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    "headline": "Hoobastank, Simple Plan and The Used play a surprise Southwest flight gig on the way to Warped Tour Orlando",
    "description": "Hoobastank, Simple Plan, The Used and LØLØ played a surprise Southwest Airlines cabin show on a Los Angeles to Orlando flight before Warped Tour.",
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    "articleBody": "Hoobastank’s Doug Robb sang “The Reason” in the aisle of a Southwest Airlines jet on Friday, November 13, while Simple Plan, The Used and singer LØLØ took turns at the front of the cabin. The passengers were bound for Orlando, Florida, and so were the bands: all four were on their way to the last Vans Warped Tour weekend of 2026. The cabin concert landed on the same afternoon US aviation officials halted new departures nationwide, which turned a planned airline promo into one of the weekend’s most shared music clips. What the bands played at cruising altitude The set was part of Southwest’s Live at 35 program, which stages surprise pop-up shows at roughly 35,000 feet. The airline teased it on its own social account with a short post tagging the festival: “This flight will be Off The Wall 🎸✈️”. According to passenger videos described in published reports, the running order looked like a 2000s mixtape: Hoobastank: Robb, with guitarist Dan Estrin, played an acoustic “The Reason”, the band’s 2004 hit, and reportedly “Crawling in the Dark”. Simple Plan: frontman Pierre Bouvier sang “Perfect” and “I’m Just a Kid”, and fan clips also show “Welcome to My Life” and the theme from What’s New, Scooby-Doo? The Used: Bert McCracken led “The Taste of Ink” near the front of the plane. LØLØ: performed her track “hot girls in hell”. Passengers sang along, and several shared clips from a gate party before boarding, with karaoke, photo spots, meet-and-greets and Warped Tour goodie bags waiting on the seats. How the timing lined up Accounts of the timing differ. One report says the jet left Los Angeles around 11 a.m. Pacific, about two hours before the national ground stop was declared, and that planes already airborne were allowed to keep flying. Another describes the bands playing while the flight waited out the stop. Either way, the bands kept the cabin entertained on a day when, by official accounts, new domestic departures were frozen for more than four hours. The Warped connection was no secret. Days before the flight, Hoobastank posted that it could not “wait to return to the stage at @vanswarpedtour in Orlando this Saturday. Last Warped of the year!” Simple Plan told fans the next day that it was “the final @vanswarpedtour weekend of the year” and promoted a limited Orlando T-shirt at its merch tent. A long line of in-flight gigs Live at 35 has been running since 2011, and Southwest has used it for acts such as Imagine Dragons, Barenaked Ladies and Plain White T’s. What made this one different was the lineup: four acts from one festival bill, sharing a single cabin and an aisle as a stage. It is also a neat fit for a revived Warped Tour that expanded to five cities in 2026, from Washington, D.C. and Long Beach to Montreal, Mexico City and Orlando. Fans of the era can also read how Blink-182 will headline Download Festival 2027 at Donington Park, and browse more music and entertainment stories on Badiyaa. Hoobastank and Simple Plan were booked for the Orlando stop on Saturday, November 14, at the Camping World Stadium campus, with The Used scheduled for Sunday, November 15. Further reading Wikipedia: Hoobastank Image: Merit Davey, Public domain via Wikimedia Commons This article was produced with AI assistance and reviewed by our Editorial Desk. How we work.",
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