NEW YORK CITY– NEW YORK CITY (AP)– 5 years after their prominent drummer and lyricist Neil Peart died of glioblastoma, the Canadian band Rush have actually revealed a get-together trip.
On Monday, Thrill founders Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson exposed a 12-date, 7 city trip is set up for summer season 2026, beginning in June at the Kia Online Forum in Los Angeles– where the band played their last program in 2015.
The get-together trip will certainly finish in Cleveland in September 2026. They’ll likewise strike Mexico City, Ft Well Worth, Texas, Chicago, New York City and Toronto.
Taking Peart’s area is popular German author and manufacturer Anika Nilles. She has actually formerly visited with Jeff Beck.
” It’s mored than ten years considering that Alex and I have actually executed the songs of Thrill along with our dropped bandmate and close friend Neil. A life time’s well worth of tunes that we had actually placed our advancing hearts and hearts right into creating, taping and playing with each other onstage,” Lee created in a declaration.
He included that he and Lifeson “can not be much more thrilled” to present Nilles to their fanbase “whom, we understand, will certainly provide her every opportunity to measure up to that near difficult function.”
They are likewise intending to include extra artists right into the layer for the efficiencies.
Previously this year, the band launched a biggest hits collection entitled “Thrill 50.” Fittingly, it finished with the last tunes the band dipped into their last performance a years earlier.
Their 2026 trip is entitled “Fifty Something.”
” We are enjoyed sustain the Fifty Something trip, commemorating a band whose songs has actually reverberated and influenced followers for generations, and to recognize Neil’s phenomenal tradition as both a drummer and lyricist,” Peart’s widow and little girl, Carrie Nuttall-Peart and Olivia Peart, cooperated a joint declaration.
” Neil’s musicianship was single … As the band enters this brand-new phase, it guarantees to be genuinely memorable. We are thrilled to see exactly how their brand-new vision unravels, and to hear this famous songs played online once more.”
