If you’ve been following news about Simple Plan for the past 2 years, there is a very little chance that you have never heard of The Bottom Line. This four-piece British pop-punk band initially started their connection with Simple Plan on their European tour in early 2016, where they grew so close with Simple Plan that they took them on their next two European tours and even their U.S. and Canadian tour the following year. And what’s more – the band’s lead singer, Callum Amies, even got the job as Simple Plan’s guitar tech for a brief while in 2017 [check out SimplePLan.cz’s interview with Cal here].
Over the past two years, Simple Plan could have been seen talking very highly of The Bottom Line, seeing them as very talented musicians and live performers and trying to promote them and help them out in any way they could. Most recently, Simple Plan became of the artists, who agreed to take part in The Bottom Line’s brane new video for their song ‘Reasons’, which they released today.
Most of the music video was filmed at this year’s Download Festival, which is how The Bottom Line got bands like Neck Deep or Mayday Parade to be a part of it too, but since SP could not make it to Download this year, they sent their TBL friends a clip filmed on Warped Tour. In the clip, that’s been integrated into the music video, we can see Pierre, Sebastien and Chuck lip-syncing to the new song by The Bottom Line.
So without any further ado, check out how many times you can spot Simple Plan in The Bottom Line’s ‘Reasons’:
Popular American YouTuber Elton Castee, who can pride himself on 1.8 million subscribers on his TFIL YouTube channel, recently published his long-awaited vlog from Warped Tour in Orlando, FL, where he got to perform with Simple Plan alongside Set It Off’s Cody Carson and Story Untold’s Janick Thibault during ‘I’m Just A Kid’ [we’ve already reported on these special on-stage appearances in this article].
In one of his latest vlogs that he released this week, Elton share the story of how he asked Simple Plan if he could be a part of their ‘I’m Just A Kid’ thing they have been doing throughout all of Warped Tour, where Chuck and Pierre switch their roles and while Chuck crowdsurfs in the crowd and Pierre drums, a number of their singer friends are invited on the stage to finish the song with a microphone in their hand.
What’s amazing is that the video Elton posted has already been viewed over 80 000 times in just 2 days since its original upload. Check it out for yourself to see Simple Plan’s special I’m Just A Kid moment from a little different point of view:
Now that Simple Plan played their final show of the TOFTT tour cycle and the tour is officially over, the time has come for the members of SP to finally get back home to their families and enjoy some well-deserved time off.
However, in just a couple weeks, Pierre and Chuck will get back to song-writing and while that process usually lasts at least a year, there are some signs that say that might not be the case this time around! And while we want to be cautious about believing that the record will be out “soon”, the guys have been making it very clear for the past couple of months in various interviews, that they do not want to take as long as they once used to to make this album happen.
Yesterday, after returning back home to California, Pierre updated his Instagram Stories with a little update, where he once again confirmed that Simple Plan’s goal is still to release record no. 6 much sooner than the records before – even talking about a “record timing”. Check out what Pierre said below:
‘And then, of course, create some new music. I got my studio back there in the back yard – gonna work on that in the next few weeks and months and hopefully we’ll get you guys a new record in a record timing. We don’t wanna take too long this time. But yeah – next step in life: new album!’
– Pierre Bouvier –
As of right now, it seems that the song-writing sessions could begin in the fall (perhaps September?) and we’ve also already heard that there might be some new music – whether a single or a few songs – ready early next year, but don’t hold on to that information, all of that can still easily change.
Simple Plan also published a farewell-to-their-tour post on their Instagram, in which they reassured their fans that the process of making the album will be well-documented on their social media channels, so we don’t need to be afraid of any silence from their part:
‘This weekend, we played our last show before we start working on new music and a new album. Since the release of TOFTT in early 2016 and continuing with the NPNHJB Anniversary celebrations, we traveled all over the world twice and toured non-stop for almost 3 years in a row. It’s been an amazing adventure and we would like to thank every single fan who came to see us play and made these shows so magical.
Now it’s time to go home, get inspired and come back with new songs for all of you. 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 We can’t wait to see what the next chapter brings as we head into 20 years as a band in 2019! 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻Don’t worry – we will keep posting and updating you on our progress. Thanks for all the support and see you all very soon!’
– Simple Plan –
As you could have noticed, Simple Plan correctly noted that the band’s 20th anniversary is coming up next year, since the band officially formed in 1999 (back then, still without David), which makes us think that perhaps that might be one of the reasons why Simple Plan want to hurry up the record-making process. Could be expect a 20th anniversary tour? Or some other special 20th anniversary surprise? We shall see!
Stay tuned for more info as Simple Plan get back to song-writing in a few weeks!
In the meantime, let us know: what sort of direction do you expect Simple Plan to go with on their sixth album? What would you like to hear from them?
On Saturday, August 11th, Pierre, Chuck, Jeff and Sebastien all gathered in the city of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu near Montreal, QC, Canada to perform the very last set of their Taking One For The Team tour cycle. After this concert, the band’s plans are to get back to writing and hopefully reach the studio a bit later down the road and produce a brand new album [in fact, Simple Plan have previously stated they would like to release some new music hopefully early next year].
The final show of the tour took place at the International Hot-Air-Balloon Festival in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu and since it was in such a close proximity to the band’s hometown, many of their friends could have been seen in the crowd, including the band’s graphic designer Fred Jerome, or their former merch manager, photographer and co-host of the Man Of The Hour show – Patrick Langlois (also known as the “6th member of Simple Plan). Besides them, the band members’ families were also present at the show, which Simple Plan took advantage of during I’m Just A Kid, when they invited their own kids on stage (as well as some other ones) to take a group picture with their dads… and Patrick and his son [check it out above].
Before the show started, Simple Plan had a soundcheck that was open to public, during which Pierre got down from the stage to interract with the crowd a bit and give plenty of high-fives, while singing ‘Farewell’ [check out a video of this cool moment here]
As far as the actual concert goes, it was the first show after a whole summer of shorter sets, that Simple Plan got to perform a full setlist. Similarly to their appearance at the Pro-Am Gagné-Bergeron ice-hockey match two days before, they kept Untitled on the setlist [see the video below!] and to make the night even more special they also added Perfect World!
Check out the full setlist below (big thanks to Jen!):
1. I’d Do Anything
2. Jet Lag (French version)
3. Jump
4. Your Love Is A Lie
5. Welcome To My Life
6. Boom
7. Addicted
8. Can’t Keep My Hands Off You
9. When I’m Gone
10. Grow Up
11. Crazy
12. I’m Just A Kid
Encore:
13. Shut Up!
14. Perfect World
15. Untitled
16. Perfect
Finally, have a look at some of the first pictures from the final Simple Plan show for a while in our gallery:
Centre Vidéotron, the second largest ice-hockey arena in Quebec, held a very special event last night: the 10th edition of the Pro-Am Gagné-Bergeron charitable ice-hockey match that attracted around 10 000 spectators. The event offered amateur players to get the unique opportunity to help support the cause as well as get to play a game with and against some of the best Canadian ice-hockey players from the NHL. Thanks to all those involved, the event eventually raised $428 000 that will benefits multiple organizations that are helping children in the Quebec City region, including the Simple Plan Foundation.
The match began around 7pm yesterday with the two competing teams on the opposite sides of the rink: Sharks vs Bruins. An avid ice-hockey fan and player himself, Simple Plan’s own Chuck Comeau joined the Sharks team for the game with #26 on his back as one of the amateurs and donated $3000 to the cause to be a part of this special occasion. The match eventually resulted in Chuck’s team’s victory (24:23 after shootouts) and even though Chuck did not score, he did get an assist for one goal for the Sharks.
Since Simple Plan were scheduled to perform as a special guest after the game was over, Chuck could not stay for the whole duration of the match and a few minutes before its end, he was replaced by Chady Awad, Simple Plan’s photographer. Check out some of the pictures of Chuck rocking the skates at Pro-Am Gagné-Bergeron in our gallery (big thanks to our reader Audrey who attended the event for all the insights and some of the photos!) and also more pictures of the rest of Simple Plan at the event:
For the Simple Plan part of the event, the band surprised all the attendees of their 45-minute set by including one of the rarest songs to be found on their setlist lately – the epic ballad ‘Untitled (How Could This Happen To Me?)’. Check it out:
And on the video below, you can have a look at some of the highlights from the whole Pro-Am Gagné-Bergeron event, published on Centre Vidéotron’s and Simple Plan’s Instagram Stories:
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Over the past two years, Simple Plan could have been seen talking very highly of The Bottom Line, seeing them as very talented musicians and live performers and trying to promote them and help them out in any way they could. Most recently, Simple Plan became of the artists, who agreed to take part in The Bottom Line’s brane new video for their song ‘Reasons’, which they released today. 
