As SimplePlan.cz has already reported, on Monday, three members of Simple Plan along with the Mayor of Montreal Denis Coderre were present in Montreal to help launch a brand new musical instrument lending program within the participating local libraries.
A number of media channels reported about this extraordinary new program and you can now check out videos by CTV News and Montreal Gazette from this press conference, which both feature Jeff, Chuck and Sebastien from Simple Plan below:
Janick Thibault, the lead singer of the Canadian band Story Untold (formerly known as Amasic), who recently supported Simple Plan on the U.S. tour in October, released yet another cover of a Simple Plan song yesterday. You may recall Janick covering Simple Plan previously and his videos hitting hundreds of thousands of views – most prominently his covers of ‘Summer Paradise’ and ‘This Song Saved My Life’.
This time around, Janick decided to cover a song from Simple Plan’s second album (Still Not Getting Any) – ‘Perfect World’, which Simple Plan finally brought back to their setlist on the Taking One For The Team tour this year. Check out Janick’s cover below:
If you’d like to know more about Janick, check out the interview SimplePlan.cz did with him in 2014.
A couple days ago, while in Indiana for the Pretty In Pink event, Pierre, Seb and Jeff gave an interview to 97.3 WMEE. In this interview the guys mentioned various fun things such as their favorite past Halloween costumes, their favorite hockey team, but things got a little more interesting when the interview turned to what Simple Plan have up their sleeves for next year.
Given how successful Simple Plan’s U.S. tour in October was, after selling out almost every venue they played at, the band has decided not to wait much longer to return to the U.S. and revealed that they are in fact already planning to come back and according to this interview that tour should happen in spring 2017. Rumor also has it that the band previously stated in other interviews back in California that the tour should take place even sooner – in February [however this is yet to be confirmed]. And this time around, this tour should cover more U.S. cities and states than the October one.
Check out what Jeff said about the U.S. tour in this interview:
Jeff: “There are rumors.. We just had an amazing U.S. tour, you know. It was mostly sold-out. It did really really well. It was a killer tour. And we haven’t been here for a while, so it was cool to reconnect with our fans. So it kinda gave us a taste of touring here and it’s so fun! Like, you’re right close to home and it’s… We’ve toured a lot in the U.S., we have a lot of friends here, so we’re talking about maybe coming back here in spring. So doing a more extensive tour. You know, we did two, three weeks of touring, a bunch of acoustic shows. But this time around we’d like to go, you know, from coast to coast and just check out places that we haven’t been on this particular tour. So definitely sooner than the usual three years that we take between tour. We’re gonna be here a lot sooner.”
Another confirmation that this interview has given us is that Simple Plan are most definitely releasing a new Christmas song soon! Alright, the band hasn’t directly said it’s a new Christmas song, but given the amount of hints, it’s pretty clear they have a new Xmas song in mind. Also, even though Pierre declined to reveal the title of the song to the interviewer, if nothing’s changed, we already know the title – and we’ve known for a while. Back in fall of last year, Simple Plan mentioned in a webchat that they plan on releasing a Christmas song called “Christmas Every Day” the following year – that means right in time for Christmas 2016! You don’t fool us, Pierre! :)
Pierre: “We have a new song coming out soon! It’s kind of a “gift” or a “present”. ”
Interviewer: “What’s it called?”
Pierre: “Can’t tell you. The only hint I can tell you is: It’s a “present”.”
Interviewer: […] “Is it gonna come out for Christmas?”
Band: *acts like they don’t know but they really do*
You can check back on all this info and more in the forementioned interview below:
Even though their official U.S. tour has concluded, Simple Plan are still in the United States, where they had 3 more charity events to attend. The first event called Pretty In Pink (as announced a few weeks ago) took place yesterday in Laotto, Indiana. Besides their performance, Simple Plan also donated a signed guitar to the raffle, which helped raise money from this event, which will be going to the Cancer Services of Northeast Indiana.
As their performance was only an acoustic one, Simple Plan weren’t in their full quintet but only Jeff, Sebastien and Pierre were there to perform a 7-songs-long setlist of the following tracks:
The radio station 97.3 WMEE, which hosted the event, already released almost 200 pictures from SP’s performance on their Facebook page. Check them out now in our gallery:
21 Alive also already reported about this event on their news – check out the video coverage from the SP show:
With the wrap of the U.S. tour, it’s time to look back at the best moments of this tour with a new vlog Simple Plan posted on Instagram yesterday. But don’t get sad, our U.S. friends – Simple Plan are already planning to come back and hit even more cities soon!
Check out the highlights from the U.S. tour below: