Pop punk band Sum 41 hits Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre in Victoria on Friday.
When: Friday, Jan. 10, 6:50 p.m.Sum 41 has played approximately 2,000 concerts to date, including more than 100 last year alone.
Only 13 concerts remain on Tour of the Setting Sum, the band’s year-long farewell tour. The final leg with opening acts PUP and Gob gets underway Friday in Victoria, at the Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre, before winding down Jan. 30 with the second of two concerts at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena. The Grammy-nominated quintet from Ajax, Ont., is bowing out in grand style. Theirs is a high-profile farewell, including dates at 20,000-seat arenas such as Calgary’s Scotiabank Saddledome and Edmonton’s Rogers Place — where Sum 41 has never performed. The band has appeared at the Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre in the past, but it has been more than 17 years since they played the Blanshard Street venue.
“There was a guy outside our tour bus, and he was yelling at us, saying ‘You’re the flavour of the week, you’ll be gone tomorrow,’ ” McCaslin recalled with a laugh. The members partied hard in the early days, McCaslin said. That pace is far removed from today’s upstarts, with whom Sum 41 often tours. “When I go to festivals, and see young bands, it’s pretty tame, to be honest,” he said with a laugh.
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