Sum 41‘s Deryck Whibley has opened up about the band’s “final run” of farewell shows, admitting that “it’s finally hitting me that it’s coming to an end”.
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Last year the band confirmed they would be breaking up following the release of one final album and a farewell world tour. Now, they are reaching the final 13 dates and Canadian leg of their ‘Tour Of The Setting Sum’, which will commence next month.
While speaking to iHeartRadio Canada‘s Jesse Modz and JD Lewis, Whibley was asked if it was “starting to feel a bit more real” that the ‘In Too Deep’ rockers would be performing at some of the Canadian cities for the last time.
“Well, the weird thing for me is I don’t ever really look at particular shows or single dates. For the first time, this is actually hitting me that the Canadian run is gonna be the last run. So I look at it as a whole rather than just certain dates,” he replied.
He continued: “And everything up until this tour has felt like, ‘Well, we’ve got so many more tours still ahead, so many more legs of the tour to do, so many more shows to [play],’ whereas now there’s only four more weeks left, and this is the final run. So it’s finally hitting me that it’s coming to an end.”
Sum 41 are set to kick off their final leg of tour at the Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre in Victoria, British Columbia on January 10 2025. From there, the band will make stops in cities such as Kelowna, Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Ottawa and more before wrapping up their final farewell tour at the Scotiabank Arena on January 30 2025. You can check out a full list of dates below and visit here to purchase tickets.
Sum 41’s 2025 Tour Of The Setting Sum dates are:
JANUARY
10 – Victoria, BC – Save on Foods Memorial Centre
11 – Vancouver, BC – Rogers Arena
13 – Kelowna, BC – Prospera Place
16 – Calgary, AB – Scotiabank Saddledome
17 – Edmonton, AB – Rogers Place
18 – Saskatoon, SK – Sasktel Centre
20 – Winnipeg, MB – Canada Life Place
23 – St. Catharines, ON – Meridian Centre
24 – Ottawa, ON – Canadian Tire Centre
25 – Laval, QC – Bell Place
27 – London, ON – Budweiser Gardens
28 – Toronto, ON – Scotiabank Arena
30 – Toronto, ON – Scotiabank Arena
The band wrapped up their UK tour last month and ended up having to cancel their Australian run of dates due to Whibley’s decline in health.
Earlier this summer, guitarist Dave Baksh and bassist Jason “Cone” McCaslin also touched upon how the band have become “stronger” in recent years, following health issues faced by Whibley.
“We took about two years off for Deryck to figure out his health problems and then when we got back together with Dave it just seemed [right]” Cone said during the NME interview. “When everything got back together it felt really good. It’s been a rollercoaster for our whole career so it feels good to be playing these big festivals and higher up on the bill now.”
Speaking to NME about why their latest album ‘Heaven :x: Hell’ felt like the right pick for their last LP and why now felt like the right time to call it quits, Whibley shared: “I feel really good about this album, which is why I felt it should be the last one. We didn’t know we’d be splitting up when we were making it, but I’ve been making records and touring with this band since I was 15,” he said
He continued: “I’ve had this feeling for a long time now that I want to do something different and it just feels like the right time. This album feels like the perfect way to go out. Over the past few years, the touring has constantly been getting bigger and the band is at our best. My fear is that if I start to lose the excitement, we’ll just fade away. I care too much about the fans and what we’ve built as a band to let that happen, just because it’s a good paycheque.”
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