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Release day promo recap

February 19th was quite possibly the bussiest day for Simple Plan this year and for a good reason – the band finally dropped their long-awaited record “Taking One For The Team” and the boys had a lot of promo to do!

Before this busy day, the guys attended the Toronto Maple Leafs game, after which they had to get up early to do a whole lot of interviews with various TV and radio stations. Before that though, it was important for some of the members like Chuck and Jeff to go and pick up the physical copy of their new album [see the picture on the right].

Regarding the interviews – you can have a look at the BT Toronto interview with Jeff and Seb over here, but I’d rather recommend the much funnier and interesting interview with Sirius XM 167, where the guys for example talk about which collaboration in their career was the weirdest – and it’s not what you’d might think!

For the whole day, Simple Plan took over Alternative Press‘ Instagram, which fed us some gorgeous pictures throughout the whole day and allowed us to follow Simple Plan on their album’s release day – you can already see some of the pictures here. And speaking of Alternative Press, the APTV correspondent Nick Major released his long-awaited and very well-done interview with Pierre and Chuck yesterday, which I definitely recommend you to check out below:

During the day, Simple Plan also answered a lot of fan questions on their Twitter page via short videos and in the evening they attended the taping of CBC Music First Play, which will soon be available on YouTube (I will let you know). There, the band performed a short setlist that was a mix of some of their old stuff together with new tracks from TOFTT. See for yourself below:

1. Opinion Overload
2. Welcome To My Life
3. Kiss Me Like Nobody’s Watching
4. Boom
5. I Don’t Wanna Go To Bed
6. Summer Paradise
7. Farewell
8. I’d Do Anything

In the gallery you can already check out the pictures from the past day (or two), of Simple Plan doing promos and playing at CBC Music:

And finally, the boys ended the day with their Coalition and Warner team in Toronto, celebrating the release of their newest “baby”, an album that took two years to make but so far has received an incredible amount of positive reviews [but more on that later]. Check out the video below:

Simple Plan kicked off TOFTT world tour in Windsor with new songs live for the first time

Last night, Simple Plan performed at the Olde Walkerville Theatre in Windsor, Canada, where they kicked off their “Taking One For The Team” tour that will continue on their first European run this year in just a week. The show was a charitable event and according to the first reports, an estimated minimum of $13 000 will be donated to the Transition To Betterness program that provides comfort for those impacted by a life-altering illness.

At the concert, Simple Plan premiered live for the first time some of the songs from their new album “Taking One For The Team” (coming out tomorrow, February 19th) that have not been played at a regular live show yet (if we don’t count a music video shoot). According to the fans who attended this show, Simple Plan performed tracks like ‘Kiss Me Like Nobody’s Watching’, ‘Farewell’ and ‘Opinion Overload’ [the band also played ‘Boom’ and ‘I Don’t Wanna Go To Bed’, but we’ve heard those live versions before].

The setlist was as follows:

1. Opinion Overload
2. I’d Do Anything
3. Jump
4. Jet Lag
5. Boom!
6. The Rest Of Us
7. Welcome To My Life
8. Your Love Is A Lie
9. I Don’t Wanna Go To Bed
10. Kiss Me Like Nobody’s Watching
11. Can’t Keep My Hands Off You
12. Summer Paradise
13. Farewell
14. Crazy
15. I’m Just A Kid
16. Perfect World
17. Shut Up
18. Perfect

In the gallery, you can check out the first pictures from this event:

And below you can find the first short preview of a live version of ‘Kiss me Like Nobody’s Watching’:

VIDEO: Olympic pool photoshoot

Simple Plan continue giving us glimpses of the behind the scenes of the making of their new album “Taking One For The Team” and this time around they decided to reveal the video from the photoshoot that took place at the Olympic pool in Montreal.

Check it out:

Track By Track video: I Refuse

Simple Plan released another track by track video, this time around for the song “I Refuse”, of which we heard the first sneak peek yesterday. In the video, the band members talk about the song more extensively and reveal a longer preview of the song: