Sum 41 has canceled their complete Australian tour, together with their co-headlining slot on the Good Issues Pageant, as a consequence of frontman Deryck Whibley’s battle with pneumonia.
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The band introduced the choice on Dec. 5, citing medical recommendation from Australian medical doctors who deemed Whibley too unwell to carry out.
“It’s with deep disappointment and remorse that we announce our 2024 Australian tour is unable to proceed,” the band shared in an announcement on social media. “We had been past excited to ship this tour from December 4 – December 12, and join with our Aussie followers as soon as extra.”
“Now that we’re right here although, and underneath the steering and course of a number of Australian medical doctors, it’s clear that Deryck is just too unwell to carry out. We perceive and admire your disappointment – we’re gutted too.”
The assertion continued: “The excellent news is Good Issues Pageant remains to be going forward in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane this weekend with an unimaginable line-up of native and worldwide acts. We will’t be there, however get alongside for us and have the most effective time.”
The tour was set to help Sum 41’s eighth and last album, Heaven :x: Hell, launched in March. The dates had been extremely anticipated as a part of the band’s farewell run, main as much as their final-ever present at Toronto’s Scotiabank Enviornment in January 2025.
The cancellation follows the band’s earlier resolution to name off their Dec. 4 sideshow at Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley Music Corridor. On the time, the band said, “Sadly, we’ve to make the troublesome resolution to cancel tonight’s present in Brisbane as a consequence of Deryck being identified with pneumonia. He’s receiving the very best native care.”
This marks the second time Australian followers have missed out on seeing the Canadian rockers as a consequence of Whibley’s well being. In 2011, the band canceled their look on the Soundwave Pageant after Whibley was hospitalized with pneumonia.
For his or her last act, Sum 41 will likely be inducted into the Canadian Music Corridor of Fame in the course of the 54th Annual JUNO Awards on March 30, 2025, in Vancouver.
Regardless of the setback, the Good Issues Pageant will proceed as deliberate, with Korn headlining the three-city occasion, alongside acts like Violent Femmes, Jet, Northlane, and Billy Corgan.
“Sum 41 are gutted they will’t carry out, and we absolutely perceive and admire followers’ disappointment,” the competition organizers mentioned in an announcement. “Deryck’s well being and wellbeing is the main target and precedence although, and we hope you’ll be a part of us in sending him nicely needs for his restoration.”
The competition kicks off in Melbourne on Dec. 6, adopted by dates in Sydney and Brisbane. Ticket holders for Sum 41’s sideshows will obtain refund data shortly.
After incomes its first No. 1 on Billboard’s Various Airplay chart in over twenty years earlier this yr, Sum 41 scored one other as “Dopamine” hit No. 1 on the Nov. 30-dated survey.
The track follows the two-week Various Airplay command for “Landmines” in March. The latter led 22 years, 5 months, and three weeks after Sum 41’s first No. 1, “Fats Lip,” in August 2001, rewriting the file for the longest break between rulers for an act within the chart’s 36-year historical past.
It shattered the earlier greatest, held by The Killers, who waited 13 years and 6 months between the reigns of “When You Had been Younger” in 2006 and “Warning” in 2020.
Whibley’s lately launched memoir, Strolling Catastrophe: My Life Via Heaven and Hell, additionally turned a No. 1 bestseller on Amazon’s punk musician biographies chart following its October debut. Within the deeply private autobiography, the frontman displays on his rise to fame with Sum 41, navigating the highs of worldwide success and accolades like Grammy nominations and MTV Video Music Award.
