Good news for all you Rush fans.
Information from:
http://www.rushisaband.com

Tentative tour venues:
Coliseo De Puerto Rico - San Juan, PR (April 11, 2 nights possibly)
Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena - Jacksonville, FL
Amway Arena - Orlando, Florida
Honda Center - Anaheim, CA
Staples Center - Los Angeles, CA
Jones Beach - Wantagh, NY (July 14)
PNC Arts Center - Homdel, NJ
The Oracle - Oakland, CA
New Orleans Arena - New Orleans, LA
* Gwinnett Arena - Duluth, GA
Giant Center - Hershey, PA
Boardwalk Hall - Atlantic City, NJ (July 4th)
Scottrade Center - St.Louis, MO
Schottenstein Center - Columbus, OH
* Jobing.com Arena - Glendale, AZ
Ford Center - Oklahoma, OK
John Paul Jones Arena - Charlottesville, VA
Molson Amphitheater - Toronto, ON
Credit Union Centre - Saskatoon, SK
* Bank of Kentucky Center - Highland Heights, KY
* Carlson Center - Fairbanks, Alaska
Sears Centre - Hoffman Estates/Chicago, IL
Civic Center - Portland, ME
Van Andel Arena - Grand Rapids, MI
Tingley Coliseum - Albuquerque, NM
Frank Erwin Center - Austin, TX
* Everett Events Center - Seattle, WA
* U.S. Cellular Arena - Milwaukee, WI
* Toyota Center - Houston, TX
Verizon Wireless Pavilion - Charlotte, NC
* Monterrey Arena - Monterrey, MEX
New England Dodge Music Center - Hartford, CT
* Dunkin Donuts Center - Providence, RI
* Fed Ex Forum - Memphis, TN
Estadio do Maracana - Rio de Janiero, BRAZIL
Estadio do Morumbi - Sao Paulo , BRAZIL
Castelao - Fortaleza, BRAZIL
Estadio Beira-Rio - Porto Alegre, BRAZIL
Estadio de Nacional Chile - Santiago, Chile (May 1)
El Monumental - Buenos Aires, Argentina
Estadio de Nacional Peru - Lima, Peru (May 4)
MTS Centre - Winnipeg, MB
Halifax Metro Centre - Halifax, NS
Harbour Station - St.John, New Brunswick
Red Rocks Amphitheater - Morrison, Colorado
Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino - Las Vegas, Nevada
TD Banknorth Garden - Boston, MA (July)
Verizon Wireless Arena - Manchester, NH (July)
The Gorge Amphitheater - George, WA
SPAC - Saratoga Springs, NY (June 30)

In addition one of the shows might be filmed by IMAX.
Maybe Craig (Spiffnme) can elaborate?

Happy Holiday's
Shaun

TOUR DATES CONFIRMED! - presales coming soon....
APRIL 2008

11th San Juan, PR Coliseo de Puerto Rico
13th Ft Lauderdale, FL Bank Atlantic Center
15th Orlando, FL Amway Center
17th Jacksonville, FL Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena
19th New Orleans, LA New Orleans Arena
20th Houston, TX Woodlands Pavilion
23rd Austin, TX Frank Erwin Center
25th Dallas, TX The Music Center at Fair Park
26th Oklahoma City, OK Ford Center
29th Albuquerque, NM Journal Pavilion

MAY 2008

1st Phoenix, AZ Cricket Pavilion
3rd Reno, NV Reno Events Center
4th Concord, CA Sleep Train Pavilion
6th Los Angeles, CA Nokia Theatre
10th Las Vegas, NV Mandalay Bay Events Center
11th Irvine, CA Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
20th Moline, IL iWireless Center
22nd St Paul, MN Xcel Energy Center
24th Winnipeg, MB MTS Center
25th Regina, SK Brandt Center
27th Edmonton AB Rexall Place
29th Vancouver, BC GM Place
31st Seattle, WA The Gorge Amphitheatre

JUNE 2008

1st Portland, OR Clark County Amphitheatre
3rd Boise, ID Idaho Center
5th Denver, CO Red Rocks
7th Kansas City, MO Starlight Theatre
9th Chicago, IL United Center
10th Detroit, MI Joe Louis Arena
12th Montreal, QC Bell Center
14th Philadelphia, PA Wachovia Center
15rd Boston, MA Tweeter Center
25th Indianapolis, IN Verizon Amphitheater
27th Milwaukee, WI Summerfest
28th St Louis, MO Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
30th Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center

JULY 2008

2nd Pittsburgh, PA Post Gazette Amphitheatre
4th Atlantic City, NJ Marc Etess Arena
5th Saratoga, NY SPAC
7th Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun
9th Toronto, ON The Molson Amphitheatre
11th Manchester, MA Verizon Arena
12th Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center
14th Wantagh, NY Jones Beach
17th Hershey, PA Hershey Stadium !
19th Washington, DC Nissan Pavilion
20th Charlotte, NC Amphitheatre
22nd Atlanta, GA Verizon

Again nothing East of Montreal here in Canada!! That's it, we are shutting off our lobster supply to you Quebec!!!

Hey Murf, you are right, I would have at least thought Halifax would have made the list. I mean they are in Boston, what's a few miles north!

What kills me is they snub us in Calgary and go to Edmonton. I am pretty sure they could still fill the 'Dome and still do Edmonton as well.

Any one listen to the internet radio station RUSH radio? All they play are, well I think you can figure it out.

Good new for us The last couple of times they played an outdoor venue. This time they are indoors, nice.

Those guys DO like to tour. Is there a new album?

Nothing new since "Snakes and Arrows." Although I understand they are going to release it again in 5.1 format, if that counts.

A live cd of the 2007 tour will be released in April 2008. Looks like the DVD (filmed in Rotterdam) will follow later (Christmas 2008)? Sounds like a revised setlist for the 08 tour. I was going to make the trip down to Portland on June 1st however they are playing Vancouver on May 29th! Yahoo!

Great news, Rock_Head. Hope they release the concert in HD.

You would think that HD is the only format they would consider. I suppose it depends on what equipment is avaiable at the time.

I wouldn't think that at all. The idea of creating a DVD or CD is to market it, sell it and make a profit. If you only release in HD only you have limited your sales to a very very small segment of the population. This would be a bad business decision. You may have HD and love it. But you need to remember the rest of the world is still on standard DVD and probably will be for many years to come.

BTW, I saw RUSH in London at the JLC last September, they were awsome.

Paul

Actually, what I meant to say was, they would probably film the concert with HD cameras but not release a Blu-Ray HD DVD. You are correct, an HD DVD would limit the market.

Paul's right, I am hoping for a release in an HD format. I'll take either one. I've got both bases covered.

Couple of thoughts: I would suspect that Rush fans are more dorky likely to be early adopters of all things tech, so maybe there's an outside chance that they will release the DVD along with a BluRay. They did release Snakes and Arrows in both CD and MVI format.

Also, R30 was shot in HD format but only released, so far, on DVD. Maybe with the new video, they'll re-release R30 on BluRay ...

I can't wait until it's standard to release concerts in high-definition, as I think that's the only way the bands I listen to will be getting HD releases.

"Catatonia, Live in Manchester, 2000" coming soon to Blu Ray!

Nope, I think not. Charles, you're right. Dang.

Ha ha, very funny.