Rush Announces Details of New Tour
— April 8, 2010 2 52After the appearance of a mysterious countdown clock on Rush’s official website, the group has made good on their hint that an important announcement from the band was imminent.
The group has announced plans for their “Time Machine” tour which will begin on June 29th. Billed as “an evening with Rush,” the tour will take the Canadian trio through about 40 North American cities, and for the first time in the band’s history, the show will include their performance of an entire album.
The group’s 1981 album, Moving Pictures, will be played live in its entirety. Featuring some of Rush’s best-known hits such as “Tom Sawyer” and “Limelight,” the selection of Moving Pictures will probably be on that is welcomed by fans who score tickets for the show.
The tour will likely feature a few brand-new songs in addition to the standards that fans might expect. Members of the group have been hinting for months that they might write a few new songs and then take them on the road.
Rush is obviously making some significant changes in the way they do business in response to developments that have fans consuming both audio and video content via the internet and other digital media.
It was also announced that the group is in the process of working on their 20th studio album, and have once again enlisted the services of producer Nick Raskulinecz, who worked with the group previously. Raskulinecz is highly regarded by the band, and is credited with pushing them to new limits during the production of their last album, 2007’s Snakes & Arrows.
No release date has yet been mentioned for the new album, but it may simply be too early in the process for an estimate on a completion date.
The “Time Machine” tour itinerary is incomplete, but the following dates have been announced so far:
June 29 July 1 July 3 July 5 July 9 July 13 July 15 July 17 July 19 July 21 July 23 July 24 August 5 August 7 August 9 August 11 August 13 August 14 August 16 August 20 August 22 August 25 August 27 August 29 August 31 September 2 September 3 September 14 September 16 September 18 September 21 September 23 September 25 September 26 September 29 October 1 October 2 |
Albuquerque, NM Kansas City, MO Milwaukee, WI Chicago, IL Sarnia, ON Toronto, ON Quebec City, QC Toronto, ON Uncasville, CT Philadelphia, PA Saratoga Springs, NY Wantagh, NY Salt Lake City, UT Seattle, WA San Francisco, CA Los Angeles, CA Irvine, CA Las Vegas, NV Denver, CO Wichita, KS St. Louis, MO Omaha, NE St. Paul, MN Columbus, OH Allentown, PA Syracuse, NY Holmdel, NJ Boston, MA Pittsburgh, PA Washington, DC Tulsa, OK San Antonio, TX Houston, TX Dallas, TX Atlanta, GA Tampa, FL West Palm Beach, FL |
Hard Rock Pavilion Starlight Theatre Summer Fest Charter One Pavilion Rogers Sarnia Bayfest Molson Canadian Amphitheatre Festival d’iti de Quibec Air Canada Centre Mohegan Sun Susquehanna Bank Center SPAC Nikon at Jones Beach USANA Amphitheatre White River Amphitheatre Shoreline Amphitheatre LA Forum Verizon Wireless Amphitheater MGM Grand Garden Arena Red Rocks Amphitheatre INTRUST Bank Arena Verizon Wireless Amphitheater Qwest Center Minnesota State Fair Nationwide Arena Allentown Fair New York State Fair PNC Bank Arts Center TD Garden Consol Energy Center Jiffy Lube Live Amphitheater BOK Center AT&T Center Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion Superpages.com Center Encore Park Ford Amphitheatre Cruzan Amphitheatre |
2 Comments
Hardest working band ever in rock history. There last tour they played for 3 and a half hours. Super super news…..
“Moving Pictures” in it’s entirity is good news! I was too young to see them the last time they performed “The Camera Eye”.
Maybe they’ll do all the parts of “Fear” this time, too!