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Simple Plan to start working on new album right after 18 months of touring

AUTHOR: Dominika | 28. July 2016 | 2 comments

After years of putting all their efforts into their new record, Simple Plan finally released ‘Taking One For The Team’ this February. Obviously, the 5-year-long wait for the new album (since their previous record [Get Your Heart On!] came out in 2011) has not been easy on their fans and many have become very impatient towards the end, mostly when seeing other bands putting out records every two or three years.

But Simple Plan have never been like other bands. As they’ve said countless times in various interviews, they’re a band that focuses mostly on the live experience and they want to tour as much as they can in between records. And if we add the huge success of the third single from GYHO – ‘Summer Paradise’ – to it, it’s becoming very clear that the guys haven’t been just sitting around for those 5 years. For two years – from summer of 2011 till summer of 2013, the band has toured extensively all over the world, even with a few more shows in 2014 and 2015. However during the last two years, the guys decided to take a little time off to relax and be home with their families, after which they spent the next year and half working, song-writing and recording TOFTT.

However, things may be changing for record number six! Jeff recently discussed Simple Plan’s future plans regarding touring and their next record in an interview with Journal Express:

“We will try to limit [this tour] to 18 months of touring, because the last time we felt some impatience from our fans for taking five years between albums. I think it will be important after this tour to begin immediately to work on the next record.” – Jeff Stinco

From Jeff’s quote we can assume that the band still has about a year of touring for TOFTT ahead of them. We already know there are some plans on coming back to Europe early next year, after which there could be some more tour and maybe summer festivals, but the Taking One For The Team tour could be coming to an end around the fall of 2017. That would make the touring process slightly shorter than it was in the GYHO era. At that point, the band may – according to Jeff’s words – in fact start slowly working on their sixth record with little to no delay. But keep in mind that that process can again, unfortunately, take at least a year.

But who knows, maybe the band will take an example of their work towards the end of the process of making of TOFTT, where they wrote some of their fans’ most popular songs on the record (Opinion Overload, Farewell and Nostalgic) in just a few weeks in the pop-punk song-writing sessions in the fall of last year – and therefore make the next process quicker. It is undeniable that Simple Plan can work fast and – most importantly – with very good results, when they’re under pressure. The question is how much pressure they want to put themselves under for the sixth milestone of their career.

Will we see Simple Plan’s sixth album on the shelves of our local music stores in 2018 or 2019? We shall wait and see. But there is now a bigger hope for a much quicker release than it was with TOFTT.

Simple Plan expect 5th album to be out by 2014

AUTHOR: Dominika | 26. July 2012 | no comments

In a very interesting new article posted by Le Journal de Montreal that also posted this awesome picture of Simple Plan from a 2011 photoshoot that can be seen on the left (and in its original size in the gallery), Sebastien discusses the band’s current success with their latest single “Summer Paradise” and also talks more about a couple other topics.

For instance, it is mentioned in the interview that the band may release their fifth album either in late 2013 or early 2014. But let’s be more realistic, it will most probably be in late 2014. As Sebastien mentioned in the interview, the band doesn’t want to be pressured by any deadlines: “There is no deadline. We will write during all 2013. We would like to release it as soon as possible, but we need time to write it. The band also might like to take some time to rest before working on the new record. And I think we will need that, believe me!”

Another very interesting topic that has been mentioned in the article was the way Simple Plan choose where to play next. The band already knows that by the end of this year (counting new places in South America and probably also Europe), it will reach 50 countries that they have visited in their career. Yet the band is still aware of some limitations they have when it comes to countries they can visit: mostly it always depends on how their records sell in that particular country and/or how well their songs are doing on the local radios. For example Greece is mentioned in the article as a country that prefers techno over pop-rock, making it hard for a band like Simple Plan to go play a show there, because naturally the tickets would not sell. “There are places where we never sold a single record, where we just do not sell at all. There are countries that we visited for the first time and we do not know if we’ll ever come back,” admits Sebastien.

So here is a clue for all of you: if you want Simple Plan to come to your country, make sure to call the radio stations, get the records, make other people listen to it too and just spread the word. That’s how you can help the most.

Simple Plan to start working on a new album early next year!

AUTHOR: Dominika | 1. April 2012 | no comments

Yes, Get Your Heart On! has been in our CD players, shelves or boxes for not even a year and there are already talks about Simple Plan’s follow-up CD! I’m not talking about the promised EP with some more music coming up, which we know is already in works – I’m talking about another proper record.

In an interview for Journal de Montreal from yesterday’s Juno Gala Dinner, Chuck is talking about possibly starting working on a new album early 2013:

“After Christmas, we should start working on a new CD. But by then, we should already have something special for our fans: a book, a DVD, and a little more music. We shoot at each show, backstage and on stage. There is a little surprise coming. “

Now let’s sum this up. We already know that at least some of the upcoming projects (photobook, DVD or EP) should probably come out by the end of this year. If Simple Plan start working on a new album early 2013, that should mean at least half a year of writing (but there is always a high chance that this period might be longer), then 2-3 months of recording, and with a couple more months of post-production we could be able to add a new record to our collection maybe sometimes in 2014.

That seems rather possible since the gap between two Simple Plan albums is usually somewhere between 2-4 years. Let’s just hope it’s sooner than later!

Are you already looking forward the 5th Simple Plan record? Which way do you think the band should decide to go with it this time around?