Source: SPB.com

What do you think that Simple Plan and Willy Wonka have in common? No, unfortunately Johnny Depp will not be singing the female vocal parts in the next version of the song “Jet Lag”… But Willy Wonka’s candy will be involved.

Simple Plan have teamed up with The Willy Wonka candy company for their new campaign called “Rock with Wonka”, in which the citizens of Canada can create their own lyrics to the new “chocolate” version of Simple Plan’s song “Jet Lag” (Pierre, I hope you’ll forgive me for the image on the left… it was too tempting).

The winner of the chosen lyrics will then have an exclusive chance to record the new version of “Jet Lag” with Simple Plan in a recording studio.

The beginning of the lyrics that the contestants are to finish, looks like this:

For the first time in their career Simple Plan performed in St Petersburg, Russia, yesterday, where thousands of fans welcomed them in a local theatre. During the show (just like in Moscow), the fans surprised the band with hundreds of little small airplanes (symbolizing Jet Lag).

Simple Plan also did a little rendition of the traditional “Happy Birthday” after finding out it was one of their fans’ birthday, which just in a couple of seconds turned into “We Will Rock You”. You can check out both these awesome moments from St Petersburg on the videos below:

By the way, the person who recorded the video from Jet Lag also recorded the entire show from this fantastic angle and with a decent sound, so if you want to remind yourselves of what a Simple Plan show looks like, check out this YouTube channel.

And also the first photos from St Petersburg are already in the gallery:

The guys from Simple Plan have yet again landed in Europe a couple days ago, where they just kicked off the second leg of their European tour, during which they will be visiting Russia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, Belgium, France and the United Kingdom.

Today, for the second time in their carreer, the guys appeared in Moscow, where they played only in 2009, and according to both the band and the fans, delivered another fantastic show.

The local fans have also prepared a little surprise for the band – when paper planes started flying in the air during Jet Lag. According to the fans in St. Petersburg, they had the same idea prepared for Simple Plan for tomorrow. Right now you can check out the paper planes in Moscow (make sure to turn the sound off though) :

Meanwhile, you can check out the first photos from today’s show in Moscow, Russia in SimplePlan.cz’s gallery:

The guys are wrapping up their Summer Paradise shoot in Barbados and still today are leaving back home to get their strengths up before continuing their Get Your Heart On! tour at the end of this week.

This time around, the boys are coming back to Europe, where they were forced to cancel a couple of shows at the end of last summer due to Pierre’s health issues. Now they will be back with even more stops planned – even to countries they have never been to before, like Portugal (actually Lisbon is their first European stop).

Just a few days after the start of the tour, on March 16th, Simple Plan will be performing in Paris, France, and they already have a special surprise in store for their local fans – and that’s none other than the one and only Marie-Mai, who will be joining them on stage during the French version of Jet Lag. The singer confirmed this information on her Twitter page.

For many times in the past now, we’ve been able to see Simple Plan perform their first single from Get Your Heart On! – Jet Lag – on stage with many different female singers from all around the world, even though the singers of the original versions were Natasha Bedingfield (in English) and Marie-Mai (in French).

But this time around, the tables have turned. Marie-Mai’s career started in 2003 when she was in the singing competition called Star Academie, and a couple days ago she has returned there – only this time as a guest, performing a few of her biggest hits – including Jet Lag. But as the guys from Simple Plan are not all in Canada right now, she got some help with the male vocals from one of the contestants.

You can check out their performance below:

At tonight’s annual NRJ Awards in Cannes, France, Simple Plan and Marie-Mai won in the category “Francophone duo/band of the year” for their collaboration on the French version of the song Jet Lag that is featured on Simple Plan’s latest album “Get Your Heart On!”! On behalf of the whole band, Pierre, David and Marie-Mai accepted the award. Immediately after the win, Pierre tweeted: “We won!!!! SP fans you’re the best. Love you so much!” Below you can check out the first pictures of Pierre and David posing alongside Marie-Mai with their brand new NRJ Music Award:

It is important to add that Simple Plan have only been nominated to an NRJ Music Award once before – in 2007 – but only the 2012′s award is their first official win.

Below you can check out Simple Plan’s acceptance speech (in French):