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David posts an update on himself a year after stepping away from Simple Plan

AUTHOR: Dominika | 31. July 2021 | no comments

It has already been a year since certain sexual misconduct allegations made David Desrosiers step away from Simple Plan “to work on his personal issues” and apologize for the harm he had caused to women by his actions.

Since then, Simple Plan’s communication on social media has only reflected the other four members and there has been no sign of David ever since. David’s Instagram has also been deactivated for a significant amount of time.

Yesterday however, a little over a year since the infamous David scandal came to light, David Desrosiers reappeared on Instagram once more, this time with a blank slate – his profile info doesn’t say anything but his name and he has also deleted all his previous posts. On the brand new image post, David can be seen relaxing on a beach, playing a guitar. In the post, written both in French and in English, David thanked his fans for all the support and gave them a little update on his life one year post stepping away. You can see the full post here or read it below:

“Hi everyone!

It’s been a while, so I thought I’d take a moment to check in with you. It’s now been a year since I stepped away from the stage and social media to focus on me. With the help of professionals, I took the time to reflect on who I am and the kind of person I want to be. This has been an ongoing process that will continue. For now, I’ll keep working on myself and my wish is to see you again on stage eventually.

I want to thank all the fans for their support. I really appreciate it.

See you all soon.”

– David Desrosiers –

It is currently unclear, whether his wish to see the fans again from the stage could mean a chance of him rejoining Simple Plan again or him returning to music in some other way.

Seb teases a release of a music related “something… soon, or not.. maybe”

AUTHOR: Dominika | 16. June 2021 | no comments

Given how long the fans have been making fun of Simple Plan for all of their “soon” phrases, they keep dropping for months before anything is actually released, the guys have already picked up on that and are now trying to be even more careful about what they let out of their mouth, in order for the fans not to be disappointed, if said thing doesn’t get released in the teased timeframe. And that is understandable.

Sebastien tried to wiggle his way out of it again in a new interview that was done with Sebastien for The Dangerous Darrin Show podcast by the show’s host, Darrin Pfeiffer from Goldfinger. There, while answering a question whether the upcoming album was recorded purely in California, Sebastien answered yes, but… he also added a little hint of some brand new recordings, that have been recently done by all members of the band for a little “something” that might be coming “soon”. Seb was very careful about his wordings. Check out his full response:

“No, it actually ended up being all in California for this. We did recently… I can’t say for what, though… but we did recently all do our little parts each in our home studios and brought it together for… eh… for something… that might or might not be coming soon or not. So there’s that to look forward to. Maybe. Who knows?”

Could it be a new single? Some other musical venture for Simple Plan that could be released soon? We shall see. But things are definitely finally moving ahead!

Besides that, there was also another interesting bit in the interview, where Sebastien was asked about whether Simple Plan have any timeline when the record could see the light of day. Sebastien hinted that there is a possibility of us hearing a new single possibly this summer already. That matches what Pierre recently said too about SP wanting to have a new material out for the tour with New Found Glory. Check out what Seb said regarding SP’s 6th album:

“Ah, man, I would have loved this record to come out despite the pandemic. Honestly. It just didn’t happen. So hopefully, hopefully if the world gets going again, I would love for the album to be out in the summer. Or at least like a single. You know? It would be great. The template used to be: the album comes out, single 1, single 2, single 3 and all that. But now it’s the other way round. Single 1, single 2, single 3, album comes out. So hopefully we get into that whole wheel this summer. It would be great.”

– Sebastien Lefebvre [on The Dangerous Darrin Show] –

You can check out both parts of The Dangerous Darrin Show podcast that feature this interview with Seb below:

Chuck and Pierre finally met up for the first time since pandemic started

AUTHOR: Dominika | 15. June 2021 | 1 comment

With California officially reopening and easing up on all covid-related restrictions this week, many people in the area saw that as a sign that it is okay to finally see people they haven’t been able to meet up with for months.

