UPDATE - 4/16@11:47PM: I was wrong on the Ottawa show. Ticketmaster is only handling presales for the show. Although it is a bit confusing since they don't list it as such; they list it as on sale. Regular tix need to be purchased through the venue and go on sale this weekend.

UPDATE - 4/16@11:00PM: Okay. To add to the confusion I just received this email from the Rush mailing list:

Canadian tour dates go on sale Tuesday, April 17th at 10am local time and close on Thursday, April 19th at 5pm local time. To get access to the pre-sales tickets you need to do the following:
1) Go to http://www.rush.com .
2) Click on the "Tour" link.
3) Click on the link to the appropriate show.
4) You will need the password "leela" to purchase your pre-sale tickets.

This must be the Fan Club presale that has been mentioned... and I assume it's through MusicToday, but they don't explicitly say that. If you go to Rush.com right now and do what they say, all the links still read information coming soon. Clear as mud. I'm not sure exactly what to tell you except be ready tomorrow at 10AM. :)

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UPDATE - 4/16@10:51PM: Doh! Missed this before.. the Ottawa show goes on regular sale tomorrow at 10AM. No presale.

UPDATE - 4/16@10:44PM: There's info for presales for the London, Toronto and Calgary shows up on Ticketmaster Canada. They all mention a Rush Fan Club presale but there's still nothing on the MusicToday site. Weird. Toronto also has an AMEX presale listed, as I mentioned earlier. And Calgary has four separate presales listed; Fan Club, Front of the Line, House of Blues and CJAY 92. Thanks to VoodooChild for the heads up.

UPDATE - 4/16@2:50PM: Reader Victor S emailed the Ticketing Customer Service Department at MusicToday and asked about Canadian presales through MusicToday and was told by a representative that these presales are scheduled to begin tomorrow at 10AM local venue time. It wasn't clear whether the presales will be for all the dates or just a few. I assume that they'll have the dates listed on their site this evening. They aren't currently however.

UPDATE - 4/16@12:57PM: Here's some info regarding the Ottawa show on Sept. 21st at Scotiabank Place courtesy Spindrifter. It's another AMEX presale starting tomorrow at 10AM. Also see this article too if you plan on going to this show (thanks Denis).

UPDATE - 4/16@12:10PM: The TicketMaster Canada link for the Toronto show is now also listing a Fan Club Presale from Tue, 04/17/07 10AM to Thu, 04/19/07 12PM. Fan Club? Not sure what this means but all the MusicToday presales ran from the Tues at 10AM through Thursday at 12PM, so maybe this means that MusicToday will be doing a presale for this show too? But then again... why would Ticketmaster be advertising that?

UPDATE - 4/16@10:16AM: AHA! Looks like the Toronto presale is an AMEX presale. So you need an AMEX card for it. Bummer. It also runs through Thursday the 19th at 5PM.

UPDATE - 4/16@10:12AM: Toronto show! The presale through TicketMaster Canada for the September 19th show in Toronto will begin tomorrow at 10AM. I'm unsure how long it will last but if it's like most TM presales it'll end at 5 or 6... I'm saying 5 for now. I may be wrong on that and I'll let you know as I find out more. For info go here. Thanks to VoodooChild for the heads up.

UPDATE - 4/16@10:05AM: The Canadian presale information is beginning to roll in. The first show that I have some info on is the September 12th (Neil's birthday!) show in London, ON at the John Labatt Centre. There will be a presale conducted this Thursday from 9AM-5PM. Go here and enter the password SNAKES. Thanks to reader Denis J for the info. Rush.com has not been updated with this information and I'm still unsure if there will also be a MusicToday presale.

As of yesterday, tickets for the Snakes & Arrows tour are now on regular sale for all US and most European dates. Tickets for the Oslo, Stockholm and Helsinki shows go on sale tomorrow at 9AM (local venue time). For details see the Tour Section - all dates are now loaded in. As far as Canadian dates go there is still very little information to go on. All we have is what is posted at Rush.com; that tickets go on sale this weekend. Outside of that I can't find any solid information, but I'm betting we'll see something on Rush.com tomorrow. None of the venues in question even have the dates listed on their calendars.

As far as how well the tour is selling tickets the answer is very well. Pollstar tracks ticket sales the number of fan requests for an act's tour itinerary (thanks Jaybird) and posts a top 50 list every week. Rush is way on top after being #9 last week.

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