As of the last couple of weeks, Pierre and Chuck have been stuck at the Chalice Recording Studios and most recently at Atlantic Records Studios in Los Angeles writing and recording new songs for the upcoming EP that should be released by the end of this year.
But according to the latest tweet from Chuck, apart from the EP, the guys have been also working on a special project for the Japanese fans. Chuck didn’t add any more information on this, but if we put two and two together, we might be able to figure it out on our own.
My colleagues over at SPB.com recently came across news that Simple Plan will be releasing a special Get Your Heart On! (Tour Edition) version of their latest album in Japan. The release date is set for March 27th 2013.
This is not the first time a “tour edition” of some of their records have been released only for a specific market. A couple years ago, their second album “Still Not Getting Any” was also available in a tour edition, offering the fans new acoustic tracks and also never-seen-before footage on a DVD.
And since the guys are currently in the studio working on this project, we can assume that the Get Your Heart On! (Tour Edition) might even include either some new versions of the songs that we already know or even some extra unreleased songs.
In collaboration with Kids Help Phone, the Canadian retailer Bluenotes will release a brand new t-shirt design inspired by the newly released single “True Colors”, which was recorded by a group of Canadian artists (such as Jacob Hoggard, Pierre Bouvier, LIGHTS, Kardinal Offishall, Fefe Dobson, Alyssa Reid and Walk Off The Earth) in order to raise awareness about the issue of bullying.
The t-shirt will be available in the Bluenotes stores all over Canada and also online for customers all over North America for $10, starting Monday, November 19th. The t-shirt is available in black and white.
More photos and videos from Tuesday, when the guys were in Montreal to promote their just-released new Simple Plan book, are still popping up everywhere on the Internet. Below you can check out a couple new pictures from that day:
Also, thanks to Charbel, here are 2 video-interviews in French that I asked Charbel to translate for us, because they included quite an interesting new info and also some new previews of the book. One of the interviews is for Dictrict V, and the second one is for Ca Commence Bien also features SP’s dear friend Patrick Langlois. Check them out:
Interviewer: You guys just came back from South America! Apparently the fans there are a bit crazy.
Chuck: I would say they’re the most passionate, they scream the loudest, they run after us, they bang on the van’s windows.
Chuck: It started as a dream when we were young to succeed into making an album and to see if it would work from there. Now with all the touring, it’s hard for us to take a moment and to appreciate all that we accomplished.
Interviewer: Well boys I know you guys worked hard on the Book that’s coming out soon, I have it right here with me, I’m the first one to show this to you (obviously this was a District V joke).
Chuck: How did you get the book before we did?
Seb: Do you have 4 copies?
Interviewer: It’s the only copy I’ve got! (Jeff runs away with the only copy)
Chuck: We’ve kept all the souvenirs in order to show people how we arrived to becoming Simple Plan.
Interviewer: Where has your biggest show taken place?
Seb: Well this one at the Bell Center last February seemed to be the biggest one.
David: Yeah it looked like the biggest one.
Chuck: There’s also the one at the Plaines D’abraham in Quebec, 150 thousand people.
Seb: I can’t believe it took 300 pages to write our story, 300 pages! That’s insane!
Interviewer: If you could go back in time and give yourselves a piece of advice, what would it be?
Jeff: I would tell myself that shorts sized 34 is NOT your size, seriously [laughs]. Chuck was wearing 38!
Chuck: Yeah I’m normally 28, but back in the day I wore 36!
Chuck: In this book, we wanted to show our fans that are currently starting a band, how the process is like, how hard it could be. My parents kept so many things during these years, I don’t think they knew there’d be a book someday, but they thought that one day, it’d be good to have them.
Interviewer: How’s it like to tour with SP for 8 years?
Patrick: I think you guys are already aware of this but I’m highly immature and during these 8 years I haven’t changed a bit.
Interviewer: Why did you guys give the preface to Patrick?
Chuck: It’s simply because without Patrick there wouldn’t be a book, and he’s the one who came with us on tour and took all these pictures even before we got signed and he’s always been there…
Interview: Kind of like a stalker
[laughs]
Seb: Well Patrick always wanted to be in a band/group, especially ours but he doesn’t play an instrument …
Chuck: That was the only problem!
Seb: So he improvised, he became our merch guy, our photographer…
Seb: [The book] is a story of the entire band from the very beginning until just a few months ago.
Chuck: There’s this one story where Patrick was with us this one day, at the Playboy Mansion…
Seb: That’s it, that’s the end of the story!
[laughs]
Chuck: There are a few photos we couldn’t put onto the book, but we succeeded with a few…
Seb: I’ll try to find them.
Chuck: I would say 98% didn’t make it in this serious book.
[Change of subjects: their favorite moments]
Seb: There’s two moments that always come to me; there’s the safari we did in South Africa it was magic, and there’s Bell Center in Montreal, there’s love everywhere in the crowd and no one screams louder than them.
Chuck: For me it’s gotta be when we received the Humanitarian Award to mark the work we’ve accomplished with the Foundation. (Seb shows the pictures in the book) We even start the book with this, because it’s a very special moment for us.
As I’ve reported yesterday, while the rest of the band were doing interviews regarding the new Simple Plan book on Tuesday, Pierre was in the studio working on a what we heard was supposed to be a “special song”. And special song it is indeed!
It was finally announced by MuchMusic that Pierre Bouvier, Jacob Hoggard (Hedley), Fefe Dobson, Kardinal Official, Alyssa Reid and Walk Off The Earth formed a project “Against Bullying!” and together they produced a their own rendition of Cindy Laupner’s iconic song “True Colors”.
The formation of such project was caused by the recent alarming events of bullying and cyber bullying amongst high school students that forced the artists to speak up, stand out against it and raise awareness as well as give back by teaming up with Kids Help Phone.
The song will be released for radio play in conjunction with Bullying Awareness Week starting November 12th and will also be available on iTunes. A video of the song will also be released the following week. All proceeds from the sale of this song will be donated to Kids Help Phone.
The long-awaited Simple Plan book – “Simple Plan: The Official Story” is coming out on Thursday in its French version and the official Simple Plan website just revealed 3 final previews of it. You can check them out in the gallery:
You can now also preorder the book via Simple Plan’s official merchstore at Merchdirect!
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As of the last couple of weeks, Pierre and Chuck have been stuck at the Chalice Recording Studios and most recently at Atlantic Records Studios in Los Angeles writing and recording new songs for the upcoming EP that should be released by the end of this year.
As I’ve reported 