Category Archives: David

David to be back on the road in 2017

AUTHOR: Dominika | 20. December 2016 | 1 comment

The South American tour is behind us and it was the first time for a rather longer while, when Simple Plan had to tour with only 4 members, as David excused himself from the tour due to personal reasons [read more here]. So naturally, for the past few weeks, many fans, who missed the news of David’s short absence became quite worried when they didn’t see him on any of the pictures from South America.

That was unnecessary though. Now that the tour is over, Pierre shared another picture of the 4 members of Simple Plan, who attended this tour and with it he also confirmed that David will indeed be back on tour with Simple Plan at the next shows, which are coming up in 2017 [first ones as of right now are announced for March in Canada].

Read what exactly Pierre wrote and check out the new photoshoot Pierre, Jeff, Chuck and Seb did in Buenos Ares below:

“I’m proud of the 4 of us for holding down the fort while David was out of commission. We kicked some ass and managed to have some fun in the process. Looking forward to having the original five back on the road in 2017.” – Pierre Bouvier

Simple Plan confirm David is doing well

AUTHOR: Dominika | 9. December 2016 | no comments


Even though the members of the band have already previously confirmed that David is not going anywhere and that they are still a band that consists of five members, some fans still needed some more reassurance about how David is doing, after his announcement that due to personal reasons he won’t be able to take part in the whole South American tour.

And obviously, due to the fact that the fans have no knowledge of whether these personal problems are concerning David’s health or whether it’s something of different nature, they were understandably very worried.

That is why today, after the four members of Simple Plan published a selfie together at an airport, when heading to Rio de Janeiro, one of the fans decided to ask SP what was going on. And to a great surprise Simple Plan responded to this comment [in French] saying “David is doing well. Everything is OK.”

Around the same time, David personally commented on one of Jeff’s latest pictures on Instagram, saying “I feel like you’ll be having a caipirinha or two! Be safe out there! ;)”

Hopefully this will come as another reassurance that everything is alright and David will be back with his bandmates on tour in the new year.

Show in Belo Horizonte: Pierre clears up untrue rumors

AUTHOR: Dominika | 9. December 2016 | 2 comments


On Thursday, Simple Plan performed their second show in Brazil this year – at the Music Hall in the city of Belo Horizonte.

And after the past few days of concerning fans’ speculations swirling around the Internet regarding the possibility of David leaving the band after the sudden announcement of him not being able to attend the South American tour, Pierre decided to clear up these rumors at the show in BH. According to the concert goers, Pierre confirmed that they are still a band with 5 members, hinting on the fact that David is not going anywhere. That is also supported by the band’s official statement, which says that they look forward to playing with him on the shows next year. Check out the video of Pierre getting his point across on a video here.

One more thing regarding David’s absence: apparently during some parts of the shows when Seb plays David’s bass, Chady can be spotted in the background playing Seb’s electric guitar – Pierre also confirmed this in his “David speech” last night – see a video of that here (thanks to Bruno for the info).

Setlist-wise, the concert in Belo Horizonte was identical to the one in Sao Paulo. The band didn’t choose to change any song on the list:

1. Opinion Overload
2. Jet Lag
3. Jump (‚I Gotta Feeling‘ snippet)
4. I’d Do Anything
5. Boom
6. Welcome to My Life
7. Addicted
8. Your Love Is A Lie
9. Perfectly Perfect
10. Party medley – Uptown Funk (Mark Ronson/Bruno Mars cover) & Can’t Feel My Face (The Weeknd cover)
11. Can’t Keep My Hands Off You
12. Farewell
13. Summer Paradise
14. Crazy
15. I’m Just a Kid

Encore:
16. Shut Up!
17. Perfect World
18. Untitled
19. Perfect

And to get a glimpse at what the show was like, have a look at the first come of pics from Belo Horionte in our gallery:

Simple Plan kick off South American tour with first show in Brazil: Sao Paulo & confirm David’s pre-recorded bass

AUTHOR: Dominika | 8. December 2016 | 2 comments

The day so many Brazilians have been waiting for for the past 4 years finally arrived yesterday. Simple Plan returned to the country with a bang and delivered an amazing show to their first brazilian audience of the South American tour – in Sao Paulo. The concert took place at the Citibank Hall, which has the capacity of 7000 people and even though the concert wasn’t fully sold-out, from the pictures we can already tell that it was definitely one of the (if not THE) biggest headlining shows Simple Plan have done on the Taking One For The Team tour so far.

The guys came well prepared, as you can tell from Pierre’s words in Portuguese [see the image on the left], he wrote down before the show, to keep his speeches in the local language fluent and correct. Their preparedness was also seen from the fact how well was the band able to adapt to the fact that their bassplayer David Desrosiers had to pull out of this tour last minute, due to personal reasons. As we’ve reported before, Sebastien was seen picking up the bass here and there during the show, but played his electric guitars as well. According to SPB, it was said by Pierre on the stage that David actually pre-recorded some bass lines for the tour, so that his absence would not be as troublesome for the band. Check out Pierre’s speech below:

“It’s good to be back in Brazil! In case you didn’t notice, I’m sure you can see we’re missing someone here tonight. David couldn’t make it on this tour. But! We did not want to cancel our Brazilian tour for our fans here! So back home, we recorded David’s bass and he’s playing with us tonight. He’s here in spirit. And he’s here on stage with the music with us tonight.”

And now finally – the setlist! Just like we expected, not much has changed on the setlist overall, but the Brazilian fans did get to hear Perfectly Perfect live and the guys also kept Untitled on the setlist. Interestingly, the band decided not to perform the second single ‘Singing In The Rain’ at the show, quite possibly because they chose to perform ‘Perfectly Perfect’ instead.

Check out the full setlist below:

1. Opinion Overload
2. Jet Lag
3. Jump (‚I Gotta Feeling‘ snippet)
4. I’d Do Anything
5. Boom
6. Welcome to My Life
7. Addicted
8. Your Love Is A Lie
9. Perfectly Perfect
10. Party medley – Uptown Funk (Mark Ronson/Bruno Mars cover) & Can’t Feel My Face (The Weeknd cover)
11. Can’t Keep My Hands Off You
12. Farewell
13. Summer Paradise
14. Crazy
15. I’m Just a Kid

Encore:
16. Shut Up!
17. Perfect World
18. Untitled
19. Perfect

For the first pictures from the show in Sao Paulo, check out the SimplePlan.cz gallery – more to be added later!

Sebastien to replace David on bass for South American tour

AUTHOR: Dominika | 7. December 2016 | 2 comments

Ever since the news of David not attending the South American leg of the Simple Plan tour due to personal reasons broke yesterday, the question on everyone’s mind [besides the actual reasons of his absense, which we urge you to leave be, as per request of the band] was who would take care of the bass during the shows. Whether it would be a member of the band or whether the band would hire an additional person to play the bass for the course of the tour.

The answer came today with another Instagram video by Herby Moreau (thanks Raph for pointing this out), which captures the start of Simple Plan’s first soundcheck in Brazil – in Sao Paulo – today. In this video, you can see that it was Sebastien, who picked up the bass. Sebastien was of course the obvious choice, as him and David do switch their instruments at every show for one part anyway.

It’s also fair to note that when the first part of the soundcheck attendees (due to the extreme amount of people at soundchecks in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, soundcheck people were sorted into three groups, each going in, listening to 2 songs at soundcheck, getting a group picture with the band, before the next group would be let in) got inside the venue, Sebastien was seen playing his regular mint guitar. It is therefore possible that he might switch between an electric guitar and a bass guitar throughout the shows on the South American tour.

Check out the video of Sebastien playing the bass at today’s soundcheck below: