Sim continues with posting of the new footage that he managed to film on Simple Plan’s tour across South America, and below you can check out his latest vlog from Chile:
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Two more interviews from the book promotion
Thanks to Anne-Sophie and Charbel, here are two more interviews from last Tuesday regarding the new Simple Plan book. In the first one for Fan Club – Vrak TV, you will find out which member kept leaving the band in the early beginnings and the second interview for TVA reveals more pages from the book.
Interviewer: After 10 years, how do you guys not get on each others’ nerves?
Seb: We actually do get on each others’ nerves. Just not that often anymore…
David: The key is to do interviews without Pierre, everything turns out well when Pierre’s not here. [laughs]Chuck: I just remembered a story we should have had in the book: It was when Jeff, before we got sign, kept leaving the band every week [laughs] he kept leaving, he would smash his guitar on the ground, kept saying “I’m leaving!” and would walk to the train station…
David: We had to run after him…
Jeff: I thought the band had a lack of character, so I was kind of developing theirs. [laughs]Interviewer: What’s Simple Plan’s biggest hit for you guys?
Jeff: Well “Perfect” is the one all of our fans are singing at our shows.
Seb: I think there’s always something special in “Crazy”. It really reflects our society, and I always thought it was well written.
David: For me it’s “Astronaut” … yep.
Jeff: It’s definitely one of our best songs.
Chuck: We have lots of fans who come up to us and tell us that if it wasn’t for songs like “Welcome To My Life”, “Perfect”, “Save You” they wouldn’t be here, and it means a lot me to know that these songs mean a lot to them.Interviewer: Now I want to know what the (next) book is going to like at your 20 years?
Seb: Hopefully bigger! And less ridiculous pictures of us.
Jeff: I just hope we don’t look like this! (shows old version of SP in SNGA) [laughs]Interviewer: Well we wish you a great week and hope to see you more often here in Montreal!
Chuck: We placed ourselves in our fans’ shoes and thought to ourselves, what would they wanna see, maybe there are things we don’t wanna show that they wanna read about.
Jeff: We also wanted to tell the story, people ask us how it all began how it happened, and some people have different ideas, that it was pretty easy, one day to the other. We wanted to show them that it wasn’t that simple, there were lots of accidents that brought us were we are today.Interview: You were rejected a lot in the beginning, what do you guys feel like saying now that you have an international career?
Jeff: It’s like when you’re rejected by a girl, you flirt with her a bit at first and then years later you see the person again and she’s suddenly interested and you say “Wow wait you already said no 10 years ago” there’s a bit of that feeling involved. But me it still shocks me to see these letters, because those moments were so intense, we really thought we made it but we didn’t just yet.
Chuck: This book is the best celebration we could offer ourselves for the ten years. We’re always on tour and it’s hard for us to take the time to look back.Jeff: For me it’s important to keep making music, to keep moving forward. We’re going to India, and lots of new places we’ve never been to. So for me it’s important to keep going.
More photos and videos from book promotion
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.
Kids Help Phone publishes short promo video for “True Colors” feat. Pierre Bouvier
Kids Help Phone released a short promo video for their new project that includes Pierre Bouvier, LIGHTS or Jacob Hoggard from Hedley, in which a couple of Canadian artists did a new rendition of Cindy Laupner’s song “True Colors” in order to help raise awarness about bullying.
You can listen to the full version of the song here and below is the promised short promo video that features Pierre twice, holding two different signs. Check it out:
Pierre lends his voice to rendition of “True Colors” in a project against bullying
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.
Check out this version of True Colors here: