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Simple Plan aim to modernize the sound of No Pads on their 6th album

AUTHOR: Dominika | 18. April 2018 | no comments

In a new interview for EatThisMusic.com, Jeff Stinco discussed the soon-to-begin Australian tour and while at it, he also talked about the upcoming plans for the band, who is set to start working on their 6th studio album this year, after their tour is over [by the end of summer]. In this interview, Jeff mentioned that the idea is for the band to make the new album’s sound incorporate the best things their debut album offered – but with a modern touch.

Check out the band’s idea in Jeff’s own words below:

[On Simple Plan’s next plans in 2018]

We’re going to start winding down from touring and we’re gonna make a new record. So, we have Brazil, we have the States – we’re doing Warped Tour in the States, the whole Warped Tour, it’s the final edition, so it’s kind of a big deal. We’re stoked to be part of it. And then in the fall we’re gonna start making a new record. And yeah, we’re just excited. You know, as I said earlier, you go back, you revisit you catalogue and it makes you kind of realize what were the great things about what you were doing and what you kind of forgot to keep in your music, you know. There’s a lot of elements on that first record that need…. It needs to be modernized, but with ideas, concepts that we have to bring back to what we’re doing and we definitely will.

[On whether it is difficult for SP to modernize their music]

No. I think, for instance, there’s a song off our last record called ‘Boom’ – it did really well, it was never a single on the radio but oddly enough it kind of had a lot of hits on YouTube and on a bunch of playlists everywhere and it’s doing really really well. And that song has sort of a first-record-vibe with modern sounds and modern ideas. I think we kinda know what we need to do. I mean, we’ll see if we manage to do it right but we kinda know what the idea is to modernize that sound.

– Jeff Stinco –

You can listen to the whole interview below:

How do you feel about this idea? What sound would you like the 6th Simple Plan album to have?
Let us know in the comments!

Simple Plan consider changing the way they release albums by releasing music in batches

AUTHOR: Dominika | 13. April 2018 | 3 comments

Over the past decade, the music industry has changed dramatically. Instead of buying physical albums, people nowadays mostly consume music online and instead of using their CD players to listen to their favorite band’s new album, they can now connect to it with a simple push of a button on their favorite app. Streaming services, such as Spotify, which offer monthly subscriptions that get one an indefinite catalogue of music for the price of one album, have made such an impact on music consumption that artists must quickly adapt to this new reality if they do not wish to lose momentum and be forgotten.

And this exact issue is one that Chuck Comeau brought up in a recent interview for the Brazilian website Omelete, where he mentioned that Simple Plan are obviously aware of the recent changes in the music industry and are ready to face this challenge by changing their own established routines.

In the interview Chuck revealed that his band is currently toying with the idea of releasing their new music in a bit unconventional way than the fans have been used to so far. Check out what Chuck means by that below:

“With the emergence of Spotify and other ways of listening to music [than radio] people can find what they want to hear without having to go through the decision makers, who decide what you want to hear. You can decide for yourself now.”

“[…] This [No Pads] tour delayed the songwriting process of our next album, because it lasted longer than we expected, but the idea is to finish the tour in July or August. But as things have changed so much, maybe we will not release an entire album. We may release only a collection of songs, and a few months later another one. We might try new ways of releasing songs, but we’ll definitely release something soon after the tour is over, this is the plan.”

– Chuck Comeau –

Chuck’s proposed idea seems to be that Simple Plan might consider not releasing a full-length 12-songs-long album, but rather smaller-sized “compilations” of songs – perhaps EPs. It is certainly an interesting idea worth exploring as this would allow the band to spend less time writing songs and recording them and most importantly, it could bring them back on tour sooner than a full-length album.

It is important to note however that Simple Plan are still in the very early stages of creating their new record and hope to begin writing songs in a course of the next few weeks and then throughout the whole summer at least. Everything can still change until then.

How do you feel about Chuck’s idea of releasing songs in batches? Would you prefer getting less songs in a shorter amount of time or you’d rather wait longer for a full-length record?

Seb hopes for new Simple Plan music by the end of 2018 & discusses David in a new interview

AUTHOR: Dominika | 10. April 2018 | no comments

Ahead of the upcoming Australian tour, Sebastien Lefebvre did an interview with the Australian website May The Rock Be With You. In this interview, Seb discusses mostly the concept of the No Pads tour and summed up the past year, but he did also mention quite a number of information regarding the next plans for the band, which mostly include making a new record.

Sebastien’s words match his bandmates’ recent interviews, in which the guys have previously stated that they would like to focus on finishing the 6th Simple Plan album as fast as possible, as they don’t want their fans to wait any longer for the next release. Apart from that however, Seb also hopes to already have some music released this year…

Check out what exactly Seb has said regarding new Simple Plan music below:

“[…] Right now we’ve obviously got a couple more places to go on tour, but we just started a little bit of time off now, we don’t have any major tours until the Australian one so we’re sort of getting a bit of rest, I’ve already started working in my studio and I’m sure the other guys have as well and just trying to come up with some ideas, see what sticks, see what doesn’t and we’ll get to it more officially in the next few weeks or next month or something like that.

