On September 27th, Kevin Lyman, the man behind the most popular festival tour in the United States – Warped Tour – held a class on CreativeLive.com called “The Music Biz: Bands, Brands, Managers, and Tours. During the livestream, he had Jake Round (founder of Pure Noise Records) on Skype and together they were discussing the new wave of pop punk and how bands like 5 Seconds To Summer were bringing recognition to older pop punk bands like Simple Plan as Simple Plan did to bands like Blink 182. In particular, Lyman meant the recent news of the upcoming collaboration between Simple Plan and 5 Seconds Of Summer, which have been (indirectly) confirmed by both bands.
Thanks to Misty Lake who listened in and was able to do a transcript of what Kevin Lyman said regarding Simple Plan, you can now read the direct quote below:
“I think with 5 Seconds Of Summer a lot of people in traditional punk rock would have been like and you hear it, this whole backlash to it. And any time something like that happens it usually benefits the history of where it came from. And I got home from summer and you know, I saw 5 Seconds Of Summer open for One Direction 2 years ago. And I just watched that moment in time when girls they were watching guys play guitars for the first time and they were wearing Green Day shirts and they were out there. And then there was this whole talk about them being on the cover of AP, what was that and I go yeah they’re on the cover and they open that magazine and got turned on to all these bands we worked with around Warped Tour. What’s wrong with that? And those bands love that music. Now you’re right, bands like Simple Plan and New Found Glory, they’re getting recognition to where that’s what they listen to when they were really young.”