The world of Simple Plan

Först lade Simple Plan upp A rock 'n roll love story of epic proportions på sin hemsida; en riktigt rolig video där de porträtterade hårdrockare och verkligen bjöd på sig själva!
Sedan hade de gjort en ny video, där de porträtterar rappare, hahaha, så jäkla roligt! Totally hilarious, I love these guys!

Yo- yo- yo! MC Double D - check your beeper so we can do this sh--

What up what up, straight out of Montreal this is Simple P in the howse! Check it, P Dubbie, Sebby Fresh, Funky C, Double D and Jean-François about to bust a rhyme in this b*tch!

Hope you enjoy the new site as we continue to kick it old-school. 514 represent!

Som sagt så tar Simple Plan sig tid att göra live video chats med sina fans inför det kommande släppet av Get Your Heart On!. De har sagt att de ska göra det veckovis, en chat i veckan, och här kommer chat nummer två, sänt från när de var i Berlin, Tyskland!



Om man inte orkar se hela chatten, så är detta några "höjdpunkter" (eller vad man ska kalla det) enligt mig! :

01.34 - The new sign for Get Your Heart on!
02.05 - "We've got people from Sweden", of course, woho!
04.35 - Madonna is with them!
05.22 - Cher is in the house, haha!
05.53 - Madonna and Cher and Simple Plan!
08.07 - Jag gillar att Pierre sitter i mitten, he should be in the center, haha!
09.34 - "Let's take off our shirts", woho, nudity! Haha!
10.35 - De kan verkligen inte prata italienska! (Tortellini? Sista utvägen eller? Haha!)
11.27 - "Jeff, you always keep your hair like that?", haha, priceless!
11.34 - De säger något på svenska, woho!
11.47 - Pierre and his hands!
14.54 - Pierre should not wear glasses... Haha!
18.28 - Blondes or brunettes? (Pierre svarade rätt iaf!)
19.05 - Pierre, still a virgin?? Yeah right! Haha!
19.21 - Pierre looking like a squirrel? (19.33 - "You look like a beaver", hahaha!)
21.58 - De ger bort en Ultimate Fan Bundle! (22.33 - Tävlingen!)


Den var inte lika lång som den förra, men de är lika härliga som alltid, they always make me laugh!

Hahaha, de här killarna är ju för härliga! (Ja, jag vet, jag har sagt det förut, men det tål att upprepas!) De kan alltid få en på så jäkla bra humör, framför allt när de drar fram sin riktigt flummiga sida!
Här har de gjort... Ja, vad ska man kalla det? En total "parodi" av 'rockers', and it's hilarious, hahaha!


BEHIND THE MUSIC: THE SP'S, A ROCK 'N ROLL LOVE STORY...



Party On Dudes!
Chuck here…what??! Huh??! *muffle*
Sorry guys…Pierre here….Chuck’s gone a little deaf…with all that guitar killing…I mean playing
No no no – David here – I want to say something! Hey guys – this is the coolest #$%^ in the world - do you dig my drumming?
Jeff – actually – no – I can’t hear it…
Seb – well if you turn down your guitar!!!
Chuck back again – apologies to all we're just dickin' around – enjoy the site! ;)

...to an SP concert to badly! Det poppar upp nya destinationer på deras turné-lista då och då, och de har nu redan varit i Tyskland, Polen, Frankrike, England och Holland i Europa (och de ska även till Italien och Schweiz), men Sverige då?? Väntar otåligt på att det datumet ska ploppa upp, för då kommer jag köpa biljetter direkt, spelar ingen roll när det är, jag ska dit!


Fan va härliga de är! Det här är från en konsert 2009, och de har här gjort ett party medley på låtar av Ke$ha och Lady GaGa, nice!


Kom till Sverige snart killar, we want you here! (Ja, 'we'. I know for a fact att det inte bara är jag som vill att de ska komma hit!)

Waiting anxiously for a tour date to be set!

Som tack för att han fick 100000 'followers' på sin twitter så lade ju Pierre upp en video där han spelade trummor till låten Can't Take My Hands Off You, och detta är del två i hans tack - en live video chat med sina fans!

(Den är lite seg i början, för när han skulle se till att få igång chatten och så, så egentligen kan man börja kolla på 02.30, eller snarare 03.15!)
(Och jag tycker det är lite synd att han inte fick så många bra frågor, att de flesta handlade om vilka artister han gillar eller så... Jag tycker iaf det kan finnas mycket roligare och intressantare frågor att ställa då han faktiskt tagit sig tid att spela in det här!)



I just gottta say though - he's darn cute! 


Några "höjdpunkter" att se, eller vad man ska kalla det (om man inte skulle orka se hela...):

11.34 - "speaking of Hawaii"! Hehe, cute
25.28 - Delilah! (Hans hund) Naw!
27.50 - "Delilah's licking my neck", haha, gulligt!
30.10 - talking spanish! Haha!
31.44 - talking german, hahaha!


Ja alltså, den här chatten är mycket lugnare än chatten med allihopa tillsammans (obviously; flumkillar!), men lite smårolig att se på ändå!

Jag har tidigare nämnt vad Simple Plans fjärde album heter, men jag har inte lagt upp denna video förut, där de faktiskt annoncerar albumtiteln, och den är jäkligt härlig, som alla deras videor alltid är, haha!




Diggar titeln alltså, så jäkla nice och fyndigt, hahaha! (Som sagt, uttala det högt, hehehe)
Alla deras album har ju egentligen hetat något, hrm, "speciellt", så att säga;

No Pads, No Helmets... Just Balls
Still Not Getting Any...
Simple Plan (okej, kanske inte denna då..)
Get Your Heart On!


I live chatten med Simple Plan som jag lagt upp pratar de lite om detta om deras albumtitlar, och ja, haha, vad ska man säga, "förklarar" de lite, haha! (Och där får de även in album nr.3 i detta, haha) (Kolla på 18.44 så får ni lite utav en förklaring till deras albumtitlar där, haha!)

Hur häftigt är inte detta? En 13-årig kille fick träffa och "jamma" med Simple Plan, snacka om stort för honom!
Han var vinnare i ett event skapat av Simple Plan foundation, där de aktionerade ut just detta, att få jamma med dem! (Så hans familj lär ju ha haft bra mycket med pengar! Men de går ju faktiskt till ett bra ändamål!)

För att förklara Simple Plan foundation lite och vad de gör:


It was in December 2005, at Simple Plan’s first headlining concert at the Bell Centre that the band announced the creation of the Simple Plan Foundation.

Why a foundation?

The foundation is there to help young people in need and has three specific goals:

1- finding ways to help teenagers deal with the often difficult passage to adulthood.

2- helping and supporting young people who are the victims of life threatening illnesses.

3- Encouraging and promoting the practice of music as a privileged tool to help young kids find a passion in life, keeping them away from street gangs and criminality, and preventing them from dropping out of school. The Foundation also supports musicotherapy programs to help sick young people.


(Läs mer här! De gör verkligen ett superbra arbete!)

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Detta är vad som stod om just detta på deras News-sida! :



A JAM SESSION WITH SIMPLE PLAN : AN UNFORGETTABLE EXPERIENCE !

15 mai 2011

When they were in Montreal recently, the Simple Plan members invited the winner of the prize, that had been put up for auction last November 14 at the Club sportif MAA, to join them to jam a few songs and to play music together.

Matthew McCormack, a young SP fan who is particularly talented in music, was absolutely delighted by his experience. He was accompanied by the members of his family, who also seemed to have enjoyed their afternoon, just as the members of the band who took pleasure in sharing these moments with them.

We wish Matthew a lot of success in all his projects !



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At the last Simple Plan foundation event, Matt and his family were very generous, and made a donation to be able to Jam with Simple Plan. This is what happened. (Källa)



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Who says money can't buy happiness? If I had a lot of money and could donate that to a good cause and by that get to meet these guys, I would be so happy!

Jag älskar när Simple Plan lägger upp Beyond the video/Behind the scenes från inspelningen av deras musikvideor, så jäkla roligt att se på! (HÄR är den förra de lagt upp!)

Här är Beyond the video till låten Jet Lag, alltså behind the scenes till deras underbara musikvideo till den låten!
Love those guys, they're awesome, as I've said before; they always make me smile!

" Thursday, January 24, 2008

Save you

A couple of days ago on the spinning wheel of news on www.simpleplan.com i talk about a song called save you.

I've received a few messages asking my about the song and what it's about. i guess i didn't realize that many of you were not aware of what exactly happened to my brother even though i've touched the subject in many interviews so I just wanted to let you all know the whole story.

A little over two years ago my brother Jay started feeling sick... He thought nothing of it but after a while he realized that his condition wasn't improving and decided to consult a doctor. After some extensive tests he was informed that he had non-hodgkins lymphoma cancer. He had a tumor the size of a baseball in his lymph nodes near the pelvis area. The doctors told him his cancer was a stage 4 which is pretty bad but that this type of cancer was very treatable and that basically if you were to have cancer, this is the one you "want" since it is usually cured with some chemotherapy.

He was immediately put under the care of one of Canada's top oncologists and started chemo therapy which consisted of him going to the hospital and sitting on a bed for a couple of hours every week while chemo was injected into his veins. The way that it works is like injecting poison into your blood stream to kill everything, good and bad cells, in hopes of wiping out all the bad ones so that eventually only non cancerous cells survive and regenerate themselves. Apparently you dont feel much, but the side effects come later. Nausea, vomiting, pain, eventually loss of hair etc etc... Jay was positive throughout the whole treatment and never showed any sign of weakness to everyone's surprise.

After those initial chemo-therapy sessions, he was sent home and told to stay away from people, restaurant foods and anything that might bring him in contact with outside germs because his immune system was rendered useless by the treatments. The slightest cold could cause a chain reaction of infections and complicate things and be very dangerous for his health. A few months later, after waiting for some test results, the doctor said that everything looked good and that the cancer cells were gone so obviously everyone was ecstatic! We all celebrated together and felt lucky that it was all over...

Little did we know that some cancer cells were basically just hiding. A short time after Jay was told that his battle was over, he felt another lump forming in his armpit and after some testing the doctors concluded that it was another tumor. Your lymph nodes are part of your blood system so it is not uncommon for the cancer to move around thus making it harder to pinpoint and to eliminate it.

Now the doctor was saying that the cancer was very aggressive and that chemo might not be enough to get rid of it. he would have to undergo a bone marrow transplant and was now told that he had 50/50 chance of surviving this cancer.

Needless to say, this was a tough reality to face for my entire family. My parents were devastated and so was I along with my oldest brother and everyone that knew Jay. You can't help but think: "This kinda shit doesn't happen!!! How is this possible at the age of 28??? This is the kinda thing you hear about in movies and sad tv shows, not in our lives!!" I can't really describe the sadness and frustration that we were all feeling, but still through all of this, Jay didn't show any sign of giving up.

In late november 2006, Jay checked into the hospital for his bone marrow transplant. Here is how it works:

Your bone marrow is what creates your blood cells. With today's technology, a bone marrow transplant consists of extreme sessions of chemo-therapy to the point where your bone marrow is completely drained and no longer capable of creating new blood cells. At that point the recipient is injected with a donor's blood stem cells that produce blood cells. In this case, both me and my oldest brother were compatible and the doctors chose my brother Jonathan as the donor. He was given a drug that would force his bone marrow to over produce these blood generating cells which were after extracted to inject into Jay's veins. When these cells were given to Jay, his body was forced to start producing what essentially is Jonathan's bone marrow instead of his own. Weird right? Now they both share the same bone marrow.

All of this seems quite simple but in reality the chemo sessions prior to a bone marrow transplant are so heavy that they basically take you inches away from death in order to "drain" your bone marrow. Jay was placed in a tiny hospital room for over 30 days where he was never aloud to leave and no one could enter without latex gloves, a mask, a medical gown and hat that covers all your clothes and hair. His condition went from decent to horrible as the chemotherapy was doing its job killing everything in his blood stream. His immune system went completely dead and he started having infections in his mouth and throat just from breathing. He became unable to eat and eventually unable to speak because his mouth and throat were covered in huge ulcers that made him look like he swallowed a football. He lost every bit of hair on his body and lost so much weight that he was practically unrecognizable. He had to be given blood transfusions constantly until his own system could start producing normal cells again. It was hard to believe he would ever recover but he still never showed a sign of weakness.

After about 30 days of being locked up in this cell, Jay's blood cell count started climbing on it's own which meant that he was responding to the transplant. All of his infections slowly susbsided and he was eventually sent home a little before christmas of 2006 a fragile, broken man. He explained to me how difficult it was to be in there for so long, not being aloud to see anyone without mask and fully covered in gloves and gown. Not being aloud to be touched or hugged, loosing the ability to speak and to eat but still having to get up and vomit constantly. Lets just say he was glad to be out of there.

Now he had a new challenge to face. His body was so weakened from being locked in a room for so long, sick everyday and unable to move that even getting out of bed was now exhausting. Walking around the house was enough to make him short of breath. The doctors said he had to wait until june to have more tests done and to see if the transplant had been successful. In the meantime he had to be monitored for symptoms of bone marrow rejection which can later happen and cause many problems and over the next months, Jay slowly started walking and eating normally and getting back on his feet, but he had long and steep hill to climb.

In june of 2007, he got the amazing news that the transplant had been successful and that he was officially cancer free. He has been ever since and now lives a normal life again, working, enjoying sports and loving every minute of it. His hair, eyebrows, eyelashes and all body hair eventually grew back even thicker than before and thanks to Jonathan's bone marrow, he is no longer allergic to cats and does not have any seasonal allergies either.

We keep our fingers crossed and hopefully Jay will never have cancer again.


