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Rush UK tour 2027

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Rush have announced a European tour for next Spring including a small number of UK Shows. I’ve never seen them before (I came to them very late) but have brought a ticket for Manchester. Any thoughts on what to expect?

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  1. I’ve never seen them either and am hoping to pick tickets up in the Coop presale. How much were the tickets if you don’t mind me asking?

    • I was interested to find out too. The Rush website sent me all around the houses, then to tickets AEG, still can’t see cost. Googled a random US date and it came up with cheapest 90 USD. So no doubt will be about £70 in UK. Bit excessive. Loads of different packages too – upper deck, VIP etc. Load of bollocks. Probably be like Oasis with dynamic pricing. In the 80s most concerts were less than the price of an album. Which means should be 25 quid tops in todays money :/
      Dunno, I think the whole thing would leave a nasty taste.

      • £70 for an enormodome show with a big production is probably the standard rate now. Expect a slick show where most of the hits are played and you get tour money’s worth in visuals, and a bit of old school rock. Plus devoted fans there to pay homage.

        • Tickets were £140 – lower level side, about half-way back ) so pretty decent seats). They were £225 a bit closer, but think that some at the back and in the higher tier come in at around £85.

    • I don’t know about now, but when I was 16 I spent 4 nights delivering free newspapers to pay for mine. I can’t guarantee if that’s the current exchange rate.

  2. I’d say you should expect to witness stunning levels of musicianship, and Geddy’s spirited best attempt at singing the classics across a sea of nodding teary-eyed baldies.

  4. A friend just posted this on FB:

    ROAD TRIIIP!!! 🇩🇰🇳🇴 …a bit of RUSH mojo has returned!! 🤩
    Nearly spilt my coffee over the laptop seeing the extortionate Glasgow prices …£200-300 for anything half decent in a gawdawful venue 😲😨 …THAT was an absolute no go! They’re taking the pish!! 😠 I knew prices would be high but …WTAF!!
    I had already picked up a superb ticket for Copenhagen in the presale an hour earlier and after that Glasgow monstrosity, I thought I’d look elsewhere. Oslo seemed to be a no brainer dates wise!! It’s a HUGE venue (biggest on the tour @ 25,000). That initially put me off, but presented a Row 9 central seat for reasonable funds!
    Can’t quite believe it …two fabulous seats for two RUSH shows for £125 each!! The same seats in Manchester totalled £879!! 😲 I am the ticket hound! 🐕 😉
    RE-SULT!!!😀 ROAD TRIIIIP!!! 🤩

  5. My mate has persuaded me to go see them at Manchester CO-OP Live . £110 up in the Gods but a good view …

    £540 for tickets in the front row apparently. Yikes.

    £110 is by far the most I’ve spent on a gig ever. But. I’m ok with it. My mate is a huge fan and we go a way back . Plus I missed them a number of times when I shouldn’t have.

    • Haven’t seen them since the Moving Pictures tour (still have the program somewhere). Apart from living on the other side of the world, I can’t pay they sort of money to see 2/3rd of one of my favourite bands. I’m sure she’s a great drummer but it ain’t the same.

      She played in Sydney a couple of months ago at a uni bar, and that was $120. I must admit I’d never heard of her before Rush offered her the stool. Is she one of those drummers drummers that’s largely unknown that only the hip in crowd know of?

  6. Word to the wise. When tickets are priced astronomically and venues are large, it is often better to wait and buy (much) later. A lot of tickets will be deemed “platinum” which is basically Ticketmaster (or whoever) acting like ticket touts. If they don’t sell at these ridiculous prices then then they will be reduced, not guaranteeing bargains but the sensible strategy is to wait it out. This also applies to scalper/touts sites like Stubhub that will have loads of tickets at high prices, with the idea to induce panic so people pay way more than they should. There is a risk that you may not get a ticket but often worth taking

  7. I’ll be interested to know what people think of the show. I saw them on the Moving Pictures tour about 45 years ago, when I was more like the target audience and found them a little clinical, almost note perfect which wasn’t what I was hoping for at the time. Hope you all have fun.

  8. I saw Rush in 1980 and 2011. The first time was in Brighton, the second time in Birmingham. A bit dull in Brighton, I can shamelessly say. – it was the last night of the tour and a few days after my A levels finished. In 2011 they were very slick and it was perfect for what it is. I paid £140 for 2 tickets in the arena then – junior and I. They did all the things you’d want to hear. For me, no need to see them again, and those prices? Yeesh! Don’t think I’d pay that for Steely Dan. (Or a reformed Beatles or reincarnated Frank Zappa.) But those who go will have a great time. As Oscar Wilde said, “We never regret our indulgences, only our economies”.

  10. I think I paid about £4 on the Hemispheres tour, which was less than I paid for the album, although I did manage to bag a Canadian import on red vinyl from Laskys in Chester. It’s quite rare apparently, but it probably wouldn’t cover the cost of a 2027 ticket.
    (attempts Plant impression) Does anybody remember Laskys?

  12. Rush are good blokes and I like the idea of them but I can’t stand more than 10 minutes of his voice unfortunately.

    The new drummer is German and my mate who lives there knows all about her. Great player.

    • Tom Sawyer perhaps? A mix of prog and pop. If you don’t get any reward from this then maybe they’re just not for you, and no one can like everything.

    • Thinks.
      Spirit of Radio. Yes! Actually No.
      Tom Sawyer. Maybe. No.
      Subdivisions. No.
      Anything after 1985. Not from me, have to be someone else.
      2112. God No.
      Cygnus X-1. Book 1 The Voyage. Hell no.
      I think it’s actually impossible to recommend where to start in terms of a track. There’s no ‘easing in’ here. I would say can you commit to listening to both A Farewell to Kings (full on heavy prog), or Moving Pictures (concise pop prog) then after both of these you’ll be either in or out.

  15. Tickets are really pricey, so I’m giving them a miss. I saw them twice in London previously. The nearest venue to me is now Glasgow, but I can see a whole load of other acts in Edinburgh for this single gig £300 plus price tag. I already have tickets for Jethro Tull, Beth Hart, The Cowboy Junkies and Richard Thompson.

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