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 like MxPx,
 Face To Face, and Ten Foot Pole, but soon Bouvier and drummer Chuck Comeau eft the band to go back
 to school. Two years later, however, Comeau put his studies on hold to start making music again
 with his high school friends, 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 as well as Toronto's Snow Jam before heading 
back into the studio in 2002 to make their Lava Records debut, No Pads, No Helmets...Just Balls, 
produced by Arnold Lanni (Our Lady Peace, Finger Eleven). The album delivered 12 spunky tracks 
about adolescent issues, like the teen angst-ridden "I'm Just A Kid," the MTV TRL favorite "I'd 
Do Anything" (with Blink 182's Mark Hoppus on backing vocals), and "You Don't Mean Anything" 
(with added vocals by Joel Madden of Good Charlotte).


After the debut release, Simple Plan rocked five continents and played more than 300 shows within
 a year's time, even selling out their first-ever tour of Japan. The band picked up a load of fans
, appeared on MTV's TRL, and went gold in their home country of Canada as well as Japan. With the 
release of their comically titled yet somewhat more mature follow-up effort , Still Not Getting 
Any..., their success showed no signs of letting up, as the album's first single, "Welcome To My
 Life," was an out-of-the-box smash. 

Simple Plan are all about sticking to their simple agenda of working hard, playing hard, and 
connecting with the fans who are their very own peers. And so far, that "simple plan" is working 
out quite well. 


This Biography was written by Minnie Chi