Canadian prog rock royalty Rush have confirmed an additional five dates for their ‘Elevate From The Norm‘ residency at The Sphere in Las Vegas. These new shows effectively double the band’s run at that immersive venue and will take place June 15th, 17th, 19th, 24th and 26th. Of course, these new shows follow the recent high demand the band experienced for their initially announced run at that venue, which will take place on May 21st, 23rd, 26th, 28th & 30th.
Presales for all these dates are available now, with the general onsale scheduled for this Friday, November 13th at 10:00am PST. Upon announcing this residency last week, Rush vocalist/bassist/keyboardist Geddy Lee shared:
“When I first heard of Sphere, I thought to myself, ‘wow, what a shame that Rush is no longer touring, because this venue sounds tailor made for the kind of visual attitude with which we have always designed our shows.’ Normally we spend months designing the visual effects for our shows and this scenario seemed like the cherry on top of the ice cream for our design team. But life is nothing if not surprising and now, here we are, living and touring in the present tense and we are able to make that particular dream come true.
We are presently working hard to expand our touring concepts and concoct some new madness to suit this incredible venue and musically perform the kind of show we’ve been doing in some of our “one off” cities. Meaning playing all of ‘2112‘ and all of ‘Moving Pictures‘ along with an array of other songs. We are so effin’ excited to make use of this incredible opportunity to please our fans both visually and viscerally- from wherever they might fly in from. Gonna be so much fun!!”