And while it sounds absolutely crazy, believe it or not, Pierre and Chuck from Simple Plan finally met up two days ago for the first time since February 2020, the month of their last tour, just before the pandemic started.

The duo also met up alongside LØLØ, Toronto-based singer, who will be joining Simple Plan and New Found Glory on their fall tour across the United States as a supporting act.

In the gallery, you can now check out two photos of Pierre, Chuck and LØLØ, that were taken on Sunday.

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

AUTHOR: Dominika | 28. May 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:

Nick from Sleeping with Sirens recalls Pierre Bouvier’s random act of kindness when they first met

AUTHOR: Dominika | 25. May 2021 | no comments

Sleeping With Sirens’ rhythm guitarist Nick Martin recently started a successful YouTube channel, on which he likes to share his music, as well as stories from tour. Today, he decided to share a special story in a short video, where he told the story of meeting Pierre Bouvier from Simple Plan for the first time on Warped Tour in 2004 (back with his first band Underminded) and being completely baffled how Pierre performed an such an unexpected act of kindness towards him and his former band. So much so, that it has inspired Nick to continue doing such act of kindness since then.

We wrote down the entire story below, but you can also listen to it from Nick on the video below:

“Back in 2004 [my first band Underminded] did the whole entire Warped Tour. It was our first summer tour, I’ve ever done in my lifetime. But it was also the most gruelling summer: we had to set up the stage, break down the stage, we didn’t get paid, we were in a van.. it was a very very gruelling, very very difficult, hard summer, but it was the most amazing summer of my life at the same time. So there was a stretch of Warped Tour dates that was well over a week long with no days off. And all we were looking forward to was a day off. I remember we were deep into the tour, completely exhausted, completely burned out. And we were just looking forward to a day off when we could recharge out batteries. Like I said, we were making no money, but somehow we scrunched up enough dollars, we said: ‘It’s time for us to shower, call our families and just relax and decompress.’

So we followed the Warped Tour caravan on a day off to a hotel where all the Warped tour bands and production were gonna be staying. And we also heard that the hotel was giving a discount for everybody on Warped Tour. So.. we’re like awesome, let’s shower! So we get to the hotel, it’s completely slammed, full of Warped Tour people, bands, production.. everybody’s there. We went to the desk and I said: ‘We would love to get a room, we need to shower. Please help.’ Their response to me was: ‘We are completely sold-out. I’m sorry.’ Talk about having a moment, when you feel like it’s the end of the world and everything is against you. And then we realized we’re in the middle of nowhere. We would have to drive even further to hopefully find another hotel, we don’t wanna waste any more of our day driving… it was not the answer that we were looking for.

But then the moment quickly changes. Someone taps me on my shoulder, I turn around – Pierre, the lead singer of Simple Plan. Let me quickly preface this that Pierre did not know who we were, did not know what band we were in, we had never met before, we were complete strangers. And he tells me: ‘I just overheard your conversation that the hotel is out of rooms, well, I want to help.’ And then proceeds to give me all of their room keys. It wasn’t just one room, it was multiple rooms for the band and crew. My jaw drops and I was speechless. I couldn’t believe that somebody would do that. That they would go out of their way to just give us hotel rooms without knowing who we are or having never met before. He was such a kind soul for doing that. And he wanted nothing in return. It was out of just kindness and knowing and looking at us and seeing how tired we were, how exhausted, how burned out we were. And it stuck with me ever since then and I’ve also given my hotel room key to other bands, who needed a place to shower, needed a place to charge their phones, to decompress and just talk to family. And just to feel like a human being for a day. And I can never thank him enough for doing that.

A few years ago I ran into him. I think it was on the Alternative Press awards. I told him this story from 2004, that he did this incredibly kind thing for me, that has stuck with me ever since. And he did not remember that ever happening but he was still so kind and I thanked him so much for doing what he did and how it meant to everybody that was with us, the whole band, all of our crew. It just goes to show that any act of kindness big or small can completely change someone’s day or change someone’s life in a really positive day.”

– Nick Martin [in his YouTube video “Two Minute Tour Story”] –