Simple Plan aim to break their no-writing-on-tour rule and will start working on new album on Warped Tour

by Dominika | Mar 28th, 2018 | 1 comment

Slowly but surely, Simple Plan are heading to the finish line of this tour cycle. They still have some touring to do with the No Pads anniversary tour in Australia and South America in April and May and after that they will spend the summer on Warped Tour – but and after that the plan is to focus solely on their next studio album, which will be their sixth record. However, based on Chuck’s own words from the recent interview for MusicFeeds, it seems that for the first time in forever, Simple Plan may be in fact considering to start writing songs while they are on tour, in order to speed up the process of releasing the new album.

Usually, Simple Plan’s busy schedule didn’t really allow them to have any time left to work on new music while on tour, which is why they usually took about a year and half off after each album to write songs and then record them in a studio. But with the music industry and today’s society being so very fast and changing every minute, the band now feels that it’s important for them to not wait as long to release new music, in order to not lose their momentum.

Chuck, in fact, hopes to start working on Simple Plan’s sixth album this summer on Warped Tour. Check out what he said to MusicFeeds:

“We’ve been discussing [the new album] and talking about when we want it out and what kind of sound that we want. We’re not the greatest at writing while we’re on tour, it’s really hard for us. So I think we’re planning to do that right after Warped Tour around August or September and start writing.”

We might actually try to do a little bit of writing on the Warped Tour this time around and try to get the songs out and try to get inspired by all of the great bands that are going to be there and reconnect with some of our roots on that tour. We want to try to have it out quicker because we always take a long time to make albums and I feel like in 2018, that’s not the way you do it. You just have to shake things up and do things differently and have more music coming out more often.

So I think that’s the game plan, to make sure we have a really great and special album but at the same time, make sure it comes out quicker because our fans are asking for it and we want to be back on the road. We don’t want to go away for three years, that’s what Metallica used to do in the ’90s (laughs). We need to be more like hip hop and put more stuff out.”

– Chuck Comeau –

Fans will also surely be happy to hear that Chuck also discussed the topic of possible collaborations on the next album and mentioned that the band wants to keep the record more in the spirit of their pop-punk upbringing:

“I feel like we’ve always done [collaborations] in the last five or 10 years. We always try to do something that’s a little bit outside what people think that we can do. But all of these shows and tours have been inspiring and have revitalised the band and made us really eager to write again and come up with more songs that have an impact on our fans. So it’s kind of motivating when you have an audience that’s excited and is showing up, you want to give them what they want.

So I think on the next record we want to throw in some of that legacy pop punk influence and have some fun that’s really in your face and catchy and fast Simple Plan-style music but also take a few chances here and there. But yeah, I think you’ll get a lot of back to our roots kinda vibes and old school, so that’s going to be fun.”

– Chuck Comeau –

Are you excited for new Simple Plan music? Do you think they should continue focus more on their pop-punk roots than other musical experiments? Let us know in the comments!