Pierre. "

Visste ni att Simple Plan har varit med i ett avsnitt av Scooby Doo? Och att det är de som sjunger ledmotivet till What's New Scooby Doo? Japp, it's true. Och de var då med i avsnittet Simple Plan and the Invisible Madman! 
Jag tycker det är väldigt nice att Simple Plan är med i ett avsnitt av Scooby Doo, och gillar man Simple Plan eller Scooby Doo (eller både och!) så kan man gärna se det! :

Inför det kommande släppet av Get Your Heart On! så har Simple plan tagit sig tid att sitta ner och göra live chats då och då med sina fans! 
Detta var den första chatten, från Kanada, och de hade repat en väldans massa de senaste dagarna, så alla killarna var trötta och jätteflummiga, och chatten blev bara tok, massa flum och tokroligt, haha! Så vill ni få er ett gott skratt, se då denna, den är så jäkla rolig!



Några roliga höjdpunkter som man kan få sig ett gott skratt av att kika på, om man inte orkar se hela chatten! :

10.47 - taking off their clothes? 
12.30 (12.38) - haha, tokar!
13.10 - rundtur i deras studio!
18.44 - förklaring till deras albumtitlar!
26.00 - Pierre snackar spanska, haha!
27.27 - pratar om sin kommande film (27.44 - titeln på filmen)
34.44 - Pierre's sextape?!
35.00 - Pierre = a squirrel?
35.22 - trötta killar eller? Hahaha!
35.46 - som sagt, trötta och flummiga killar!
36.33 - Pierre och Kim Kardashian, som han ju sjunger om i sin twitter-låt!

(Man märker verkligen att de blir tröttare och tröttare, dvs flummigare och flummigare ju längre in i chatten man kommer, hahaha!)

Love their humour!

Jag ville verkligen vara där när fansen fick chans till att vara med i Jet Lag videon! Tyvärr är Toronto lite för långt bort från Uppsala (skulle jag ägt ett privat flygplan, så kanske...), men jag skulle väldigt gärna också få chans att träffa dessa härliga killar någon gång också!

Behind the scenes på videon av Can't Keep My Hands Off You med Simple Plan, awesome! Och jag måste bara säga; fan va härliga de är de här killarna!

Som tack för när han fick 100 000 followers på sin twitter så fixade Pierre en hel del roliga saker för sina fans, och den första är att han har spelat in då han spelar trummor till låten Can't Kepp My Hands Off You! Damn he's talentend! - Sjunger, spelar gitarr och spelar trummor!

"Here is me pursuing one of my passions... drums! I played over our song "Can't keep my hands off you" with my Vdrums. You'll notice a glitch at the end of the bridge. I had to cut and edit the drum fill cause i suck too much and i couldn't get it right the first take. LOL... Chuck is pretty good. Enjoy" (Pierre Bouvier)


Jag tycker han är jäklig duktig!

21:a Juni, ett väldigt viktigt datum!
See for yourselves! :



Va härliga de är, jag tycker alltid det är så himla kul att se någon av deras videor, tycker alltid de bjuder på så mycket humor och tokerier, haha!

Längtar tills 21:a Juni! Bara 3 dagar kvar nu!

Pierre, sångaren i bandet, är och kommer alltid att förbli min favorit, han är så himla gullig och go, och för ett atg sedan så lade han upp en Twitter-sång efter att ha fått 90000 "followers" på sin Twitter-kanal, så jäkla roligt, haha!
Låten är supergullig och jäkligt rolig (jag älskar alla hans små kommentarer, eller ja, jag älskar hela texten helt enkelt! This song really makes me laugh, haha!) I love him!




(Här har ett fan gjort en fanmade video till låten, med text och bilder och så, really nicely done!) :

Jag älskar verkligen dessa killar, de är så jäkla störtsköna och kan verkligen bjuda på sig själv, så jäkla roligt! Jag älskar att se deras videos, det är alltid kul när de kommer med någon ny!

Denna kom runt julen 2010, om deras första resa till Israel, och fan va goa de är alltså, haha, they're adorable!


Jag skulle också vilja resa till Israel, och ha så roligt som de verkar ha, haha!

Jag har tyvärr aldrig varit på en Simple Plan konsert. Vilken är så jäkla dumt, med tanke på att jag verkligen älskar det bandet! Men varje gång de har varit i Sverige har jag tyvärr missat dem, något har kommit ivägen, och jag har varit så ledsen för det varje gång...
Men nästa gång de kommer hit, då SKA jag gå, så är det bara!

Och detta, det skulle vara en drömkonsert för mig; en gemensam konsert med både Simple Plan och Good Charlotte, that would be awesome!

Denna video är ju bara för underbar, frickin' hilarious, jag skrattar som tusan varje gång jag ser den!

Jag bodde ett år i Frankrike för två år sedan (2008-2009), och när jag bodde där hittade jag denna härliga video. Så för alla som vill lära sig franska där ute, här har ni en franska lektion med Simple Plan! :