Category Archives: 6th album

Jeff working on new ideas in his home recording studio

AUTHOR: Dominika | 30. September 2018 | no comments

With the beginning of fall, the time has come for the members of Simple Plan to hold up to their promise and start working on their upcoming album. And while we’re still waiting for a confirmation on whether Chuck and Pierre already started working on their song-writing in LA, it seems like at least some of the members of the band on the opposite coast of North America have already begun their work.

Jeff Stinco, who resides in Montreal, published a new photo on Instagram two days ago, on which he can be seen working on some new ideas in his home studio. The lead guitarist accompanied this picture by the caption:

“Finally committing some ideas to my hard drive. #homestudio #recording”

– Jeff Stinco –

If Jeff is truly working on ideas concerning Simple Plan’s new music, this would mean the official beginning of the process of the creation of their sixth album. I know many of you are most eager to know when you’ll finally be able to enjoy some new Simple Plan music on your headphones, but at this point it would be utterly impossible to get a specific release date from the band.

However, be assured that the band is aware that the fans have already waited long enough and their goal is to release at least some new music (even if not the full album) for you to enjoy as soon as early next year. This will hopefully become more clear once the guys truly fully dive into the songwriting process. Keep checking back for more info on the process of making of SP album 6 in our news section or in the following special section on SimplePlan.cz:

Info about album #6

Sebastien on what we can expect from next Simple Plan album in a new Alternative Press interview

AUTHOR: Dominika | 16. September 2018 | no comments

While on Warped Tour this summer, the journalists from Alternative Press caught up with Seb Lefebvre from Simple Plan and asked him a number of fairly interesting questions to get to know him a little better. The questions revolved around topics such as his name for a potential SP tribute band, which band he would like to cover some Simple Plan songs, which SP song would he re-write if he could… and also the obvious topic of the next Simple Plan album came up.

Alternative Press asked: ‘What can fans expect from a follow up to Taking One For The Team?’ – and Seb’s answer? Check it out below!

I think just another fun album, you know. I think we’re always very slow at writing, so I think the plan is that right after the Warped Tour we’re gonna start writing and as soon as we have something decent, we’re gonna put it out – right away. Cause, you know, it’s fun!

– Seb Lefebvre –

We’re happy to hear that Simple Plan still plan on releasing the album as fast as they can and hopefully not take as long with the process of creating it, as they’ve done previously (in the past the process has taken about a year and half each time, writing sessions included). From Seb’s words we can also see that Chuck’s idea of ‘releasing the new album in batches’ (that he shared in an interview earlier this year), seem to still be in the band’s mind and we might actually get some new SP music quicker, but the whole album would be released over a longer period of time, in parts.

Could we be looking at a 2019 release date then? Let’s cross our fingers! What would YOU like the next Simple Plan album to be like? Let us know in the comments below!

In the next couple of months we will continue updating you on everything about the process of making album no. 6 so if you want to constantly be in the loop, keep checking our news section. For all the major updates, you can also always check back to our dedicated section regarding this new album, which you can access by clicking the button below:

Info about album #6

What are the members of Simple Plan up to in September?

AUTHOR: Dominika | 15. September 2018 | no comments

You’ve probably noticed that over the past few weeks, the news around Simple Plan have become slower and slower, as the band members returned to their homes in order to have some downtime and regain strength before the next big important step: the making of album #6.

But what exactly have the boys been up to in the past few weeks besides filming Summertime Dropouts? Let’s see!

Sebastien

While at home, Sebastien tries to divide his time between his family, friends and his hobbies, one of which includes working on music with other artists. As of right now, Sebastien hinted on his Instagram that he’s “got a few things to work on” in his home studio, which could mean he might be working with more artists on their new music, but he could also be working on some Simple Plan-related stuff. And speaking of music-related stuff – earlier this week, Sebastien attended the opening of a new Sennheiser office in Montreal, Canada, in order to support the brand that has been supporting Simple Plan with their audio gear for a very long-time.

Besides Seb’s music, we could hopefully also expect season 27 of his and Patrick’s Idobi radio show Man Of The Hour to grace the internet radio waves with its presence soon, so we’re sure there will be a lot more Sebastien-related news coming soon.

Jeff

For the past few weeks, Jeff Stinco has been very active on Instagram, where he started a “100 days of practice” challenge. In it, Jeff aims to practice his guitar-playing skills every day for a 100 days, while sharing some of his best videos on social media. Make sure to follow his Instagram to watch these videos, which include compositions such as Pink Floyd’s ‘Is There Anybody Out There’ or John Mayer’s ‘Slow Dancing In A Burning Room’ – definitely worth checking out!

Other than that, Jeff has stated that he’s been enjoying the last days of summer at his lake house, where he likes to spend most of his time playing with power tools and stacking wood for the winter.

Pierre and Chuck

Both Pierre and Chuck have been mostly silent on social media recently about their current going-ons. We can imagine that both of them are trying to make up for all the time spend on the road far away from their families by actually being present and enjoying their children while they can.

It shouldn’t take long and hopefully very soon we should finally hear the first news about this song-writing duo getting back together, as they should be just about to start working on new Simple Plan songs – because after all, that is where the beginnings of any Simple Plan album creating process always start – with these two in one room, discussing music, lyrics and ideas.

David

It’d be impossible to write a piece on the members of Simple Plan and not include David, as despite his absence on tour for over a year now, due to his struggles with depression, he’s still a member of Simple Plan. Currently there are no news available to us regarding David’s situation, but we sincerely hope that he is using this time off to get better and regain all the strength he will need whenever he rejoins the band on stage again in the future.

What’s next for Simple Plan? Time off & new record as soon as possible!

AUTHOR: Dominika | 14. August 2018 | no comments

Now that Simple Plan played their final show of the TOFTT tour cycle and the tour is officially over, the time has come for the members of SP to finally get back home to their families and enjoy some well-deserved time off.

However, in just a couple weeks, Pierre and Chuck will get back to song-writing and while that process usually lasts at least a year, there are some signs that say that might not be the case this time around! And while we want to be cautious about believing that the record will be out “soon”, the guys have been making it very clear for the past couple of months in various interviews, that they do not want to take as long as they once used to to make this album happen.

Yesterday, after returning back home to California, Pierre updated his Instagram Stories with a little update, where he once again confirmed that Simple Plan’s goal is still to release record no. 6 much sooner than the records before – even talking about a “record timing”. Check out what Pierre said below:

‘And then, of course, create some new music. I got my studio back there in the back yard – gonna work on that in the next few weeks and months and hopefully we’ll get you guys a new record in a record timing. We don’t wanna take too long this time. But yeah – next step in life: new album!’

– Pierre Bouvier –

As of right now, it seems that the song-writing sessions could begin in the fall (perhaps September?) and we’ve also already heard that there might be some new music – whether a single or a few songs – ready early next year, but don’t hold on to that information, all of that can still easily change.

Simple Plan also published a farewell-to-their-tour post on their Instagram, in which they reassured their fans that the process of making the album will be well-documented on their social media channels, so we don’t need to be afraid of any silence from their part:

‘This weekend, we played our last show before we start working on new music and a new album. Since the release of TOFTT in early 2016 and continuing with the NPNHJB Anniversary celebrations, we traveled all over the world twice and toured non-stop for almost 3 years in a row. It’s been an amazing adventure and we would like to thank every single fan who came to see us play and made these shows so magical.

Now it’s time to go home, get inspired and come back with new songs for all of you. 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 We can’t wait to see what the next chapter brings as we head into 20 years as a band in 2019! 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻Don’t worry – we will keep posting and updating you on our progress. Thanks for all the support and see you all very soon!’

– Simple Plan –

As you could have noticed, Simple Plan correctly noted that the band’s 20th anniversary is coming up next year, since the band officially formed in 1999 (back then, still without David), which makes us think that perhaps that might be one of the reasons why Simple Plan want to hurry up the record-making process. Could be expect a 20th anniversary tour? Or some other special 20th anniversary surprise? We shall see!

Stay tuned for more info as Simple Plan get back to song-writing in a few weeks!

In the meantime, let us know: what sort of direction do you expect Simple Plan to go with on their sixth album? What would you like to hear from them?

Sebastien reveals new possible interesting plans regarding the production of Simple Plan’s 6th album in The Maine’s podcast

AUTHOR: Dominika | 16. July 2018 | no comments

While on Warped Tour, two members of The Maine (Pat Kirch and Garrett Nickelsen) recently interviewed Sebastien from Simple Plan in the back of their tour bus and band member to band member got him talking about some very interesting music-related topics in their The 8123 Podcast. In the 40 minutes of this interview, Sebastien discussed how Simple Plan got their first big break, how they invented the word “vlog”, described the struggles of putting together a setlist of all their greatest hits and how interesting it is to have certain songs only popular in certain regions.

In this article, we’d like to point out one particular part of the interview, in which Seb talked about the band’s plans for their upcoming 6th album. Originally, Simple Plan mentioned in various interviews that they might start working on it during Warped Tour, but as expected, due to how straining this tour has been and that there isn’t really that much free time between sleeping, traveling, playing and meeting fans, it doesn’t seem to be very likely the guys will start song-writing while on the road anytime soon. The plan now seems to be to start working on album #6 as soon as they’re off the road.

However, there still seems to be plenty of unanswered questions regarding how the process of making of this new Simple Plan record will be conducted. In this interview, Sebastien noted that there are many opinions within the band regarding the producer they could go with and what his approach to the new album should be. According to Seb, the band is ready to try producing music on their own and get a producer for just a few songs. But will that hold with the rest of the band? That remains to be seen. Read Seb’s quote below:

“… and now I think we’re ready to go the way of like: ‘Let’s get a producer for a couple singles and just work out the rest on our own!’ You know? I think we’re ready for that. I don’t know, though. There’s a lot of headbutting in my band, so… Everybody’s got a strong opinion about a lot of things. So there needs to be someone that kinda comes in and sort of calls the shot in the end. And I don’t think it can be one of us. You know… I guess we’ll see. After a couple weeks we’ll know if we need to bring in someone or just keep doing it on our own.“

– Seb Lefebvre –

Another interesting fact we’ve learned from this interview is that the band still considers releasing their album in batches, as first suggested by Chuck in an interview back in April. Sebastien agrees that with how times have changed in the music industry and with platforms such as Spotify being here always available for fans’ instant music needs, it is not necessary for artists to release full albums – instead we can possibly expect just a few new Simple Plan songs perhaps early next year. Check out Seb’s thoughts expressed in the interview below:

Oh, I think we’re gonna start writing as soon as we can. We’re slow. We’re always slow… […] Now we’re two and half years after our last release and we don’t really have songs yet. So hopefully early next year, there’s gonna be… cause it’s a different landscape – we don’t have to wait for full albums. Let’s release a couple songs early next year and once we have like a body of work, we’ll release that! I’m thinking… We’ll see. But that would feel nice, you know? Our fans would be happy, we’d be happy – we’d feel like we’re moving forward… get back on tour, you know?

– Seb Lefebvre –

If you’re interested and have some 40 minutes to spare, we definitely recommmend listening to the whole interview with Sebastien on The 8123 Podcast to get some more insight into the music industry through the eyes of the members of The Maine and Simple Plan: