Simple Plan - Straight Talking, Good Looking and Still Not Getting Any?

03 December 2008

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Simple Plan are finally back with a delicious new single, Save You and hopefully a gorgeous follow-up album some time in 2009.

After they confessed to Still Not Getting Any back in 2004, I caught up with Pierre Bouvier to end his dry spell and find out about the guys’ latest release, what they really think of the Foo Fighters and Dave Ghrol and cuddling Cougars.

Hey Pierre, how are you?

Fantastic, how are you?

I’m super good, how are you enjoying your UK gigs?

We just did our first one in Liverpool last Tuesday and it was great. We hadn’t played there in a long time and the shows were great, the fans were great and there was nothing out of the ordinary or extraordinary.

Fun times! So what is it like coming back after so long, are there still the same faces on the front row?

Yeah, there are a lot of people we recognise; even on this European tour there are still five or six people that are there for the entire tour and playing to some of the same people every night is kinda cool

Wow, dedication! So what has been your most memorable gig to date?

In my life ever? [FF; Yup!] I would have to say pass! No, I would probably say playing the arena back home in Montreal; the first time we played there it was about three years ago and it was sold out to 14, 000 people and it was a very emotional moment coming back after touring round the world and having such a great response it was very memorable for me and possibly the most memorable moment of my life.

Given the chance, who would you love to go out on tour with?

I’d love to go on tour with the Foo Fighters because I think Dave Ghrol seems like a really nice guy and I would like to hang out with him. He seems to be a normal, cool guy and he has achieved so much and seen so much in his life. I think he would be cool to hang out with. And the rest of the guys as well! Foo Fighters: Good music, cool guys.

Aww, delicious. So, tell us a bit about your new single Save You

Well it’s great and it’s a song about my brother Jay, who is a few years older than me and was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma cancer and he had a very difficult battle with it over two years and the song is about how I felt whilst he was going into treatment and not being sure if he was going to make it or not.

Does the latest album still sound like old-skool Simple Plan or have you adopted a different sound?

No, I think that it’s taken a different turn as every album we make, we try to evolve and make it sound a little different from the previous albums; we don’t want to keep making the same album over and over again. But all in all it still sounds like Simple Plan which is just really catchy music, every song on the new album is different; there are fast songs, slow songs and heavy songs and there are some blends of urban styles, some rock songs… it’s all over the place so it’s kinda hard to describe, but I think if anyone loved Simple Plan before, they will love this album even more.

Ooh, I love it! So to anyone who still hasn’t heard of you, how would you describe the band in four words?

Energetic, Catchy, Melodic, and lyrically very personal.

What have you guys been getting up to since the release of your last album, Still Not Getting Any?

It’s been about eight years! we’ve just been travelling and doing the same thing in different places; playing shows, seeing the world, doing interviews, meeting people and sleeping on buses and sometimes having a couple of days off at home. The majority of the past eight or nine years have consisted of us playing shows almost every day and living our dream I guess.

Wonderful, but aside from your good selves, who do you think is the best artist on the music scene today?

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