Canadian rock legends Sum 41 bid farewell

They are saying goodbye, but they are doing it in style. Rockers Sum 41 on their farewell tour. And you know who got to say hello to the lead singer? That’s the one and only Lindsay Dunn. Hello. Hello to you. I don’t know why we need to do this. I don’t know. We do know what we’re doing. We just did a quick like, Google search. Sum 41, every single track on here. I think I was rocking out to way back in the day. Yeah, they’re all bangers. I don’t know if people still say that, but they were huge hits. They’re still played across so many radio stations, and they’ve even released a new album that’s really, well, it’s their final album, which I know when people saw that, they heard that they were really upset about it, but it’s doing great. It’s a double album called Heaven and Hell, which kind of has a lot of their earlier punk rock, but then a lot of just rock and different tunes on and people are just back in love with Sum 41, or they’re just rediscovering them, or they’re discovering them for the first time, which is great because they’re Canadian. Very good, right? So you spoke with the lead singer. Were you surprised at like because as we’ve been following their career for some time, they’ve matured, right? Like, their style is different. The type of music, as you said, even you know they’re getting little different pieces of genres. Did they say anything that was interesting to you that stuck out? It was so interesting. It was actually 15 minutes I got with the lead singer Derek and I wish we could air it all, but we don’t have enough time to show. Eventually I think we’ll put it all online, But the fact that they released this final album asked about the difficulties of that moment, he said he really struggled with it. Going back and forth, like what am I going to do after some 40? He won. But he says it’s just felt like it was the right time. But also they announced the final tour right after and almost all of this shows they sold out, including the final tour stop, will be here in Toronto in January. It’s sold out. So they add a had to add another one and it’s just keeps going. And that’s at Scotiabank Arena. It’s not like it’s like a teeny, tiny, teeny tiny thing. It’s huge. And you know, there’s such a demand for them to even add a third and 4th show. But I just asked him what was it like to get the reaction of like, this overpouring of love? Because he said he wasn’t even sure how people would react to the final tour and the final album. Here’s what he had to say. It’s been pretty wild, to be honest. Like, I don’t think you ever get used to. I mean, I don’t ever get used to anything and I never take anything for granted. So you never, I never expect anything and I don’t expect the worst, but I don’t. I I just kind of go in as a blank slate every time we do an album, every time we put on a tour. I just, you just never know. Things change. There’s other stuff going on in people’s lives, like you just never know what’s going to happen with anything. So when it does work out and and especially as as well as everything’s going, it’s a huge surprise and I’m just like grateful for it all. It’s, you know, it’s just, it’s really exciting. It is really exciting. It’s really exciting for fans. As you mentioned, having to add another show to fill Scotiabank Arena is a big deal. No doubt when they announced this tour, there were probably a lot of voices saying you should do it this way, do it this way. Maybe you want to think about this. How do they juggle all of that? I was being cheeky. I actually asked him like, hey, did you consult with Elton John about a farewell tour? Because we all know he’s still touring like 20-30 years after saying it was his final tour. And he said he laughed and said no, but he actually did talk to some people in the band. He also spoke to some artists from No Effects, just about Meth, Elton John’s band, just about how they handle that emotion when you go on a final tour or supposed to be an actual final tour, he says. This is it for some 41. But that emotions of when you’re going to go on stage and visualizing going on Toronto, your hometown stage for the last times, it’s been 27 years, this is all they’ve known and they’ve been. You know, it’s cliche to say, but so many people’s soundtracks to their lives and they’ve had so many moments like they were Grammy nominated. And I asked him about that because he also has a memoir coming out. He said that was such a shock to them all. It was a song that he had a fight to get on that album back in the day. And they didn’t think it was going to happen. But it’s just now they’re able to do it on their own terms because that is something, you know, we’ve spoken about other artists that they don’t get to have the choice that, hey, I’m going to call it a career right now with this. Right. They’re basically told you’re done. You’re done. Yeah. And so here’s what he had to say about them actually being able to go out on their own terms. You know, in the earlier days, people would write us off a little bit early, you know, one early in our career as like a flash in the pan, like every new band. It’s always like the new artist thing, right? Like big, you’ll be gone next year kind of thing. And I think especially with the kind of music that we played, which felt at the time, people thought that was kind of just young music and it was like a passing trend of pop punk or whatever people were, they weren’t even calling it pop punk in those days. But so, but I always used to think, you know, we’ll be around. As long as we say we’re around, nobody else is going to write our own story. And then here we are, you know, almost 30 years later, and we are writing our story. I love that. Writing your own story. Going out with a bang. That’s gonna be. Are you gonna go, by the way? Yeah. I’m probably going to take you next January. There’s two shows even, you know, one of our producers, Laura. We’ll all be in the front row Living our best life. Yeah, you’re in living our best life. Yeah. Beautiful. OK, look it off. More with Lindsay tonight. City News at 5:00 and 6:00. Thank you. Thanks for having us out. No, I’m gonna leave that all up to you. No, you got the voice of an Angel. We’ll leave it to Derek, OK?