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Pierre confirms Simple Plan will likely have new music out before tour with New Found Glory

by Dominika | May 28th, 2021 | 1 comment

In a new video published by Alternative Press, Joel Madden (Good Charlotte), Jordan Pundik (New Found Glory) and Pierre Bouvier (Simple Plan) got together on Zoom to discuss the upcoming ‘Pop Punk’s Still Not Dead’ tour that Simple Plan and New Found Glory are going on together starting end of August.

Besides the new tour, Joel also asked the two musicians about possible new music of both bands, which is when Pierre confirmed that fans who will be attending the ‘Pop Punk’s Still Not Dead’ will likely be in for a treat for some sneak peeks from the new Simple Plan album, as the band should have some material out by then.

Check out what he said about it and the new Simple Plan album:

“Well, we had a new material that we’ve been sitting on for a while and we’re, I think we’re preparing to figure out how to release it. […] We had a record that was getting released before the pandemic and we kinda put breaks on that cause we didn’t know it it was gonna be worth it not being to be able to tour on it. And now I think we’re trying to figure out how do we wanna release it. Like do we wanna do it like a few songs, a few songs and then a few songs. Or the whole record. But yeah, we have new stuff that we’re super excited about. But I’m excited… they all still sound fresh. We did some stuff with Zakk (Cervini), we did some stuff that I produced, […] we got our guy JVP, who was an engineer on our 4th album and he kind of co-produced with me.

Yeah, I’m thinking that we’re gonna have new music out for the tour as well. But I’m not 100 percent sure, but I think at that point we gotta be putting out some stuff that we’ve been sitting on. So, I’m excited for people to hear it. […] We’ve always felt true to what we sound like and pop-punk runs through my veins […] but our stuff sounds like old-school Simple Plan but with a modern twist to it. And we always have a couple of curve-balls, we can’t help ourselves. Simple Plan always like to put a song on there that the true hardcore fans will be like ‘What the fuck is this?’ so… we’ll see how that turns out.”

– Pierre Bouvier [on Zoom call with Joel Madden and Jordan Pundik] –

You can watch the entire video featuring the Zoom call between Pierre, Joel and Jordan below:

Simple Plan reunite with Good Charlotte on Warped Rewind At Sea cruise

by Dominika | Oct 31st, 2017 | no comments

One great thing about the Warped Rewind At Sea cruise is that it brings together old friends – such as the members of Simple Plan and Good Charlotte.

The history of Good Charlotte’s and Simple Plan’s friendship goes all the way back to the first SP record, when Joel Madden recorded vocals for You Don’t Mean Anything and the two bands went on tour together a number of times.

Idobi Radio now published an exciting new photograph featuring Mike Fishkin, the radio’s host, alongside three out of five of Idobi’s co-owners – including Chuck Comeau, Seb Lefebvre and also Joel Madden from Good Charlotte. Check it out in or gallery:

LISTEN: Pierre collaborates on a new Xmas song feat. Alex Gaskarth, Ashton Irwin, Joel Madden and John Feldmann!

by Dominika | Dec 10th, 2015 | 1 comment

Are you already tired of listening to the same old pop punk Xmas songs? Is ‘My Christmas List’ too old for you? Well you’re in luck, cause some of the biggest names of pop-punk have just released a collaborative version of the popular Christmas song called ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’

The song features All Time Low’s Alex Gaskarth, Simple Plan’s Pierre Bouvier, Good Charlotte’s Joel Madden, 5 Seconds of Summer’s Ashton Irwin and Goldfinger’s John Feldmann!

The song was first mentioned today by Alex Gaskarth on his Facebook page, where he wrote:

Hello my loves!

Around this time last year, me and some good friends thought it’d be fun to record a holiday jam for the world to hear. We lit a fire, made hot chocolate, and put our musical spin on a holiday classic, with producer genius, John Feldmann at the helm!

We all knew we wanted to do something special with it to help people, so we decided to wait until this year to give everyone a listen! We’ve been working with Ryan Seacrest Foundation to raise money for an amazing cause, so we ask that in return for this track, you donate whatever you can spare to the foundation. Please follow the links and give whatever you can!

Big thanks to Ashton (5 Seconds of Summer), Joel (Good Charlotte), Pierre (Simple Plan), and John (Goldfinger) for collaborating on this with me! Holiday super groups are the best kind!

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and thanks for listening! Hope you enjoy!

Xo
Alex

Get into the Xmas spirit below by listening to the song below + what more – it’s also available for free download!

Come on over here by the fire
It’s cold outside
No-one wants to be cold at Christmas baby
Oh yeah

Have yourself a merry little Christmas,
Let your heart be light
From now on,
our troubles will be out of sight

Have yourself a merry little Christmas,
Make the Yule-tide gay,
From now on,
our troubles will be miles away.

Here we are as in olden days,
Happy golden days of yore.
Faithful friends who are dear to us
Gather near to us once more.

Through the years
We all will be together,
If the Fates allow
Hang a shining star upon the highest bough.
And have yourself A merry little Christmas now.

Have yourself a merry little Christmas,
Let your heart be light
From now on,
our troubles will be out of sight

Have yourself a merry little Christmas,
Make the Yule-tide gay,
From now on,
our troubles will be miles away.

Here we are as in olden days,
Happy golden days of yore.
Faithful friends who are dear to us
Gather near to us once more.

Through the years
We all will be together,
If the Fates allow
Hang a shining star upon the highest bough.
And have yourself A merry little Christmas now.

Idobi radio co-owners include Chuck, Sebastien and Joel Madden!

by Dominika | Mar 24th, 2015 | 2 comments


From left to right: Chuck Comeau (Simple Plan), Eddie Barella (program director of idobi), Tom Cheney (CEO of idobi), Joel Madden (Good Charlotte) and Sebastien Lefebvre (Simple Plan).

You may recall an article I wrote in July 2014 after the Alternative Press Music Awards, in which we learned that Chuck Comeau was in fact 1/5 of the co-owners of idobi radio along with Eddie Barella and Tom Cheney, who all apppeared at the red carpet together. The remaining two fifths of co-owners have never been named before.

Finally today, thanks to an article from Technical.ly, Chuck decided to shed some light on idobi’s ownership and his involvement in it. According to the article, idobi incorporated in 2012 and idobi’s founder Tom Cheney and Eddie Barella (radio host, program director) welcomed Good Charlotte’s Joel Madden and Simple Plan’s Chuck Comeau and also Sebastien Lefebvre as co-owners.

“As a hobby we helped them launch their careers,” said Cheney. It was “life coming full circle.”

Chuck also commented on this article via Twitter:

“Proud of idobi radio and working with my good friends Tom Cheney, Sebastien Lefebvre and Joel Madden on bringing you great music.”

Idobi Radio (stylized as “idobi radio”) is an Internet radio station that focuses mostly on pop-punk, alternative and power-pop music that was founded in 1999 by Tom Cheney. Simple Plan fans may know this radio station for many past interviews with the members of the band and mostly for the radio show Man Of The Hour (co-hosted by Simple Plan’s Sebastien Lefebvre and former merch guy/webmaster/photographer Patrick Langlois), which idobi has been airing since 2006.