Sum 41 has canceled their total Australian tour, together with their co-headlining slot on the Good Issues Pageant, because 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 docs 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 a press release 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 beneath the steering and route of a number of Australian docs, it’s clear that Deryck is just too unwell to carry out. We perceive and recognize 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 unbelievable line-up of native and worldwide acts. We are able to’t be there, however get alongside for us and have the very best time.”
The tour was set to assist 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 choice 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 tough choice to cancel tonight’s present in Brisbane because of Deryck being recognized 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 because 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 probably 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’ll’t carry out, and we absolutely perceive and recognize followers’ disappointment,” the pageant organizers stated in a press release. “Deryck’s well being and wellbeing is the main focus and precedence although, and we hope you’ll be part of us in sending him nicely needs for his restoration.”
The pageant 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 12 months, Sum 41 scored one other as “Dopamine” hit No. 1 on the Nov. 30-dated survey.
The tune 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 just lately launched memoir, Strolling Catastrophe: My Life By Heaven and Hell, additionally grew to become 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.
