More photos and videos from Tuesday, when the guys were in Montreal to promote their just-released new Simple Plan book, are still popping up everywhere on the Internet. Below you can check out a couple new pictures from that day:
Also, thanks to Charbel, here are 2 video-interviews in French that I asked Charbel to translate for us, because they included quite an interesting new info and also some new previews of the book. One of the interviews is for Dictrict V, and the second one is for Ca Commence Bien also features SP’s dear friend Patrick Langlois. Check them out:
Interviewer: You guys just came back from South America! Apparently the fans there are a bit crazy.
Chuck: I would say they’re the most passionate, they scream the loudest, they run after us, they bang on the van’s windows.Chuck: It started as a dream when we were young to succeed into making an album and to see if it would work from there. Now with all the touring, it’s hard for us to take a moment and to appreciate all that we accomplished.
Interviewer: Well boys I know you guys worked hard on the Book that’s coming out soon, I have it right here with me, I’m the first one to show this to you (obviously this was a District V joke).
Chuck: How did you get the book before we did?
Seb: Do you have 4 copies?
Interviewer: It’s the only copy I’ve got! (Jeff runs away with the only copy)Chuck: We’ve kept all the souvenirs in order to show people how we arrived to becoming Simple Plan.
Interviewer: Where has your biggest show taken place?
Seb: Well this one at the Bell Center last February seemed to be the biggest one.
David: Yeah it looked like the biggest one.
Chuck: There’s also the one at the Plaines D’abraham in Quebec, 150 thousand people.
Seb: I can’t believe it took 300 pages to write our story, 300 pages! That’s insane!Interviewer: If you could go back in time and give yourselves a piece of advice, what would it be?
Jeff: I would tell myself that shorts sized 34 is NOT your size, seriously [laughs]. Chuck was wearing 38!
Chuck: Yeah I’m normally 28, but back in the day I wore 36!Chuck: In this book, we wanted to show our fans that are currently starting a band, how the process is like, how hard it could be. My parents kept so many things during these years, I don’t think they knew there’d be a book someday, but they thought that one day, it’d be good to have them.
Interviewer: How’s it like to tour with SP for 8 years?
Patrick: I think you guys are already aware of this but I’m highly immature and during these 8 years I haven’t changed a bit.Interviewer: Why did you guys give the preface to Patrick?
Chuck: It’s simply because without Patrick there wouldn’t be a book, and he’s the one who came with us on tour and took all these pictures even before we got signed and he’s always been there…
Interview: Kind of like a stalker
[laughs]
Seb: Well Patrick always wanted to be in a band/group, especially ours but he doesn’t play an instrument …
Chuck: That was the only problem!
Seb: So he improvised, he became our merch guy, our photographer…Seb: [The book] is a story of the entire band from the very beginning until just a few months ago.
Chuck: There’s this one story where Patrick was with us this one day, at the Playboy Mansion…
Seb: That’s it, that’s the end of the story!
[laughs]
Chuck: There are a few photos we couldn’t put onto the book, but we succeeded with a few…
Seb: I’ll try to find them.
Chuck: I would say 98% didn’t make it in this serious book.[Change of subjects: their favorite moments]
Seb: There’s two moments that always come to me; there’s the safari we did in South Africa it was magic, and there’s Bell Center in Montreal, there’s love everywhere in the crowd and no one screams louder than them.
Chuck: For me it’s gotta be when we received the Humanitarian Award to mark the work we’ve accomplished with the Foundation. (Seb shows the pictures in the book) We even start the book with this, because it’s a very special moment for us.