Simple Plan’s bassist David Desrosiers celebrates his 31st birthday today. So on behalf of SimplePlan.cz I would like to wish him all the best, lots of luve, happiness and many great upcoming concerets.
Happy birthday, David!
Happy birthday, David!
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Mini-news from the last few weeks
Because there has been a lot of very short news about Simple Plan in the last couple of weeks and due to much more important news (about the new album, music videos, singles etc.), there just wasn’t time to post about them, I have decided to sum them up in one article. Check them out:
Simple Plan and Marie-Mai in Francie
Simple Plan’s official website published a very interesting news about the upcoming SP show in France, on June 7th: Simple Plan will welcome to the stage of this very intimate concert their fellow canadian singer Marie-Mai and together they will perform their first single Jet Lag for the first time outside Canada.
Canada Sings to air on Global TV in August
Few weeks ago, Pierre Bouvier from Simple Plan finished the shooting of a new Canadian TV competition show called “Canada Sings” (which is being compared to a cross-over between Idol and Glee), which he attended as one of the judges, alongside Jane Arden and Vanilla Ice. According to Canadian Business, Global TV will start airing the show this summer – on August 10th 2011.
New photos from the Get Your Heart On! photoshoot
The official Simple Plan website has been through a lot of changes in the past couple of days, thanks to which we now have lots and lots of new photos, which were taken to promote Simple Plan’s new album Get Your Heart On! and as such were used in the website’s design. You can now check them out in the gallery.
Where are Simple Plan heading in November?
That’s a really good question. A lot of rumours about the upcoming brazilian festival called SWU (taking place in November) have been spreading around: mostly about which particular bands will be performing on the festival. People are talking about Foo Fighters, MGMT, and also about Simple Plan as the hot candidates. Though, none of the speculations have been confirmed yet. Plus, we have to take in account the fact, that Simple Plan are also rumoured to do a European tour in November with You Me At Six.
Intimate SP show for MusiquePlus
As a part of the promotion of their new album, Simple Plan will perform on an intimate show on June 20th (one day before the album’s release) in L’Astral, in Montreal. The whole show will be documented by MusiquePlus two days later. Fans can win 30 pairs of VIP tickets through MusiquePlus and as such be able not only to attend the show, but also personally meet the members of the band.
David on stage with Face To Face
It’s no mystery that David loves to sometimes play onstage with other bands than Simple Plan. For example, last year, you could’ve seen him play drums for the song “Looks Minus Substance” with The New Cities. But this week, David switched to another band, his teen idols, Face To Face, to play bass with them on their recent show. You can check out David making his “dream come true” on YouTube.
EW’s review of “Jet Lag”
Simple Plan’s first single “Jet Lag” is doing very well – and not only on the radio charts. The American magazine Entertainment Weekly has recently published a short review of the song, giving it a “B+” rating, marking it as a “loud and surprisingly lovely pop-punk pounder about intercontinental relationships.”, and adding that “with the next Blink 182 album still MIA, this will do just fine.” As the critics are usually not very fond of Simple Plan’s work, we should take this review as a huge success.
“Untitled” music video yet again to prevent from drunk-driving
And a little cherry on top: in the state of Virginia, special ceremonies are being held three times a week for the young drivers-to-be and their parents, in order to inform them about the possible consequences of risky driving. To draw the attention of the young people, the policemen decided to begin the ceremony with the showing of Simple Plan’s music video for the song Untitled (How Could This Happen To Me?). Among other things, the video deals with the effects that drunk-driving can have on entire families. This is not the first time that this video has been used to alert people from taking such risks while driving – Untitled has also been a part of the Don’t Drink And Drive campaign.
More news on the first two music videos
The Canadian TV channel MusiquePlus published a new video from the making off Can’t Keep My Hands Off You, which also includes an interview with Pierre and Chuck. As it is always with MusiquePlus, the interview is in French, but still I highly reccommend watching it, as you get to see some never seen footage from the shooting of the music video:
And about the second music video (and also the possible first single) Astronaut, here is a second picture from the day of the videoshoot: this time, the picture comes from Caitlin O’Connor’s Twitter page (thanks SPB for the reminder), who, as you can see, (judging by the fashion choice) probably will be representing the “astronaut” in the music video. Apart from that, those David fans amongst us will probably notice the new hair-do David is rocking these days and (finally!) not hiding it under one of his many hats:
David and Seb support the Girls And Women project
Sources: Girls And Women & CSP
David and Sebastien have appeared as “change agents” in the new project called “Girls And Women”. The project’s goal is to empower girls and women everywhere in the world. As a part of the campaign, the Simple Plan boys are wearing t-shirts designed specifically to support this cause:
Interesting quotes from the SPF benefit event
Source: Sorstu.ca & FocusMag.ca
I really hope you are not getting bored of all these news from the Simple Plan Foundation benefit event yet, as at least in this post you are gonna learn some more. Thanks to Janie for sending us her article and photos from yesterday. I have picked the most interesting parts out of the article and translated them for you – so here are some quotes from the Simple Plan members from the press conference:
“The foundation was created to help young people. You probably know that there are many young people, who come to our shows and then meet us – we see them after the shows a lot, they talk and we read their letters. They talk about their problems, whether at home or with their addictions. Problems, that sometimes quite serious. We were asking ourselves when we started, how we should react, how we could do something for them. Just talking to them for 30 seconds after the show is not enough. So we thought that we had go beyond that and so the foundation has been a bit of an answer to these stories. We wanted to help organizations that operated on the ground and that made a difference in the lives of these young people with issues.” (Jeff Stinco)
“In recent years, there are also many of our relatives who have been affected, affected by certain diseases and obviously it brings us closer to all these causes. Sometimes, there are people who think we are invincible, but there are people who are invincible because of diseases like that, so we decided to make donations to the Canadian society of multiple sclerosis, the Lighthouse Child & Family. […] There is a lot of young people who have been stricken by cancer. I myself had the chance to meet a girl named Alison. We have all met her also on one of our concerts and I accompanied her to her death bed at her home in Trois-Rivieres, and I even performed a song with my acoustic guitar to help her with what she was going through. It opened my eyes to see a little 16 year old girl, who was losing her life. It touched me greatly. And that brings us, we are all affected by it, no matter what we do in life, regardless of the job.” (David Desrosiers)
Let’s get to a bit of more positive news now. Make sure to look into our gallery, where you can find awesome shots from Janie from the SPF benefit event and also from We Day from a couple days ago:
