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Right after the end of their Canadian tour (and a few days before getting back to the old continent) Simple Plan will appear in Montreal again, particularly on March 3rd to attend Salon de la Jeunesse as one of the main guests, where they are scheduled to perform and also do an autograph session.

Salon de la Jeunesse is an event for young people from the province of Quebec from 12 to 17 years and takes place both in Montreal and Quebec City. On this fair, teenagers will have an opportunity there to find and try new products and services that may interest them. The Montreal event will be taking place from March 2nd to 4th and apart from Simple Plan, acts like The New Cities will also be present.

It is expected that both of the events (in Montreal and Quebec City) should attract up to 150 000 visitors. You can check out the full schedule on the event’s Facebook page.

Despite the fact that yesterday’s nominations for this year’s Juno Awards (the so-called “Canadian Grammys”) did not include Simple Plan in any of the categories, it seems like Simple Plan still may have something to do with Juno Awards this year.

According to the promo poster from CTV, on February 24th, on a press conference for Juno Awards, Simple Plan will be present to deliver a “special announcement”.

Today, Chuck teased his fans on Twitter with a very mysterious new message, saying: “This morning Pierre Bouvier and I had to get up at 5:30am to Skype with a secret guest from a secret location for a secret project.”

So, the biggest question now is: what exactly are the Simple Plan guys up to?

Judging by the fact the guys had to get up super-early for the Skype call, we can assume that the mysterious guest probably isn’t from anywhere near their time-zone, which leaves us with Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. Could this be about some possible new collaboration? Or something about the upcoming EP or DVD? Or perhaps even some secret show somewhere on the Earth?

Let’s hope we’ll get all these questions answered soon. What are your guesses?

Upadate: (Feb 5th 2012)

Pierre also mentioned the secret project in one of his tweets from last night, when he wrote: “Working on 2 exciting projects right now!!! Both of which I can’t speak of just yet… Fun stuff! Can’t wait to fill you all in!”

So it looks like we not only have one, but two secret projects that the guys are working on and we can look forward to. Let us know about YOUR ideas on what these secret projects could be about!

Earlier this month, we’ve found out that Simple Plan are currently working on another DVD, that would be a sequel to the very successful A Big Package For You – Simple Plan’s last DVD, released back in 2003. Apart from that, rumour had it the guys were even considering releasing an EP with some unreleased tracks, that Simple Plan wrote in the process of making their last album, yet they didn’t make it through the cut – and since the guys wrote more than 60 songs for Get Your Heart On!, there were MANY leftovers!

In a recent interview (thanks to CSP for the info), Pierre addressed this matter again:

“I think it’ll be a DVD containing a material of the choice of our fans. If possible, we’ll also release some songs that we never released before, because we know our fans want more and more. If possible, we’ll make a mini-album with the DVD in the next tour and I hope we finish it soon.”

You may remember one of the questions that I asked the guys during my interview with Simple Plan in Prague earlier this year, which dealt with the upcoming documentary about the Simple Plan fans, about which we first heard from some of the fans who have been recorded, and then this information has been confirmed by Chuck himself.

In my interview, Sebastien mentioned:

“It’s a nice documentary that an awesome team from Quebec is doing. I think it started off, because they wanted to do a little documentary on music and fans and then it became so much more than that because they started meeting some of our fans, they saw how special the fans were and how great of a relationship we have with them. So it’s just gonna be a beautiful peace on the band and the fans and how we all love each other.”

Chuck then added: “Yeah, it’s really about how the love of music can make people do extraordinary things like travel to go see bands, make friendships and there’s all kinds of stories that revolves around our fans and their lives. And how they’re all connected to Simple Plan and how loving the band got them to meet other friends, and got them even to jobs sometimes. It’s really interesting. It will be cool to see it all together. They filmed everything: they filmed from to the videoshoot of Can’t Keep My Hands Off You and Astronaut, they came to the Montreal secret show, they came to the Quebec outdoor show. they were in Japan with us…”

Both of them agreed the film might be around an hour and half long.

And even though the guys spilled so many beans about it to us back in September, the rest of the media and people, who knew about this project were under a strict contract, which forbade them to mention it anywhere. But due to the upcoming promotion, we can all now talk about it freely and here is the first exclusive info:

This documentary will be called “Je Suis Fan” (meaning “I am a fan”) and right now is in the final stages of production of the same team of people, who were behind the recording of Simple Plan’s performance with the Montreal Symphonic Orchestra – Groupe PVP. The direcor of the documentary is yet again miss Yanie Dupont-Hebert, who used to work for MusiquePlus, so she’s known the guys since the times of Reset. It is important to make it clear that Je Suis Fan is not just a film about the Simple Plan Fans, but generally about the fans of music: apart from the SP fans, the documentary also focuses on Roch Voisine or Paula Anka’s fans. A documentary that will be only about the fans of Simple Plan (meaning it will be an extended and more concrete version of Je Suis Fan) will be called “Simple Fans” and should be released (by the same team of producers) perhaps also sometimes in 2012.

Je Suis Fan will air for the first time on January 9th 2012 on RDI, and its full version will air during 2012 on ARTV and TFO. A press release with more information and pictures should be released soon.

For a few years now Simple Plan have been talking about wanting to (probably after the end of the next tour – 2012?) release another DVD – a sequel to their first DVD, the 2003′s: A Big Package For You. In one of his yesterday’s tweets, Chuck Comeau from Simple Plan mentioned the band actually has a certain “documentary on Simple Plan and their fans” currently in works”. Could this be the new DVD? Or maybe a totally different project?

I can’t answer these questions, but Chuck promises to give out some more info soon!