Yesterday, it was a pretty big day for Simple Plan, as they were back in Toronto, at the FIFA Trophy Tour stop in this city. From the early morning, Jeff and Chuck spent a couple of hours giving interviews to local TV stations, such as BT Toronto, CP24 Breakfast, 680 News or ET Canada and later that day the whole band was ready to rock the stage.
And while the guys spoke mostly about their feelings about football and the upcoming concert in the interviews, the interview for ET Canada also included some more interesting facts. Firstly, Chuck mentioned that the band should be done with the album “hopefully by June 6th.” Now, that is a very interesting piece of information, mostly because of that specific date. If you’re not aware, June 6th is also the day that the FIFA Women’s World Cup, which Simple Plan have been supporting for the past week will kick off and right before the opening match between China and Canada, there will be an opening ceremony…. Make of that what you will. Nothing regarding SP’s involvement in that event has been confirmed yet. Let’s wait and see if this theory is correct.
The other piece of information that came from this interview was the fact that Chuck opened up about his personal life and for the first time finally confirmed that he and his wife Jacquelin are indeed expecting their first child very soon. Congratulations, Chuck!
In the gallery, you can now check out pictures from Chuck’s and Jeff’s interviews from the morning and then also from the backstage area of the FIFA Trophy Tour, where the members of Simple Plan had a lot of fun:
Here, you can watch the interview for CP24 Breakfast with Chuck and Jeff:
And then finally in the evening, the people of Toronto were in for a treat in the form of a free Simple Plan concert in the Much parking lot. Despite rumors started by the band itself, Simple Plan played a regular “festival setlist”, which means a shortened version of their regular headlining show setlist, which was filled with their biggest hits, including Shut Up, Jump, Can’t Keep My Hands Off You, Jet Lag (feat. Andee), Summer Paradise, Welcome To My Life, Addicted or Perfect. But the band did not play any new songs from their upcoming record.
Below, you can have a look at some of the first pictures from this show:
