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Simple Plan Lose Member At Download Festival

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Simple Plan Lose Member At Download Festival

Simple Plan’s guitarist Jeff Stinco was notably absent from Simple Plan’s Download set on Friday (June 13th).

He grabbed a last minute flight back to Canada for ‘personal reasons’. The band was keen to fulfil their commitments and play the metal festival, but struggled on stage without the aid of their much loved lead guitarist.

Front man, Pierre Bouvier seemed confused, telling the crowd, “It’s great to be in Birmingham”, when they were actually in Donninton.

Simple Plan played a shortened set including ‘Your Love is a Lie’, ‘You’re Gone’, ‘Welcome to My Life’, ‘Generation’ and ‘I’d Do Anything’ before finishing the set with ‘Perfect’ and getting the hell out of there. Fans were left stunned by their below par performance.

It’s not all rainy days and grey skies for the band though, as they celebrated winning the People’s Choice Award for ‘Favourite Canadian Group’ at the MMVA’s last night, their fifth snag.

They also presented the awards which were held in Toronto, Canada.

To see all the action from this years Download Festival CLICK HERE.

Simple Plan at Download 2008

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  • Whered Jeff go???? OMG...

    ~ by Katie 6/16/2008

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  • Jeff was away on paternal leave and the fans were aware of this before hand! The band were allocated a 75 minute time slot which they filled to perfection and left 10,000 or so fans with stupid grins on their faces! I was there and their performance was nothing short of exceptional! The fill-in guitarist did a great job!

    ~ by Julie 6/16/2008

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  • first off all the song is called when I’m gone not you’’re gone. Second The fans knew Jeff was’’nt gonna be there cause he was gonna become a dad for the second time in hes life. He had a good reason not to be there.

    ~ by josse 6/17/2008

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  • fiirst the s0ong is WHEN IM GONE n0oo y0ou’re g0onee DUUUUUUUH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and siimple plan is the best bnd eva!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ..l.. !!

    ~ by .ana. 6/30/2008

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