Date/Time: Thursday, June 18th @ 7:30PM
Show Number: 5
Venue: Palacio de los Deportes
Place: Mexico City, Mexico
Setlist: View
Photos: TBD
Reviews: TBD
After a short 5-day break following their whirlwind, 4-night opening stint in LA, Rush's Fifty Something tour will pick things back up tonight at the Palacio de los Deportes in Mexico City, the band's first performance in Mexico since the Vapor Trails tour. For the band's first 4 performances in LA last week, they ended up playing all 38 of the songs they'd been rehearsing for the tour, spread out over the 4 nights with very little repetition from one night to the next. Each night opened up with Xanadu and closed with Working Man, and included 2 Neil Peart tributes during Bravado in Set 1 and Time Stand Still in set 2, but that's about where the similarities end. Among the highlights from the 4 shows were the band's first performance of 2112 in full since the Test for Echo tour, a full run-through of the band's entire Moving Pictures album, the first live performance of A Farewell to Kings in nearly 5 decades, and Aimee Mann taking the stage for some backup vocals during Time Stand Still. Mann won't be performing tonight in Mexico City, but according to a new interview with Mann from Vulture.com, the performance was not a one-off and we'll likely see her down the road again, specifically in Cleveland where the band is going to, "do some filming"!
... I'm going to try to [do more shows]. They're doing some filming in Cleveland, so I'm probably going to the Cleveland shows. They're going to be on tour for, what, a full year? I would love to do more. I just got a million fucking things I'm doing, so I don't know how practical it is, but if I have the time, I'm up for it. ...
As far as the fan experience goes, there's plenty of new Fifty Something merch available at the shows and some online, along with some new VIP perks including a VIP Lounge. The Lounge is a mini traveling Rush museum of sorts, curated by longtime Rush historian and super-fan Ray Wawrzyniak, who helped organize nearly the entire exhibit. Wawrzyniak will also serve as the official host and docent in the lounge for roughly thirty shows on the tour, having already hosted the first two LA shows. For everyone going to the show, have fun and be safe. Follow along with this post for any notable updates throughout the evening. Rush posted the following to Instagram in the lead up to tonight's show:
Aimee Mann talks about her experience singing backup vocals on "Time Stand Still" for Rush's "Fifty Something" tour in LA in a new podcast interview ...
A new Rush-themed podcast from Buffalo-based music journalist Jeff Miers and Rush historian/archivist Ray Wawrzyniak titled "Why Rush Matters" debuted this past week and is now available for listening wherever you get your podcasts ...
Friday Rush updates! Rush "Fifty Something" tour kicks off in LA, Rick Beato interviews Anika Nilles, Epiphone introduces the Alex Lifeson 1976 ES-355 "Whitey" reissue, officially-licensed Rush "All the World's a Stage" and "Exit...Stage Left" 3D desktop artwork from Artovision, and more ...
Alex Lifeson and Epiphone have just announced the release of a stage ready, Inspired by Gibson Custom recreation of his legendary alpine white ES-355 (aka Whitey) ...
"Artovision" has just released a pair of new, officially-licensed, 3-dimensional collectable artwork pieces celebrating Rush's 1st 2 live albums ...
