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Simple Plan show in Matane selling out recordly fast

AUTHOR: Dominika | 8. March 2017 | no comments

For the third time this week, we have another festival that Simple Plan will appear on this summer, announcing that their sales are off the charts!

This time around it’s the Festival Éole en musique, which takes place in Matane, QC, Canada on August 12th. This will be the first time ever that Simple Plan are heading to the hometown of their bassplayer David Desrosiers, which may be one of the reasons why the tickets are selling out so fast.

In fact, the front-of-stage sector is already sold-out and half of the general admission tickets are gone too – all that just two weeks after the tickets went on sale.

The president of the Éole en musique festival, Sébastien Tremblay, commented on this extraordinary interest of the public to this year’s edition of the festival: “This is the first time in eight years that we have sold tickets this quickly. The announcement of Simple Plan coming to Matane caused a snowball effect on social media. This band is very popular in Quebec these days!“

Check out more inormation about this festival below:

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David discusses first SP show in his hometown Matane in a new interview

AUTHOR: Dominika | 22. February 2017 | 1 comment

It’s not very often that we get to hear David giving out interviews, but since this one was regarding a topic directly concerning him, plus he was being interviewed by a couple of his old friends, David was very happy to give this interview to the radio station Choe FM 95.3 (big thanks to Emilie for the short recap of this interview).

In this interview, which you’ll be able to listen to in French below, David talked about Simple Plan’s upcoming appearance at a festival in his hometown, Matane. This will in fact be Simple Plan’s first show in this city. In 2010, when Simple Plan played at Pierre’s, Seb’s, Chuck’s and Jeff’s old high school – College Beaubois – David told them: “Hold on, there’s something wrong here. We have to play in Bas-du-Fleuve as well!” ‘Bas-du-Fleuve’ is a nickname to the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, Canada, where David comes from. He is very happy to see that the band is finally heading to his hometown.

David also discussed the fact that he has taken a week off to travel to L.A., before heading back home to practice with the band next week for their upcoming tours. He also once again mentioned that when the band was in South America without him, he took 2 months off before Christmas to rest and go back home to Matane to see his friends and family.

Listen to the full interview with David below:

Simple Plan to play at Festival Éole en musique in Matane

AUTHOR: Dominika | 20. February 2017 | 1 comment


Simple Plan just announced that they will be playing at yet another summer music festival in Canada.

This time around, the band will head to David’s hometown Matane, in Quebec, where they will attend the Festival Éole en musique on August 12th.

More information about this festival should be revealed throughout the day.

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David Desrosiers participates in the “Chaîne de forces” campaign

AUTHOR: Dominika | 24. March 2014 | no comments

In 2013 a very interesting project started in the area of Matane, a city located in the provice of Quebec, Canada, called “Chaîne de forces” (“A Chain of Strength”) in which a parchment of words encouraging strength and positivity in life is being handed from one person to another, while each of them is adding more of his own advice and words of encouragement.

In this year’s edition of “Chaîne de forces”, David Desrosiers from Simple Plan, who is originally from Matane, was chosen to start the chain off with a video message, in which he symbolically handed over the parchment to the first recipient – Dennis Angers – a teacher at Polyvalente De Matane, David’s former high school.

You can see the video of David’s message by clicking on the image below, and if you’re not fluent in French, there is also an English translation of David’s message here under the video (thanks to Sab):

“Hello, I’m David!

I’m honored to start the “Forces en nous” (Strengths in us) chain. We all have strengths, we all have weaknesses as well. But it’s important to focus on the positive, on the strengths that everyone has, our good qualities.

I’d like to pass the first parchment to Dennis Angers because I think his force is the way he is able to captivate people, how he can make people listening to him and not thinking at anything else when he is telling a story. I think that it is an amazing strength. So, Dennis, I pass you the first parchment and it’s a big honor to start this chain.”