Yesterday at the second to last day of performances at Walt Disney World in Orlando, FL, Simple Plan surprised the audience at one of the day’s 3 sets by playing one of the fans’ favorites songs – Vacation, which many of you may recall from the Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen movie ‘New York Minute’ (where today’s posts’ header also comes from).
Check out how the boys rocked this classic that they very rarely perform live and that we mostly only heard being played at SP’s soundchecks:
The second-to-last show of the No Pads tour in Brazil took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Wednesday and just like the one in Sao Paulo, it was completely sold-out.
Prior to the day of the show, Simple Plan’s photographer Chady Awad left the tour to tour with Parkway Drive in Europe and since Chady was the one to step in for David in certain parts of the show and play bass, it was Chris Adolph, Simple Plan’s technician, who was there to help out in this matter.
The biggest and fairly unexpected change on this show however was the sudden addition of ‘Vacation’ on the No Pads part of the setlist – which has only been played at soundchecks until now. To keep the total count of the songs still 21 however, Simple Plan did not play ‘Your Love Is A Lie’ in the encore. During the show, Jeff also made an homage to a popular local pop singer called Anitta by playing a solo of the song ‘Vai Malandra’ (thx Bruno for the info). Check out the full setlist from Rio below:
And make sure to also check out the following video that captures ‘Vacation’ live in Rio:
The gallery has also been updated with a bunch of pictures both from the backstage of the show, where Simple Plan did some interviews and also attended the pizza party before the show, as well as pictures from the show in Rio itself. Have a look:
On Tuesday, May 22nd, Simple Plan opened their final run of the No Pads tour in South America, at the Teatro Vorterix venue in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Before the show, the band as always greeted some lucky SP Crew fans at soundcheck, where they performed a very rare song to be performed live – ‘Vacation’.
Remind yourselves of this popular New York Minute track live in Argentina below:
The addition of ‘Vacation’ on the soundcheck setlist did not however change anything on the regular show setlist and the guys went with the same-old No Pads one [check it out here]. The show was a lot of fun, even included a long chant by fans and overall the guys seemed to enjoy themselves on stage – as you can tell from the new pictures from the show in Argentina:
What was however surprising was the new merch that was available at the show in Buenos Aires and might be available on the remaining South American shows too. The image, published by HellMerch, shows us two new t-shirt designs – one featuring a picture of the whole band with red scribbles over their faces and one featuring the band’s name on a ribbon ties around four arrows (UPDATE: According to SPB, the arrow design would only be available in Argentina). You can see the merch more clearly on the video HellMerch also posted here.
On the past few soundchecks, the members of Simple Plan have been surprising their fans with some interesting choices of their tracks. Today in Budapest, where the band is playing in an open-air venue at Budapest Park, Simple Plan performed one of their b-sides ‘Vacation’ – which you may recall from the Olsen twins’ movie ‘New York Minute’.
Check out a short video of Pierre playing this song while playing the bass at the same time below:
It just wouldn’t be a New York Minute without ‘Vacation’, eh?
Thanks to Katie who attended Simple Plan’s soundcheck in New York City yesterday, you can now check out the band rehearsing the song ‘Vacation’, which might just pop up on one of the upcoming setlists on the NPNHJB tour as a surprise [more info here].