Last month, Simple Plan performed two shows in the United Kingdom – first their headlining show at London’s O2 Forum and then the Download Festival. On both days, the band has given out a number of interviews to local media and below you can now check out two of them, which were recently released – one for Gig Goer and the other one for TotalRock Radio featuring Chuck, Jeff and Sebastien:
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Seb reveals how Rancid supported Simple Plan in their beginnings
In their 18 years long history, Simple Plan have never been the most loved band in the world and they have always had their haters and people who picked up on them wherever they went. It was especially hard in the early 2000s, when Simple Plan were just starting out and trying to expand their audiences. One of the best ways how to find new fans was to attend festivals and festival tours, such as the widely known Warped Tour in America, featuring many bands from all sorts of genres of the alternative scene, which helped Simple Plan confront a more diverse audience. This topic was recently brought up on the latest released podcast of last week’s Man Of The Hour show, where Sebastien and Patrick played the American punk rock band Rancid and after that, Seb reminisced a bit about his relationship with this legendary band.
Sebastien told a short story about how even though many Warped Tour attendees despised Simple Plan for being there back in 2003, the members of Rancid stood up to them and proudly showed their love for Simple Plan during their very own set. Check out Seb’s story below:
“Rancid are great. They’re great as ever. […] My favorite thing about Rancid is that they truly don’t give a fuck. And you know what I’m talking about. Cause there was a time when Simple Plan’s career was coming up [and] some people just didn’t think we were very cool. Yeah, a lot of people were like: ‘Simple Plan are ‘meh’… they shouldn’t be on Warped Tour.. they shouldn’t be this, they shouldn’t be that, they’re not this, they’re not that.’ blah blah blah. We didn’t really care, cause we kept doing our music and we had a lot of fans in front of us. And that’s the people we usually care about. Rancid was the kind of band that would show up on Warped Tour in front of their mohawk frenzied pissed off dudes.. and would wear Simple Plan t-shirts. And that was just amazing, you know?
– Sebastien Lefebvre on Man Of The Hour (s23e06) –
And we played recently together in Austria, at Nova Rock festival and they just came up to us and said ‘Hey, guys, good to see you! How’s everybody?’ […]”
Aerodrome Festival in Prague recapped in an aftermovie – feat. Simple Plan
Today marks exactly one month since Simple Plan’s show at the Aerodrome Festival in Prague, Czech Republic alongside acts like Linkin Park, Machine Gun Kelly, Enter Shikari, Royal Republic or Counterfeit.
The whole evening filled with so much great music is still on mind of everyone who’s attended it – so I’m sure all of you who have – and even those of you who weren’t there will enjoy the following video. The organizers released a special “aftermovie”, which documents the atmosphere of the whole festival, including interviews with fans and artists.
Check it out:
VIDEO: A day in the life of Seb Lefebvre
Sebastien continues with putting out short clips summarizing his whole day in one video on Instagram and this time around he surprised us with a video documenting his time at the cottage with his family.
Check out what Seb is up to when he’s not on tour below:
Exclusively on SimplePlan.cz: first look at the red 15th anniversary No Pads vinyl!
Jak již nějakou dobu víte díky SimplePlan.cz, v některých zemích je již více jak měsíc dostupné první album Simple Plan No Pads, No Helmets…Just Balls na vinylu! Even thought so far the band has still not officially commented on this special release, SimplePlan.cz already has some on hand (thanks to Warner Music Czech Republic), so you can now exclusively check out what’s in store for you, if you decide to go old school all the way and purchase this limited edition beauty!
As you will be able to notice from the pictures in our gallery, the No Pads vinyl is available in red. And that is not the first time Simple Plan have used a color (other than the traditional black) on the disc of the vinyl. You may recall that the single for Crazy was available in green, the self-titled record in orange and Taking One For The Team can be found in both a regular black and also a special white version.
Check back to our previous article to see which stores seem to carry the No Pads vinyl already and make sure to get it while the supplies last! SimplePlan.cz will be giving one of these special vinyls away on its upcoming f (also the website’s 10th anniversary!).
And now, make sure to check out pictures of the vinyl’s packaging in the gallery:
