Fan-filmed video of Rush‘s full 21 August concert in Philadelphia is online, with the complete 2112 suite.
Footage of Rush‘s entire performance at Xfinity Mobile Arena in Philadelphia on Friday 21 August has surfaced online, filmed by fans across both sets. The band gave over the second half of the night to 2112 in full, all seven movements, before working through a run of material stretching from 1975 to 2012.
The Setlist
Set one:
- “Xanadu”
- “The Spirit Of Radio”
- “The Analog Kid”
- “Freewill”
- “Subdivisions”
- Neil Peart tribute collage
- “Bravado”
- “Caravan”
- “La Villa Strangiato”
- “The Trees”
- “Limelight”
Set two:
- “2112 Part I: Overture”
- “2112 Part II: The Temples Of Syrinx”
- “2112 Part III: Discovery”
- “2112 Part IV: Presentation”
- “2112 Part V: Oracle: The Dream”
- “2112 Part VI: Soliloquy”
- “2112 Part VII: Grand Finale”
- “Animate”
- “Closer To The Heart”
- “A Passage To Bangkok”
- Neil Peart tribute collage
- “Time Stand Still”
- “YYZ”
- “Anthem”
- “Red Barchetta”
- “The Garden”
- “Tom Sawyer”
Encore:
- “Finding My Way”
- “Working Man”
Doors opened at 6.30pm with the band onstage at 7.45pm, and the night ran to around 11pm across two sets with an interval.
The “Fifty Something” tour opened on June 7 at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, California, the venue where Rush finished the “R40” tour on August 1, 2015. It is the band’s first road work in eleven years and the first without Neil Peart, whose place has been taken by German drummer Anika Nilles, previously a member of Jeff Beck‘s touring band. Keyboardist Loren Gold, who has worked with The Who and Chicago, was announced in February, making this the first Rush tour with more than three principal musicians. Each night runs to two sets drawn from a pool of over 40 songs.
The 2026 leg through Canada, the United States and Mexico began as 22 dates and sold out on announcement. It now stands at 58 shows across 24 cities, with more than half a million tickets sold. In February the band added South American and European dates for early 2027, their first European shows since 2013 and their first in South America in 17 years, with the run scheduled to close in Helsinki on April 10, 2027.
Geddy and Alex Lifeson first played publicly with Nilles at the Juno Awards in Hamilton, Ontario in late March, performing “Finding My Way” from the 1974 debut, the only Rush album Peart does not appear on. It was their first performance billed as Rush since 2015, though the pair had appeared under their own names at tributes to Gordon Lightfoot and Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins.
