And it was not only during the soundcheck when Simple Plan let someone join them on stage yesterday in Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce! During the actual show, Simple Plan invited a member of Amasic, one of the opening bands, called Matt McCormack, to play during I’d Do Anything with them, while David was crowdsurfing. Check out a picture of this moment in the gallery:
And here is a video of Matt subbing on bass for David during the show:
Simple Plan finished their so far scheduled shows for the summer in the little city in the Quebec province called Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce at the event organised alongside the competition of speeding trucks. For a city that small (Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce has only about 4000 inhabitants) can such event surely have a major impact – at least according to the reporter of TVA, who said so in her video-interview with Sebastien. “A few people have who told me that too. It’s very flattering, for sure, but we’re happy to go anywhere. So if we can make the event this year, it’s for the better,” replied Sebastien Lefebvre.
You can check out the full report from this event on TVA here:
And as alwayws, Simple Plan definitely made many of their fans’ days in Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce. Among them – Gabrielle (who some of you may remember as the girl with a Simple Plan tattoo from the TSSML video) – asked the band if she could sing with them on stage during the soundcheck and lo and behold – her dream came true! Check out the following picture of her and the Simple Plan guys together rocking out on stage:
More pictures from the soundcheck can also be found in the gallery along with one picture of Pierre backstage:
Jillian Jensen, last year’s contestant in X Factor USA [see her audition here] recently recorded her own cover of Simple Plan’s “Perfect” which Sebastien from the band has already seen and commented on it with “Good job, girl!”. You can check it out here:
Almost a year ago, Jeff attended the taping of a kids’ TV programme called Bookaboo, which has recently been aquired by Canadian TV station CBC from the original British TV station CITV.
In every episode, the lead character – a puppy puppet – called Bookaboo says he needs someone to read a book to him to be able to play a rock show. Every episode then features a well-known personality, who reads a book with Bookaboo. The trailer for the episode with Jeff Stinco from Simple Plan has finally been released and you can check it out below:
There is also another Bookaboo video available on the Radio-Canada website [most probably available to Canadian residents only].
As promised, here’s a few more – and definitely better – pictures from Pierre’s and Seb’s acoustic performance and meet&greet in Allentown, PA at the B104 radio station from Wednesday:
The radio station has finally posted videos of all the songs performed during the duo’s short set and you can see them on their website. Apart from that Pierre and Sebastien also did a little Q&A session there, answering some of the fans’ questions. You can check it out on the video below or just read the short recap here:
– Simple Plan plan on starting to write new songs next month
– Pierre’s biggest fears are: losing hair and he’s also afraid of the dark
– Pierre, David, Seb and Jeff always try to prank Chuck. Once they partied on the bus and thought it would be a great idea to hide his computer so he wouldn’t find it. They hid it so well that they lost it in the process and Chuck had to buy a new one.
– artists they would like to tour with one day: Foo Fighters, P!nk