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Simple Plan to hit studio in January!

On November 4th, Jeff Stinco gave an interview to Brendan Kelly from Montreal Gazette, in which the Simple Plan guitarist discussed his side projects and also the next Simple Plan album. The most interesting part of the interview was the reveal that the band plans on finally moving from the song-writing phase after this year and hit the recording studio in January!

Read a couple of quotes from this interview:

(On his bandmates attending the opening party of his new establishment Laurea earlier this year and even flying down to Montreal from the US because of that) “I was proud of that. I guess that’s some kind of an endorsement on their part.”

(On what his bandmates think of his side business) “They think I’m kind of crazy. They don’t understand why I would work during downtime.”

(On his reasoning behind his side projects) “I felt it was the right time to try different things. It’s about following my passions, doing things that I really wanted to do for a long time. The know-how I bring from the music industry is from when we started out. Doing flyers on our own. Just making sure the accounting was done properly and on time. It’s all about putting your heart into it and believing in a concept. And there’s a bit of showmanship, too. When you open a restaurant, you want to make sure people have a great time. That’s a parallel (you can make) with the music industry. People don’t come to your shows to have five guys seated on chairs and not do or say anything.”

(On why it takes so long to release a new album) “We’re slow writers. A lot of people in the music industry have a crew of writers writing when they’re on the road so when they get back home, they record an album and get back on the road. We have to stop because we’re not really good at focusing at two things at the same time.”

As a part of this interview, Jeff Stinco was also photographed (see top image) and you can check out two pictures from that photoshoot in the gallery. A small portion of the interview is also available on video:

PHOTOS: Jeff at Laurea’s launch party

Yesterday, Jeff Stinco gave a short speech at the launch party at one of his newest Montreal restaurants – Laurea. In the gallery, you can have a look at a few pictures of Jeff from this evening:

Laurea is currently Jeff’s latest establishment and is located in Old Montreal. Other restaurants that Jeff currently co-owns include Mangiafoco, Lorbeer, Edgar Hyperlodge, Shinji and Drinkerie. It has been recently announced that Rufus Rockhead, that Jeff opened with his partners earlier this year will close in the next two weeks and its premises will be used to expand the neighbouring Japanese restaurant Shinji, that Jeff also co-owns.

Jeff to open up new “Mimi La Nuit” in fall!

Jeff continues taking over the restaurant business in the city of Montreal and his next project, the previously announced bar / restaurant “Mimi La Nuit”, has just been confirmed (by Jeff himself on Twitter) to open up this fall!

According to Jeff’s Twitter message, the restaurant will be “a French sister” to one of his first projects – Mangiafoco, which is an Italian restaurant located on the same street in Montreal as Mimi La Nuit: Rue St-Paul.

You can already check out Mimi La Nuit on Facebook and Twitter and if you’re interested in checking out all the restaurant projects that Jeff is currently involved with, make sure to visit this section on SimplePlan.cz.

Members of Simple Plan attend the opening of Jeff’s new restaurant Laurea

Because all the members of Simple Plan are currently back in Montreal (due to a charity golf tournament that’s taking place later today), they were all there last night to celebrate the opening of their fellow bandmate’s Jeff Stinco’s new restaurant – the Laurea part of the two-part project Laurea & Lorbeer. While Lorbeer opened a couple weeks ago, Laurea greeted the first customers yesterday at a special VIP party attended not only by the members of Simple Plan, but also other familiar faces such as Patrick Langlois, Sim Klugerman, Herby Moreau or Anne-Marie Withenshaw. Public will be first able to taste the meals at Laurea on Thursday.

If you’re interested in what the premises of Laurea look like, you can check out a couple pictures of the interior here and finally in the gallery you can have a look at some pictures of the attendees of last night’s opening party of Laurea: