{"id":31292,"date":"2021-05-25T21:28:15","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T19:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simpleplan.cz\/en\/?p=31292"},"modified":"2021-05-25T21:49:12","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T19:49:12","slug":"nick-sleeping-sirens-recalls-pierre-bouviers-random-act-kindness-first-met","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simpleplan.cz\/en\/index.php\/nick-sleeping-sirens-recalls-pierre-bouviers-random-act-kindness-first-met\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick from Sleeping with Sirens recalls Pierre Bouvier’s random act of kindness when they first met"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sleeping With Sirens’ rhythm guitarist Nick Martin recently started a successful YouTube channel, on which he likes to share his music, as well as stories from tour. Today, he decided to share a special story in a short video, where he told the story of meeting Pierre Bouvier from Simple Plan for the first time on Warped Tour in 2004 (back with his first band Underminded) and being completely baffled how Pierre performed an such an unexpected act of kindness towards him and his former band. So much so, that it has inspired Nick to continue doing such act of kindness since then. <\/p>\n

We wrote down the entire story below, but you can also listen to it from Nick on the video below:<\/p>\n

“Back in 2004 [my first band Underminded] did the whole entire Warped Tour. It was our first summer tour, I\u2019ve ever done in my lifetime. But it was also the most gruelling summer: we had to set up the stage, break down the stage, we didn\u2019t get paid, we were in a van.. it was a very very gruelling, very very difficult, hard summer, but it was the most amazing summer of my life at the same time. So there was a stretch of Warped Tour dates that was well over a week long with no days off. And all we were looking forward to was a day off. I remember we were deep into the tour, completely exhausted, completely burned out. And we were just looking forward to a day off when we could recharge out batteries. Like I said, we were making no money, but somehow we scrunched up enough dollars, we said: \u2018It\u2019s time for us to shower, call our families and just relax and decompress.\u2019 <\/i><\/p>\n

So we followed the Warped Tour caravan on a day off to a hotel where all the Warped tour bands and production were gonna be staying. And we also heard that the hotel was giving a discount for everybody on Warped Tour. So.. we\u2019re like awesome, let\u2019s shower! So we get to the hotel, it\u2019s completely slammed, full of Warped Tour people, bands, production.. everybody\u2019s there. We went to the desk and I said: \u2018We would love to get a room, we need to shower. Please help.\u2019 Their response to me was: \u2018We are completely sold-out. I\u2019m sorry.\u2019 Talk about having a moment, when you feel like it\u2019s the end of the world and everything is against you. And then we realized we\u2019re in the middle of nowhere. We would have to drive even further to hopefully find another hotel, we don\u2019t wanna waste any more of our day driving\u2026 it was not the answer that we were looking for. <\/i><\/p>\n

But then the moment quickly changes. Someone taps me on my shoulder, I turn around – Pierre, the lead singer of Simple Plan.<\/b> Let me quickly preface this that Pierre did not know who we were, did not know what band we were in, we had never met before, we were complete strangers. And he tells me: ‘I just overheard your conversation that the hotel is out of rooms, well, I want to help.’ And then proceeds to give me all of their room keys. It wasn\u2019t just one room, it was multiple rooms for the band and crew.<\/b> My jaw drops and I was speechless. I couldn\u2019t believe that somebody would do that. That they would go out of their way to just give us hotel rooms without knowing who we are or having never met before. He was such a kind soul for doing that. And he wanted nothing in return. It was out of just kindness and knowing and looking at us and seeing how tired we were, how exhausted, how burned out we were. And it stuck with me ever since then and I\u2019ve also given my hotel room key to other bands, who needed a place to shower, needed a place to charge their phones, to decompress and just talk to family. And just to feel like a human being for a day. And I can never thank him enough for doing that. <\/i><\/p>\n

A few years ago I ran into him. I think it was on the Alternative Press awards. I told him this story from 2004, that he did this incredibly kind thing for me, that has stuck with me ever since. And he did not remember that ever happening but he was still so kind and I thanked him so much for doing what he did and how it meant to everybody that was with us, the whole band, all of our crew. It just goes to show that any act of kindness big or small can completely change someone\u2019s day or change someone\u2019s life in a really positive day.”<\/i><\/p>\n

– Nick Martin<\/b> [in his YouTube video “Two Minute Tour Story”] –<\/font><\/center><\/div>\n