A surprising announcement came from the Walt Disney World in Orlando, FL today – Simple Plan will be featured on the line-up of Walt Disney World’s Garden Rocks concert series festival! But wait for the best part: Simple Plan will actually perform two days in a row – three times each day! The performances are set to be taking place at the theme park’s America Gardens Theater at 5:30 p.m., 6:45 p.m. and 8 p.m. each night.
The band will be performing at the Walt Disney World resort on the nights of March 17th and 18th, making it their first appearance in the U.S. after the end of their Canadian tour and before the official start of their No Pads, No Helmets… Just Balls tour in the U.S.
There is no denying that Simple Plan’s upcoming first leg of the No Pads, No Helmets… Just Balls 15th anniversary tour, which will take place in the U.S. in March and April is selling extremely well and the fans are thrilled to hear the band’s oldest material live on stage.
The easiest way for us to determine a success of a tour even before it begins is to simply look at the numbers. Within the first 24 hours of the tickets going on sale, the show in Chicago (2500 people capacity) was immediately sold-out. Same thing happened a couple days later with the show in San Francisco (1150 people capacity). For both of these shows, the guys had the next day off anyway, which is why they could afford to secure that day for a second show in each of these cities. A few days ago, the concert in Philadelphia (800 people capacity) was also announced to be sold-out – this time around however, the band could not add a second show, but they decided to move the show to a bigger venue instead (2500 people capacity) and released some more tickets.
And we’re not finished yet! The tour is still almost two months away and Simple Plan just announced that another o their U.S. shows is sold-out – the PlayStation Theatre in New York City (2200 people capacity)! There is currently no information whether the band would be moving to a bigger venue, but it’s certain they won’t be adding a second show in NYC, as their tour schedule doesn’t allow it.
In the meantime, tickets are still available for the rest of the tour, so get them while you still can – see all he tourdates here! We expect more cities to be sold-out very soon as well.
It seems that the initial estimates of the number of people who would like to attend the No Pads, No Helmets… Just Balls anniversary tour in the U.S., were pretty far off. After a few shows sold-out (San Francisco and Chicago), the band already had to add a number of additional dates (in these two cities plus a new date in San Diego), there is another show in the United States, which got sold-out – and that is the show in Philadelphia, PA.
However, this time around Simple Plan won’t be adding a second show, but instead they decided to move the whole concert in Philly to a much bigger venue. From the Theatre of Living Arts, which has the capacity of only 800 people, Simple Plan will perform on March 28th in The Fillmore, which holds up to 2 500 people.
With this move, the band also released more additional tickets for the show, so if you’re in the area, make sure to get your hands on the tickets quickly!
If you’re going… to San Francisco… in April and forgot to purchase the tickets to the Simple Plan show at The Fillmore Theatre, I’ve got some bad news for you: the show is now officially sold-out!
The final U.S. show of Simple Plan’s No Pads, No Helmets… Just Balls 15th anniversary tour with Seaway and Set It Off, which will take place on April 15th, is the second show of the tour that has been sold-out since the tickets went on sale this past Friday. However, while Simple Plan had a day off in their schedule after the Chicago show to make a second show in the city possible, it seems like this won’t be the case with San Franscisco [keep checking back if anything changes, though!]. VIP upgrades to both sold-out shows are still available.
In the meantime, if you still don’t have your tickets to the U.S. tour, make sure to act quickly – most venues are of the same size as Chicago and San Francisco (1000-2000 in capacity) and are expected to sell out soon as well. You don’t want to miss out on this tour, trust me! Check out all the tourdates here.
Just about a week ago, Simple Plan announced the first leg of their 15th anniversary No Pads, No Helmets… Just Balls tour in the United States, where Simple Plan are once again bringing not just one, but two opening bands – Set It Off and Seaway.
And it looks like our boys are in for some very good and fun touring buddies!
The guys from Set It Off, currently a four-piece pop-punk band from Florida, recently filmed a Q&A with questions submitted by their fans on Twitter. In one of the questions, answered by the band’s lead guitarist Dan Clermont, a fan asked the band about how they felt when they learned they would be touring with Simple Plan.
Check out Dan’s answer below:
Q: Were you shocked in any way to be invited to tour with [Simple Plan] or has shock just kind of moot at this point?
Dan Clermont (Set It Off): We were pretty… I wouldn’t say shocked, but it was like a surprising offer to come around. We’ve done Warped Tour with them a couple times in the past, but it’s only been like a few dates here and there, so we’ve never really had a lot of time to hang out and really get to know each other. So we were really excited that they wanted to take us out on tour. For their 15th anniversary tour. It’s pretty insane that we’re gonna be there to celebrate that with them. So we’re pretty pumped.
And we definitely can’t forget about the second opening band either – the pop-punkers Seaway from Canada – who were very witty in their reaction to the tour announcement, when they tweeted the following picture of the band members and in a reference to the title of Simple Plan’s debut album, they asked: “Yo Simple Plan, jis it cool if we bring our pads and helmets on tour?”
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