Nineties pop punk icons announce final EVER UK tour before retiring from music forever
SUM 41 is going out with a bang after revealing their last-ever gig before they retire.
The American punk band promised fans the ‘best show of their lives’.
Sharing the tour dates on X, the band wrote: “Final UK & EU Tour Of The Setting Sum dates just announced for this fall! Our fans overseas have been incredible to us over the years, so we can’t wait to put on the best show of our lives and go out on a high.”
They announced that they were being supported by The Bronx and Neck Deep.
Their final gig in Paris has already been told out to 35,000 people.
This comes after the band announced they were splitting up in May last year.
In a post on Instagram they announced plans to go separate ways after 28 years.
“Being in Sum 41 since 1996 brought us some of the best moments of our lives. 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 this from us first.
“Sum 41 will be disbanding. We will still be finishing all of our current upcoming tour dates this year, and we’re looking forward to releasing our final album “Heaven :x: Hell,” along with a final worldwide headline tour to celebrate.
“For now, we look forward to seeing all of you skumf*** on the road and are excited for what the future will bring for each of us.”
The band’s current members are frontman Deryck Whibley, Dave Baksh, Jason McCaslin, Tom Thacker and Frank Zummo.
Jon Marshall, Richard Roy and Mark Spicoluk joined for brief periods in the Nineties.
Drummer Steve Jocz left the band with no explanation in 2013, three years after their big comeback.
Deryck accused him of ‘bailing’ and hinted that there was bad blood between him and the band.
Speaking to Rolling Stone in 2016 he said: “We don’t speak anymore. I have nothing bad to say about him, but I never miss people who bail.
“It’s just something in me since people have been leaving me since before I was born, like my dad. If you’re not here, you don’t exist to me.”
