Having released their new album, ’13 Voices’, last week, Sum 41 have confirmed a string of UK tour dates kicking off towards the end of February 2016.
The dates form part of a wider mainland European tour, lasting two months.
“Due to neuropathy, muscle atrophy and medication that caused permanent nerve damage in my legs and feet left me unable to walk and in excruciating pain for months,” says vocalist, guitarist, and producer Deryck Whibley of the record, which emerged out of his highly publicised battle with excess. “I had to learn how to do everything again—my motor skills, learning how to play guitar. It was really difficult, but at the same time if I didn’t have a record to make, I don’t think I would have recovered as quickly, or even at all.”
“Writing music gave me a purpose and I started from scratch with absolutely nothing to work with. I would put on movies with no sound and start writing guitar riffs and music to the images. Mostly movies from Tim Burton and Quentin Tarantino like Edward Scissorhands, Sweeny Todd, Kill Bill and Inglorious Bastards. The process led me in a direction that I had never gone in before which made me feel like I was writing a theatrical score called “hard-score punk”.”
To see Sum 41 play the resulting music live, check them out on the following dates. Tickets go on sale on Friday 14th October 2016.
FEBRUARY
24 BIRMINGHAM o2 Academy
25 MANCHESTER Academy
26 LEEDS o2 Academy
28 GLASGOW Barrowlands
MARCH
02 LONDON o2 Brixton Academy
03 BRISTOL o2 Academy
04 NOTTINGHAM Rock City
06 SOUTHAMPTON o2 Guildhall