Overview
- The Fifty Something Tour marked Rush’s first full run since 2015 and their first performances after drummer and lyricist Neil Peart’s 2020 death.
- On Tuesday the band played all seven parts of the 1976 suite “2112” for the first time since 1997, a 20-minute sequence that drew wide fan and critic attention.
- On Thursday Rush performed their 1981 album Moving Pictures in full, including the first live plays of “New World Man” since 2002 and a long version of “The Camera Eye.”
- New touring drummer Anika Nilles and keyboardist Loren Gold have drawn focused praise for executing complex parts once handled by Peart, and fan-shot multicam videos of the shows are spreading online.
- Promoters have added dates to a North American run that continues through 2026 with overseas legs planned for 2027, and the band is using a deep, rotating pool of songs to keep nightly setlists unpredictable.