ComentáriosCategory: Videos
It has been released today on Youtube, a little video of a new advertisement of the St-Hubert restaurant. In this advertisement, we can see the guys watching a hockey game in the St-Hubert, while their fans wait for them on the concert, already impatients. Check the video below:
Apparently, Simple Plan Foundation and the St-Hubert restaurants are doing a partnership, where a little rate of profit of the restaurants will be reversed to the SPF.
ComentáriosCategory: Tour 2012
In February 19th, Simple Plan was playing in Toronto, at the Air Canada Centre. The concert had the presence of more than 9,000 fans. The LFPress accompanied the concert and wrote a short article, which tells in details, how was the concert. Check below:
Simple Plan lays down high-energy show
TORONTO – Get Your Heart On! is the name of Simple Plan’s latest album and 9,000 screaming fans had no problem showing the Montreal pop-punk band the love as the group touched down for a high-energy show at the Air Canada Centre on Sunday night.Ironically, singer Pierre Bouvier, lead guitarist Jeff Stinco, rhythm guitarist Sébastien Lefebvre, bassist, resident hambone, and natty dresser David Desrosiers (in a fedora and shaking his bum a lot) and drummer Chuck Comeau launched their 90-minute set with the older hit, Shut Up!, but there was no way their devoted fans were going to do anything of the kind.
“I think you guys are on fire tonight,” said Bouvier, dressed in red plaid shirt which fit in nicely with the band’s red-and-white themed production, including an impressive wall of speakers on either side of Comeau’s drum kit.
Bouvier and his bandmates had the audience singing, clapping, punching air and even jumping along to older tunes like Jump — which included a snippet of Black Eyed Peas’ I Gotta Feeling — When I’m Gone, Addicted, Thank You, Your Love Is a Lie, Worst Day Ever, I’d Do Anything (with Desrosiers stage diving into the crowd), I’m Just a Kid, and even performed a medley of covers — Maroon 5’s Moves Like Jagger, Taio Cruz’s Dynamite and LMFAO’s I’m Sexy And I Know It with Bouvier and two guys in full head-to-toe red-and-white jumpsuits training cameras on the crowd.New songs like Can’t Keep My Hands Off You, You Suck At Love, Freaking Me Out, Jet Leg, This Song Saved My Life Tonight, and Loser Of the Year, also went over well but nothing could match the atmosphere created when Bouvier encouraged cellphones and glow sticks to be waved during another newbie, Astronaut.
“You guys are stars,” he said.
Similarly, red-and-white plastic beach balls dropped down from the ceiling during their latest single, Summer Paradise, as Bouvier asked: “Does anybody want to go to the beach with me?”
And when Bouvier wandered into the crowd to stand on the railing between the stands and the floor during older song Welcome To My Life, the crowd joined in with a major sing-and-wave-along.
The final song of the night, another early hit, Perfect, featured Bouvier alone on stage with his acoustic guitar before he was joined by the rest of the band as a blast of red and white confetti finished off the tune.
“Ten years ago, Toronto was one of the first places we ever heard a crowd sing,” added Bouvier as the show wound down before two encores. “You guys are the best fans in the world.”
SIMPLE PLAN SET LIST
Shut Up!
Can’t Keep My Hands Off You
Jump (snippet of I Gotta Feeling)
When I’m Gone
Addicted
Freaking Me Out
You Suck At Love
Thank You
Your Love Is A Lie
Astronaut
Summer Paradise
Covers medley: Moves Like Jagger, Dynamite, I’m Sexy and I Know It
Jet Lag
The Worst Day Ever
This Song Saved My Life
Welcome To My Life
I’d Do Anything
ENCORE:
Loser Of The Year
I’m Just A Kid
SECOND ENCORE:
Perfect
ComentáriosCategory: Photos
Recentely, Simple Plan was shooted into one more picture session. Check it out, exclusively, one amazing picture from the photoshoot.
Unfortunately, there aren’t many informations about this.
ComentáriosCategory: News,Other,Photos
Check it out below, a picture from a photoshoot that Simple Plan did around 2011. All the guys were there, but Jeff Stinco.
There aren’t more informations about the session.
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One more autograph session was done. This time in Vaughan Mills, Ontario, on February 18th. Fans that were present could take pictures with the band and win some autographs. Check below some images:
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During their visit to Winnipeg, Sébastien Lefebvre and Chuck Comeau talked with the La Liberté. In the interview, they said that they think of composing more in French, since they succed in their French version of “Jet Lag”.
Interviewer: Will we have Simple Plan doing one more song in french one day?
