Tag Archives: Joel Madden

Chuck hangs out with the Madden brothers (Good Charlotte) in the studio

by Dominika | Mar 1st, 2013 | 2 comments

Chuck Comeau is still in Los Angeles, where him and Pierre are working on some new songs for the upcoming Simple Plan EP (coming out in 2013) and perhaps even for the new album. And while in LA, he decided to catch up with some old friends yesterday – Joel and Benji Madden from Good Charlotte – in their studio (for the full picture, check out the gallery)!

Simple Plan and Good Charlotte have been very close ever since the early beginnings of Simple Plan. After touring for a bit, Joel Madden (lead singer for Good Charlotte) lent his voice to You Don’t Mean Anything on Simple Plan’s debut album No Pads, No Helmets…Just Balls (2002). Later on, the bands’ paths crossed again in 2005 when they literally played on one stage together at MTV Asia Aid (“Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous / Shut Up!”) and later that year toured together on the “Noise to the World” tour in the US. The bands met up again in 2010 on the Bamboozle Road Show in the US and also casually met up with Joel Madden in Australia last year.

The question is: does Chuck hanging out with the Madden twins in the studio mean just that or is there something more to it? Could there be another SP x GC collaboration in works? Now that’s something to ponder.

What do you guys think?

Joel Madden makes a reference to a Simple Plan album at NRL grand final

by Dominika | Oct 2nd, 2012 | 2 comments

If any Simple Plan fans were watching the NRL Grand Final on September 30th (the final match of the 2012 NRL season in Australia – that’s rugby, guys), they may have spotted a little Simple Plan reference during the special feature with Joel and Benji Madden that aired right before their band Good Charlotte took the stage to entertain the crowd that gathered to see the premiership-deciding game.

During the feature (that you can watch here) at approximately 1:42 mark, Joel (who along with his band have been friends with Simple Plan for a very long time) clearly referenced Simple Plan’s debut album “No Pads, No Helmets… Just Balls”, which is coincidentaly also the album that Joel’s vocals are featured in – on the song “You Don’t Mean Anything”.

Thanks to JetLagJoel, you can check out the little reference on the audio file below:

Joel Madden: “Let Simple Plan play at The Voice Australia!”

by Dominika | Jun 1st, 2012 | no comments


Hearts of the fans who consider themselves both in the Simple Plan and the Good Charlotte fandom, got definitely on after seeing that during tonight, some of the members of these two bands will meet again.

Joel Madden (the lead singer of Good Charlotte) has been invited by his old friends from Simple Plan, for who he did some vocals on their track “You Don’t Mean Anything” many many years ago, to attend their concert in Sydney tonight, on June 1st. And let’s be honest – Simple Plan really do need a more up-to-date picture with Joel.

Mr. Madden has been residing in Australia for a while now, because of his new position as one of the main judges in the Australian version of the sining competition The Voice. And it was just The Voice, who interviewed three members of Simple Plan – Pierre, Jeff and David – today and took the new picture that you can see below. After Joel saw that his buddies were being interviewed for his show, he took to Twitter to reply to The Voice with the following message: “You guys should come Monday night!! Let them play on the show :)”

As of right now, Simple Plan do not have any official plans for Monday (June 4th), so there is a chance that their guest performance on The Voice might really happen. Let’s wait and see.

“Summer Paradise” in the Australian version of The Voice

by Dominika | May 15th, 2012 | no comments


The Australian version of the singing competition show The Voice has a very impressive variety of coaches, which include Seal, Delta Goodrem (who you may remember from one of the versions of the music video for “Save You”), Keith Urban and Joel Madden from Good Charlotte. Their job is to mentor the contestants who get into their teams throughout the whole journey of the show.

One of Seal’s protégés is 26-years-old Sam Ludeman, who performed a cover version of a Simple Plan song in the last night’s episode of the song. And what other song than “Summer Paradise” it could be, when this song has already become Australia’s summer anthem, and has managed to stay at the tops of local music charts for weeks.

After Chuck from Simple Plan had heard about one of their songs being played on The Voice, he contacted Sam himself via Twitter, congratulated him on his performance and invited him and the coaches from The Voice for their upcoming concert in Sydney, Australia.

Below you can noww check out Sam Ludeman’s version of “Summer Paradise” that he performed with at The Voice yesterday (thanks to SPB.com for the link):

New Simple Plan album to feature collaborations!

by Dominika | Nov 4th, 2010 | 2 comments

Two days ago, Jeff revealed a pretty surprising news on his Twitter: “Tomorrow, we’re gonna have a really special visitor at the studio. I know, I’m a tease but i can’t say who it is yet.” And as you will find out in the translated article below, Simple Plan are really planning special collaborations featured on the new album.

If it’s a singer type-of collaboration, it would be the second Simple Plan album to include voices of other people than the Simple Plan members: you could have noticed few featurings on SP’s debut album “No Pads, No Helmets… Just Balls”, where Blink 182’s Mark Hoppus does vocals on “I’d Do Anything” and the voice of Joel Madden from Good Charlotte can be heard on “You Don’t Mean Anything”.

Check out the whole article (which has been posted on Cyberpresse.ca) revealing the news about collaborations on the upcoming album below:

New plans for Simple Plan

This exclusive photo of Chuck Comeau, Pierre Bouvier, Jeff Stinco was taken two days ago in the recording studio in Vancouver. The five members of Simple Plan are currently putting the finishing touches on their fourth album, which is due early 2011.

Chuck (drummer) told me that the group had not yet found the title for this album but he told me anyway, exclusively, some song-titles that you can find on this new album: You Suck at Love, Astronaut and This Song Saved My Life. To pique your curiosity even more, you should know that Simple Plan will welcome special guests and will present surprising collaborations. Before the release of the album, the band’s fans will have the chance to hear excerpts of the record on November 14th, while the group will be giving an acoustic concert at Club Sportif MAA on Peel Street in Montreal to benefit their Simple Plan Foundation. The tickets are $100 per person. The event is a brunch for the whole family, and certainly for many, a concert that is priceless!

Who would YOU like to be featured on Simple Plan’s upcoming album?