Simple times with Simple Plan

By Julia Wong

Every once in a while, I manage to get a little starstruck. Last week, I got to go the Simple Plan concert in Penticton. I was going to interview some members of a Penticton student choir chosen to sing on stage with the band, but I still got the chance to listen to most of the band’s set. I remember when Simple Plan came out about 10 years back so I definitely went down nostalgia lane during the concert. I was trying to be professional but I couldn’t help bobbing up and down to their songs and cheering along with everyone else.

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I will admit, one of my favourite songs is Jet Lag. But the French version, not the English one. So when the song came on, I squealed just a little to myself. But it really wouldn’t have mattered if I had done it louder since the arena was filled with the screams of teenage girls. My colleague, a cameraman, is a little older than myself (and almost everyone else in the arena). By the end of the night, he was wishing he had brought in his ear plugs because it was THAT loud. Mind you, by the end of the night, I wouldn’t have minded them either: my ears were ringing until the next morning.

A cool part about my job is that I not only get to see really cool things (i.e. the Simple Plan concert) but I get to dive in a little more into a story. So instead of just seeing the Penticton student choir perform on stage with Simple Plan, I got to talk with two girls after the fact. And let me tell you, they were ecstatic about their chance to rub elbows (figuratively, not literally) with the band. They were only on stage for about a minute and they really only sang five words of a song but they still got a chance to shine. And really, who else can say they’ve been on stage with Simple Plan?

To see more pictures from the concert and of the choir, click here.