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If it had been possible to canalize the energy coming from the crowd during the third show of the Festival d’Été of Quebec, in New Richmond; Gaspésie wouldn’t need electricity from wind turbines for several days.

At least 10 000 people (a rough assessment since the exact number of spectators is not released yet) attended to the show of Béta, The New Cities and, especially, Simple Plan.

The more bands hit the stage, the more the intensity of the crowd’s screams got louder.

When Simple Plan appeared around 9:30pm, it was almost madness, especially because of the young girls. Songs like Shut Up and Jump led the 16-songs-long show, beside the encore. The band played the brand new song You Suck @ Love for the first time in Quebec.

The bass player David Desrosiers made the crowd a little more impatient to see Simple Plan by coming to play drums with The New Cities, whose band members introduced him as “the Matane shrimp”.

Interviewed at the Soleil between two shows, David Desrosiers from Matane indeed, explained that the drums used to be his favourite instrument. “I play in studio, sometimes in rehearsals.” Yesterday evening he was well surrounded since his Mom and some of friends from Matane were in the crowd.

“I have two good friends here, Francis Harrison and Olivier Desbiens, who played in my first bands.”

He is actually about to have some holidays in Matane soon. “I live in Montreal, on the Plateau, I love the city, but I also love to take days off in order to breathe the air from Bas-du-Fleuve.”

Matane is also a way to be back among several members of his family and memories of his paternal grandpa, Jean-Yves, who has been a big source of influence in his career choice, even if he passed 10 years ago. Moreover, he saluted his influence in front of cameras, at the ADISQ gala, four years ago.

“His musical talent was indescribable. He played the piano, sang during the mass. My father [an athlete] uses to say that the musical talent skipped a generation in the family; from Jean-Yves to me.”

David Desrosiers and Simple Plan were in China one week ago. “The show was cancelled because of the rain. But we played for the fans, under the police’s escort”, he said.

On August 6th , Simple Plan will be in Levis, before they perform in… Korea, on the 8th, despite the fact that the trip wastes two days. “I know, this is crazy.”

Tonight, the Festival d’Été of Quebec in New Richmond ends its programming with Vincent Valliere and Blue Rodeo.