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

It’s been almost 10 years since My Chemical Romance played their final show before announcing their indefinite hiatus. If 2007 was the year that cemented the world’s unanimous emo phase, then 2013 – unfortunately – must be the year that ended it. MCR had gone, Paramore had already begun to move into a more Art-Pop style, and even Panic! At the Disco had started to become more reminiscent of The Killers than anything else. It was time to drop the dark and brooding eyeliner and black nails, and make way for pop-punk! It’s 2013, Fall Out Boy are back! So now, put on your eyeliner and black nails, but this time… enjoy yourself a little! But, I think, in today’s day and age, in today’s climate… no one wants to listen to All Time Low. People want to feel a little more unified in the fact that things may not exactly be going to plan. Thus, the emo renaissance. Highlighted perfectly in the lineup for the now famous When We Were Young Festival lineup.

We were never really clear as to whether or not MCR would be releasing any new music. But a little snippet of instrumental material over the band’s reunion teaser back at the start on 2020 gave us all a little hope for something on the horizon. Way revealed in an interview last year that he was working on something new, but for a solo project? New MCR? We didn’t know. “What’s been working lately is sitting with [engineer] Doug [McKean], working on the music, and then I’ll just go over to my office — which used to be Marion Peck’s painting studio, and I love that room — and I will sit while Doug mixes, tweaks, edits, programs more drums . . . I’ll literally sit there and I will write as close as possible to what I think are gonna be either the final lyrics, or at least what I’m comfortable singing at that moment.”

MCR’s tour will be beginning imminently, at this point the UK has managed to accumulate 9 dates for our leg of the tour. Admittedly, they’re all a little obtuse… but that could be considered a good thing. Check out here for more details. See the full list of tour dates below.

16/5 – Eden Sessions – St Austell
19/5 – Stadium MK – Milton Keynes
21/5 – Stadium MK – Milton Keynes
22/5 – Stadium MK – Milton Keynes
24/5 – Royal Hospital Kilmainham – Dublin
25/5 – Royal Hospital Kilmainham – Dublin
27/5 – Victoria Park – Warrington
28/5 – Sophia Gardens – Cardiff
30/5 – OVO Hydro – Glasgow

When We Were Young Fest

Register now for Presale that starts Friday, January 21st, 10 AM PT. All tickets start at $19.99 down https://t.co/KUp7CwEQEV pic.twitter.com/mG5jQPsBm8

— When We Were Young (@WWWYFest) January 18, 2022

Set to hit the sands of Las Vegas’ Nevada desert on October 22^nd, the festival boasts an impressive level of pop-punk throwbacks I wasn’t even aware were still together. Boys Like Girls, Sleeping with Sirens, Pierce the Veil and 3OH!3 stick out as artists just waiting for their time back in the sun. While Bring Me the Horizon fit into the line-up like they were born for it, all while maintaining a level of relevance that not many other artists on the roster have. The group have moulded their sound over the years to keep up with the ever-changing musical climate without just collapsing into obscurity, their most recent output “DiE4u” sums up just how malleable the group can be if needed. This appearance, alongside their Reading and Leeds Festival headlining slots, confirms the staying power of the band.

Not long after the announcement that Wolf Alice will be postponing their UK and EU tour, the group have also announced their involvement in WWWY Festival. With the festival taking place in October, I feel like most touring artists are going into the festival season with a whole lot of hope. My Chemical Romance, for instance, has only played one show since their split in 2012; and their reunion tour dates in the UK have already been rearranged 3 times. These shows are currently set to go ahead this May with an appearance at the Eden Project on May 16^th, 3 nights at Milton Keynes’ Stadium MK on the 19^th, 21^st and 22^nd, and a few other days around the UK in the following weeks. See here for more details.

2007 is back! So if you want to convince your parents that it really wasn’t a phase you can find ticket information here.