[…] As soon as we start writing and things go amazing and every song that we write is great, then we’ll head in the studio quite quickly because we would love to take a little less time between albums. However everybody wants to see this anniversary tour so we have to take a little break from writing to travel to come see you guys and other shows this year here and there which will be fun because there’s always shows to play here and there, but that is the plan, we’re gonna try to focus on writing and recording and the album I think that’s the theme for this year.

[…] By the end of 2018 Simple Plan will release some new music, that’s what I’m hoping for, maybe not a full album, maybe not anything but hopefully by the end of the year something will be out, that’s what I’m crossing my fingers for – but don’t put that on the schedule, don’t put a date on that, don’t go crazy on the fan sites – that’s just what I’m hoping for.”

– Seb Lefebvre –

As you can see, things are definitely not set in stone just yet and there’s still a whole record to be written, recorded and published, but the band is certainly already looking through all its options: Seb has already begun looking for some inspiration and in the coming weeks, the band may in fact start working on new music. At this point we also know that Simple Plan plan on breaking their “no writing on tour” rule and would like to also work on their music throughout summer – while on Warped Tour.

However, there’s still one question left to be answered: what about David? Simple Plan’s bassplayer has not been performing with the band for the whole past year, while he’s been trying to get better at home, as he revealed last year that he’s been struggling with depression for quite a while now. The question of David will of course be crucial when it comes to the planning of any new tours as well as the recording of the next album, so it was only natural that the reporter asked it in this interview with Seb as well. This is what Seb replied:

“He’s been dealing with a tough year so he’s been taking a lot of time to rest and stay at home, he’s going through a very difficult depression so he’s just slowly getting out of it, and he’s still in the band obviously so don’t start any rumours but he and us felt it was better to stay home and rest instead of getting on a hectic touring schedule all year that was extremely busy. At the moment he’s just making sure he feels good.”

– Seb Lefebvre –

There’s currently still no word on whether David wants to rejoin Simple Plan on tour anytime soon, but it doesn’t seem very likely at this point – especially given the nature of the destinations Simple Plan have on their schedule next. Keep checking back – if anything changes, we’ll let you know right away.

In the meantime, we’d like to ask you to please continue allowing David to get back on his feet again on his own time.

Simple Plan to start working on 6th record after March 2018

AUTHOR: Dominika | 15. December 2017 | no comments

In a new interview for idobi radio that was filmed on the Warped Rewind At Sea cruise with Chuck and Sebastien, the two members of Simple Plan discussed various topics from attending this special pop-punk cruise, Warped Tour in general, their No Pads anniversary tour all the way to their upcoming album.

We’ve known for a while that the plans for next year are supposed to include a bit of touring and then making of a new record – however no specific time frames have been mentioned yet, since the dates for Australia and South American tour have not been officially announced. In this interview for idobi however, Chuck revealed for the first time that all the touring should be done by March 2018, after which Simple Plan should immediately go back to writing and hopefully soon finish their 6th studio album.

Check out Chuck’s direct quotes and also the whole interview on the video below:

“As soon as we’re done – I think we’re gonna wrap things up around March and at that moment we’re gonna start making a new record. And then we’re gonna get back to touring and do a regular Simple Plan tour.”

“We haven’t said it officially but there’s two places that are really important to us, that we haven’t been to with this anniversary tour, so South America – and Brazil in particular. So we need to go there, we’re working on that. And Australia. So these are the last two places we need to go to. And after that we’re gonna make a new record.”

– Chuck Comeau –

Simple Plan reminisce about 2017’s No Pads tour & promise to start working on new album in 2018

AUTHOR: Dominika | 8. December 2017 | 1 comment

With only one show (tonight in Niagara Falls, NY) of the No Pads tour left this year, the year Simple Plan’s first album officially celebrated its 15th anniversary, the band reminisced a bit on their Instagram today about this quite eventful year and mostly about what this tour has meant for them, as well for the fans.

In the message, Simple Plan confirmed that they will be expanding the No Pads tour in 2018 with some additional dates in some countries they didn’t manage to visit on this tour yet (as of right now we know of South America and Australia) and we can expect the new tourdates in just a few weeks. Plus – the band also promised that besides concerts, 2018 will also be the year when they would start working on their next studio album.

Check out the full post below:

Tonight in Niagara Falls will be the last No Pads show of 2017 in the US. It’s been an incredible adventure for us and we’re so grateful for everyone who came to see us play all year. 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

We wanted to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the album that changed our lives by playing these special shows and we were hoping that some of you would want to join us and come sing along. We never expected it would turn into a whole year of shows all over the world, 3 tours in the US and such an outpouring of love and support for the music we created so long ago. It has been an incredibly rewarding and beautiful year, playing some absolutely magical shows and meeting so many passionate fans. You have made us realize all over again just how lucky we are to be able to do what we love the most in life. It really touched our hearts and impacted all of us to see the level of dedication, love and loyalty our fans have for this band. We heard so many stories about how our music has helped you deal with the tough moments in life, saw hundreds of SP lyric and logo tattoos and realized just how many friendships and relationships still exist today because of the band we started in our parents’ basement back in Montreal…

It has been one of the greatest experiences of our career so far. Once again, thank you all so much for everything.

– Pierre, Chuck, Sebastien, Jeff a David –

P.S.: There’s still a few places we haven’t visited on this tour and we know you’ve been waiting for us…In the next few weeks, we will be announcing the final legs of the No Pads tour. Can’t wait to see you at the shows in 2018 and to start working on a new album!