As I’ve informed you a few days ago, Jeff and Seb from Simple Plan visited Garage à musique on Thursday and on behalf of their Foundation and Ubisoft, donated $10 000 to the project.

Below you can now check out a brand new video from Canoe.ca which features a part of the speech Jeff had at Garage à musique – and thanks to Sab, who translated it from French for SimplePlan.cz, you can read the English translation below the video:

“I was your age, I was about 15-16 years old. We started a band, we played in Mr. Comeau’s basement. He’s over here (*Mr. Comeau is waving*)! He endured us for so long. And he fed us!

It’s a dream, obviously. I was playing classical music back then. I was in high school and I was at the classical music academy. I thought I would teach it, later on. I love to teach, it’s something I’m passionate about. But my life took a different turn.

My hobby was Simple Plan, even if we weren’t called Simple Plan back then, we wrote songs together, some members left, some came back. Sebastien, Chuck and I were the band at the time. As we were writing songs we contacted Pierre, our singer, who was in another band at that time.

When we had signed our contract, we thought that was it. But it was really just the starting line. It gives you the opportunity to begin a career. We didn’t dare to say we were able to go international, but we thought that if we were able to do the Warped Tour on the main stage, we would have accomplished something. If we could tour in the US, it would be cool. Europe was the dream. Eventually, we ended up touring all over the world.

Sometimes we would slept on the floor of the airport because it was the only moment we could really sleep. That’s the “work part”, the not-fun-part.

To be honest, it’s like when we release an album, we’re super excited to go and speak about it for 2 weeks, then we’ll just repeat the same things over and over again and it becomes tiresome.” – Jeff Stinco

I also updated the gallery with 4 more pictures from this event. Check them out here: