UK I’m playing at @cardiff_castle and #CastlefieldBowl with the one and only @simpleplan next July 2024. Come rock out with us!

Tickets on sale Dec 1st: https://t.co/vzpVRmAHZh pic.twitter.com/YMOhMRKMov

— Avril Lavigne (@AvrilLavigne) November 28, 2023

Before the shows with Avril Lavigne, Simple Plan will be in the UK for their Hard As Rock tour with New York band State Champs and Florida based band Mayday Parade, which kicks off at the O2 Victoria Warehouse in Manchester on February 9, and wraps up at London’s Eventim Apollo on February 16, 2024. Throughout this tour, the equivalent of $1 (equivalent to 79p) from each ticket sold will be donated to the Simple Plan Foundation, whose aim is to help young people in need, by easing their difficult passage to adulthood and by supporting the victims of life threatening illnesses.

Lavigne released her seventh studio album Love Sux on February 25, 2022. The album charted at number three in the UK and included the singles “Bite Me”, “Love It When You Hate Me” and “I’m A Mess”. The “Girlfriend” singer will be hitting the road in Europe this summer, alongside her UK shows, to promote the album, produced by Blink-182’s Travis Barker.

Her European tour will kick off next June at Rock For People in Czechia, and continue with dates in Austria, Germany, Denmark, Italy, France and Spain. More information can be found on Lavigne’s official website.

In other Avril Lavigne news, last month the pop-punk icon made a surprise appearance at When We Were Young festival in Las Vegas. While onstage, she first joined American Rock band All Time Low for “Fake As Hell”, her new collaborative track with the band, before pleasing the crowd with a performance of her classic hit “Sk8er Boi”.

Tickets for both UK shows will become available this Friday, December 1. Click the link here to purchase your tickets.

Tour dates:

14/06/2024 – Rock For People – Hradec
15/06 – Novarock – Nickelsdorf, Austria
22/06 – Hurricane Festival – Schnee
23/06 – Southside Festival – Neuhausen Ob Eck
27/06 – Tinderbox – Odense, Denmark
02/07 – Cardiff Castle – Cardiff
03/07 – Castlefield Bowl – Manchester
09/07 – I-Days Festival – Milan
10/07 – Festival de Nimes – Nimes
12/07 – Festival Cruilla – Sant Adria De Besos

The band from Oklahoma originally had a hit with the single in 1997 when it shot to number one in 12 countries including the UK, US, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. “MMMBop” was the lead single from the band’s pop rock debut album Middle of Nowhere recorded when the Hanson brother were only teens. Watch the original video below:

The Busted boys shared the new collab on Instagram with the caption, “It’s such an honour to sing this 90’s classic with the band who made it 25 years on from original release. Something a bit different that we hope will bring some happiness to all of you and we cannot wait to have HANSON out with us on tour in September around the UK & Ireland”.

The single will appear on Busted’s upcoming reworked greatest hits album to celebrate the band’s 20th anniversary. The album is set to feature 15 reworked versions of Busted’s fan-favourites. Since their launch in 2002, the band from Essex has had four UK number-one singles, won two Brit awards, and sold over 5 million records worldwide.

Last month Busted shared a revamped version of the 2002 anthem “Loser Kid” featuring the boys from Montreal’s Simple Plan. Listen below:

Welsh pop-punk group Neck Deep also helped turn the band’s 2003 soft acoustic ballad “Meet You There” into an energetic rock track earlier this month. Listen below:

Busted’s Charlie Simpson, Matt Willis, and James Bourne announced their plans to celebrate two decades of the band with a huge comeback UK autumn tour in March much to the delight of fans of the boy band. The trio will be playing 20 dates across the UK in September supported by Hanson. See here for remaining tickets and more information.

Matt revealed to the Mancunion, “We’re mainly going to be playing the first two records. It’s going to be a big Busted love fest. We’ve all just fell back in love with Busted. We’re embracing it. It feels like the right time to do that with our fans.”

For the complete list of Busted’s UK & Europe dates see below:

02/09/23 – Plymouth Pavillions – Plymouth
03/09 – CIA – Cardiff
05/09 – Swansea Arena – Swansea
06/09 – BIC – Bournemouth
07/09 – Brighton Centre – Brighton
09/09 – Utilita Arena – Birmingham
10/09 – The O2 – London
12/09 – Bridlington Spa – Bridlington
13/09 – Utilita Arena – Newcastle Upon Tyne
15/09 – Motorpoint Arena – Nottingham
16/09 – Utilita Arena – Newcastle Upon Tyne
17/09 – First Direct Arena – Leeds
19/09 – P&J Live – Aberdeen
20/09 – OVO Hydro – Glasgow
22/09 – M&S Bank Arena – Liverpool
23/09 – Motorpoint Arena – Nottingham
24/09 – AO Arena – Manchester,
26/09 – Cardiff International Arena – Cardiff
27/09 – The O2 – London
29/09 – Utilita Arena – Birmingham
30/09 – AO Arena – Manchester
01/10 – OVO Hydro – Glasgow
06/10 – 3Arena – Dublin
08/10 – The SSE Arena – Belfast
10/10 – The O2 – London

According to NME Sum 41 frontman Deryck Whibley said in a statement. “We’ve been having such a great time on our tour with Simple Plan in the States and cannot wait to bring the party over to Europe, we’re so excited to celebrate the anniversaries of some of our favourite albums along with other hits and favourites with you on the “Does This Look All Killer No Filler” tour!”

The UK/EU ‘Does This Look All Killer No Filler’ tour kicks off in Stuttgart on September 20, heading through Germany, France, Portugal, Spain, Poland, Italy and more before concluding with a massive London show at Alexandra Palace on October 21, the only UK gig of the run.

Sum 41 dropped their most recent album, Order In Decline, back in 2019. Earlier this year, Whibley revealed that the band had completed a new double record called Heaven And Hell. The band will also be heading to the UK next month ahead of the upcoming tour, playing the Leeds (June 3) and Hatfield (June 4) legs of Slam Dunk Festival.

You can see the full list of dates for the ‘Does This Look All Killer No Filler’ UK and European tour below and get your tickets here for the London date. Tickets are set to go on sale at 10am local time on Friday, May 20.

Sum 41 ‘Does This Look All Killer No Filler’ UK/European Tour Dates:

20/09/22 Porsche-Arena – Stuttgart, Germany
21/09 myticket Jahrhunderthalle – Frankfurt, Germany
23/09 Arkea Arena – Bordeaux, France
24/09 Bilbao Arena – Bilbao, Spain
26/09 Altice Arena Sala Tejo – Lisbon, Portugal
27/09 WiZink Center – Madrid, Spain
29/09 Accor Arena – Paris, France
01/10 Sportovin Hala Fortuna – Prague, Czech Republic
03/10 EXPO XXI – Warsaw, Poland
05/10 Arena Open Air Vienna – Vienna, Austria
06/10 Incheba Expo Hall – Bratislava, Slovakia
08/10 Unipol Arena – Bologna, Italy
10/10 Olympiahalle  – Munich, Germany
11/10 Edel Optics Arena – Hamburg, Germany
12/10 Max-Schmeling-Halle – Berlin, Germany
14/10 –Mitsubishi Electric Hall – Dusseldorf, Germany
17/10 Rockhal – Luxembourg
18/10 O13 – Tilburg, Netherlands
19/10 Forest National – Brussels, Germany
21/10 Alexandra Palace – London, England