An interview Chuck and Sebastien did at Calgary Stampede back in July, was just recently published on UnderTheRockies.com. In this interview, the two members of Simple Plan discussed various subjects from their band’s longevity, their setlist, collaborations and music videos – mostly stuff that we’ve all already heard about.
But the final question of the interview did give us a tiny look at what the band might be already planning for the upcoming months. Check it out:
What do you guys have planned for the rest of the year?
Sebastien: Trying to find as many Pokemon as I can. Just kidding, touring. It hit me recently because we’ve been announcing a lot of cool tour dates, we’re going to Mexico, we’re going to Australia, southeast Asia, we’ve got the big U.S and Canadian tour coming up, and I looked at the poster and called my mom and said, “see you at Christmas!” because we’re basically busy until Christmas.
Chuck: I think we have 45 or 50 shows until the end of the year, so it’s a lot but it’s gonna be awesome. It’s all about going to see the fans and playing them the new songs and the old songs, and next year I think more touring. And maybe some new music at some point in all that. We’re working on that.
Now, let’s break that down. Surely we cannot expect the band to come up with a new record in the next couple of months but as you can see, it looks like the thought of another possible EP or a similar release of new music is still on the band’s mind and we might be getting some new music (as Chuck said) “at some point” in 2017 or maybe even in 2016!
If you remember – last year Simple Plan promised that we should finally be getting a new Christmas song by Simple Plan this year – and we even already know it’s title – ‘Christmas Every Day’ [Simple Plan’s last and only Christmas song so far was ‘My Christmas List’, released as a bonus track on certain versions of the bands first album in 2002]. So releasing it around e.g. beginning of December of this year ahead of the Christmas season would only make sense.
Chuck could also be thinking of an EP. If we look back to the ‘Get Your Heart On!’ era, the record was released in June 2011 and the band toured mostly in the second half of that year and the whole of 2012. That tour cycle was mostly prolonged by the huge success of the ‘Summer Paradise’, which came out in 2012. And in 2013, the band slowly finished with the tour cycle and when things started to cool down a bit, Simple Plan decided to release some of the already recorded, left-over songs from the recording process of GYHO, under the EP entitled ‘Get Your Heart On: The Second Coming’.
Now if we were to compare that tour to this one, the band has already stated the TOFTT tour cycle will most possibly end around summer of next year (even though there are no confirmed tour plans for 2017 as of yet – but there are rumors of summer festivals in Europe), which could mean there is a possibility of the band releasing some left-over songs from TOFTT possibly in a form of an EP around the end of 2017 – or even before that if they feel like it.
Would you like to hear “The Second Coming” of TOFTT?
