2024

Here we are in December with a few days to go until our last gig of the year - 21/12/23 at The Liquid Rooms in Edinburgh. 2023 has been our best year by far - with Jamie joining on drums we can now gig fulltime - and we're loving it. Looking ahead to 2024 we've got 57 gigs lined up so far including 2 European tours - thanks to our new agent JBM Events (NL) who will represent us exclusively in 9 European countries. We're also headlining RUSHfest Brazil in April. In May, at RUSHfest Scotland, we'll be playing with 3 original members of the Clockwork Angels touring string ensemble and in June playing for the Dutch Rush fan event in the iconic Boerderij venue. See GIGS page for more info and ticket links.

We're lucky to work with some great promoters in the UK including GS Promotions who have lined up a few O2 Academy gigs (our Manchester Academy gig this year was a highlight of our year), Shock Promo are taking us back to the amazing Glasgow Garage in August, plus we have a new studio recording coming out on Songs For Neil Volume 5 in September.

We're also introducing VIP tickets for all of our gigs - these will allow early access to our soundcheck, hang with the band, discounted merch and will be available to ALL AGES. We often get asked if folks can bring their sons or daughters but most gigs are 18+. These VIP tickets will be half-price for under 18s. See gigs page for more details.

2023

What a start to the year - Aberdeen always does us proud and this year they excelled - Lemon Tree SOLD OUT - thank you! We're now booked to return in January 2024 for THREE SHOWS in a row - two evenings and a special Anatomy of a Rush song matinee! Check out the GIGS page for links.

Our gigs in Dundee and Glasgow at the start of February blew us away again - another cracking couple of venues - converted churches seem to make for amazing rock gigs. Does this sound familiar - the Coff Inn??

SOLD OUT London and Swindon gigs at the end of February were incredible. Darren Redick from Planet Rock radio has been a great supporter of ours and we had the pleasure of him joining us on stage for FAR CRY - he's a mean mean bass player! Leoni Jane Kennedy was our support on those gigs and made this hilarious VLOG.

THIS NEXT NEWS IS SURREAL - We've been invited by Neil Peart's family (sister Nancy) to play in the Neil Peart Pavilion in LAKESIDE PARK, CANADA! Watch this space for details.

3 gigs in April culminated in our first appearance in the iconic CAVERN CLUB in Liverpool. The experience was more than we had imagined - and we're heading back in February.

May brought us RUSHfest Scotland, with cries of it being one of the best Rush fan conventions of all time. We certainly pulled the stops out headlining in front of Terry Brown, Hugh Syme and Neil Peart's sisters Nancy & Judy.

The summer months took us to Milton Keynes, Barnsley (our first show for major promoter THE GIG CARTEL), Swindon, Worthing (with the incredible lighting designer Howard Kirk - yes we have a Howard on lights!) a double-gig Sunday at the Half Moon in London (our first time playing the entire moving pictures album), new venues in Cambridge, Guildford (another Redick show!), Sheffield (the first city Rush ever played in the UK - and we had folks at our gig that were at THAT show!), Dunfermline, Lancaster, Birmingham, Bradford, Carlisle and the iconic GARAGE in GLASGOW - our biggest gig to date. We'll be flying high on that one for a long time.

Photo by Kevin Kerr

The inimitable LEONI JANE KENNEDY has been supporting us a lot this year - and long may that continue. She's just released an album of acoustic reimagined Rush covers and has some amazing original material too.

Hugh Syme has designed our new logo and once again has done all of the art for this year's Songs for Neil album - this will be Volume 4 - out 12 Sept, Neil's birthday.

Here we are in September and we're not long home from a trip of a lifetime - a week in Toronto as guests of Neil Peart's sisters Nancy and Judy, brother Danny and mum Betty - Mama Peart as she has now adopted our new logo! We had the honour to play for 2 hours in the iconic Lakeside Park in St Catherine's, near the Neil Peart Pavilion, in front of Neil's family and guests that were taking part in the Peart Family Golf fundraising weekend. We're still pinching ourselves.

Thanks to everyone that supports us. As we say at most gigs "It's our job to try and play this music to the best of our abilities. It's your job to come out and support all Rush tributes to make sure these incredible songs get the exposure they deserve."

Steve was honoured beyond belief to toast Neil Peart at the Memorial / Celebration concert "A Night For Neil" in St. Catharine's, Canada on 22 October 2022.

He was joined on stage by Neil's sister Nancy, brother Danny, Starman Bob King and organisers Lance Kasten and Paul Beaulieu.

After the toast Steve talked about the charity work done by RUSHfest Scotland and introduced Moving Pictures' Afterimage video.