A long-time friend and Simple Plan’s ex-webmaster, merch guy, photo & video-grapher and so much more – Patrick Langlois – is getting married today and it is obvious that the guys from Simple Plan had to be there to celebrate their friend’s wedding. Chuck posted a picture of him and Sebastien dressed up very fancy for the wedding and you can check it out below:

Check out this brand new video invitation from Chuck for the Simple Plan show in Saint Petersburg, Russia, where the band will perform on June 11th:

Apart from releasing a brand new version of Summer Paradise feat. MKTO, there haven’t been many Simple Plan related news in the past couple of weeks. Mostly because the boys took some time off in between touring and mostly concentated on their personal lives and side projects. And while there are no news about David’s whereabouts and Pierre is with his family, there are definitely some mini-news about the rest of the gang.

Chuck has recently posted a Keek video of himself at a hockey game and also defended the band’s decision to re-release Summer Paradise again (with MKTO) on Twitter in response to many fans’ rather negative stance on such a high amount of versions of the same song. “A lot of you guys asking for new songs… Couldn’t agree more! We are working on it. But we wanted to re-release the song for our US fans. Been neglecting them a little. We are very eager to tour in the US so our hope is that, with our US fans’ support, Summer Paradise will do well and that we can play for you,” explained Chuck.

In other news, Jeff finished his motorcycle exams and finally acquired a licence. Also, during the past weekend, Jeff attended the wedding of one of his friend’s – Julie St-Pierre – who is a radio presenter in Montreal. You can see one picture of Jeff from the wedding reception here.

Sebastien‘s and his brother’s Jay’s works on Wilfred LeBouthillier’s new music have finally been revealed as LeBouthillier’s new single “Je M’y Perds” was released a couple days ago. You can check out this single that includes the works of Wilfred, Seb and Jay here. And speaking of Sebastien, the youngest member of Simple Plan was seen at the red carpet of the Gregory Charles show in Montreal yesterday night – check out the three new pictures from there in the gallery:

And what can we expect from the upcoming days? In only a week Simple Plan will be heading back to the old continent to play in Austria, Germany and Russia – for the total of 5 shows. According to SP’s sound engineer, Frank Joly, the band’s gear has already been sent to Europe a few days ago, so the only thing that’s missing now is the band itself.

You may remember a band called Fiction in Motion that won the Ebay auction held by the Simple Plan Foundation back in 2010 to have a chance to record with Simple Plan’s most recent producer – Brian Howes. But unfortunately, Fiction in Motion have decided to stop playing together and last Saturday performed for the very last time as a band at the Fiest Apo festival.

Today, the festival released a video message recorded by Chuck Comeau from Simple Plan, giving some final encouraging words to the boys in Fiction in Motion. You can check it out along with an English translation (thx Nathalie) of it below:

“Hi, this is Chuck from Simple Plan. We have read a lot of messages to come and see our friends Fiction in Motion this evening, to come see their last show. Good luck guys! Have fun! Enjoy it. I hope to see you soon. Bye, good evening everyone.”

Marc Andrew from MarcAndrew.com is currently hosting a little contest to mark the release of Simple Plan’s new single Summer Paradise featuring MKTO, where you can win a signed drumstick by Chuck Comeau from Simple Plan, an iTunes gift card worth $25, the Centraide photoshoot on a poster and also Simple Plan’s latest album – Get Your Heart On!

To learn how you can win all that I encourage you to read through this article.

And if you’d like to check out the brand new picture of Chuck with the signed drumstick, go see it in the gallery.

Check out this portrait of Chuck that has been taken on May 21st at the C2MTL conference that Chuck attended as one of the panelists:

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