Author Archives: Dominika

Chuck and Jeff discuss ‘Saturday’ as the “worst” Simple Plan song in a new interview

AUTHOR: Dominika | 18. July 2018 | 1 comment

Our friends over at SPB finally released their own long-awaited interview with Chuck and Jeff from Simple Plan, that was filmed while the band paid a visit to Brazil with a NPNHJB anniversary tour earlier this year. Bruno from SPB decided to split the interview in 3 parts – one consisted of a game of facts about Brazil, in the second one was a “Who’s most likely to..” game and finally in the third part Bruno let the guys react to a number of tweets written by the members of the website’s team.

During the interview, the guys were asked which song they consider the worst Simple Plan song, to which Jeff immediately replied “Generation”, which can be found on Simple Plan’s self-titled record and was in fact the show-opener in 2008.

However, later on in the interview, the guys were shown a tweet from a fan taking a jab at Simple Plan for releasing the song ‘Saturday’ (‘Did Simple Plan really get together and say: ‘Hey guys, Saturday is such a great song!’ – because I can’t understand this.’ – @mariaclara_b) as an the first promo song for Taking One For The Team and after receiving quite a backlash, they opted not to have it featured on the actual record and pretty much not discuss it ever since. In the interview, both Chuck and Jeff agreed that it was a mistake and that Saturday might be the worst Simple Plan song and promised to perhaps one day reveal how the decision process about releasing this song came about.

Chuck: “That is the worst Simple Plan song.”
Jeff: “You know what? Before Generation – Saturday is the worst song.”
Chuck: “It’s a long story, one day we will explain what happened..”
Jeff: “Or not…”
Chuck: “I don’t think actually… the song doesn’t exist.”
Jeff: “.. It never happened.”
Chuck: “What song? I don’t know what Saturday is…”
Jeff: “It was sort of like a false start. And then you go back and do it again.”
Chuck: “It’s not on Spotify, so it doesn’t really exist.”
Jeff: “… we made sure it disappeared. “

If you need a reminder of Saturday, here you go, but after that make sure to check out the full interview with Chuck and Jeff for SPB below:

New surprise guest for I’m Just A Kid: Rob Damiani (Don Broco) joined Simple Plan in Toronto

AUTHOR: Dominika | 18. July 2018 | no comments

For the one-off stop in Canada of the final Vans Warped Tour, Simple Plan decided to treat their fellow Canadian fans with another new surprise guest during I’m Just A Kid. After having invited musicians like Travis Clark (We The Kings), Yungblud, Nate Motte (3OH!3), Jenna McDougall (Tonight Alive), Jaret Reddick (Bowling For Soup) and most recently Awsten Knight (Waterparks) with the honor of singing one of the band’s most notorious hits in North America, in Toronto, Simple Plan asked one of their newest buddies Rob Damiani from the British band Don Broco on stage alongside Travis Clark from We The Kings.

Check out Rob’s and Travis’ vocal support during I’m Just a Kid, while Chuck stagedived into the crowd and Pierre got ahold of the drumset:

EXCLUSIVE: Pierre joined Bowling For Soup on stage for ‘Ohio’ on Warped Tour in Hartford

AUTHOR: Dominika | 16. July 2018 | no comments

Big thanks to our “overseas correspondent” Andrew from the Czech Republic, who happened to attend the Warped Tour date in Hartford, CT, we found out that last night the attendees of the Bowling For Soup set were pleasantly surprised when the band invited Pierre Bouvier from Simple Plan on stage.

Pierre joined Bowling For Soup for their song ‘Ohio (Come Back To Texas)’ and since Andrew managed to film this special appearance on camera and send it to us today, you can now check out this exclusive footage from last night in Hartford. Check out how Pierre did below:

Sebastien reveals new possible interesting plans regarding the production of Simple Plan’s 6th album in The Maine’s podcast

AUTHOR: Dominika | 16. July 2018 | no comments

While on Warped Tour, two members of The Maine (Pat Kirch and Garrett Nickelsen) recently interviewed Sebastien from Simple Plan in the back of their tour bus and band member to band member got him talking about some very interesting music-related topics in their The 8123 Podcast. In the 40 minutes of this interview, Sebastien discussed how Simple Plan got their first big break, how they invented the word “vlog”, described the struggles of putting together a setlist of all their greatest hits and how interesting it is to have certain songs only popular in certain regions.

In this article, we’d like to point out one particular part of the interview, in which Seb talked about the band’s plans for their upcoming 6th album. Originally, Simple Plan mentioned in various interviews that they might start working on it during Warped Tour, but as expected, due to how straining this tour has been and that there isn’t really that much free time between sleeping, traveling, playing and meeting fans, it doesn’t seem to be very likely the guys will start song-writing while on the road anytime soon. The plan now seems to be to start working on album #6 as soon as they’re off the road.

However, there still seems to be plenty of unanswered questions regarding how the process of making of this new Simple Plan record will be conducted. In this interview, Sebastien noted that there are many opinions within the band regarding the producer they could go with and what his approach to the new album should be. According to Seb, the band is ready to try producing music on their own and get a producer for just a few songs. But will that hold with the rest of the band? That remains to be seen. Read Seb’s quote below:

“… and now I think we’re ready to go the way of like: ‘Let’s get a producer for a couple singles and just work out the rest on our own!’ You know? I think we’re ready for that. I don’t know, though. There’s a lot of headbutting in my band, so… Everybody’s got a strong opinion about a lot of things. So there needs to be someone that kinda comes in and sort of calls the shot in the end. And I don’t think it can be one of us. You know… I guess we’ll see. After a couple weeks we’ll know if we need to bring in someone or just keep doing it on our own.“

– Seb Lefebvre –

Another interesting fact we’ve learned from this interview is that the band still considers releasing their album in batches, as first suggested by Chuck in an interview back in April. Sebastien agrees that with how times have changed in the music industry and with platforms such as Spotify being here always available for fans’ instant music needs, it is not necessary for artists to release full albums – instead we can possibly expect just a few new Simple Plan songs perhaps early next year. Check out Seb’s thoughts expressed in the interview below:

Oh, I think we’re gonna start writing as soon as we can. We’re slow. We’re always slow… […] Now we’re two and half years after our last release and we don’t really have songs yet. So hopefully early next year, there’s gonna be… cause it’s a different landscape – we don’t have to wait for full albums. Let’s release a couple songs early next year and once we have like a body of work, we’ll release that! I’m thinking… We’ll see. But that would feel nice, you know? Our fans would be happy, we’d be happy – we’d feel like we’re moving forward… get back on tour, you know?

– Seb Lefebvre –

If you’re interested and have some 40 minutes to spare, we definitely recommmend listening to the whole interview with Sebastien on The 8123 Podcast to get some more insight into the music industry through the eyes of the members of The Maine and Simple Plan:

Another big Warped Tour photo update

AUTHOR: Dominika | 15. July 2018 | no comments

Over the course of the past week, Simple Plan have visited many more U.S. cities, that have been graced with the final Warped Tour. But before we go and have a look at pictures from these particular shows, let’s catch a glipse at some more behind the scenes footage by filmmaker Peter John, who after a short break once again posted a new video on his YouTube channel, where he documents life on Warped with Simple Plan:

Besides Peter John’s videos, another great source of a look into the backstage of Warped Tour are the pictures regularly posted on Simple Plan members’ Instagrams. We have gathered all of those from the past week and you can now browse through all of them in our Warped Tour behind the scenes album in our photo gallery. Have a look:

And finally here you can find the links to photos from are all the most recent Warped shows, which led Simple Plan to Kansas (Bonner Springs), Texas (Dallas, San Antonio and Houston), Tennessee (Nashville), Virginia (Virginia Beach) and New Jersey (Camden and Holmdel). Check them out: