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Interview with Sebastien from a charitable triathlon

Two months ago, In February 2012, Sebastien (as a representative of the Simple Plan Foundation) attended a charitable triathlon that took place in the center of Montreal, to support the Sainte-Justine hospital. You can remind yourself of more infor about this event from the SP.cz post from February.

Now, here one new picture of Sebastien from this event and also an interview that was done by the host of the event – actress Julie Du Page. Thanks to Helene (who kindly translated the interview into English for us) you can now read the interview here (or watch the video below – at mark 1:37):

Julie: Sebastien from Simple Plan for the St Justine Foundation! What are you doing here?
Sebastien: Friends of mine are organizing this event and with the Simple Plan Foundation we’ve been working with them for a long time. We try to help them the best we can. So coming here to represent our foundation and encourage the people who give time and money for an event like this is the least we can do.

Julie: So, it’s not the first time you are attending it?
Sebastien: No, I’ve come here for 4 – 5 years. I’m always in town when the event takes place so it’s always a pleasure to take part in it.

How Marianas Trench pranked Simple Plan

During the last couple of months, after touring with a fellow Canadian band Marianas Trench twice (across the USA and Canada), SP and MT have become pretty good friends. Actually that good that they can now afford to prank each other without making the other one mad. In an interview for MuchMusic after their arrival to the Juno Awards’ red carpet last week, the guys from Simple Plan spoke about how during one of the last concerts on their Canadian tour, Marianas Trench pranked them by turning the confetti canons to the band while they were playing the last song of their set (Perfect), which of course resulted in Simple Plan finishing their show basically dressed in confetti.

Of course SP wanted to get their payback after that and wanted to prank Marianas Trench as well by sealing their lead singer Josh Ramsey shut in the jack-in-the-box from which he always comes out at the beginning of their performance. But since the SP guys realized they where “too nice… too Canadian”, this plan has been dropped.

Check out the video from the MuchMusic interview and Simple Plan’s arrival to the Juno Awards below:

And if you want to see Josh Ramsey’s (Marianas Trench) version of the story – about how MT pranked SP and how SP wanted their payback, you can check out an interview from MuchMusic with Josh and Mike from Marianas Trench (approximately at mark 1:59) which also includes a photo of SP covered up in confetti:

Pierre mentions the “special song” recorded in Italy

As we’ve already known for a couple of days now because of the picture that Frank Joly posted on his Twitter, when Simple Plan were in Italy, Pierre dropped by in a local recording studio for what we’ve known only to be a “very secret recording session”.

In the new interview for the radio station 105 that was recrded a day after that (still in Milan, Italy) Pierre talked a little bit more about this secret recording session (at mark 2:40):

Pierre: We went to a studio to record a special song that I can’t tell you about yet.

Radio host: But you will do it tonight?

Pierre: Maybe… somewhat.

Judging by Pierre’s reaction, we could assume that it could be a re-recording of some already known SP song – maybe with a little different spin, but there is always a chance we’re looking too much into it and it could be a brand new song as well. What do you think? Are you looking forward to the “special song”?

Acoustic version of Summer Paradise on RDS radio in Rome, Italy

Simple Plan have stopped by a couple of radio stations during their time in Italy – from the last article on SP.cz you alrady know about the pictures from a radio station Milan, Italy and now you can (thanks to Angela for the info) look at the photos from the RDS radio station in Rome, Italy that Pierre, David, Jeff and Seb visited on March 29th:

The radio’s website also offers videos of Simple Plan’s visit, so you can check out the interview with the band for RDS, then an acoustic version of Welcome To My Life and finally probably the most interesting for us (since the guys haven’t played it much yet) an acoustic version of Summer Paradise

Making of “Summer Paradise” music video

The boys put together a bunch of shots from the making of their latest music video for the song Summer Paradise, which they recorded a couple months ago on Barbados along with Sean Paul and the two directors: Randall “RT!” Thorne and Mark Staubach and they ended up with an almost 7-minutes-long video, which you can now check out right here: