2011 Rush Tour Dates

Yup, the boys are going back on the road in 2011, first in the States and then over to Europe.

Dates/locations:

Mar 30 Ft. Lauderdale, FL Bank Atlantic Center
April 1 Greensboro, NC Coliseum
April 3 Nashville, TN Bridgestone Arena
April 5 Louisville, KY KFC Yum! Center
April 6 Toledo, OH Huntington Center
April 8 Hershey, PA Giant Center
April 10 New York, NY Madison Square Garden
April 12 Chicago, IL United Center
April 15 Cleveland, OH Quickens Loans Arena
April 17 Detroit, MI Palace of Auburn Hills
April 19 Hamilton, ON Copps Coliseum
April 20 Montreal, PQ Bell Centre
April 22 Baltimore, MD 1st Mariner Arena
May 4 Helsinki, Finland Hartwall Arena
May 6 Stockholm, Sweden Globe
May 8 Malmo, Sweden Malmo Arena
May 12 Dublin, Ireland O2
May 14 Glasgow, Scotland SECC
May 16 Sheffield, UK Motorpoint Arena
May 19 Manchester, UK MEN Arena
May 21 Newcastle, UK Metro Radio Arena
May 22 Birmingham, UK LG Arena
May 25 London, UK O2
May 27 Rotterdam, Holland Ahoy Arena
May 29 Frankfurt, Germany Festhalle

Official announcement is here.

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Happy Birthday Alex Lifeson

He's 57 years old today.

Alex Interview

The Lehigh Valley News has an interview with Alex that covers work on the new album and memories of making Moving Pictures. An excerpt:

Lifeson says the band has six songs pretty much ready to go and three others almost done. The group plans to write at least a couple of additional songs after the tour. At this point, the CD is shaping up to be a musically varied work.

"There is the epic song, 'Clockwork Angels,' which is really taking shape. It's a multi-parted piece, very dynamic," Lifeson says. "Then there's some stuff that's very melodic and on the softer side, on acoustic, with a strong melody. So there's great diversity there. Honestly, I can't wait until we start really working on these songs. We've sort of got them to the stage where Geddy and I were happy with the arrangements and then Neil kind of comes in and starts working on his drum arrangements, and they go from there. So they're sort of in that pre-drum stage right now, and it's great to see them come to life."

Happy Birthday Geddy Lee

He's 57 years old today.

A brief interview with Scott McFadyen and Sam Dunn is over at Comingsoon.net.

Rolling Stone interview with Alex

New interview with Alex over at Rolling Stone today.

Six songs recorded so far for Clockwork Angels. Sounds like they'll be touring behind it next year once it comes out:

Lifeson says Rush hopes to finish recording during the fall in time for a release in the spring of 2011, followed by a more extensive world tour.

On playing Moving Pictures in its entirety, which was Neil's idea:

Plus, 'Camera Eye' has been probably the top song on our request list from fans for several years, so it really gives us an opportunity to include it in the set and to present it with the full album."

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