Sum 41 played the final show of their farewell tour in Toronto on Thursday (January 30) – see footage and setlist below.
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The pop-punk band announced in late 2023 that they would be breaking up after the release of one final album and a farewell world tour, dubbed ‘Tour Of The Setting Sum’. Those shows culminated this month with a run of 13 shows in their home country of Canada.
The final show went down at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena, where they played a lengthy 29-song set that covered the entire span of their career, as well as snippets of two classic metal tracks in the form of Slayer’s ‘Raining Blood’ and Metallica’s ‘Master Of Puppets’.
Check out some fan-captured footage from the historic show below.
The band’s frontman Deryck Whibley posted on Instagram on Friday (January 31), writing simply, “Thank you”, alongside an image that bears the slogan “Sum 41 R.I.P.”
Sum 41 played:
- ‘Motivation’
- ‘The Hell Song’
- ‘Over My Head (Better Off Dead)’
- ‘No Reason’
- ‘War’
- ‘Underclass Hero’
- ‘Noots’
- ‘Landmines’
- ‘Dopamine’
- ‘Raining Blood’
- ‘Master of Puppets’
- ‘We’re All to Blame’
- ‘Some Say’
- ‘Screaming Bloody Murder’
- ‘Walking Disaster’
- ‘With Me’
- ‘Makes No Difference’
- ‘My Direction / No Brains / All Messed Up’
- ’Drum Solo’
- ‘Preparasi a Salire’
- ‘Rise Up’
- ‘Pieces’
- ‘Fat Lip’
- ‘Still Waiting’
- ‘Summer’
- ‘Waiting on a Twist of Fate’
- ‘In Too Deep’
- ‘So Long Goodbye’
- ‘Welcome to Hell’
Last summer, guitarist Dave Baksh and bassist Jason “Cone” McCaslin touched upon how the band had 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.”
Earlier this month, Whibley and the band’s former manager Greig Nori took legal action against each other, with the singer claiming Nori had sexually and verbally abused him for years. Nori denied the allegations, and counter-sued for breach of confidence, intrusion and wrongful disclosure of private facts.
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