Simple Plan brings fans to orgasmic heights

Simple Plan brings fans to orgasmic heights

Tony Hotland, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

Canadian punk band Simple Plan put in a resounding performance
that kept the fans on the edges of their seats during the long-
awaited live show at the Tennis Indoor Hall here last Saturday.

Rolling out their much-vaunted 2005 Still Not Getting Any ...
Tour, Simple Plan performed 19 songs during the show, and made
plenty of efforts to communicate in quite good Indonesian as they
screamed out invitations, not to mention a hilarious
impersonation of girls-gotta-love-him crooner Justin Timberlake.

Kicking off with Shut Up, taken from their concert-titled
sophomore album, the five-piece band swiftly took their some
5,000 screaming fans, who religiously sang along to every single
line, to orgasmic heights.

Numbers like Jump, Addicted, One, Promise, I'm Just A Kid, as
well as their biggest hit so far, Welcome To My Life,
consistently managed to get the adrenaline pumping.

The band also performed for the first time ever a song called
Crazy, as well as Grow Up, which proved a major favorite with the
fans as they shouted the chorus line: "I don't wanna change, I
don't wanna grow up" over and over again!

High school pals Pierre Bouvier (vocal), Chuck Comeau (drums),
David Desrosiers (bass/backing vocal), Sebastien Lefebvre
(guitar/backing vocal) and Jeff Stinco (lead guitar) blazed onto
the pop punk music scene with their first album No Pads, No
Helmets, Just Balls in 2002, which propelled them to global fame.

The band, which sees itself as speaking for underdog teens,
co-starred at gigs staged by their punk predecessors until Still
Not Getting Any... was released in 2004 and sold millions, paving
the way for their own solo tours.

The Jakarta performance was the band's second date in
Southeast Asia after Singapore, and will be followed by Bangkok,
Kuala Lumpur, and Manila.

Although the stage set was mediocre, and the sound system
quite basic, the band managed to prove that maintaining
communication with the audience is the key to producing a night
to remember.

They even played three more songs after the lights went out and
the we-want-more routine began, as one band member carried an
Indonesian flag onto the stage.

Having pulled through a 90-minute-long high-octane show, the
band closed with their most-celebrated song, Perfect, which was
indeed a perfect pick to end an almost perfect show!