Category Archives: projects

Simple Plan support an anti-bullying campaign in Canada

by Dominika | Apr 24th, 2017 | no comments

Along with their song ‘This Song Saved My Life’, the members of Simple Plan sent their words of encouragement to the part-takers of the ‘Not In My School, Not In My Rez’ anti-bullying campaign, which seeks to pair Indigenous and non-Indigenous schools across Canada.

As a part of this anti-bullying campaign, seven students and three representatives of the Ahtahkakoop Cree Nation School (Saskatchewan) recently visited the Symmes-D’Arcy McGee High School (Gatineau, Quebec). The students of these schools worked together in order to try to establish a common action plan for their schools and communities. The plan for the future is for the Gatineau-based charity, I Love First Peoples, to coordinate these effort on a national scale.

Check out the video Simple Plan filmed to support this interesting project:

Jeff shares a video from his home studio

by Dominika | Jan 29th, 2017 | no comments

Recently, Jeff revealed on his Instagram, that he is currently working on some special music project in his own home studio and last night, he decided to publish a video of him practicing some new techniques on his guitar.

Check out what Jeff had to say about his practice below:

I just got my home studio running again and it sounds great! Today, I got some alone time so I practiced some technical ideas I never got around to work on. I recorded a country-rock beat, tracked a bass line with David Desrosiers’ awesome bass, pulled out my killer new Fender stratocaster and went for it. I mostly tried not to make smelly guitar faces. Let me know if you’d like to hear more of my playing.

Jeff teases his new secret side-project

by Dominika | Jan 26th, 2017 | 1 comment

If there’s one thing you should know about Jeff, it’s that he’s always on the look-out for some new ways to broaden his life – whether it’s by spending time with his family, running his restaurant business or playing the guitar. And according to his new Instagram post, there is some new music-related, yet not Simple Plan related project that Jeff has devoted the last few days to.

While Jeff doesn’t exactly reveal his new side-project, he did write a bunch of things about it. Check it out below and let us know what you think Jeff might be working on:

“I’ve got a bunch of new stuff cooking in my studio. It’s not for Simple Plan, it’s very guitar driven and it’s for fun more than anything else. It took me four days to get everything running (I guess I’m a slow learner), to fix what was broken (studio gear is fragile!), to do all the updates I had to do (damn you apple for all those compatibility issues!) and finally hear some good sounds coming out of my speakers.

Maya and I tested the setup by recording a story she had written; we added sound effects, music and funny voices (I’ll ask her if she wishes to share, it’s hilarious). As my buddy Chuck would say: it’s coming soon ;-)” – Jeff Stinco

New poster for the Chuck-produced ‘Resurgence’ reveals more info

by Dominika | Jan 26th, 2017 | no comments

A couple months ago SimplePlan.cz revealed to you that Simple Plan’s drummer Chuck Comeau alongside the Australian director Peter John have been working on a documentary film project titled ‘Resurgence’.

And while the official Facebook and Instagram pages have been quite for a while, the official website for the movie has released a brand new poster, which gives us some more hints about this interesting project.

Firstly, the poster describes ‘Resurgence’ as “a history defining film about the pop punk scene of 1999 – 2004, and its comeback to the mainstream in 2016/2017.”

Secondly, it also reveals a number of artists, which have been interviewed for the film. These artists include Simple Plan, MXPX, Tonight Alive, Finch, Kevin Lyman, John Feldmann, Neck Deep, Sugarcult, Emo Night and many more.

Are you excited to see the final outcome?

A Chuck Comeau produced film about the resurgence of pop-punk to be released in 2017

by Dominika | Nov 3rd, 2016 | 3 comments

Besides being a great drummer, Chuck Comeau from Simple Plan has always been very interested in the music business in general and as a result of that he is often the force and the mastermind behind most of Simple Plan’s endeavours. Now, he has decided to take his interest in his band’s music scene to the next level by getting involved as a producer in a new documentary film project by Epik films, which delves into the topic of the current resurgence of pop-punk.

Recent years, but especially 2016, have brought us an exceptional number of new records and a general growth of interest in the pop-punk scene. Not only by newer bands like State Champs or Neck Deep, but also by bands who have been the leaders of the original pop-punk era in the late 90s and early 00s, such as Blink 182, Green Day, Simple Plan, Yellowcard, Sum 41 or Good Charlotte. And it was exactly this matter that his band is also a part of that got Chuck interested in producing ‘Resurgence: A pop punk-umentary’.

The film is directed by Peter John, which finally answers us the question what this Australian director and his team were filming at the Simple Plan Australian and U.S. shows and why Peter John still keeps being seen alongside Chuck – such as at the recent Good Charlotte show in Los Angeles.

Check out our gallery now for the first picture from the behind the scenes from the filming of this documentary with Chuck:

Epik films have also already released a trailer for this film, which is scheduled to be released in 2017 (however, it is currently unknown by which medium it will be distributed). From this trailer we can tell that besides fans, the documentary will also feature a number of interviews with people tied to the music industry, such as Story Untold (who opened for SP in the U.S.), Mike Fishkin (Idobi radio host), members of Neck Deep, Chuck Comeau of course and many more. See the trailer for “Resurgence” below: