It doesn’t happen very often that we would be getting some David Desrosiers updates, but here we go! In the gallery, you can have a look at a picture of David with Jason Rockman (the lead singer of a nu-metal Montreal-based band Slaves On Dope), who were spotted together at the Steve’s Music Store in Montreal, Canada in December (big thanks to CSP, who managed to find this picture):
Channel V recently aired a documentary series called “Road Trippin'” with a special all about Warped Tour Australia that took place in 6 Australian cities in November and December of 2013, featuring bands like The Offspring, Simple Plan or Tonight Alive. Jenna McDougall, the lead singer of Tonight Alive actually co-hosted the documentary/special with Channel V’s presenter Danny Clayton – and during the half an hour video she shows him around places in between two of the festival dates and also introduces him to some bands she’s already befriended on Warped Tour.
Two of these people were David and Pierre from Simple Plan, who you can check out at mark 14:32 of the video, who’s interview backstage with Danny Clayton eventually turned out to be a Friends’ theme song sing-a-long. Check it out:
Charles Trippy, the bass guitarist for the American band We The Kings and also a world-famous vlogger, has recently once again mentioned Simple Plan in his vlog (CTFxC) that he does along with his wife Alli – more particularly he reminisced about the times the two bands toured together in Australia and Europe. Check out the quote from mark 5:25 of the vlog:
[listens to “Firecracker” by Strung Out] “When we were on tour with Simple Plan, the bassist for Simple Plan and I basically connected on that song cause we were both playing it together.”
At the press conference for the Simple Plan Foundation’s benefit event that took place last week, the members of the band were also available for interviews. One such interview has been done with David by Confront Magazine. You can now have a look at a couple of pictures from this interview and also read through the interview (or check it out at the Confront Mag’s page):
CONFRONT: What are you most proud of accomplishing with the foundation this year?
DAVID: We’ve reached a higher number than the previous year, which is always exciting; 265 000$ for a total of 1.265 million dollars [since the beginning of the foundation]. Some of the donations are going to new organizations, which is always exciting too! It’s all moving forward for us and we’re looking forward to next year to donate even more.
We are partnering with CHU Sainte-Justine to create a transition between what [the kids] go through as patients and normal life. There’s also Sick Kids in Toronto, which I’m very fond of because I made a friend through them. We’re doing stuff with War Child as always. There’s a big civil war in Syria, in the Philippines the big typhoon just happened and there is so much going on around the world!
CONFRONT: That’s true! And it’s great that you guys can react really quickly to what’s happening too. And you mentionned giving to new organizations this year, where does the final decision lie when it comes to where the money goes?
DAVID: There’s a few times in the year when we all get together with everybody that’s working with the foundation. All these people do such amazing work by helping us and steering us in the right direction. We all have our differences and we’re all attached to different causes so it’s always good to have people helping us [when it comes to those decisions].
CONFRONT: And what is a cause that you hold dear and that you think is underrated and that people aren’t aware of enough?
DAVID: I would say maybe GRIS which goes up against homophobia. I mean, why treat homosexuals differently? It’s so retarded when you think about it. It’s 2013 and people still act like this? It must be really hard for [homosexuals and bisexuals]. What they’re dealing with as far as sexuality and stuff, it’s their own business and it shouldn’t be anyone else’s. So I think GRIS is underrated and I think everyone should think about it for a second.
CONFRONT: I agree! And to be honest, this was an organization that I wasn’t familiar with before.
DAVID: Well there you go! Now you know a little about it.
CONFRONT: Where do you see the Simple Plan Foundation in four years, when it hits the decade mark?
DAVID: Hopefully, still doing great things with great people onboard. There’s some organizations that we’re partnering up with so that every year, we give them a certain amount. Like CHU Sainte-Justine, we’re giving them 150 000$ over three years so it’s like a three-year contract! And it’s our pleasure to do that; it’s fun because we can see the evolution of the help that we give them so it’s really rewarding. It’s nice.
CONFRONT: I can only imagine! Now, going away from that subject a little bit, I want to talk a little bit about the EP you guys are set to release!
DAVID: Yeah! It’s coming out at the end of November. It has seven songs and I personally think it’s amazing!
CONFRONT: I hope so! It’s your music so you’re supposed to be proud of it.
DAVID: Absolutely! And there’s one song called “Fire In My Heart” and it’s one of my favorite and I hope people like it! It’s to keep people busy listening to our music and at the same time as when we’ll be working on our next record. It’s a little “hey! don’t forget about us!”
CONFRONT: “We’re still here!”
DAVID: Yeah!
CONFRONT: And how would you compare it to your previous work?
DAVID: It’s very versatile but at the same time, it’s really rocking! There’s one track that is acoustic that is a bit different for us because the whole song is acoustic and we might play it tonight! [Note: They did, it was “Lucky One”] Then there’s “Fire In My Heart” is a really good pop nugget. All the songs are quite rocking so get ready to rock!
CONFRONT: And is that the direction that the next album is going in?
DAVID: I guess! It’s very positive, high energy pop/rock! It’s what we love.
CONFRONT: Classic Simple Plan!
DAVID: Yeah!
CONFRONT: Well that’s it for me, thank you for your time and have a great show tonight!
DAVID: Thank you, have a good night!
I’m pretty sure that ever since the announcement that Simple Plan and Fall Out Boy were to play together at MTV World Stage in Mexico, quite a few of you who also happen to be Fall Out Boy fans were very eager to spot a picture of the members of Simple Plan with the members of Fall Out Boy together, since we haven’t had a picture like that since the 2006’s MMVAs.
So after such wait, here it finally is – featuring David Desrosiers from Simple Plan and Andy Hurley from Fall Out Boy backstage at MTV World Stage on October 3rd:
