Ever since December, we’ve been aware that Pierre and Chuck from Simple Plan have been organizing songwriting sessions with Travis Clark, the lead singer of the American band We The Kings. And so far, we know of at least three songwriting sessions that these three musicians have done together.
Out of nowhere, though, today We The Kings posted a picture of Travis, Pierre and Chuck together on their band’s official Instagram profile, teasing something special that is coming “soon”:
“We The Kings x Simple Plan coming soon. What you might ask? Only the best.”
– We The Kings –
Now, let’s see what this “something” could possibly be!
We already know that the trio has written multiple songs together over the past few months and that the songwriting was done for Simple Plan’s purposes, not We The Kings’. We also know that Simple Plan planned on releasing some new music in the beginning of this year and Jeff was even spotted playing some new SP music on his Instagram recently. This all could technically mean we might expect Simple Plan to drop a brand new song, co-written by Travis Clark from We The Kings. But would just a songwriter’s credit really be worth a whole Instagram post/announcement for We The Kings? Nah, we don’t think so. Another possibility is that Travis Clark could actually be featured on a new Simple Plan song and perhaps even appear in a future music video. What else is left then is a joined tour for these two bands, who have previously already toured together multiple times – and we’re not gonna lie – we would definitely be up for another round!
But as We The Kings said, we shall see soon. How long is this “soon” gonna take, though? We’re gonna have to wait to find out! :)
Reset – the punk rock band that Pierre and Chuck started back in the early 90s and also that David used to briefly sing in before being headhunted to Simple Plan – is putting out a very special release this spring! Big thanks to Anthony, who let us know that the two original Reset cassettes called ‘Concerned.’ (1995) have been remastered and will be released on March 2nd 2019 on a CD!
The only difference between the two versions of the original ‘Concerned.’ cassette was the on the second one, the song ‘Go Away’ was replaced with ‘American Way’. On the rereleased album, both songs are featured, making the album 5 tracks long in total. Check out the tracklist below:
1. Concern
2. Wagon
3. T.K.O.
4. Go Away
5. American Way
If you want to make your Simple Plan discography collection complete, you can pre-order the album already for only $10 on this website.
In the meantime, you can check out the first look at the album booklet that also features some old shots of Chuck and Pierre in our gallery.
Pierre and Chuck are still very busy at their California homes, working tirelessly on new songs for the next Simple Plan album – and they continued working on them this week with a new addition to their already pretty interesting list of collaborators. After first-time co-writers Travis Clark from We The Kings and the ex-member of Neck Deep Fil Thorpe-Evans, Simple Plan’s main songwriting duo now reached out to someone they already had the chance to work with before: Ryan Stewart.
“Had a blast writing and demoing some new tunes with Simple Plan’s Pierre Bouvier & Chuck Comeau this week. These guys are sooooo good, they always up my game.”
– Ryan Stewart –
You may recall Ryan Stewart’s work with Chuck and Pierre on two songs from their last album Taking One For The Team: the fans’ favorites: ‘Perfectly Perfect’ and ‘P.S. I Hate You’. Besides his songwriting with Simple Plan back in 2015, Ryan Stewart can pride himself on his other previous credits that include songs for artists such as Hedley, Carly Rae Jepsen or Bif Naked.
To keep track of Simple Plan’s progress on their new album and make sure you don’t miss any important news about it, keep checking our special section about the 6th album for everything we know about it so far!
A very big and exciting event took place yesterday at Tempest Freerunning in Hawthorne, California, where YouTubers Elton Castee, Scotty Sire and other known faces from their TFIL (The Fuck It List) YouTube channel, were joined by hundreds of people in order to break a number of Guinness world records together. Some of these world records attempts included XGames Gold Medalists doing 24 backflips in a minute and parkour & slackline athletes breaking other records, most people in dinosaur costumes at one place, world’s largest ball pit, most nationalities together record and others.
One of the special guests of this event was also Simple Plan’s lead singer Pierre Bouvier, who first met Elton Castee at Warped Tour last year, where SP even had this YouTuber join them on stage during I’m Just A Kid. This time however, the table have turned and it was Pierre who joined Elton and Scotty in the song “The Fun In Life”, which was performed during the largest ball pit attempt and he also appeared in the dinosaur costumes bit.
The whole music video filmed at the event should be released at the TFIL YouTube channel on February 11th.
And while we wait for the video and some more words on which of the world records were actually accomplished yesterday, below you can check out a couple of videos posted by various attendees of yesterday’s event to give you a little insight into what we can expect from the upcoming Elton Castee/Scotty Sire/Pierre Bouvier music video:
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, they say. The time when all the brawls, fights and disagreements should be put aside and people should come together and enjoy the magical atmosphere that Christmas brings, alongside their loved ones.
Now, I’m sure you’d agree with me that there is no Christmas without some great Christmas-themed music. And if you’re already sick of all the classics, don’t worry – we’ve got you covered! It’s no secret that pop-punk bands often like to release their own special Christmas songs and over the years Simple Plan were no exception in that rule. And since there’s already so many Christmas Simple Plan songs out there – either actually created by SP or featuring one of their band members – we thought the time has come to put them all together and create a playlist of these wonderful holiday-themed tracks that you (and perhaps even your family) can enjoy in the coming days!
Let’s all make some good hot cocoa, turn the Christmas lights on and enjoy some good maybe somewhat alternative Christmas music. Let us know which one is your favorite!
Simple Plan – My Christmas List (2002)
We cannot start the history of Simple Plan related Christmas songs without ‘My Christmas List’, as we probably all recall rocking out to this track in our childhood bedrooms shouting “I want a lifetime supply of Skittles and slurpees and Eskimo Pies” from the top of our lungs. The song appeared as a bonus song on Simple Plans debut album ‘No Pads, No Helmets… Just Balls’ back in 2002 and ever since has become a classic in the Simple Plan fans’ Christmas playlists.
It then took whole 8 more years until a member of Simple Plan decided to step into the waters of Xmas music again. Back in 2010, Sébastien and his friend, musician Katie Rox released an EP together, titled ‘Christmas Etc.’ featuring three songs, including a very sweet Christmas one called ‘Stay (It’s Christmas)’:
Montreal Artists – Please Come Home For Christmas (cover) – feat. Seb Lefebvre (2014)
This cover by The Eagles was created by a number of Montreal artists back in 2014 and Sebastien as one of the most promiment Montreal musicians also contributed to this song with his own guitar skills. Check him out strumming the guitar and listen to this beautiful track below:
Alex Gaskarth, Pierre Bouvier, Ashton Irwin, Joel Madden and John Feldmann – Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (2015)
This very special track brought together some of the best of pop-punk back in 2015. The vocalists of All Time Low, Simple Plan, 5 Seconds of Summer, Good Charlotte and Goldfinger joined their vocals for a special cover of the classic song ‘Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas’ for a good cause, supporting the Ryan Seacrest Foundation. Try putting this track on during Christmas Eve. Surely they will enjoy at least the first half of it… you know… before the best part begins:
Simple Plan – Christmas Every Day (2016)
14 years after the release of their very first Christmas song, Simple Plan finally dropped a new holiday track two years ago – ‘Christmas Every Day’ which immediately jumped to the top 30 of most popular songs on iTunes charts all over the world in December 2016. Alongside the cool new track you can now also enjoy a brand new sweatshirt inspired by the visuals of this song, which is available at Simple Plan’s merch store. Remind yourselves of Christmas Every Day here:
MxPx – December feat. Pierre Bouvier (2018)
And finally the latest addition to the ever-growing SP holiday tracklist is a song released just a few weeks ago by MXPX. On their Christmas track ‘December’, the punk rockers invited their old friend Pierre Bouvier from Simple Plan to come and sing alongside Emily Whitehurst. This one is once again for the less mellow and more punk-rocky Christmas occasions:
LISTEN TO ALL THESE TRACKS ON OUR SIMPLE PLAN XMAS PLAYLIST HERE.
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