Another year already passed by and we can celebrate another birthday of Simple Plan’s lead singer – Pierre Bouvier (who is turning 31 today) and also the unforgettable birthday of Simple Plan’s guitar tech Patrick Ouimet, who you all know as Frenchie (who is turning 26 today)!
We wish them both all the best! Happy birthday, guys!!!
Chuck and Pierre are back in LA for few more weeks writing songs for the upcoming Simple Plan album. For a few months now, the American song-writer Claude Kelly (who wrote songs for example for Michael Jackson, Britney Spears, Kelly Clarkson or Adam Lambert) has been working with Chuck and Pierre on some lyrics. And apparently these three boys are having a lot of fun during their “work” – here you can check out a video, that Claude posted on Twitter yesterday, where Pierre and Chuck help Claude with his fake new debut single “I’m Black!”. Don’t forget to watch the video till the very end.
I’ve also uploaded a photo of Claude with Chuck and Pierre from yesterday to the gallery, then two pictures of Seb’s new accessories and finally Patrick’s photoshoot picture, which he currently has set as his default Twitter pic:
Source: MuchMusic
The Young Artists For Haiti project reached an incredible success! The song Wavin’ Flag (you can check the na video again here), that was recorded by some of the most talented canadian artists (including Pierre from Simple Plan, Nelly Furtado, Justin Bieber, Deryck from Sum 41, Jacob from Hedley, Avril Lavigne and many more), earned already over $1 million for children and families affected by the earthquake in Haiti from digital downloads and t-shirts!
Other than that, the song still remains on the top spots on radio charts navíc ještě stále setrvává na prvním místech na rádiových stanicích a takéand also is #1 on iTunes in digital downloads. More than 160 000 copies of the single have been purchased, the music video has been watched 4.5 million times and the official YAFH Facebook page reached 100 000 fans!
All the proceeds will be equally distributed to charitable organisations Free The Children, War Child Canada and World Vision, to support their on-the-ground efforts in Haiti.
If you haven’t bought the single yet, you can still get involved and purchase it on the official Young Artists For Haiti website (www.youngartistsforhaiti.net), where (apart from the song), you can also buy a YAFH t-shirt. It’s definitely worth it!
Source: SPB.com
Our brazilian colleagues got some hot new info about few song titles, which were recently written by Pierre and Chuck! Of course, it’s still unknown if these songs will be used for the new album or not.
The first song is called “Paralysed” and was written only by Chuck and Pierre.
The next song, “You Suck At Love”, was also written by them but the guys also collaborated with Mattem Squire (who has worked with bands like 3OH!3, Taking Back Sunday, The Used, All Time Low, Panic! At The Disco, Boys Like Girls or The Cab).
“Astronaut” is the last song-title. It was written by Pierre and Chuck – though, it is yet unknown if it was written for Simple Plan or for some other band. The guys worked with Julian Emery (british producer and song-writer, known for his collaboration with McFly) and Jim Irvin, who worked with Davidem Guetta.
So, what do YOU think of the new song-titles? Any ideas what the songs could be about?
As you all know, there haven’t been many news about Simple Plan in the last couple of days. The reason is that Chuck and Pierre are still stuck in Los Angeles, where they are (according to Chuck) writing such an amazing record, that is even causes earthquakes in LA. But what are they doing when not writing music and what does the rest of the band do back in Canada?
We don’t know much about mr. Bouvier, as not only he forgot his Twitter password few days ago, after he finally remembered it, he didn’t tweet much since then. With Chuck it’s different – last Friday (April 9th) he attended Michael Buble’s concert in LA. And he wasn’t the only SP member to attend one! For example, few Simple Plan fans, who went to the Hedley show last Wednesday (April 7th), spotted among the attendants Sebastien, David with his girlfriend and also Patrick. Jeff is spending his free time mostly with his children and family.
But let’s still hold on to the concerts topic – on April 3rd, during the show of The New Cities – particularly during Looks Minus Substance – David appeared on the stage and as usual he played drumms with the band (just a reminder: we’ve seen David play with The New Cities before – mostly at their shows during touring with Simple Plan). You can check out the video of David’s performance below (little tip: make sure to turn the volume down – at least for the beginning of the video). Thanks to Sab for the info:
And finally here are few photos from the recent Montreal Canadians’ game, which Patrick and Fred (Barnik – SP’s graphic designer) attended together:
