SUM41 AT PHLIVE WITH A SPECTACULAR FINALE TO THEIR NORTH AMERICAN TOUR OF THE SETTING SUM

SUM41 played their last American Tour of the Setting SUM show in Las Vegas, bringing down the house at Planet Hollywood's PHlive, for a phenomenal show that didn't want to end.

The band took the stage and started the show with a bang with "Motivation" and "The Hell Song" and the crowd was wild, screaming along and getting literally blown away with pyro off the bat. Confetti rained through the air just two songs in, and the show really felt like a party. Deryck Whibley really knows how to work a stage, and PHLive has a huge stage that really showed off the wild lazer lightshow, flames and smoke blasting, as SUM41 dived into a set really reaching across their decades of hits.

Whibley takes a lot of time to talk to the crowd and really connects, it feels more like you are part of the show and not just a audience, but integral to the show. Whibley told the fans, "you're singing all these songs back to us, louder than us, and we never thought we would ever make it out of our fucking basement, and here we are, 30 years later, with you crazy motherfuckers here tonight! Thank you, thank you, thank you!"

"We got a lot of song to play, we got old songs to play, we got really old songs to play, we've got the oldest songs to play..." and SUM41 did not disappoint, really reaching back to the beginning with very first single "Makes No Difference", and "Summer" off the first EP.

Whibley hyped the new album... "earlier this year we put out a brand new record, called Heaven and Hell, a double album, because... it is the final album, it's the last one. It's been 30 years of SUM41, the world has had enough!" The crowd screamed, and booed, and then laughed, and the band broke into "Landmines" from the new album, and the theater exploded. Literally, as smoke and flames reached to the roof for the chorus and the fans scream along.

SUM 41 really didn't want the night to end and neither did the fans, the band played a lengthy 20 song set ending with a pummeling "Fatlip" (so much fire!!), before heading off the stage to a solid roar. Not one person moved during the wait for the encore, no rush to the parking garage, or let's beat the crowd, every single person stayed rooted until the band returned to the stage, for an encore that really blew the roof off with "Waiting on a Twist of Fate" (whose video was filmed here in Las Vegas at the Punk Rock Museum!!) and a tremendous finale of "In Too Deep" with Whibley screaming "Thank you so much!!" as confetti streamed and smoke and flames reached for the ceiling. The band walked to the front of the stage and took their final bows, and then slowly walked off stage waving to the crowd.

But we weren't done yet....

The crowd continued to scream and chant until SUM41 AGAIN took the stage for a second encore (it's the last show after all), and Whibley thanked the fans "for all the ups and downs and the sideways" and stirred up a huge pit for a frenzied "So Long Goodbye". But we still had more to go...

SUM41's final last good bye was NOFX's "Stickin' in My Eye", saying "this is the band we wanted to be", the only time the band would play this song live, and a nod to their idols. The crowd was wild, the band took more bows, and for the last time left the stage. A fitting end for the American shows, and a hell of a send off from the Vegas fans, it's was an incredible show to see and be a part of SUM41 history.

The band still has a bit of the tour left, finishing the rest of the shows in Europe through November, more on dates HERE.