Last week, when Simple Plan did their one-off special performance at the campus of the Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania, besides meeting some fans they also did an interview with the university newspaper SRU Rocket.
In the interview Pierre, Chuck, Jeff and Seb discussed their favorite album to record (Still Not Getting Any) and also dived into their influences and how they see pop punk fit in the current music scene. Watch the interview in full on the video below:
Six years since its official premiere in 2012, Simple Plan’s music video for ‘Summer Paradise’ (feat. Sean Paul) finally reached 100 million views on YouTube, making it the very first music video by this band to reach this huge milestone. The video was directed by Simple Plan’s long-time collaborator Mark Staubach and Randall RT! Throne in Barbados back in March 2012.
And it isn’t just the video itself that has become so popular! The song, which is featured on Simple Plan’s fourth studio album ‘Get Your Heart On!’, has become one of Simple Plan’s most popular songs to date – especially in Canada, Europe and Australia. The song is currently certified triple platinum in Canada, double platinum in Australia, platinum in Switzerland, Denmark and Italy and gold in Germany and Austria.
Due to its popularity, many versions of this song have been released over the years, such as feat. MKTO, K’Naan, Taka from One OK Rock, a couple of French versions and many others.
With the coming of winter, let’s remind ourselves of this classic track and bring a little bit of summer back to our lives:
While on Warped Tour this summer, the journalists from Alternative Press caught up with Seb Lefebvre from Simple Plan and asked him a number of fairly interesting questions to get to know him a little better. The questions revolved around topics such as his name for a potential SP tribute band, which band he would like to cover some Simple Plan songs, which SP song would he re-write if he could… and also the obvious topic of the next Simple Plan album came up.
Alternative Press asked: ‘What can fans expect from a follow up to Taking One For The Team?’ – and Seb’s answer? Check it out below!
We’re happy to hear that Simple Plan still plan on releasing the album as fast as they can and hopefully not take as long with the process of creating it, as they’ve done previously (in the past the process has taken about a year and half each time, writing sessions included). From Seb’s words we can also see that Chuck’s idea of ‘releasing the new album in batches’ (that he shared in an interview earlier this year), seem to still be in the band’s mind and we might actually get some new SP music quicker, but the whole album would be released over a longer period of time, in parts.
Could we be looking at a 2019 release date then? Let’s cross our fingers! What would YOU like the next Simple Plan album to be like? Let us know in the comments below!
In the next couple of months we will continue updating you on everything about the process of making album no. 6 so if you want to constantly be in the loop, keep checking our news section. For all the major updates, you can also always check back to our dedicated section regarding this new album, which you can access by clicking the button below:
While in Owatonna, Minnesota this past Wednesday, the local server Music In Minnesota caught up with the guys from Simple Plan to watch them film their cameo in the movie Summertime Dropouts (that we informed you about earlier) and while at it also interview them.
But before we get to the interview, let’s have a look at a small recap of some of the new information that have been revealed since our last post about the movie and Simple Plan’s involvement in it:
Simple Plan will not be performing in the movie
In the movie, one of the young bands’ goals is to get a spot in the Battle of the Bands. And it seems that that might be where Simple Plan member cameo comes in, as they are supposed to make a surprise appearance at the end of the movie, but they won’t be playing a concert. Hmmm… could they possibly be the judges of the The Battle Of The Bands competition?
Many “fans” extras involved
Many extras were hired to create an audience for the scenes that were shot the day that also involved Simple Plan. We’re certain they were sworn to secrecy about the movie, so they probably won’t be spilling beans anytime soon.
A signed guitar
Before they headed back home, Pierre, Chuck, Seb and Jeff signed a guitar for the Summertime Dropouts cast as a thank you for having them on the set.
Lots of question marks still surround Simple Plan members’ role in this movie but in order to not have everything spoiled before we watch it, we just need to wait until summer 2019 when the movie premieres. Until then, check out the interview with Simple Plan by Music In Minnesota from the set of Summertime Dropouts below:
During this year’s Warped Tour, the members of Simple Plan and their crew decided to go through with a simple challenge – to not shave their faces for 20 whole days. Sounds simple – but was it really?
The guys filmed the whole experience from the final shave all the way to day 20 and put it all together in two newly released videos on Instagram, in which you can see all the struggles they had to go through – some of them for all 20 days.
Who was the biggest loser, who else quit during the 20 days and who were the final three heroic winners? Check out the videos below – and make sure to swipe left to see them both!