Chuck: Absolutely! After all the success that we had with Jet Lag, I think we can repeat the dose and do another French song, yes.
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In February 16th, Simple Plan was in Winnipeg, where the guys did another concert of their Canadian tour. The website Winnipeg Free Press was accompanying the concert and wrote a short article about it. Check:
Montreal’s Simple Plan were the headliners and were the most polished of the lineup, as they should be with more than 10 years of touring experience under their belts. These guys are now arena-rock pros.
The band has found the right sweet spot of catchy guitar-driven pop-punk, goofy double entendres and emotional material that is ear-candy to music fans raised on Green Day (but born too late to see the Ramones).
Simple Plan kept their stage set, er, simple, with a red-and-white motif that extended from their amps to the backing videos that brought to mind the setup once used by the White Stripes.The quintet wasted no time in getting the crowd into it with an opening trio of zippy songs: Shut Up, Can’t Keep My Hands off You and Jump, which had vocalist Pierre Bouvier leaping from risers on both sides of the stage while his bandmates hopped on the spot.
They kept the 90-minute set moving along with a mixture of playful uptempo numbers from all four of their albums designed to get kids singing and dancing in their seats along with some serious ballads. New songs from the band’s latest album Get Your Heart On — Freaking Me Out, You Suck at Love and Astronaut — were treated with the same excitement as older crowd favourites like Addicted and Thank You. Giant beach balls fell from the ceiling and were batted around by the crowd during the strummy Summer Paradise.
Press time came before the end of the show, but the band has been ending things off with Loser of the Year, I’m Just a Kid and Perfect on their current Canadian tour.
Beyond that, the guys were in another Pro Hockey Life store to another autograph session. Check the two pictures below:
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Recently we posted in our website that Pierre Bouvier, Sébastien Lefebvre and Jeff Stinco went bowling with the guitar player in All Time Low, Jack Barakat. Now, all the members of Simple Plan together with All Time Low and These Kids Wear Crowns went bowling. Check the picture below:
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As all should already know, recently Simple Plan was doing their Asian tour. To remember the best moments of the tour and tell to their fans with details how everything happened, the band drummer, Chuck Comeau, wrote an article about it to Le Huffington Post Québec. Check the translation below:
For my first blog on Huff Post Quebéc, I thought of taking you with us to our travel around Asia, and give you a sample of the tour life. It was three intensive weeks of shows, airports, busy life and unforgettable moments waiting for you.
January 4th, 2012
After a brief pause to the festivities period, we are already returning to the airplane and on the road too, bound for Beijing. The flight to China lasts almost 15 hours. I already bought tons of magazines, loaded my laptop and we got on the plane! The whole band travels together, and till the last second, we send messages and e-mails, before the plane takes off. We became masters at camouflaging our cell phones and using it without the knowledge of the agent board. However, there’s no way to do as Alex Baldwin and be put out. We have a little bit more than 15 shows to do in Asia, and our fans are waiting impatiently.
We arrived in Beijing and I’ll tell you something: we don’t believe in the Dorval here! The airport terminal of Beijing – capital is so big that we say it can fit ten football stadiums! Check made is the second largest airport terminal in the world. It’s impressive! Almost as impressive as the airline, that changed the fifteen bags of the band and the technique team. Ok, we’re used to that… We will find it tomorrow some minutes before the concert.At the arriving, we were welcomed for sedans, with the Simple Plan logo printed (they told us that changed the vans and minibus), and we follow to a press conference to the announcement of the Jet Lag release in mandarin, a new Chinese version of the first extract of our new album, Get Your Heart On! A light snow was falling in the capital of china, and near to two in the morning, I fell in a deep sleep.
The shows in Beijing and Shanghai went perfectly well, and we change the Chinese continent for Taiwan. We don’t have time to visit and be a tourist today; we should go directly from the airport to the place where we will play to do the soundcheck and prepare the concert. More than two thousand fans are already in the line and their enthusiasm helps us to overcome the painful effects of the Jet Lag, which are being felt in so powerful form this night.
The craziness was unleashed, and we really had pleasure in play to them this night. After the concert, the fans waited us behind the place, in a parking lot, and we took a time to autograph before return to the hotel. Feeling a rest of energy, I decided to do a short night walk to see a little bit of Tapei. In the last time we were there, I went up to the top of Tapei 101, one of the highest towers in the world. In this time, my memories are hundreds of little bikes passing by the hotel streets and that stayed in my travel’s memory… A real tide of two wheels that circulate around the city.
