REVIEW: About 6,000 fans in a sold-out Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre heard the band tear through a career-spanning set of more than 25 songs.
Rating: 5 stars
For an outfit marking its departure, they couldn’t have been happier with the results: About 6,000 fans in a sold-out Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre heard the band tear through a career-spanning set of more than 25 songs.The band, led by founders Deryck Whibley , Cone McCaslin and Dave Baksh , was in great spirits, despite the underlying melancholy for longtime fans of the In Too Deep hitmakers.
Indeed, it has been quite the run for Sum 41, whose first hit, the rap-rock staple Fat Lip, arrived when the members — now mostly in their mid-40s — - were brash 20-year-olds. The song still holds up, and was a highlight Friday, but their more recent work carried more artistic weight on this night. Sun 41 has played its share of arena shows, though not necessarily in Victoria . During their career, their popularity has surged and recessed, and members have come and gone.
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