Sum 41’s Australian Excursion Canceled After Deryck Whibley Hospitalized

Sum 41 has canceled their complete Australian excursion, together with their co-headlining slot on the Just right Issues Pageant, because of frontman Deryck Whibley’s struggle with pneumonia.

The band introduced the verdict on Dec. 5, mentioning clinical recommendation from Australian docs who deemed Whibley too sick to accomplish.

“It’s with deep disappointment and feel sorry about that we announce our 2024 Australian excursion is not able to continue,” the band shared in a commentary on social media. “We have been past excited to ship this excursion from December 4 – December 12, and connect to our Aussie enthusiasts all over again.”

“Now that we’re right here despite the fact that, and below the steering and path of a couple of Australian docs, it’s transparent that Deryck is simply too sick to accomplish. We perceive and respect your sadness – we’re gutted too.”

The commentary persisted: “The excellent news is Just right Issues Pageant continues to be going forward in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane this weekend with an unbelievable line-up of native and global acts. We will be able to’t be there, however get alongside for us and feature the most efficient time.”

The excursion used to be set to fortify Sum 41’s 8th and last album, Heaven :x: Hell, launched in March. The dates have been extremely expected as a part of the band’s farewell run, main as much as their final-ever display at Toronto’s Scotiabank Area in January 2025.

The cancellation follows the band’s previous resolution to name off their Dec. 4 sideshow at Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley Song Corridor. On the time, the band said, “Sadly, we need to make the tough resolution to cancel this night’s display in Brisbane because of Deryck being identified with pneumonia. He’s receiving the most efficient imaginable native care.”

This marks the second one time Australian enthusiasts have overlooked 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 used to be hospitalized with pneumonia.

For his or her last act, Sum 41 might be inducted into the Canadian Song Corridor of Repute throughout the 54th Annual JUNO Awards on March 30, 2025, in Vancouver.

Regardless of the setback, the Just right Issues Pageant will continue as deliberate, with Korn headlining the three-city match, along acts like Violent Femmes, Jet, Northlane, and Billy Corgan.

“Sum 41 are gutted they are able to’t carry out, and we absolutely perceive and respect enthusiasts’ sadness,” the pageant organizers mentioned in a commentary. “Deryck’s well being and wellbeing is the focal point and precedence despite the fact that, and we are hoping you’re going to sign up for us in sending him neatly needs for his restoration.”

The pageant kicks off in Melbourne on Dec. 6, adopted by way of dates in Sydney and Brisbane. Price ticket holders for Sum 41’s sideshows will obtain refund data in a while.

After incomes its first No. 1 on Billboard’s Choice Airplay chart in over twenty years previous this 12 months, Sum 41 scored some other as “Dopamine” hit No. 1 at the Nov. 30-dated survey.

The music follows the two-week Choice Airplay command for “Landmines” in March. The latter led 22 years, 5 months, and 3 weeks after Sum 41’s first No. 1, “Fats Lip,” in August 2001, rewriting the report for the longest smash between rulers for an act within the chart’s 36-year historical past.

It shattered the former absolute best, held by way of The Killers, who waited 13 years and 6 months between the reigns of “When You Have been Younger” in 2006 and “Warning” in 2020.

Whibley’s just lately launched memoir, Strolling Crisis: My Existence Via Heaven and Hell, additionally changed into 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 upward push to repute with Sum 41, navigating the highs of global good fortune and accolades like Grammy nominations and MTV Video Song Award.