Just in time for the holidays, Simple Plan just launched their brand new merch store that full of both some older designs and also some brand new never-seen-before items that will cater to your every need. While the old school fans will be happy to hear that they can actually get some old school Role Model t-shirts, new parents will be able to dress their offspring into new Simple Plan clothes and for Christmas lovers, Simple Plan also have a few items in their sleeve.
Come have a look at the Simple Plan Store and get some inspiration on what to give to a fellow Simple Plan fan this Christmas… or perhaps even just a little something from you to you.
Are you going to be in the LA-area this Friday? Are you vaccinated? And do you want to be part of the new Simple Plan music video?
If the answer to all three of the questions is yes, you might just be in luck! Simple Plan will be in the San Pedro area of Los Angeles, California on Friday filming their music video for their new single ‘The Antidote’ and they want their fans to be part of it! The fans’ part of the videoshoot will likely be a Simple Plan concert and will be taking place from 4pm to 10pm this Friday, November 19th 2021. Fans who attend this event will be asked to dress appropriately for a Simple Plan concert.
Do you want to be there too? Simply just fill out this Google form, submit your details by 5pm November 18th (LA time) and wait to hear back for more details.
RockSound recently interviewed Connor Ball, bassist of the British pop rock band The Vamps, who recently started a new side project The Lunar Year. Besides his side project, the interviewer also asked Connor who else he would possibly like to work with in the future and surprisingly, Connor explained his connection with Pierre Bouvier from Simple Plan and expressed his wish to possibly do some collaboration together in the future.
Check out what Connor said below:
“I mean, there’s so many people, like all my favorite bands I’m down. I speak to Pierre from Simple Plan a lot and he’s a great guy. I’d love to get into the studio with him. And he’s a production tweak actually, so it would be cool to do something with him.”
Over a year ago, just in the middle of the pandemic, Pierre Bouvier started working with a talented young singer Beckett McDowell, the son of the actor Malcolm McDowell (Clockwork Orange), who happened to be Pierre’s neighbour.
Pierre produced a full album of songs for Beckett, often co-written by both Pierre and Chuck from Simple Plan. The first song of the album – “Weirdo” came out this month and Beckett recently revealed a little bit more about how his collaboration with Pierre came about and mentioned that the song was in fact originally written as a pop-punk Simple Plan song.
“Weirdo came to be because I’m neighbor with my buddy Pierre Bouvier from Simple Plan and my little brother Finn McDowell golfs with him sometimes and he was like: “Hey, you should check out my brother’s new album!” Cause I’ve written and done an album previously that I’ve never released it. Pierre’s like “Okay, cool!” So he listened to it and he was like “Yeah, that sounds awesome.” So he’s like “Hey, I got this song ‘Weirdo’ for you.” It was a Simple Plan song and it was written by him and Chuck, the drummer, and Nick Bailey, their buddy. And I was like “Oh, this is a great song!” It was very pop-punky and I changed it to kind of a pop song. I mean, we did together, obviously. But like he made it, he changed it from major to minor, and I wrote the bridge and like before you knew it, we were in love! No, before we knew it, we had a cool song in our hands and that’s how Weirdo came to be.”
Thanks to our reader Julia we’ve learned that the British-American rock band As It Is released a brand new single this week called “I Miss 2003”, which the band formed as a love letter to the alternative scene from the early 2000s. In the lyrics, the band hid a number of references to bands from this era, such as Jimmy Eat World, My Chemical Romance, Paramore, Good Charlotte or Simple Plan.
Simple Plan in particular are referenced in “I Miss 2003” through their hit song “Welcome To My Life” (featured on the album “Still Not Getting Any”). The verse referencing Simple Plan goes as follows:
I’m in the middle of a crisis Welcome to my life, no I don’t think that I like this I can’t believe I got this jaded (got this jaded) I remember singing to “The Anthem” My friends were the best, wish I knew it when I had them ‘Cause now it’s kind of complicated
Check out what the band’s guitarist Ronnie Ish said about the inspiration for this song:
“Growing up in a small town isn’t easy when you’re different. Bullied for the way you dress, criticized for the things you like, hated on for the music you listen to. Some days were a battle for me getting out of bed to go through the same routine again and again. But there’s something special about a song that makes you feel alive, and has the power to put all the negative shit in the back of your mind. This scene gave me a place to call home and empowered me to be me, unashamedly and unapologetically. If it weren’t for the bands and the songs and the words and the community to get me through all of the shit, I don’t know who I’d be today or if I’d even be at all.
We wrote a love letter to the scene titled ‘I MISS 2003’ to pay homage to all the bands that paved the way for us to say what we want to say, the way we want to say it. IM’03 was the last song we wrote and recorded with ZJ to finalize ‘I WENT TO HELL & BACK’ [coming out 02/04/22] there’s an undeniable energy to it, it feels different but the scene’s DNA that runs through all our veins makes it feel all the same. Load up the car with all your friends and turn this shit up to ten. Hope it makes you feel something.”
– Ronnie Ish (guitarist of As It Is) [on Instagram] –
Check out the full song below:
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