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The New Cities’ collaboration with Pierre and Chuck

AUTHOR: Dominika | 9. October 2011 | no comments

Simple Plan have been friends with the guys from The New Cities ever since the two of them toured together across Canada a few years back and till now David from Simple Plan still occasionally plays drums during “Looks Minus Substance” on some of their shows. The New Cities have now released their second album “Kill The Lights” on September 27th 2011 – an album that also includes a song called “Love Me Deadly” that’s lyrics are the result of Pierre’s and Chuck’s collaboration with The New Cities. You can listen to it below:

But that’s not the only collaboration the SP guys have kept from us: apparently Pierre and Chuck have also helped co-write a song called “Spirit” from the album “Spirit” by a japanese singer Hitomi. All that along with Scott Cutler and Anne Preven – as well as the song called Do Or Die – which unfortunately didn’t make it on the album.

Saying goodbye to Australia

AUTHOR: Dominika | 6. October 2011 | no comments

A few hours ago Simple Plan hopped on a plane and currently are on their way back home where they have a few weeks off before they hit the road again – this time in the USA. But the guys couldn’t leave Australia (which they like to call “Canada on steroids”) without a proper goodbye, so the guys decided to record a short vlog, in which they confirm again their intentions of coming back down under next year:

Simple Plan on Australian X Factor

AUTHOR: Dominika | 5. October 2011 | no comments

The band is currently wrapping up their Australian tour on an under 18 show in Melbourne. Simple Plan had a great time in Australia: they were even invited as guest performers on the Australian version of the realitz show X Factor, where they performed their local single Can’t Keep My Hands Off You. Check it out below:

And make sure to drop by the gallery, where you can find plenty of new pictures from the shows in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane and also from various recent interviews and events :)

Simple Plan down under equals new collaboration and parties with old pals

AUTHOR: Dominika | 30. September 2011 | 1 comment

After three whole years Simple Plan finally returned to Australia. And just a few minutes after they landed they were warmly welcomed by a few old-school fans. The band’s first stop in Australia was at a local TV show called AFL Footy show, where the guys played their first single Jet Lag – although this time accompanied not by Marie-Mai, but by an Australian singer Vanessa Amorosi. Make sure to check out the video of their performance below:

Also, more pictures from the Footy show can already be found in the gallery.

The same evening, as a result of an online invitation by no-one other than Alex Gaskarth from All Time Low, Chuck dropped by to a local club in Sydney to say hello and celebrate this special occasion of meeting up with not only the boys from All Time Low, but also from Yellowcard, Hellogoodbye and Story Of The Year:

Today Simple Plan finally started off their real Australian tour – at first the only concerts that were booked in Australia were +18 (due to promoter’s/venue’s regulations) – but anyway, thanks to the huge demand from the Australian fans, the band decided to add one more show – in Melbourne – to make sure the underage kids can enjoy a Simple Plan show as well. The tour started today in Brisbane – and judging by the first fans’ reactions, they all had a blast :) The first photos from the show (thanks to SPB) are also already in the gallery.

If you’re from Australia and can’t make it to this year’s Simple Plan tour, don’t worry – the band is already making plans to tour the country again in 2012!

Simple Plan Foundation’s benefit concert raises $300 000!

AUTHOR: Dominika | 21. September 2011 | no comments

This year’s Simple Plan Foundation’s benefit event has been a great success. First, on the press conference in the afternoon, the band presented the donations for this year: the total of $220 000 will be split between 24 organisations (in comparison to last year’s donations ($185 000), SPF donated a lot more this year).

The benefit event itself started at 4pm when the doors opened to the visitors/audience, who bought the tickets for this special occasion. The money raised from the full price of the tickets and also from the silent auction will go to the Simple Plan Foundation and will be used in next year’s donations. In total, Simple Plan Foundation has raised over $300 000 last night. After the doors opened, the members of Simple Plan have mingled among the 2000 guests to chat, sign and take pictures.

The most important part of the evening, though, was still to come. Simple Plan and the Montreal Symphonic Orchestra (consisted of 92 players) have performed a very special reendition of 15 Simple Plan songs in the course of a 2-hours-long concert. The songs included: Shut Up, Addicted, Welcome To My Life, Summer Paradise, Astronaut, Jet Lag (with Marie-Mai), I’m Just A Kid, One, Your Love Is A Lie, ending with This Song Saved My Life. Jeff Stinco said about this experience: “Tonight, playing with the Montreal Symphony orchestra was the highlight of my career.”.

The whole show has been recorded and according to the press should be soon broadcast on ARTV and Télé-Quebec.

You can check out the first photos from the event in thegallery and also below you can watch a spectacular video showing the song Astronaut performed by Simple Plan and the Montreal Symphonic Orchestra: