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Simple Plan to be featured on the next Full Frontal episode with All Time Low

AUTHOR: Dominika | 8. June 2013 | no comments

Two weeks ago it was announced that Alex Gaskarth and Jack Barakat from the band All Time Low would be starting their own new radio show called Full Frontal on Idobi radio (the same radio station that Sebastien and Patrick’s Man Of The Hour show is on). The first episode aired last Monday at turned out to be a huge success as thousands of loyal All Time Low fans joined to listen to the two members of the band talk about music, pop culture, TV and movies.

And since All Time Low and Simple Plan are currently together in Germany, both playing at Rock Im Park and Rock Am Ring, Jack and Alex decided to bring their pals from Simple Plan to their radio show and taped it today after the band’s show.

The second episode is to air on Monday – June 10th. After it airs, you should be able to download it at FullFrontalRadio.com.

Check out this picture from the taping of Full Frontal on which you can clearly spot Rian and Jack from All Time Low and David from Simple Plan:

All Time Low give Simple Plan a shout-out at Montreal show

AUTHOR: Dominika | 18. January 2013 | no comments

On January 16th, the Baltimore-based band All Time Low who’s connections to Simple Plan are endless, played a concert in Montreal, Canada. And of course some of the members of Simple Plan could not miss out the chance to see their friends Alex, Zack, Rian and Jack live and went to see them and hung out with them as well. After the show was over, Chuck wrote Jack Barakat a tweet saying:

To a person, who did not attend the show, this message might have sounded a bit weird, but if you check out the following video, you’ll see that All Time Low actually took the time to give a shout-out to Simple Plan in the midst of their concert. This is what the band said:

Jack Barakat: “We have to shout out our friends who are here – Simple Plan! They fucking took us on our first massive Canadian tour and really exposed us to a lot of fans, so thank you!”

Alex Gaskarth: “I actually meant to say the song that we played before we walked up stage – I fucking wrote that song with those dudes! I owe them for that dance party we just had together! And you owe them for all the fucking herpes that you have in Canada… I don’t know if you owe them but they are to blame. They single-handedly gave everyone herpes.”

Jack Barakat (All Time Low) makes reference to a Simple Plan song in an interview

AUTHOR: Dominika | 17. December 2012 | no comments

After Joel Madden (Good Charlotte) made a little reference to No Pads, No Helmets…Just Balls at the NFL Grand Final earlier this year, we have another band member referencing Simple Plan songs – and it’s the one and only Jack Barakat from All Time Low (thanks to Janča for pointing it out).

In an interview for Hot Topic, the guys from All Time Low were supposed to answer a couple of questions in just one minute. The first question was “What are you addicted to?” and while most of the band members’ first response was “heroine”, Jack (sitting in the back) started singing “I’m a dick, I’m addicted to you…” and therefore making a small but clear reference to “Addicted” by Simple Plan, one of his favourite bands.

Check out the interview below:

Jack Barakat: “Time Bomb is our honour to Simple Plan!”

AUTHOR: Dominika | 2. September 2012 | 1 comment

It’s been just a couple of days since the first ever Czech show for All Time Low, who happen to have a lot in common with Simple Plan. First time they’ve met was at Bamboozle Roadshow, where they came up with the future collaboration of these two bands, which resulted in their lead singer, Alex Gaskarth, singing on Simple Plan’s song “Freaking Me Out” (on the Get Your Heart On! album) and the song Time Bomb (that was originally written by Pierre and Chuck for Simple Plan) – for the reason of “not sounding like a Simple Plan song” – offered to All Time Low, who took it, changed it here and there and released it on their album “Dirty Work”.

I asked Nixie from AllTimeLow.cz, who had the opportunity to interview All Time Low’s guitarist Jack Barakat before the Prague show, to ask about Time Bomb and their collaboration with Simple Plan, and here you can see the result (and also see it on the video at mark 2:50):

ATL.cz: We know you’re friends with Simple Plan and Time Bomb was originally their song. Did you change it a lot?

Jack: Yeah, we definitely changed it, just because we wanted to make it an All Time Low song. But it was kind of like an honor to the band that we grew up listening to and the fact that we kind of got to work with them was pretty awesome.

PHOTO: Jack Barakat with Simple Plan backstage on the Canadian tour

AUTHOR: Dominika | 28. February 2012 | no comments

Simple Plan’s Canadian tour with Marianas Trench and All Time Low is slowly coming to its end. The guys only have two more shows to play together in Canada, so no wonder they all try to spend together as much time as they can. Yes, there are many tweets (regarding showers and bunks) that may leave us wondering what exactly is going on on this tour, but there are also nice new pictures – or… make that one picture of the bands together. Here you can check out a new photo of Jack Barakat from All Time Low with the members of Simple Plan that All Time Low published on social networks yesterday: