Simple Plan - BUS INVADERS Ep. 2117 - video Dailymotion

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Become a member (it's FREE) at https://digtb.us/signup Buy official DTB merch at http://digtb.us/merch  On this episode of DTB’s “Bus Invaders”, we take you inside the touring vehicle of the pop punk band, Simple Plan, while on their "Bigger Than You Think! Tour" with Bowling For Soup, 3Oh!3, and LØLØ. Simple Plan is currently supporting their newest single, Nothing Changes, from the soundtrack of their documentary, The Kids in the Crowd.  VIDEO INFO: Film Date - August 24, 2025 Location - Huntington Bank Pavilion in Chicago, IL  KEEP UP WITH SIMPLE PLAN: Facebook - https://facebook.com/simpleplan Instagram - https://instagram.com/simpleplan Twitter - https://twitter.com/simpleplan  FOLLOW US: Website/Email List - https://www.digitaltourbus.com/#/portal/signup YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/digitaltourbus Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/digitaltourbus/ TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@digitaltourbus Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/digitaltourbus/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/digitaltourbus Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/digitaltourbus/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/digital-tour-bus-llc Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/user/digitaltourbus  VIDEO SUMMARY: 00:00 Introduction 00:35 Start of Video 01:01 Downstairs Lounge & Kitchen 06:49 Bunks 10:54 Upstairs Lounge  ABOUT DIGITAL TOUR BUS: Digital Tour Bus is your backstage pass to your favorite touring artists! With daily video releases, we cover all genres, and have had the pleasure of featuring the likes of Matchbox Twenty, Twenty One Pilots, Megadeth, MGK, Papa Roach, AJR, Pierce The Veil, Simple Plan, A Day to Remember, and thousands of others over the past 15 years. "Bus Invaders" takes you inside an artist's home on the road, "Cooking at 65mph" showcases the culinary skills of artists on tour, "Gear Masters" unveils the equipment musicians use on stage, and "Stage Threads" dives into the meaning and inspiration behind the clothing artists wear during their performances.

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00:00This is how little we come up here. I think we just found a fridge here.

00:03I have a problem now. I'm a coffee snob because of this guy.

00:06The quality of sleep all depends on the roads or the driver.

00:30Yes, who's this? Oh, it's a bus tour. Welcome, come on in.

00:44How's it going? Come on in, come on in.

00:46This is our tour bus for the summer 2025 of our headline tour, Bigger Than You Think, 25th anniversary tour of Simple Plan.

00:53And it's a first for us to be touring North America with a double-decker bus. So that's pretty sweet.

00:59So when we go to Europe, usually we request like a double-decker.

01:03It's sort of a standard there, but it wasn't available in America.

01:06The difference is pretty major. It has basically, you know, when you got a double-decker, you got a really front, a big front lounge.

01:13And then all the bunks are in the second tier, the second level, and you have a front lounge, which is pretty sick.

01:20We're not going, do you ever go?

01:22I've been once and I had a beautiful morning in the front lounge when we were still driving through the desert,

01:28through the canyons and all that, and it was absolutely beautiful, but I rarely go.

01:31I don't really...

01:32We're sharing with our crew and it's sort of their area.

01:35Well, I don't really hang out on the bus. I rarely hang out on the bus.

01:39I'll go to the dressing room or I just go to a coffee shop in the city that we're in.

01:42But another main difference that usually when you get into a bus in North America, you get in through the front.

01:47So you have to walk through the lounge to get to where the bunks are.

01:51Now these double-deckers that are usually European buses, you kind of get in through the middle and you can go upstairs right away

01:56or get into the kitchen section that has a few seats, big TV.

02:02Over there is the driver's quarters, so you don't really have to...

02:06You don't bother the driver ever. You never have to walk past him to get in and out of the bus.

02:10TV section where you can play your video games if you want.

02:13As soon as we get off stage, I jump in the shower and I go to bed.

02:16So I'm never here. I don't even know who hangs out here. Who hangs out here?

02:19I'll tell you. So at night after the show, the people who want to have a last drink before going to bed will stay here.

02:25I have indulged with the crew. It's mainly the crew, you know.

02:29And you will have Lucas, our content creator, loves video games.

02:34So he has played quite a few games with my son who kicks his ass.

02:38Yes, it is true. Our photographer and our video team, they do spend some time here late at night

02:44because we want them to edit everything so we can post it quite quickly.

02:48So they're very professional and they work until the wee hours of the morning right down here on the table

02:52to make sure they can deliver the content for us.

02:54This is the kitchen. So we've got our sink, our countertop with a bunch of snacks,

02:58coffee machine we don't use, microwave. I don't know where they put that in there.

03:02Has anybody ever used it?

03:03I use the microwave all the time.

03:04Okay, so this is the guy. So basically, this is like sort of like the writer that we bring back.

03:11You know, some people love their tequila, other people like love their rum.

03:17Seven and I don't really indulge all that much, but once in a while, you know.

03:22I think it's funny, sometimes you open up a drawer and there's like blueberries or whatever

03:25and then someone's name is on it, like this.

03:27See, that's mine. This is Jeff's pineapple.

03:29I forgot I had that!

03:30Don't eat Jeff's pineapple, apparently.

03:32Ever! Ever!

03:33So I keep, you know, fruit for me. I want to have like fresh fruit every day

03:37because for some reason, like you don't really get them at catering.

03:40And Sebastian got me this sick, well Sebastian in front of ours, Australian coffee.

03:47Because Seb, man, I have a problem now. I'm a coffee snob because of this guy.

03:52I know, I know. So it's a fun way to pass the day when you're on a tour is to go to a coffee shop and all that

03:57and then you realize that it turns out the bus coffee isn't always all that great.

04:01So you make your own. You bring your own coffee, get the little AeroPress going.

04:05That's mine, yeah.

04:06And then you make your own coffee every day.

04:07It was delicious.

04:09Fantastic, yeah.

04:10Yeah. So, and you know, like we have like a few things. The magic bullet is mine.

04:14I want to make sure I get shakes in when I'm not able to eat properly.

04:18And something else you might actually notice about the European buses or the double-deckers

04:22that the ceiling is quite low. Like I can fit. I'm not super tall, but some of our people are always hunching.

04:27The North American buses, because there's not two stories, they're a little bit taller.

04:31So these ones are pretty low. So it could be a little bit more claustrophobic, I think.

04:34So yeah, that's pretty much it. You know, like try to, it's a balance of, you know, a bit of alcohol, healthy stuff.

04:42I'm hiding my fruit.

04:45Let's see what's in here. So we've got, there's a lot of milk.

04:49Who has milk? People that make shakes, right?

04:51Okay. Yeah. Well, there's that. There's also like, like I like to have my non-dairy, non-lactose free milk.

04:58Pierre has a lot of food that he loves to eat while on tour because it helps him sing and keep a really good routine.

05:05So right now, I guess there's rice and half an avocado here. That would be his.

05:10You've got your fruit. You've got your fruit juice. One of our guys loves string cheese.

05:15That's our sour guy. He loves it. There's always string cheese in the fridges.

05:19Uh, what's it, what's in the freezer here? Let's see.

05:23Yogurt in the freeze? Oh, that's the, that's the fridge side still?

05:25That's the fridge side. There's yogurt in here? And eggs? Yeah.

05:28Yeah. Oh, I know what I'm having later. That's fun. Lots of protein shakes. Some names are written on here.

05:34Yeah, that's not ours. More fridges. Okay, what have we got here?

05:38A bit of a mess. Yeah, a bit of a mess. Shredded chicken.

05:41That's a sandwich bar, usually. Yeah, sandwich bar. And you can make sandwiches.

05:45Yeah, right. Okay, so another, another. Oh, I forgot about that. It's frozen.

05:50This is completely. God, this fridge has to be. Yeah, you gotta fix this, Seb.

05:55Come on, engineer. Seb is the engineer of the band. Am I?

05:59You are. You always figure it out. Clearly not. I'll figure it out later.

06:03Um, here we've got our grapes in there as well. Some fruit. Some more of this stuff.

06:08We've got some cool stuff in here as well. So yeah, this is the sandwich bar.

06:12It is supposed to be the sandwich bar. Yeah. And it comes in handy on days off.

06:16Because sometimes you might be, this is quite noisy.

06:19Sometimes you might be parked at a mall or almost like at a, at a stop along the highway.

06:25Basically just to spend the day when the drives are too long.

06:27And there's not a lot of healthy options. So you can come on the bus, make yourself a good sandwich.

06:31Maybe a salad, have some fruit. It's very useful to have these things in here.

06:34So let's go upstairs. Let's go upstairs.

06:36It's pretty much the best and coolest feature, most original feature of these buses.

06:44A little bit of storage, but really what it's all about is the first back lounge of bunks.

06:48There's eight bunks in there.

06:57I sleep down here. I'm a bottom bunk kind of guy.

07:00Whether it's a double decker or a North American bus, I'm always on the bottom.

07:03I switched on this door. I prefer it.

07:05You prefer the bottom, huh?

07:06Yeah, I think it's, it shakes less.

07:08So we've got eight bunks, quite small, pretty comfortable though.

07:11So the quality of sleep all depends on the roads or the driver really.

07:15If you slamming on the brakes all the time, you won't sleep that great.

07:18If the roads are Montreal type roads, you won't sleep that great either.

07:22I actually always bring my own pillow.

07:24I think it's important to have that sort of routine sleep.

07:27And for a few tours now, it's kind of funny.

07:30I've been bringing my own weighted blanket.

07:33So that's just very heavy, pins you down.

07:35It's supposed to help you sleep.

07:36I'm not convinced yet, but I'm still using it.

07:39So that's pretty good.

07:40It's too hot. I have to get rid of it.

07:42Well, I mean, we do keep it at 60 degrees on the bus.

07:45So it kind of offsets the double blanket for me.

07:48But yeah, I understand.

07:50So this is my bunk.

07:51I got a shirt, a colorful shirt from last night's show.

07:54I have headphones.

07:56I've got books.

07:58I've been trying really hard not to, in French too.

08:02That's fancy, right?

08:03Because we're French Canadians.

08:05For me, I've been really trying hard not to do the doom scrolling before going to bed.

08:11Because then I get really bad sleep.

08:14So last night, and it's crazy like the difference.

08:18Last night, I did not touch my phone and I read a book.

08:21I had the best night I've had in a week.

08:24Oh, brilliant. Awesome.

08:25Yeah, it really makes a difference.

08:26You know, those blue lights, whatever they tell you, it is a real thing.

08:30It's horrible.

08:31So it's my challenge on this tour.

08:33So it's been good.

08:34And I listen to a bit of music too.

08:36I think it's cool.

08:37I got these really cool headphones that are basically, you know, like you don't have like

08:43a crazy thing on your ear.

08:44You could fall asleep with them.

08:46And some people put noise, like white noise in the background to fall asleep to.

08:51I don't.

08:52I just love to listen to music before I go to bed.

08:54Really light, chill stuff.

08:55So yeah, it's been nice.

08:57So yeah, and my pillow obviously.

09:00I have a really fancy pillow as well.

09:02I think it's nice to have a bit of home with you.

09:05So as you can tell, you can't really stand up upstairs.

09:08Like upstairs, you can't stand up.

09:10But there's like this weird shelf in these buses where when you get undressed at night,

09:14this is where you put all your stuff.

09:16You could put your shoes.

09:17You put your clothes there.

09:18That way when you get up in the morning, you can just grab them, get dressed and get going.

09:22So usually the back area is where the band sleeps.

09:27It's not exclusive to the band because right now we're 16 on the bus.

09:31So every single bunk is full.

09:33I sleep here.

09:34Pierre sleeps here.

09:36Our tour manager sleeps here.

09:37This is Chuck.

09:38This is Jeff.

09:39Lucas.

09:40Lucas.

09:41Other Lucas.

09:42And I don't know, but there's someone there.

09:44That's Frank.

09:45That's Frank.

09:46Awesome.

09:47Yes.

09:48So that's who sleeps in the back here.

09:49Miracles right now.

09:50We have a really small crew for the scope of the shows that we're putting together,

09:54which is pretty, pretty incredible.

09:56But we wanted to have like to keep it to one bus.

10:00And it kind of works out, but it's pretty, I mean.

10:03Yeah, it's amazing.

10:04We're a lot of people on this bus.

10:06A lot of people on this bus, but they are pulling Miracle and a great, great, very professional

10:10crew that's with us.

10:11So, I mean, as you can see, we're short on space here.

