Simple Plan’s arrival to Europe (where they will be heading right after the Australian tour) in about a month, sure seems be a little bit hectic if you will. Let’s see:

The first public appearance that the guys have planned is in the morning of June 20th, when they are scheduled to appear in the studio of a private German TV station called SAT 1, that resides in Berlin (thanks to Anika for the info). However, the same day, they will still have to drive to the approximately 180 miles distant city of Kiel, where they are supposed to play a 45-minute show for the local radio station N-Joy later that day.

The next day, Simple Plan will be in Hamburg for a couple of interviews and will kick off the festival season in Europe the day after that with the Under18 festival in Spain.

Just like last year, Singapore is hosting the annual conference called “All That Matters”, which is divided into three parts: Digital Matters, Gaming Matters and (for us a very familiar one) Music Matters. The conference holds various lectures, workshops, speeches, artist performancers and discussions – all about how the contemporary music business works.

In the last year’s edition, Simple Plan attended this event mostly as performers – and apart from a concert, a few of the band members also took part in the recording of a new special version of the song “Fix You”, to support the victims of the earthquakes in Japan.

This year, All That Matters takes place from May 22nd to May 26th, and Chuck Comeau has confirmed his presence as one of the invited speakers for Music Matters, which takes place from 24th to 26th May. Along with him, his panel will be hosted by Simple Plan’s manager and Coalition Entertainment’s co-founder, Mr. Eric Lawrence.

In the following video you can check out what the previous volumes of this conference looked like:

During their Australian tour, on June 5th (while having two days off in between concerts) Simple Plan will once again stop in Sydney, to take part in Take 40′s Live Lounge, which is a one-hour performance, during which fans have a unique opportunity to experience a very intimate concert of their favourite band. The tickets are already on sale.

It’s been known already for a couple of months that Simple Plan will be getting back to Europe in June for a couple of local summer festivals – particularly in Spain, Sweden, Hungary and the Czech Republic.

But that’s not all the countries the guys will be stopping by! Simple Plan will also be visiting Berlin and Hamburg in Germany on June 20th and 21st (which is coincidentally also the 1st anniversary of the release of their most recent album “Get Your Heart On!”). According to the press release, the members of the band should be there mostly for promotion (that is giving interviews and such). But apart from that, the same day that Simple Plan will be in Hamburg, that is on June 20th, the band will also drive to a pretty close city of Kiel, where they will play a circa 45-minute set.

Yesterday, the dates for the upcoming Simple Plan’s tour across Australia in early June were announced and today we’re finding out that the bands that will be opening for them during this tour are We The Kings and The Never Ever.

The Never Ever is a power-pop band based in Sydney, Australia and We The Kings is an American pop-punk band from Bradenton, Florida. In fact, We The Kings will also be supporting Simple Plan on their European tour that starts in a couple of days.

In the last couple of days, there was a huge confussion about who exactly is the director of the music video for Summer Paradise, that the guys recently recorded in Barbados. First, we had some news indirectly from David, saying the director is Mark Staubach (who previously worked with Simple Plan on Astronaut, Can’t Keep My Hands Off You and also the first version of Summer Paradise).

However, just a little after that, it was announced on Randall “RT” Thorne‘s (the former director of Save You) Twitter page that he is in fact the director of Summer Paradise. So naturally we took the first news about Staubach as a mistake and started praising Thorne as the only director.

But to make things a little bit more complicated, but probably also a bit more clear, yesterday Thorne tweeted a message from which it’s now certain that Mark Staubach and Randall “RT” Thorne are indeed working on Summer Paradise together! Now let’s just hope the line-up of the directors won’t change much again. :)