ARTIST

Simple Plan

This Montreal-based punk-pop five-piece came together in the mid-'90s when singer Pierre Bouvier and drummer Chuck Comeau founded rowdy punk outfit Reset at the age of 13. Reset released a highly-lauded debut in 1997, gained moderate success in Canada, and toured the country with bands MxPx, Face To Face, and Ten Foot Pole. Soon, the two left the band to go back to school but two years later, Comeau put his studies on hold to start making music again with high school friends and guitarists Jeff Stinco and Sebastien Lefebvre. Bouvier and Comeau reunited at a Sugar Ray show in late 1999 and it wasn't long before Bouvier and another former Reset member, bassist David Desrosiers, joined the newly-named band, Simple Plan.

The group played the annual Vans Warped Tour in 2001...
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