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A Confront Magazine az interjút még a Virgin Festen készítette.

If you have never been to a Virgin Festival (the label, for those sniggerers out there with dirty minds) you really must. Held at Parc Jean Drapeau over two days, this first installment of the V fest blew every other festival to hit the city out of the water. Where else could you see Black Eyed Peas, New Kids on the Block, Simple Plan, Hedley, Jesse McCartney and the Jabawokeez (to name but a few) in the same show? I hadn’t been so excited to attend an outdoor show in years.

When I sat down at the old picnic table set up outside Simple Plan’s trailer, I didn’t know how this interview was going to go, and I was a little leery. We wanted to feature the band on the cover of our July Issue but with only five days to go before it hit the virtual newsstands, our margin for error was small. If we couldn’t get enough material together for this article, we were out of luck and with no backup. I’ll admit that I was nervous; I wasn’t sure what we would have to talk about as their latest album has been in stores for almost a year and given that they’d been touring almost non-stop since its release, there were no new major events to report.

We had been in a similar situation the last time we had spoken with the band, almost three years ago, and I had found the interview difficult. Not for lack of trying on the band’s part, but what do you ask, a year after a release, when everything’s been talked about? However, my fears were assuaged the minute guitarist Sebastien Lefebvre and drummer Chuck Comeau came to greet us, smiles wide and obviously enjoying the day despite having to do tons of press and those pesky mosquitoes.

One of the advantages of interviewing huge well-known bands is that you can skip the ‘how did you guys get together’ part and get right into what they are doing at the moment. “Are you currently in the studio?” I asked as a means to start the conversation. “No, right now we are outside. We are outside at Virgin Fest.!” Sebastien answered with mischief; an answer that would set the undertone for the rest of the interview. “No, we are the kind of band that writes before and then go into the studio. Some bands write in the studio, we write before. Basically right now we are putting together another amazing masterpiece.” Of course I laughed at his mock-arrogance but given the millions of albums they have sold throughout their career, who could dispute such a statement.

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