
This three-day festival brought all the bands to three of some of the biggest cities in Australia: Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane over the course of this past Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Fans from all over Australia and further have gathered to witness their favorite bands to play at one festival and they were in for quite a treat.
Now, let’s have a look at what Simple Plan’s set looked like, shall we? The boys decided to keep it simple and given the fact that they only had an hour, decided to play 14 of their songs with an additional cover of Oasis’ ‘Wonderwall’, which was added as an extra song before the final song on the last two days of the festival (Sydney and Brisbane). Besides this surprising addition to the setlist, the boys also had one more treat up their sleeve: a special live collaboration on Jet Lag with Erin Reus from the Australian band Stateside.
Check out the full setlist below:
1. I’d Do Anything
2. Jump
3. Welcome To My Life
4. Jet Lag (feat. Erin Reus)
5. Addicted
6. Boom!
7. Can’t Keep My Hands Off You
8. Summer Paradise
9. Thank You
10. Where I Belong
11. Shut Up!
12. What’s New Scooby Doo?
13. I’m Just A Kid
14. Wonderwall (Oasis cover)
15. Perfect
But enough talk, let’s watch! Check out Pierre performing ‘Wonderwall’ at Good Things Festival, Simple Plan performing ‘Jet Lag’ with Erin Reus from Stateside below and a short video recap of the set in Melbourne below:
And below you can already check out all three photo albums from Simple Plan’s appearance at the Good Things Festival – in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane:
When it comes to their tourbuses, especially in America, Simple Plan are not amongst the luckiest bands. You can pretty much bet that at every tour, there is bound to be some sort of bus trouble… and so it was the case this week when on their way from Oklahoma City to San Antonio, Simple Plan’s tourbus broke down again and had to be towed to a service center for repairs, leaving the band stranded in the early hours of Friday morning and 8 hours away from their next show in Texas.
Luckily, Simple Plan’s good friends in We The Kings offered to give them a ride on their bus and because of them all bands safely arrived to San Antonio to perform there last night. As Chuck said: ‘Show must go on!’.
Setlist: new “wild cards” system
During the whole past week, Simple Plan have been slowly making their way from the east coast to the west coast of the U.S. (where their tour finishes) – visiting states like Missouri, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Texas. As far as setlist goes, just like we noticed in our previous post, Chuck recently confirmed in an interview for setlist.fm, that the band has introduced a new concept of “wild cards” to their daily setlist. That means there while there is a stable list of songs that the band definitely plays every night, there’s 3 or 4 different slots within the setlist, where the songs are going to change. This way, fans who see the band for multiple dates on a tour, they always get to experience a different show each night.
Listen to Chuck talk about this new “wild cards” system and more in the setlist.fm interview below:
Photo update
Now, let’s have a look at some of the shows from the past few days. We’ve updated the gallery and you can now check out some new pictures from the following shows:
And finally, the boys also keep taking quite a number of pictures on this tour while they’re not on stage so make sure to check out these photoshoots taken by Chady on this tour:
Simple Plan and State Champs have officially begun their month-long co-headlining ‘Where I Belong’ tour across the United States, with We The Kings as their opening band.
The first stop of the tour has led the three pop-punk bands to The National venue in Richmond, VA, which had the honor to witness the sets of this tour for the very first time. Simple Plan introduced 18 songs in total in their setlist – mostly surprising the fans with What’s New Scooby-Doo?. As expected, the band also performed their brand new collaborative song ‘Where I Belong’ live for the first time, while being joined on stage by Derek DiScanio from State Champs and Travis Clark from We The Kings. Check out the full setlist below (big thanks to Gillian and Steph):
1. I’d Do Anything
2. Jet Lag
3. Jump
4. Welcome To My Life
5. Your Love Is a Lie
6. Me Against the World
7. Boom!
8. What’s New Scooby Doo?
9. Addicted
10. Can’t Keep My Hands Off You
11. Summer Paradise
12. Take My Hand
13. Crazy
14. Untitled
15. Where I Belong (feat. Derek DiScanio from State Champs & Travis Clark from We The Kings)
Encore:
16. Shut Up
17. I’m Just A Kid
18. Perfect
And here is the live version of ‘Where I Belong’ captured on video from last night’s show in Richmond:
Tens of thousands of people from all over the world gathered in the English countryside in Leeds on Saturday and in Hatfield on Sunday to attend this year’s edition of the Slam Dunk Festival.
The 2019 line-up was a dream-come-true to many fans of various music genres – whether it was for NOFX, Bad Religion, Anti-Flag, Plain White T’s, Hellogoodbye, Lights, Waterparks, Neck Deep, All Time Low or Simple Plan, each stage always brought in thousands of people, who got to watch their favorite acts live and even discover some new ones.
As you already know, Slam Dunk Festival in Leeds and Hatfield were Simple Plan’s only two appearances in Europe this summer and the guys were really excited to be back in the United Kingdom to deliver two great performances to the Slam Dunk festival attendees.
Given that this was a festival, Simple Plan’s set was of course much shorter than during their usual headlining shows. And what did it look like, you ask? The guys played the following songs at both dates of the festival:
1. I’d Do Anything
2. Shut Up!
3. Jump
4. Jet Lag
5. Addicted
6. Boom
7. Summer Paradise
8. Welcome To My Life
9. I’m Just A Kid
10. Perfect
As always, during I’m Just A Kid, Chuck and Pierre switched places and while Pierre was behind the drums, Chuck went crowdsurfing amongst the fans. During Summer Paradise, some Slam Dunk attendees were able to score the Simple Plan beach balls that SP alongside some of their on-stage guests, including members of NOFX, kicked into the crowd. These beach balls later also impressed the members of Plain White T’s, who joked during their own set in Hatfield that they need to get some beach balls too.
Now, let’s have a look at what the shows looked like! Check out the first photos from the Slam Dunk shows in Leeds and Hatfield in our gallery:
SimplePlan.cz had the opportunity to attend the Hatfield version of Slam Dunk on Sunday, so below you can enjoy three videos we filmed for you there. Check out Simple Plan performing ‘Shut Up!’, ‘Summer Paradise’ and ‘Welcome To My Life’ live at Slam Dunk South – from a little different perspective:
Of course, being at this festival also meant that the guys from Simple Plan got to hang out with both some of their friends from other bands (such as All Time Low – by the way, Jack Barakat could not miss watching SP live, so he watched a part of this set sitting down side-stage) and also their own fans – who got to hang out with them at the signing sessions both in Leeds and in Hatfield. When it came to the signing sessions, the guys only had about an hour to sign to the huge line of people who showed up just to meet them. But it wouldn’t be Simple Plan if they didn’t try to do their best to make everyone happy, so after another band already had to take over the singing tent, they moved the signing line to the side and took pictures with the rest of the fans, who were dying to meet them. And we applaud them for it!
Below, you can check out links to albums from Leeds (left) and Hatfield (right), where we gathered some pictures from the signing sessions (including some of our own from Hatfield :)) and also some backstage photos the guys have already published online. Have a look:
And finally, we’d like to send a big thanks to SP for always being so cool with us and also to all the fans we got to meet at the show in Hatfield! Hope you enjoy your SimplePlan.cz pins :)
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