Yesterday, Pierre and Chuck spent the whole day in Vancouver in the Van Howes studios with the producer of Simple Plan’s upcoming record – Brian Howes. Brian Howes is a Canadian music producer, who is known for producing all Hedley’s albums, the newest Boys Like Girls’ album “Love Drunk” or also Faber Drive’s records. Pierre posted a picture from the first day of pre-production, where you can see Brian Howes with Chuck in the studio:
Thiw week the guys headed to Vancouver for a week of pre-production for the upcoming Simple Plan album. Pre-production is a part of the record-making process, in which the band decides for example on the number of songs that will be used, on the producers, the budget and all the final adjustments that have to be made before the band hits the studio.
At the end of the week, the guys are flying to China, where they will be headlining the Suzhou International Music Festival. The stage Simple Plan will be rocking on is being built right now – check out the photo below (thanks to @wallaxiao).
After Simple Plan get back from China, there should be nothing more stopping them from hitting the studio.
Thanks to Jackie for letting us know that recently a promotional poster for the Takamine guitars, that features Simple Plan, appeared in a guitar magazine in the US. You already know the picture on this poster Pierre’s MySpace, though, this one is in a higher resolution. On the picture you can see Pierre throwing his Takamine guitar to Frenchie, who later catches it backstage. The poster also includes a quote from Pierre himself:
“I know that I can always depend on my Takamine to sound great no matter what I do to it.” – Pierre Bouvier
Takamine guitars are in Simple Plan used not only by Pierre, but also by Sebastien (who uses the same type as Pierre – TF450SMSB) and Jeff (who uses the type EF341SC).
Also, don’t forget to check out our gallery, which includes some more scans from the mexican magazine Por Ti (thanks to May) and also new photos from David’s, Seb’s and Fred’s Twitter:
As the Bamboozle Roadshow is finally over, the Simple Plan guys now have plenty of time – the whole summer and a part of fall – to record songs for the new album. But before the guys officially hit the studio again, they have to narrow down the written songs (about 50-60) and choose those that will appear on the new album. Chuck said he’s currently re-working all the songs to make them better and chosing the best ones. Along with that, the guys are also recording demo versions of the songs so that they have an idea how the songs are going to look like when they’re finished.
The boys should hit the studio hopefully in the next couple of days – which means more vlogs and photos from the recording coming up and maybe even some sneak-peaks of the new songs. And if everything goes by the plan, the new, yet untitled, Simple Plan album should be released on the beginning of 2011.
Till then, check out the new picture of Pierre, that he posted on his Twitter:
Here is finally the promised huge update in the gallery. There are new photos from the recent shows in Portsmouth, Hershey, Uniondale and Mansfield, then pictures of the bands with fans in Portsmouth, photos of Pierre watching Forever The Sickest Kids, one picture of Alex and Jack (ATL) with Pierre on the stage with Good Charlotte and also amazing photos from the afterparty in Uniondale, where you can see Simple Plan hanging out with other bands.
I woud like to thank Amanda, Jackie, Mary and Official SP Crew for the photos.
Also, thanks to alelovesSP for letting us know about this recent interview with Sebastien and Pierre from Bamboozle Roadshow: