Oh they were good. Perhaps not quite up at the stupefying heights they reached on the R30 tour a couple of years ago, but still as good a live act as anything you'll see touring the arenas of the world. If Muse had a slightly eccentric uncle that read books on quantum physics, Rush would be him.
If there was a highlight amidst the dancing lighting rigs, dizzying time signatures and fiendish Impossible Drumming, it was the three song triptych that started with Subdivisions and went into Natural Science and then Witch Hunt: both band and audience hitting their straps and transcending their surroundings in a welter of sculpted noise. Ruddy terrific. 'Art as expression/Not as market campaigns/Will still capture our imagination' as Geddy sung it. Quite right too.
Oh, and then there was this: South Park performing as 'Lil Rush to introduce Tom Sawyer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTYXMSrS82w
Close to as good as it gets.
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- I'm a freelance journalist specialising in writing about broadcast and film technology for a range of outlets. Nowadays that means I also write about mobile, IPTV, computing and pretty much any other medium which involves putting a moving picture on a screen somewhere along the line. I also copywrite for a range of corporate clients, sub-edit, edit, and research...Basically, if it involves words, I do it. Feel free to contact me for more info: andy@stouters.com
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