Sum 41 announce UK and European leg of farewell arena tour

24 June, 2024

Sum 41 perform in Madrid. Credit: Mariano Regidor/Redferns

Sum 41 have announced a handful of 2024 UK and European shows for their final arena tour. Check out more details below.

The Canadian rock band – comprised of Deryck Whibley, Dave Baksh, Jason “Cone” McCaslin, Tom Thacker and Frank Zummo – have added a string of UK and EU shows to their farewell ‘Tour Of The Setting Sum’, which will kick off in the Netherlands on October 21.

They’ll also make stops in Paris, Budapest and Vienna. The UK leg will take them to Leeds, Cardiff, Glasgow, Manchester and Nottingham, before wrapping up at London’s OVO Wembley Arena on October 31.

Tickets for the UK & EU leg of the tour go on sale at 10am this Friday (June 28) and are available to purchase here.

The tour began this year on March 1 in Jakarta, Indonesia, and will end in their home province of Ontario, Canada with the band’s final performance taking place in Toronto on January, 30 2025. For the UK leg, Sum 41 will be supported by The Bronx, and Neck Deep will join for the EU shows.

“We are really excited to announce shows in the UK and Europe later this year,” said frontman Deryck Whibley. “This forms another leg of our last-ever shows and our fans overseas have been incredible to us over the years, so we can’t wait to put on on the best show of our lives and go out on a high.”

Sum 41’s 2024 UK and European tour dates are:

October
21 – Den Bosch Brabanthallen, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL 
23 – ING Arena, Brussels, BEL 
24 – Caen Zenith, Caen, FR 
26 – First Direct Arena, Leeds, UK 
27 – Hydro, Glasgow, UK
28 – Co-op Live Arena, Manchester, UK 
30 – Motorpoint Arena, Nottingham, UK 
31 – OVO Wembley Arena, London, UK 

November
2 – Utilita Arena, Cardiff, UK
9 – Atlas Arena, Łódź, POL 
10 – Prague O2 CZECH
12 – MVM dome, Budapest, HUN 
13 – Stadhalle, Vienna, AUS 
16 – Unipol, Bologna, IT
17 – Pallazzo Dello Sport, Rome, IT 
21 – Geneva Arena, Geneva, CH 
23 – La Défense Arena, Paris, France 

Earlier this year, the band announced they would be breaking up after the release of their eighth studio album ‘Heaven :x: Hell‘, and the subsequent world tour that included a final appearance at Download Festival last week, and a performance at Mad Cool Festival in Madrid next month.

“Being in Sum 41 since 1996 brought us some of the best moments of our lives,” they wrote in an X post announcing their disbanding. “We are forever grateful to our fans both old and new, who have supported us in every way. It is hard to articulate the love and respect we have for all of you and we wanted you to hear it from us first.”

In December 2023, Whibley spoke to NME about the band’s decision to stop making music. “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. “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.”

He added: “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.”

This month, Whibley shared his desire to reunite with Sum 41’s former frontman Jon Marshall who left the group after only a year in 1997. In an interview with the Daily Star, he revealed that ‘Johnny Libertine’, a track from their latest album, ‘Heaven :x: Hell’, was written about Marshall, who he referred to as “the most punk-rock guy I have ever known”.

In a three-star review for ‘Heaven :x: Hell’, NME‘s Rishi Shah wrote: “Truly a melting pot of soundscapes cherry-picked from their career, ‘Heaven :x: Hell’ is a fitting last hurrah for a band who sealed their place in history long ago.”

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