Ten years after their final show with Neil Peart and five years after the drummer and lyricist's death, Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee announced that they would reunite as Rush and tour around the world. Their first shows took place this year, and they continue to hit the road, with many dates also scheduled for 2027. In an interview with Rolling Stone, they recalled that it all started at a health clinic in Austria. Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson recall the moment they decided to reunite as Rush "I had problems with my digestive system. I had a couple of surgeries. They didn’t go particularly well. The first one failed after a few years, and the second one had to cut through all of that failure. And I had terrible nausea for about a year and a half, and really struggled with so many things, eating and (The food was digesting very slowly)." "Yeah, gastroparesis. Very slow motility. So food hangs around for 10 or 12 hours in my stomach before it starts to move. It just requires a completely different approach to eating and awareness. And a really good friend of ours told us about Vivamayr, which is a clinic in Austria, and Ged decided to come along." "They provide such great treatment, particularly for digestive issues. And they really set me straight. (...) I make sure that I work on the treatments daily. We have a therapist that travels with us. We get my hands in shape and all of those things. So you just work through the problems. Everybody has problems. You just work it out and you move forward. Emotionally, it was a little different for me to get excited about touring again." He continued: I really felt like we were done. There were aspects of it that I missed, but there were some that I really didn’t miss. You could feel like a hotel room is prison when you’re in there and you have no place to go or you don’t have the motivation to go and do things, to go for a walk or go to see a museum or do something outside of that space." And after a while, you’re tired and you don’t really want to. So you sit there on the edge of your bed with the remote in your hand going back and forth watching CNN or whatever, and that can be a lonely place. And I didn’t know if I really wanted to do that, and I felt that we had a really great legacy and we could live on that." Alex Lifeson continued: "But when Ged and I started talking about doing the tribute for Neil and our history and how much fun it is to be together and to play together, I thought, 'Maybe there’s a chance. Let’s see.' And then we started getting serious about it. In fact, when we were at Vivamayr, I set up a little studio in my room, and we practiced there" Geddy Lee then explained:"When I heard he was going there with this friend of mine, I said, “I’m gonna go with you as moral support.” But boy, it changed my life, too. That was such a great experience for me. It really really helped me," he said. Rush next tour dates September 2 – Montreal, QC – Bell Centre 12 – Boston, MA – TD Garden 17 – Cleveland, OH – Rocket Arena 19 – Cleveland, OH – Rocket Arena 23 – San Antonio, TX – Frost Bank Center October 5 – Denver, CO – Ball Arena 10 – Seattle, WA – Climate Pledge Arena 15 – San Jose, CA – SAP Center 25 – Washington, DC – Capital One Arena 30 – Uncasville, CT – Mohegan Sun Arena November 5 – Hollywood, FL – Seminole Hard Rock Live 9 – Tampa, FL – Benchmark Arena 20 – Charlotte, NC – Spectrum Center 25 – Atlanta, GA – State Farm Arena December 1 – Glendale, AZ – Desert Diamond Arena 10 – Edmonton, AB – Rogers Place 15 – Vancouver, BC – Rogers Arena January (2027) 15 – Buenos Aires, AR – Movistar Arena 22 – Curitiba, BR – Arena da Baixada 24 – São Paulo, BR – Allianz Parque 30 – Rio de Janeiro, BR – Estádio Olímpico Nilton Santos (Engenhão) February 1 – Belo Horizonte, BR – Estádio Mineirão 4 – Brasília, BR – Arena BRB Mané Garrincha 19 – Paris, FR – La Défense Arena 21 – Berlin, DE – Uber Arena 23 – Amsterdam, NL – Ziggo Dome 25 – Munich, DE – Olympiahalle 28 – Cologne, DE – LANXESS Arena March 2 – Hamburg, DE – Barclays Arena 4 – Stuttgart, DE – Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle 8 – Glasgow, UK – OVO Hydro 12 – Manchester, UK – Co-op Live 16 – London, UK – O2 Arena 18 – London, UK – O2 Arena 27 – Kraków, PL – TAURON Arena Kraków 30 – Milan, IT – Unipol Dome April 1 – Basel, CH – St. Jakobshalle 4 – Copenhagen, DK – Royal Arena 6 – Oslo, NO – Unity Arena 8 – Stockholm, SE – Avicii Arena 10 – Helsinki, FI – Veikkaus Arena https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efR6bvqX5yw&t=283s
