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YouTuber Elton Castee (TFIL) documents his on-stage moment with Simple Plan in a new vlog

AUTHOR: Dominika | 22. August 2018 | no comments

Popular American YouTuber Elton Castee, who can pride himself on 1.8 million subscribers on his TFIL YouTube channel, recently published his long-awaited vlog from Warped Tour in Orlando, FL, where he got to perform with Simple Plan alongside Set It Off’s Cody Carson and Story Untold’s Janick Thibault during ‘I’m Just A Kid’ [we’ve already reported on these special on-stage appearances in this article].

In one of his latest vlogs that he released this week, Elton share the story of how he asked Simple Plan if he could be a part of their ‘I’m Just A Kid’ thing they have been doing throughout all of Warped Tour, where Chuck and Pierre switch their roles and while Chuck crowdsurfs in the crowd and Pierre drums, a number of their singer friends are invited on the stage to finish the song with a microphone in their hand.

What’s amazing is that the video Elton posted has already been viewed over 80 000 times in just 2 days since its original upload. Check it out for yourself to see Simple Plan’s special I’m Just A Kid moment from a little different point of view:

Janick Thibault, Cody Carson & Elton Castee joined Simple Plan for I’m Just A Kid in Orlando

AUTHOR: Dominika | 5. August 2018 | 2 comments

On the second-to-last ever Warped Tour in Orlando, FL, Simple Plan brought another bunch of guys to perform I’m Just A Kid with the on stage, as a special surprise to the crowd that came to see them. This time around, Simple Plan welcomed on stage their old friends Janick Thibault from Story Untold, Cody Carson from Set It Off and the third personality to jump on the stage was Viner and YouTuber Elton Castee, who was later seen completely fangirling about this special opportunity on Twitter.

Check out a short clip of Janick, Cody and Elton singing I’m Just A Kid on stage with Simple Plan, while Pierre took over the drums and Chuck went crowdsurfing last night in Orlando:

EXCLUSIVE: Song ‘California’ on Story Untold’s new album originally written by Simple Plan

AUTHOR: Dominika | 14. February 2018 | no comments

Story Untold, a young pop-punk band from Canada, has been engraved into the minds of Simple Plan fans for a while now due to their close ties with the members of Simple Plan. Many of you will recognize Janick Thibault, Story Untold’s lead singer, who’s made it big on YouTube thanks to his covers of various pop-punk songs, including some by Simple Plan.

This has eventually led him to open for Simple Plan with his previous band called Amasic and over the years a friendship between him and Simple Plan has flourished. Janick has even co-written a number of songs with the members of Simple Plan for Story Untold’s first official, self-titled, EP.

On February 2nd Story Untold released their debut full-length album called ‘Waves’ and thanks to our reader Conner we found out that the album actually features one song originally written by Simple Plan. This song is called ‘California’ and according to the credits, it has been written by Chuck Comeau, Pierre Bouvier, John Feldmann and Nick Furlong (RAS). If we go back, these four song-writers got together back in November 2014 to do some song-writing for Simple Plan’s then-upcoming album (later becoming ‘Taking One For The Team’), so it is fairly clear to say that this song was written during some of those song-writing sessions.

Check out ‘California’ in full below:

Surely however you still must be wondering how Story Untold got ahold of this song in the first place. That’s why SimplePlan.cz reached out to Janick Thibault himself to give us a little background about this song and this is what he had to say about ‘California’ (thanks, Janick!):

“There is a lot of mature and dark songs on the album but we are all big fans of classic happy pop punk songs. This song stands out a bit from the other songs we have on the album but at the same time I think it’s very fun to listen to and to play live. It basically talks about someone who’s had enough and just want to throw everything away and move to California. It was actually written by Pierre and Chuck from Simple Plan. Back then, I basically emailed Chuck because I wanted to know if he had someone in mind that would and could help me write songs because I wanted to improve my songwriting. And just like that he sent me this song that they recorded with producer John Feldman. It didn’t really fit with the vibe of their latest album so they decided to give it to us and I thank them for that! I think every blink-182 or Good Charlotte fan is going to like it.”

– Janick Thibault (Story Untold) –

PHOTO: Simple Plan with Story Untold

AUTHOR: Dominika | 14. December 2017 | no comments

Story Untold is a young Canadian band that has had a very tight relationship with Simple Plan for quite some time. If the band name does not ring any bell to you, you may recall a band called Amasic – which previously featured some of Story Untold’s band members, most notably Janick Thibault, who’s been known in the SP fan circles for his Simple Plan covers on YouTube (read our interview with Janick here).

The two bands recently toured together again in the USA on Simple Plan’s final No Pads tour this year and at the tour’s end, they decided to take a picture together. Story Untold recently posted it on their social media and you can now also check it out in our gallery:

Janick Thibault (Story Untold) reveals tips on song-writing from Simple Plan

AUTHOR: Dominika | 9. July 2017 | no comments

CometaMusic recently did an interview with Janick Thibault from Story Untold, who Simple Plan fans may recall as a popular singer of SP covers and who eventually started a band – originally Amasic, now Story Untold, and who’s already had countless of opening spots for Simple Plan, as well as the opportunity to song-write with Pierre and Chuck a couple years ago [we discussed this topic in the SimplePlan.cz interview with him in 2014].

In the new interview, Janick once again recalled his whole history with Simple Plan and also revealed some tips he’s gotten from the members of Simple Plan regarding song-writing. You can watch the Simple Plan part of the interview with Janick on the video below around mark 1:15 and onward or read the transcription below:

Interviewer: “Speaking of Canada… you guys have a relationship with Simple Plan. Can you just quickly go over how that developed and what the relationship is today?”

Janick: Yeah, of course. Like I’ve said before, I used to post a lot of covers on YouTube and I once did a cover of their song This Song Saved My Life. And Chuck, the drummer for Simple Plan saw it and we actually talking. He tweeted me, he tweeted about the video and stuff and we just started talking. And we eventually got the chance to open for them, write songs with them and became kind of like friends through that cover.

Interviewer: And you actually had like a song-writing session with them… What was that like, if you can describe it?

Janick: It was awesome. I mean, Green Day, Simple Plan and Sum 41 were my biggest influences as a kid, so it was just awesome to get the chance to sit down and write songs with your child idols and stuff. It was just a really great learning experience. I learned a lot just by watching them… like the way they would pick up a guitar and start writing lyrics around like four chords. It was just amazing. And they’re like really nice guys and they gave us a lot of tips about writing and how they get inspiration and stuff like that.

Interviewer: Can you share like a big tip that’s opened your eyes?

Janick: I mean, just like… don’t get stuck on that one particular line in a song. Just keep going and maybe you can come back and see if that line doesn’t work or works. You know, sometimes you’re just like questioning yourself about writing songs. So just go for it and then sit back and check it out the day after and rewrite. I think that would be the biggest tip.

– CometaMusic interview with Janick Thibault – June 2017 [link] –