One of the best-selling Canadian bands of all time, multi-Platinum rockers FINGER ELEVEN are bringing more new music to their legions of fans with the release of “Last Night On Earth.” Released today (September 19), it’s the title track from their first new studio album in a decade.
While everyone agreed the title track was a special song, it took FINGER ELEVEN—Scott Anderson (vocals), James Black (lead guitar, backing vocals), Rick Jackett (rhythm guitar), Sean Anderson (bass), and Steve Molella (drums)—many years to find the diamond inside of this movingly candid string-laden ballad about how relationships fall apart. Jackett realized that they had no true chorus, but as they were tracking drums for the last four songs on the album, drummer Steve Molella suggested doing an acoustic, campfire-style jam. They nailed it during their final hour of studio time.
“Scott wrote some of my favorite lyrics,” Molella beams. “It was the most natural the song has ever sounded.”
“I think ‘Last Night On Earth’ could be placed squarely in a traditional relationship frame where you forget what you’re even fighting about,” continues Scott Anderson, whose vocals compellingly illuminate the song’s sadness. “But you hate that feeling in the pit of your stomach when something’s not resolved and you don’t know what tomorrow’s gonna look like.”
“Last Night On Earth” is the follow-up to the album’s second single and video which was released August 1, the thunderous “Blue Sky Mystery” featuring Richard Patrick from Filter, which has landed the band their third consecutive radio Billboard Top 10 hit in Canada
FINGER ELEVEN is now propelled by a fresh musical vigor. “As we were making LAST NIGHT ON EARTH, there was this feeling that we were making a big Rock record,” Rick Jackett recalls. “We had done that early in our career, and then we veered away from it. But it was time to go back and embrace that bigness of the sound. Even the soft songs sound big.”
Originally from Burlington, Ontario and now based mostly out of Toronto, FINGER ELEVEN have released a series of consecutive hit albums and become among the greatest live bands to ever emerge from the great White North. Their self-titled debut album broke the band into the international mainstream, achieving Gold status in the United States and Platinum in Canada, and smashing the first single, “One Thing,” across the radio and Billboard charts. Their 2007 album, THEM VS. YOU VS. ME, launched the single “Paralyzer,” setting radio records in the U.S., peaking at #1 internationally and going 5x Platinum, the band’s second million-plus seller. They won the Juno Award for Rock Album the following year and set an incredible run at rock radio, with an unbeaten #14 weeks at the top spot. LIFE TURNS ELECTRIC, was nominated for a Juno Award for Best Rock Album of the Year. 2015’s FIVE CROOKED LINES continued to electrify audiences the world over and their 2023 GREATEST HITS includes their biggest smash hit in a decade, “Together Right,” which topped the radio charts for an amazing five-week run at #1.
After rocking a busy festival season this summer, FINGER ELEVEN will hit the U.S. with Alien Ant Farm and Brkn Love for a flurry of concerts leading up to the new album’s release. This will be followed by a national Canadian tour with fellow native sons Headstones and Tea Party joining them. Tickets are available now on the band’s official website.
Here are the FINGER ELEVEN tour dates:
9/25 Buffalo, NY – Town Ballroom
9/26 West Springfield, MA – The Big E (no Alien Ant Farm/Brkn Love)
9/27 Harrisburg, PA – XL Live
9/28 Hampton Beach, NH – Wally’s Pub
9/30 Warrendale, PA – Jergels
10/1 Albany, NY – Empire Live
10/3 Leesburg, VA – Tally Ho Theater
10/4 Sayreville, NJ – Starland Ballroom
10/5 Philadelphia, PA – Brooklyn Bowl
10/7 Cleveland, OH – Mercury Music Lounge
10/9 Columbus, OH – The King Of Clubs
10/10 Des Plaines, IL – Des Plaines Theatre
10/11 Hobart, IN – Hobart Theatre
10/12 Flint, MI – Machine Shop
11/25 Penticton, BC – South Okanagan Event Centre
11/26 Abbotsford, BC – Abbotsford Arts Centre
11/28 Edmonton, AB – Rogers Place
11/29 Calgary, AB – Grey Eagle Casino Event Centre
12/1 Winnipeg, MB – Canada Life Centre
12/3 Montreal, QC – MTELUS
12/5 Toronto, ON – The Theatre at Great Canadian Resort
12/6 Ottawa, ON – The Arena at TD Place
12/7 Peterborough, ON – Memorial Centre
12/10 Windsor, ON – The Colosseum at Caesars Windsor
12/12 Moncton, NB – Casino New Brunswick
12/13 Halifax, NS – Scotiabank Centre
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