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Members of Simple Plan reflect on Paramore’s debut album’s 10th anniversary

by Dominika | Jul 25th, 2015 | no comments

Tomorrow, on June 26th, it will be exactly 10 years since the release of Paramore’s debut album “All We Know Is Falling” (2005), the album that the – now Grammy winning – band kicked off their career with. To commemorate one of the most important albums of pop-punk history, Fuse.tv interviewed a number of artists, who shared their memories of this album and the beginnings of Paramore.

And as Simple Plan were a band who took Paramore as their opening band on one of their first tours, it was a given that they had to be featured in this article. Check out what the band members had to say about Paramore:

David: We were the first band to take them on tour!

Chuck: It was 2004. We had a call from Lyor Cohen, he was the president of Atlantic Records. He was like, “Hey, we have this young band that are coming up. Would you do us a favor and take them on tour? They’re called Paramore.” We had never really heard of them—they were just signed, never really toured before. They sent us some songs and we were like, “This sounds great, we’d love to take them out.” They were 16.

David: I remember the drummer coming up to me like, “Hey, do you want to tune my drums?” because I love drums a lot. He was so awesome. He was already killing it on the drums and he was 15. It was great. Once they had some people from MTV come to a show and the bass player asked me to use my wireless because they had cables but they wanted to do that spin that the bass player was doing off the guitar player’s back. I let him use my wireless so he could do the spin properly.

Chuck: That record came out a few months after that tour and I think our fans—all the Simple Plan fans are open-minded and love to hear new music and new bands. Right after that we took the Plain White T’s right before they had their big break so that was cool.

David: We break a lot of bands. Hayley was already such a great performer, even then.

Chuck: All of them. When they played, fans responded. They got their first fans off playing live. Just like us, when we played our first shows opening for Sugar Ray, they were in the same position. The label went to Sugar Ray and asked them a favor…then we opened up for the Bosstones because we could play live. If you can pull off the songs, kids will say “Who’s that band? What’s their record? I want buy that shirt.” That’s how it’s organically done.

Chuck reveals new song-title, secret soundtrack project and more in new interview!

by Dominika | Jul 7th, 2015 | 3 comments

Chuck Comeau from Simple Plan recently gave a very long interview to Joe DeAndrea from AbsolutePunk, which (as it’s common with Chuck’s interviews) was filled with interesting and new information.

And while you can check out the full interview (and I definitely recommend it!) here, below you can find a recap of the most important information that Chuck revealed.

Firstly, a brand new never-mentioned-before song-title of one of the recorded songs has been revealed. The song is called “Sad” and it is the one that Simple Plan used all the trumpets and saxophones on [read more on that here].

In the interview Chuck also discussed the recently mentioned soundtrack project for which the boys recently recorded a certain song. Turns out, the project is a soundtrack to a remake of a popular French-Canadian film called The Dog Who Stopped The War and apart from Simple Plan, artists like Celine Dion or Walk Off The Earth should also be featured in its soundtrack.

Chuck also mentioned that the main mixer of the new Simple Plan album is Neal Avron, who’s previously mixed albums of bands such as Linkin Park, Fall Out Boy or Yellowcard.

And finally, the interview also mentioned Chuck’s and Pierre’s song-writing sessions with 5 Seconds Of Summer. It seems like the two songs the guys wrote together may in fact end up rather on the next 5SOS record than on the Simple Plan one.

Simple Plan to be featured in the new issue of Alternative Press

by Dominika | Jun 23rd, 2015 | no comments

It has been quite a while since Simple Plan have graced the pages of any U.S. magazine, so naturally their most recent appearance in the Alternative Press magazine is a big deal. Simple Plan are going to be featured in the commemorative issue for the upcoming Alternative Press Music Awards (APMAS), where they are nominated in the category Artist Philantropic Award [for which you can still VOTE HERE]. Their nomination for this award is also the reason why they are featured in the August issue of Alternative Press, that is coming out on July 2nd.

You can already check out the page mentioning Simple Plan in the gallery:

Chuck describes new Simple Plan album’s sound in a new interview

by Dominika | Apr 24th, 2015 | 1 comment

Later today, Simple Plan will finally be back on stage for the first time in 2015, playing at the anniversary of the city of Moncton and taking part in their first stop of the Coca Cola Trophy tour for the FIFA Women’s World Cup.

Simple Plan’s drummer Chuck Comeau (who got himself a brand new “Hoppus” haircut a few days ago – see the picture on the left) recently gave an interview to Acadie Nouvelle about this upcoming show and the album that the band has been working on in the studio for the past few months.

In this interview [which you can read in its entirety in French here], Chuck first talks about how the band managed to stay together for so long without any changes in the line-up. Regarding the new album, which is still untitled, as Simple Plan like to come up with album titles at the very last minute, is progressing very well. Read the English translation of an excerpt from this article, which will give you some hints on what this album may sound like:

“For every album we try to renew ourselves, to find new sounds and new ideas. It’s more a matter of finding a sound that is still exciting, true to what we are and what our fans want to hear from us. At the same time, we want to produce something that will motivate us and make us want to tour again with the songs for the next two years. It is less easy, but it’s a challenge we love,” said the drummer, who also said that the new drive will be new influences.

The new music will be both melodic, energetic and have a festive look with some small retro winks, says the musician. The songs are inspired by their lives and are meant to be positive.

“We want to encourage people not to give up when difficulties come their way.”

Idobi radio co-owners include Chuck, Sebastien and Joel Madden!

by Dominika | Mar 24th, 2015 | 2 comments


From left to right: Chuck Comeau (Simple Plan), Eddie Barella (program director of idobi), Tom Cheney (CEO of idobi), Joel Madden (Good Charlotte) and Sebastien Lefebvre (Simple Plan).

You may recall an article I wrote in July 2014 after the Alternative Press Music Awards, in which we learned that Chuck Comeau was in fact 1/5 of the co-owners of idobi radio along with Eddie Barella and Tom Cheney, who all apppeared at the red carpet together. The remaining two fifths of co-owners have never been named before.

Finally today, thanks to an article from Technical.ly, Chuck decided to shed some light on idobi’s ownership and his involvement in it. According to the article, idobi incorporated in 2012 and idobi’s founder Tom Cheney and Eddie Barella (radio host, program director) welcomed Good Charlotte’s Joel Madden and Simple Plan’s Chuck Comeau and also Sebastien Lefebvre as co-owners.

“As a hobby we helped them launch their careers,” said Cheney. It was “life coming full circle.”

Chuck also commented on this article via Twitter:

“Proud of idobi radio and working with my good friends Tom Cheney, Sebastien Lefebvre and Joel Madden on bringing you great music.”

Idobi Radio (stylized as “idobi radio”) is an Internet radio station that focuses mostly on pop-punk, alternative and power-pop music that was founded in 1999 by Tom Cheney. Simple Plan fans may know this radio station for many past interviews with the members of the band and mostly for the radio show Man Of The Hour (co-hosted by Simple Plan’s Sebastien Lefebvre and former merch guy/webmaster/photographer Patrick Langlois), which idobi has been airing since 2006.