Deryck Whibley on Sum 41’s “final run” of farewell shows: “It’s finally hitting me that it’s coming to an end”

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Sum 41‘s Deryck Whibley has opened up about the band’s “final run” of farewell shows, admitting that “it’s finally hitting me that it’s coming to an end”.Last year the band confirmed they would be breaking up following the release of one final album and a farewell world tour.

Now, they are reaching the final 13 dates and Canadian leg of their ‘Tour Of The Setting Sum’, which will commence next month.While speaking to iHeartRadio Canada‘s Jesse Modz and JD Lewis, Whibley was asked if it was “starting to feel a bit more real” that the ‘In Too Deep’ rockers would be performing at some of the Canadian cities for the last time.“Well, the weird thing for me is I don’t ever really look at particular shows or single dates.

For the first time, this is actually hitting me that the Canadian run is gonna be the last run. So I look at it as a whole rather than just certain dates,” he replied.He continued: “And everything up until this tour has felt like, ‘Well, we’ve got so many more tours still ahead, so many more legs of the tour to do, so many more shows to [play],’ whereas now there’s only four more weeks left, and this is the final run.

So it’s finally hitting me that it’s coming to an end.”Sum 41 are set to kick off their final leg of tour at the Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre in Victoria, British Columbia on January 10 2025.