January 9th, 2012
On the following morning, a meet in the reception at 9:30AM, to another way to the airport. In this time, head for Hong Kong, one of my favorites destinations in Asia. We arrived in the end of the day and had a free night to visit. Of the Grand Hyatt window, the view of the port was spectacular.
We had dinner together with our team and local producer. After, I took to go seeing the absolutely crazy skyline of Hong Kong. The absurd number of real estate, one side to another, in a perfect alignment, can take our breath away. No camera can do justice with this demonstration of urban force and even the eyes seem not measure the amplitude of this show. To a architecture lover as me, it’s really delicious. In the next Day, during the morning, I’ll take a closer look to the HSBC tower and the IFC tower, which we nicknamed as “Batman Tower”, because of its outstanding role in the movie The Dark Night, as the magnificent points and the hundreds of giant cranes that bypass the small base. Jeff, Pierre and David took a time to go to the Sam The Tailor, and to confection tailored clothing, since Hong Kong is one of the bests place in the world to do this kind of shopping. Beside all these adventures, we found out time to do our concert, and the HK fans demonstrated again that this point of Asia is very special and unbelievable to our band.
January 12th, 2012
We landed in Philippines and the contrast with Hong Kong was very radical. It’s completely another universe, and Manila is far from resembling HK. Here, the economics inequalities and the poverty are very clear, and we can see that many people live in conditions extremely hard. However, I don’t believe that there is a nation nicer and more smiling than them. It’s unbelievable how everyone seems so happy for meeting us again. We autographed to Customs agents, agent boards, to the people in the hotel, the taxi drivers… Sincerely, I’m not sure if they know our song, but there’s no problem, we don’t feel unwelcome! The show this night was in the Araneta Coliseum, arena where happened the legendary combat “Thrilla in Manila”, starring Joe Frasier and Muhamed Ali. We did an outdoor concert, and 5000 people were there to have fun with us. During Perfect, the last song we played, I took a time to take some photographs and save it as a memory of this extraordinary craziness.
January 14th, 2012
We visited now the Kuala Lumpur and some hours before the concert, the producer suggested us to go dinner in a restaurant that intends to offer the prettiest view in the world. We are somewhat like skeptical but even like this, we decided to go. What a great choice we did! The place is really amazing, with a pool in the middle of the restaurant (really cool), but nonetheless, a W-O-N-D-E-R-F-U-L view, one of the most beautiful buildings and icons of the world, the Petronas Towers! We had dinner taking dozens and dozens of photographs before finally playing to our Malaysian fans. An unforgettable night.
January 15th, 2012
Today, we’re in Singapore, micro country with a beauty that can take your breath away. Everything is green, careful hand, and so clean that we thought the city was a private coup club or a Ritz Carlton’s center. Talking about Ritz, today we stayed there and everybody smiled while seeing the hotel. The temperature is almost 32 ºC degrees and it’s very wet, but even like this, the concert was in the street, this night, and no one dared complain about the mud puddles! After the concert, we went to an after-party in the brand new Marina Bay Sands, built by an astronomic cost of 6 millions of dollars, the second casino more expensive in the world. We drank some drinks in the terrace, beside a long pool, and looked at the city from the top. It’s crazy and worth clicking in the link to see the pictures.
January 17th, 2012
Today, we’re in Jakarta, Indonesia, and tomorrow it will be Surabaya. In the morning of the show in Jakarta, Jeff and I went out of the bed very, very earlier than musicians on tour usually do (7AM!!!) just to participate in a TV show in a big channel of the country. One of the craziest experiences that I already experienced! A real show of madness impossible to describe, where I was asked in marriage by Dany Turcotte from Philippines (and I said YES!), and where Jeff should try playing in a guitar that was not being tuned for at least 10 years. So much Rock ‘n’ roll for one morning! But it was not the end of the world… We recovered our forces a little before the concert in the tennis stadium of the capital. The Indonesia is one of the best places to a band in Asia, and the show was crazy! There was 7000 fans that sang, screamed and jumped with us… A perfect way to end our tour in the Southeast Asia! Tomorrow, we will go to Japan to stay for 11 days. In the next blog, I’ll tell you my impressions about this absolutely incredible country!
See you soon!Chuck Comeau
ComentáriosCategory: Get Your Heart On!
Simple Plan’s project is no longer a surprise: SP x3 The surprise that the guys have talked the most has been released: Here it goes: the next single, “Summer Paradise” got a new version, with a new featuring: Sean Paul, a jamaican singer. The guys also joked about that SP 3 nickname is: Simple Plan, Sean Paul and Summer Pradise.
Check it out below the video with the new audio:
Check it out the advertisment audio as well.
And if you want to purchase the song on iTunes, click here.
