Simple Plan are set to make Aussie pop-punk dreams come true next month. The band have just announced a surprise headline show in Sydney where they’ll play their 2004 album Still Not Getting Any… in full, for the first time ever.
The show, set for Saturday 10 May at Liberty Hall, lands in between the band’s arena dates supporting The Offspring and promises an intimate celebration of one of the era’s most iconic sad-boy records.
“Still Not Getting Any… is one of our favourite albums we’ve made,” drummer Chuck Comeau said in a press release. “We haven’t had the chance to properly celebrate the milestone… so we thought we would take advantage of the few days off we have in Australia and do something really special… something we’ve never done before anywhere else in the world!”
That “something” is a front-to-back run-through of the album that gave us ‘Welcome to My Life’, ‘Shut Up!’, and the ultimate mid-2000s melodrama soundtrack, ‘Untitled (How Could This Happen to Me?)’.
The album itself was a monster. Triple Platinum in Australia, quadruple Platinum in Canada, and still clocking up streams in the hundreds of millions, Still Not Getting Any… cemented Simple Plan’s place as one of the most enduring bands from the genre’s peak. They even marked its 20th anniversary last year with a reissue, including B-side ‘Crash and Burn’ and a first-time streaming release of the acoustic version of ‘Welcome to My Life’.
This Sydney show is special though. A rare chance to see the band dig deep into a record that shaped a generation and scream every word back in a room that doesn’t require binoculars to see the stage.
It’s a one-off. They don’t know if they’ll do it again. So if Still Not Getting Any… was your teenage religion, this is the gig, trust me.
Tickets for this special one of show go on sale Tuesday 29 April at 12pm AEST via Destroy All Lines. They can be purchased here.
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