This year’s Simple Plan Foundation benefit event is still going on and you can already check out a couple of the first pictures that appeared on the internet after the band took the stage, greeted the public and started an acoustic set. The album also includes a couple pictures from backstage that include ones of Pierre with Eric Salvail, one of the hosts of the event:
Thanks to Charbel you can now check out the whole nine-minutes-long video from the TV programme called Fideles au poste, that premiered yesterday on TVA. First, Simple Plan performed one hit from an old Canadian band called Les Classels – along with their lead singer Gilles Girard and then also with their own single Jet Lag:
As you already know, tomorrow, the episode of the TV game show Fideles au poste, in which Simple Plan are performing, will be airing in Canada. And today, the host of the show Eric Salvail, published on his Facebook page a new photo from the taping of the show that includes him, Simple Plan and Gilles Girard in very stylish costumes they all wore for the show:
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”:
