After seeing them imitate The Ramones, Wham!, The Beach Boys, Run DMC and now Les Classels, it seems like dressing up as old classic bands is a Simple Plan thing now. Let me elaborate:
On February 23rd, the guys from Simple Plan attended the taping of a Canadian TV game show called “Fideles au poste”, that airs every Thursday at 8pm on TVA. Hosted by Eric Salvail (who you may remember from hosting a few Simple Plan Foundation events in the past), each episode of this show has 6 people split into 2 teams who compete in singing old classics from the archives of the TVA channel, that go all the way back to 1961.
Simple Plan will appear as special guests on the episode that airs next Thursday, March 8th, along with Gilles Girard – the lead singer of an old Canadian band called “Les Classels” (1964-1971). Together they will perform one song from Les Classels – all dressed up the same way this band used to – with white wigs and everything, and then they will continue with the French version of Jet Lag, where Gilles Girard provides the female vocal parts.
Oh… and if you can’t tell, Simple Plan are the ones on the picture on top. The handsome gentlemen in white below are Les Classels.
A huge thank you goes to Charbel for helping me to put all this info together and for the following teaser of the upcoming episode of “Fideles au poste”:
