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Album review: State Champs – State Champs
State Champs’ fifth album finds the Albany band relishing in pop-punk’s glory years.
Simple Plan are returning to the UK and Europe for their Hard As Rock tour in 2024 – and they’re bringing State Champs and Mayday Parade with ’em!
Simple Plan have announced a 2024 UK and European headline tour.
The Canadian pop-punks’ upcoming Hard As Rock run will see them hit the road with State Champs and Mayday Parade (what a line-up!), kicking things off in Paris on January 19, and wrapping up in London on February 16. Even better, they’ll be donating $1 from every ticket sold to their Simple Plan Foundation, which ‘focuses on helping young people in need and showcasing the power of music as a tool to find purpose and direction in life’ – read more on that here.
“We’re super excited to be coming back to Europe and the UK early next year!” enthuses Simple Plan drummer Chuck Comeau. “After an amazing arena tour with our good friends Sum 41 last fall and some incredible festival shows this spring, we’re thrilled to come back on our own headlining tour, playing full shows for our UK and Euro fans all over the continent.”
“It’s gonna be great to play a bunch of new songs from our latest album Harder Than it Looks as well as all the fans’ favourites from our early records. We might even throw in a few jams we rarely play live to celebrate, as 2024 marks the 25th anniversary of the band and the 20th anniversary of our second album, Still Not Getting Any!
“We’re stoked to bring our friends State Champs and Mayday Parade with us, two fantastic bands that we and our fans love! This is probably one of the strongest UK / European tour line-up we’ve ever put together and we can’t wait for it to kick off next year!”
Catch the Hard As Rock tour at the following:
January 2024
19 Paris Bataclan
20 Paris Bataclan
22 Barcelona Sant Jordi Club
24 Lausanne Docks
25 Milan Fabrique
26 Munich Tonhalle
28 Prague Forum Karlin Hall
29 Warsaw Stodola
30 Vienna Gasometer
February 2024
1 Berlin Columbiahalle
2 Hamburg Edel Optics Arena
4 Cologne Palladium
5 Tilburg O13
7 Antwerp De Roma
9 Manchester O2 Victoria Warehouse
10 Glasgow O2 Academy
11 Birmingham O2 Academy
13 Bristol O2 Academy
15 Leeds O2 Academy
16 London Eventim Apollo