10:15So, when we get to the venue, basically Seb and I, we just get out of the bus and we

10:20probably won't get back until like way after the show, after the shower.

10:24And we just sleep here.

10:25You know, we don't spend a lot of times.

10:27But some of our guys, Chuck in particular, will use the front lounge quite a bit.

10:32Let's go check it out.

10:33Let's go check it out.

10:34Oh, yeah.

10:35So, here's a little section for my guitar and my dirty laundry.

10:38Yeah, that's kind of all Jeff.

10:41So, eight more people sleep here in these bunks.

10:46And then you get to the top lounge, which happens to sit on top of the driver.

10:50So, you see the road.

10:52Right now, you see the butt of 303's bus.

10:56But imagine you're up here.

10:58You're still driving.

10:59You won't get to your hotel until noon.

11:01You woke up at 9 for some reason.

11:03You made yourself a delicious coffee.

11:05You're sitting here and you're overlooking the desert.

11:08Like, it's pretty sweet.

11:09I have to say, for some reason, I don't really take advantage of it so much in North America.

11:14But in Europe, I will always come here in the morning and check out like the drives.

11:19Even at night.

11:20Well, for me, I don't really want to walk through if people are sleeping.

11:23Yeah.

11:24So, like I'll end up downstairs mostly, but maybe I should switch bunks.

11:28Maybe I should be like, you, take my bunk.

11:31Again, we are a lot.

11:32Yeah.

11:33Some people, you know, store their bags here and everything.

11:35So, it kind of makes it a little less appealing.

11:38Exactly.

11:39But, you know, it's a cool bus.

11:42This is how little we come up here.

11:43I think we just found a fridge here.

11:45I think, I think, yeah, see?

11:47It's Frank's corner pretty much.

11:49That is obviously Frank's corner.

11:50Our sound guy's corner.

11:51He lives on these things.

11:52That's good.

11:53I guess you could do some gaming.

11:54I see a Switch 2 dock right here.

11:56So, this would be where you play Mario Kart World.

11:58I have done quite a few interviews here on Zoom.

12:02Because you got the beautiful light in your face.

12:04So, you kind of look 10 years younger.

12:05Nice.

12:06Yeah.

12:07That's a trick.

12:08Yeah, I guess you could come up here for work.

12:10You could play some video games.

12:11But, you know, with the amount of people here and the bag storage, it gets hard to chill anywhere on the bus.

12:17Which is why we get off in the morning.

12:19And sometimes we even leave the venue in the morning.

12:21Just go as far as possible to a coffee shop.

12:23It is a pretty sweet bus.

12:24It is.

12:25It's a good bus.

12:26Honestly.

12:27Not that you made me tour it.

12:28Because I've never been to the bus.

12:29You've never been to the front of the bus before.

12:31I've never seen it.

12:32Thanks for the tour though.

12:33Because we're discovering things about the bus.

12:35Yeah.

12:36I hope someone empties this trash once in a while.

12:38Because I don't.

12:40Hey, what's up?

12:41I'm Jeff.

12:42And I'm Sebastian from the band Simple Plan.

12:44And guess what?

12:45We are continuously on tour.

12:47Always on tour buses.

12:48So, check out our tour dates.

12:49You know, we're on Instagram.

12:51TikTok.

12:52Twitter.

12:53No, not Twitter.

12:54It doesn't exist anymore.

12:55X.

12:56It's X.

12:57It's X.

12:58But you can check out our website too.

12:59Yeah, we are everywhere.

13:00OfficialSimplePlan.com.

13:01Thanks for touring the bus with us.

13:02We've got a new song that just came out.

13:03It's awesome.

13:04We're having fun on tour.

13:05And we're just always on social media.

13:07We're playing our biggest shows ever.

13:08It's Kick-Ass.

13:09And we're going to be with The Offspring in Europe throughout the fall.

13:13Then we're going to do some new music and keep touring.

13:16New music.

13:17New music.

13:18It's going to happen.

13:19I promise you.

13:20Soon.

13:21Soon.

13:22Simple plan soon.

13:23But thanks for hanging out with us and we'll see you soon.

13:24Peace.

13:25Bye.

13:26Bye.

13:27Bye.

13:28Bye.

13:29Bye.

13:30Bye.

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