As many of you might have guessed by the No Pads picture overload in the past few days, Simple Plan had a very big surprise up their sleeve for their old-school fans.
Simple Plan’s debut album’s 15th anniversary is coming up on March 19th and to celebrate this milestone, the band has decided to embark on a special tour, during which they will be playing the No Pads, No Helmets… Just Balls album in its entirety plus some more fan favorites! The tour will kick off on March 19th in the U.S. [and to answer many of your questions: according to Chuck, the guys are hoping to bring this tour worldwide, so let’s just wait and see till more future announcements about other countries].
What will certainly make lots of U.S. fans happy is the fact that unlike their short tour in October, this time around the band will hit 19 cities in total all over the U.S. And what more – Simple Plan will be accompanied by two great opening bands – Set It Off and Seaway. Tickets go on sale on Friday.
Check out all the tourdates here.
Below, you can read Simple Plan’s official statement regarding this very exciting tour:
It’s hard to believe that this year, we will be celebrating the 15th anniversary of our debut album “No Pads, No Helmets…Just Balls”. To commemorate this very special milestone, we are extremely excited to announce that we will be heading out on tour performing our entire first album all over the US. Even cooler, the tour kicks off on March 19th, the exact date the album came out, back in 2002.
These last 15 years have been an incredible journey for us. From rehearsing and writing songs in our parents’ basements to selling millions of albums and playing shows all over the world, we got to live so many of our dreams and we couldn’t be more grateful. The best part is that we got to do it all with the same 5 friends who started the band together; we couldn’t be more proud of that.
After releasing our 5th album last year and playing more than 100 shows in over 40 countries, we felt it was important take this opportunity to look back and celebrate the amazing adventure we’ve had as a band and as friends. It felt important to do something special, something we’ve never done before to mark this landmark in our lives. This is why we wanted to do this tour. “No Pads, No Helmets…Just Balls” changed everything for us and we are so excited to play all these songs again and relive a time in our lives full of so many amazing memories.
More than anything, we wanted to do this tour for you, our fans, who have been there since day one supporting us. So many of you have told us how much these songs have meant to you over the years and how this record had a big impact on your lives. We hope these shows can make you feel like you’re just a kid again, make you want to sing your heart out and bring you back to a time where nothing mattered except listening to music, hanging out with friends and going to concerts.
2017 is gonna be an amazing year of celebration and we really hope you’ll be able to join us for these very unique shows!
See you soon!
Pierre, Chuck, Sebastien, Jeff and David.
