In this article, we will try to sum up what we know so far about the most upcoming plans for Simple Plan and also look a little bit into what the future might hold for them.
The year is still not quite over and the band has a number of No Pads shows to play all over the world to celebrate the 15th anniversary of their debut record! In just a week, Simple Plan will be back in one of their favorite locations to play – Japan, where they will appear at four shows in total (Nagoya, two shows in Tokyo and Osaka). You can check out the band’s shoutout to their Japanese fans in a recent video here.
From Japan, Simple Plan will head over to the middle of the Pacific ocean, where they will be most welcome in Hawaii, where they are expected at an already sold-out show in Honolulu.
After their special show in Hawaii, Simple Plan have a very exciting event coming up, as their are a part of the first ever Warped Rewind At Sea cruise, which will take them from New Orleans to Cozumel, Mexico over he course of 4 days at the end of October. The band will spend the days on the cruise with loads of other bands, tons of fans doing lots of interesting activities – and obviously and attending many and many concerts on the deck.
Next up is the long-awaited Simple Plan’s return to Mexico in November, where the band will perform at a number of local arenas for thousands of very eager Mexican fans. What’s special about this tour in Mexico is that besides the regular post-game VIP packages (pizza parties), the fans may purchase also a pre-game VIP package to be able to hang out with the band before the show.
And finally as of right now, the last shows of 2017 seem to be the recently added additional dates of the U.S. No Pads tour, which will bring Simple Plan to some more cities in the United States and most importantly to Texas, which has been recently hit by hurricane Harvey and where Simple Plan had to post-pone their shows to these rescheduled December dates.
The question of the return of Simple Plan’s bassplayer currently still remains unanswered. David Desrosiers revealed in a statement earlier this year that due to this long-term fight with depression, he is unable to join his bandmates on tour and remains at home, focusing on his own mental health in order to get better as soon as possible. The last time we’ve seen David tour with Simple Plan was in April 2017, when he attended the first part of the U.S. No Pads tour.
Over the course of the past few months, the members of Simple Plan have stated numerous times that they keep in touch with David and that he is doing well and that he is still very much a part of Simple Plan. As of right now, there have been no official words on whether he might be appearing on any of the upcoming dates of the 2017 tour. The band will very likely announce quite soon whether we can expect David on any of the upcoming shows in Japan, Mexico or the USA.
Yes, yes, yes. Every day we keep getting more and more comments and questions about when the next Simple Plan record will be out [so that the band can start the next tour cycle again :)]. And luckily – we are not the only ones who are already thinking about it – the band is too!
It’s been about a year and half since Simple Plan released Taking One For The Team (2016) and the boys have already started planning when they might start getting behind the writer’s desk again. As of right now, from what’s been said in numerous recent interviews, it seems that songwriting for the 6th record might begin in early 2018 and the band also hopes they might get into the studio in the same year. Realistically speaking, we could be looking at early 2019 as the earliest possible release time for this record.
Who will be the producer? Which way will Simple Plan lead their music style next? And what can we expect from the next record as a whole? All these questions will be answered eventually and we already can’t wait to be here with you reporting about the next record-making process! In the meantime, let us know, what YOU would like to hear from Simple Plan!