Tickets are snapping up: Sum 41, the secrets of a big hit at the Zénith de Caen

Sounds that take many people back to adolescence: the rock band Sum 41 on stage, it’s soon finished !

Caen joins the farewell tour in Europe

While the last concert in Europe of their farewell tourat Paris La Défense Arena (November 23, 2024), is full for a yearthe Canadian group announced this Wednesday, June 26, 2024 a new date in France: at the Zénith de Caen (Calvados), on Thursday, October 24, 2024.
And big blow for the Caen enclosureknowing that it is the only date in the provinces outside of the summer festivals (Garorock, Eurockéennes, Déferlantes).

Sum 41’s arrival at the 2022 Beauregard festival was a plus

How the Zenith of Caen was able to back off to attract Sum 41’s farewell tour? The arrival of the rock group au festival Beauregard 2022 is not there not foreign.

The band was very happy to come to Beauregard, the production too, it went really well. They were looking for a specific date in their calendar (October 24), they had several tracks from Zénith, but luckily, it was available in Caen. There was an alignment of the planets and trust, because it is rare to have foreign artists at the Zénith in Caen.

“Very happy to have managed to bring them to the Zénith de Caen”

Also co-director of the Beauregard festival, whose 2024 edition begins with David Guetta this Wednesday, July 3, Claire Lesaulnier played the ideal intermediary with the Zénith de Caen to allow a new date for Sum 41 to be offered in France. “We are very happy to have succeeded to make them come, it is a chance” she continues.

Their concert at the Zénith in Caen takes place between a performance in Brussels on October 23 and a series in Great Britain from October 26 (Leeds, Glasgow, Manchester, London, etc.).

More than half of the Zenith filled in less than 2 hours

While ticketing was launched this Thursday, June 27, 2024 at 2 p.m., tickets at the Zénith de Caen are being snapped up like hot cakes. In less than 2 hours, more than 3,000 tickets had been already sold.

It’s rare to have a concert revealed at the end of June for the month of October, but Sum 41 is a group that has this exceptional ability to fill up quickly.

“The group promises an anthology concert”

Sum 41, whose name comes from the creation of the group on the 41st day of summer (“Summer” in English) in 1996, is a alternative rock bandHaving existed for more than 27 years, the Canadian group announced in 2023 its intention to end its career.

“They are making one last lap around the track to thank their fans properly with a world tour in 2024,” explains its tour manager AEG Presents France. “The group that rocked an entire generation already promises a anthology concert and a grandiose finale ! Afterwards, it will be too late to see them on stage: it’s now or never…”

Revealed in the early 2000s, after opening for The Offsprint and Blink 182

Known by his hits In Too Deep, Fat Lip, Still Waiting or recently LandminesSum 41 was revealed in the early 2000s after making the first parts of The Offspring or Blink 182Their performance at Beauregard, two years ago, remains a very fond memory of the Normandy festival.

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