At Starts and Thunder in Timmins, ON, Canada yesterday, where Simple Plan performed as Day 4 of the festivities, the guys also did some press interviews. Jeff and Pierre got to talk to 93.1 Moose FM and as a part of the interview, the reporter decided to play a little No Pads themed game of ‘Would You Rather?’.
Check out Jeff’s and Pierre’s preferences and also their answers to other questions in this lighthearted 93.1 Moose FM interview:
On Tuesday, June 27th, Simple Plan returned on stage in Canada and played the 8-day Stars and Thunder festival in Timmins, Ontario. Since David has still not returned to performing with the band and Chady is currently enjoying his vacation elsewhere, the band peformed as a foursome.
Check out a video of Simple Plan performing ‘I’d Do Anything’ last night at Stars and Thunder:
Sebastien also once again decided to document the day from his point of view, so make sure to check out his Instagram video below:
The line-up of that day also included the Canadian singer Lights, who Sebastien took a picture with backstage. This and more pictures from backstage and the show can be found in our gallery:
After a short time off at home, resting after the three-weeks-long European tour, the members of Simple Plan hopped on a plane (or more specifically, planes) to Timmins, Ontario, where they are about to perform at the Stars & Thunder festival tonight with Lights. In the upcoming days, they still have one more Canadian festival appearance to do, and that’s the George Street Canada Day this Friday, June 30th. That will be their final appearance for a short time until they return back on stage in August, when they have some more Canadian festivals to do and most importantly kick off the second part of the U.S. No Pads tour.
And if you’re wondering what it looks like when a band member travels to a show by a plane, below, you can now check out a video that Sebastien posted on his Instagram, which visually documents his flight to Timmins:
The Hungarian server Life.hu published an interview with Jeff Stinco today, in which the guitarist revealed a number of interesting information. First of all, this was probably one of the first interviews in which a member of the band opened up about David’s struggles with depression and how the band has dealt with this situation. Jeff even revealed that David insisted that the band continued touring without him. Check out Jeff’s quote below:
Towards the end of the interview, the conversation moved to the ever-lasting elephant in the room: when will Simple Plan release a new album? Jeff once again repeated that the band would like to not take as long as they previously have with TOFTT to make a new album but besides that he also dropped a very interesting hint on Simple Plan already having some material to work with! See what Jeff said below:
As you know from the SimplePlan.cz interview, the band definitely expects some song-writing to be done but it’s very interesting to hear that Simple Plan already have some songs they can use as a starting ground. Given that Simple Plan never write on the road, it is very possible that the songs Jeff mentioned in the interview are some of the “left-overs” from the song-writing sessions from Taking One For The Team. Chuck and Pierre wrote over 80 songs for TOFTT but only 14 of them made it onto the record. Now, not all of the remaining 66 songs are completely finished, but some of them might be and perhaps these are the songs Jeff is thinking off.
It wouldn’t be the first time for Simple Plan to use old material for a new record. In 2013 Simple Plan released a whole EP “Get Your Heart On: The Second Coming”, which featured songs originally written for Get Your Heart On. Similarly also GYHO itself included a bonus track called ‘Never Should’ve Let You Go‘, which the boys wrote for their third, self-titled album. In most cases however, Simple Plan usually start working on a new album from scratch.
You can watch the full interview with Jeff for Life.hu below:
How do you feel about Simple Plan possibly using songs they wrote for their previous record? Would you like to listen to more songs created in the “TOFTT” era? Let us know in the comments!
The guys from the Italian band Room On The 3rd Floor, who are all very big fans of Simple Plan attended the soundcheck party in Milan, Italy on June 16th and Jeff Stinco invited them to play ‘Addicted’ on stage with them with Pierre sang below the stage among the fans.
This was of course an amazing opportunity and a dream come true for the three young musicians and this is what they later wrote about this experience:
Check out the video of the guys from Room On The 3rd Floor rocking out alongside Jeff and Pierre: