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Simple Plan on Tout Le Monde En Parle reveal Roach’s demo “Pubic Mushrooms”

by Dominika | Nov 19th, 2012 | no comments

On Thursday, the guys attended the taping of the talk show Tout Le Monde En Parle which aired yesterday evening (pictures from the taping can be viewed here). You can now watch the following video capturing Simple Plan’s whole appearance at the talk show – the video is in French, but I definitely recommend watching is at you will be able to listen to a short sneak peak of a demo called “Pubic Mushrooms” made by Roach, Pierre’s and Chuck’s very first band (even before Reset) – approximately at mark 12:54:

Preview from Tout Le Monde En Parle

by Dominika | Nov 17th, 2012 | no comments

This Sunday, Radio-Canada will be airing another episode of its talk show Tout Le Monde En Parle, where among the guests we will also see Simple Plan, who attended the taping of the show this Wednesday. Check out the first preview of Simple Plan’s appearance at the talk show below:

CBC interview with Chuck and Sebastien about the book

by Dominika | Nov 15th, 2012 | no comments

Check out this very informative 14-minutes-long interview that CBC did with Chuck and Seb from Simple Plan about their new book “Simple Plan: The Official Story”. In the interview, the boys talk about the way they stored all the stuff in Chuck’s parents’ basement, which pictures they could not use in the book and even read a couple of rejection letters from record labels.

You can listen to the interview right here:

Pierre and Chuck at CKOI radio station in Montreal

by Dominika | Nov 13th, 2012 | no comments

Yesterday evening, Pierre and Chuck from Simple Plan joined the hosts of the CKOI radio station in Montreal in their studio to talk a little bit about their new book and the history of the band. Here is a couple of pictures of the guys in the studio:

And below you can listen to the whole interview at CKOI, which is in French, so in case you don’t understand this language, Charbel prepared a little translation of some of it for you and you can read it under the player:

Interviewer: You guys just came back from Spain right?
Pierre: Yep we came back last night, long flight but we had a nice show there was 15 thousand people I think. Or was it 30 thousand?
Chuck: … Well 45 thousand. [laughs]
Interviewer: Not too jet lagged?
Pierre: Just a bit, I woke up at 5:30am, but we’re home so everything’s alright.
Chuck: I woke up at 9am it was perfect.
Pierre: He’s a machine! Chuck Comeau the machine. [laughs]

Interviewer: The highlight from the last 10 years?
Pierre: There was so many highlights, I could name at least 10, for instance the time we got signed by Atlantic Records or the first time we did Bell Center (sold out) in Montreal, it was intense I couldn’t sing well, I was like “Shaat ap, Shaat ap, Shaat ap” [laughs]
Chuck: Even I had problems playing, we could see our parents & friends in the crowd, the whole place was full.
Interviewer: Just earlier (before the interview), I was telling everyone that when we worked together at MusiquePlus, you once told me “One day I’ll be up there on that stage” and I replied “I bet you 20 bucks the contrary”. [laughs]

Interviewer: So Chuck your parents wanted you to be a lawyer, Seb was studied to be an engineer, what I wanna know is, how do you convince your parents that you wanna do music?
Pierre: Well you don’t give them a choice, at some point they understand that unless you end up having a huge fight and they end up kicking you out, the kid will do what he wants to do. So there was lots of disputes, of arguments, our parents kept telling us “If you guys are wasting your time, what happens then?”.
Chuck: It took lots of negotiations, for example the first time we went on tour, I was 16, and going to Vancouver in a small RV I don’t think my parents liked that idea. We were 4 back then, and we went without a tour manager, it was crazy with no supervision, we were discovering what being in a band really felt like. We would go to Calgary and no one knew us there…
Pierre: I remember our first night in Vancouver, we got robbed on the street [laughs],
Chuck: Yeah the guys was like “Hey gives us all your money”.
Pierre: Yeah the guy sees 16 year old kids on the street, I was like “He just took my 80 bucks, that was all I had for the tour” [laughs].

[after the break]
Interviewer: I just posted a picture on twitter and it’s incredible how your fans follow you there, I got many replies from your fans in France.
Chuck: Yeah in fact, Pierre’s the most followed male in Quebec!
Pierre: I think so; 250 thousand followers but yeah our fans are really intense, and we love them very much.

Interviewer: This is one the reasons why you guys love being in a band, for instance Chuck you first started playing in a band without even knowing how to play the drums!
Chuck: Yeah Pierre knew how to play a bit of guitar…
Pierre: Wow a bit? I was doing solos back then! [laughs]
Chuck: Yeah Pierre was a natural, we had a guitarist and a bassist so I was like “Alright, I’ll be the drummer” even though I didn’t know how to play the drums. We would watch Guns n’ Roses playing at Rock In Rio, and we were like “Damn how cool would it be to be on that stage?”.
Interviewer: Well this Sunday it’s gonna be a smaller stage than Rock In Rio, there’s the Simple Plan Foundation benefit event in the Science Center here in Montreal.
Chuck: Yeah it’s a bit more exclusive
Pierre: It’s one of our VIP events, we give a lot of our time with the fans, we take pictures with them, we sign stuff, we hang out with them.
Interview: Well thank you boys, it’s been 10 years and we wish you 10 more! Pierre Bouvier & Chuck Comeau from Simple Plan!

Two more interviews from the book promotion

by Dominika | Nov 12th, 2012 | no comments

Thanks to Anne-Sophie and Charbel, here are two more interviews from last Tuesday regarding the new Simple Plan book. In the first one for Fan Club – Vrak TV, you will find out which member kept leaving the band in the early beginnings and the second interview for TVA reveals more pages from the book.

Interviewer: After 10 years, how do you guys not get on each others’ nerves?
Seb: We actually do get on each others’ nerves. Just not that often anymore…
David: The key is to do interviews without Pierre, everything turns out well when Pierre’s not here. [laughs]

Chuck: I just remembered a story we should have had in the book: It was when Jeff, before we got sign, kept leaving the band every week [laughs] he kept leaving, he would smash his guitar on the ground, kept saying “I’m leaving!” and would walk to the train station…
David: We had to run after him…
Jeff: I thought the band had a lack of character, so I was kind of developing theirs. [laughs]

Interviewer: What’s Simple Plan’s biggest hit for you guys?
Jeff: Well “Perfect” is the one all of our fans are singing at our shows.
Seb: I think there’s always something special in “Crazy”. It really reflects our society, and I always thought it was well written.
David: For me it’s “Astronaut” … yep.
Jeff: It’s definitely one of our best songs.
Chuck: We have lots of fans who come up to us and tell us that if it wasn’t for songs like “Welcome To My Life”, “Perfect”, “Save You” they wouldn’t be here, and it means a lot me to know that these songs mean a lot to them.

Interviewer: Now I want to know what the (next) book is going to like at your 20 years?
Seb: Hopefully bigger! And less ridiculous pictures of us.
Jeff: I just hope we don’t look like this! (shows old version of SP in SNGA) [laughs]

Interviewer: Well we wish you a great week and hope to see you more often here in Montreal!

Chuck: We placed ourselves in our fans’ shoes and thought to ourselves, what would they wanna see, maybe there are things we don’t wanna show that they wanna read about.
Jeff: We also wanted to tell the story, people ask us how it all began how it happened, and some people have different ideas, that it was pretty easy, one day to the other. We wanted to show them that it wasn’t that simple, there were lots of accidents that brought us were we are today.

Interview: You were rejected a lot in the beginning, what do you guys feel like saying now that you have an international career?
Jeff: It’s like when you’re rejected by a girl, you flirt with her a bit at first and then years later you see the person again and she’s suddenly interested and you say “Wow wait you already said no 10 years ago” there’s a bit of that feeling involved. But me it still shocks me to see these letters, because those moments were so intense, we really thought we made it but we didn’t just yet.
Chuck: This book is the best celebration we could offer ourselves for the ten years. We’re always on tour and it’s hard for us to take the time to look back.

Jeff: For me it’s important to keep making music, to keep moving forward. We’re going to India, and lots of new places we’ve never been to. So for me it’s important to keep going.