RUSH: 'Snakes & Arrows Tour' Opening-Night Setlist Revealed

June 14, 2007

Canadian rock trio RUSH kicked off its much-anticipated "Snakes & Arrows Tour" Wednesday night (June 13) in Atlanta, Georgia. The group's complete setlist was as follows:

Set 1:

Video Intro

01. Limelight
02. Digital Man
03. Entre Nous
04. Mission
05. Freewill
06. The Main Monkey Business
07. The Larger Bowl
08. Secret Touch
09. Circumstances
10. Between The Wheels
11. Dreamline

Intermission

Set 2:

Video Intro

12. Far Cry
13. Workin' Them Angels
14. Armor And Sword
15. Spindrift
16. The Way The Wind Blows
17. Subdivisions
18. Natural Science
19. Witch Hunt
20. MalNar
21. Drum Solo
22. Hope
23. Summertime Blues
24. The Spirit Of Radio
25. Tom Sawyer

Encore:

26. One Little Victory
27. A Passage to Bangkok
28. YYZ

The launch of the global trek — the band's first full-scale world tour since 2004 — follows an impressive #3 debut on The Billboard 200 for the band's new Anthem/Atlantic album, "Snakes & Arrows".

With the new album's second single, "Spindrift", now impacting radio, RUSH will release a special limited edition vinyl version of "Snakes & Arrows" on June 19. There will be only 5,000 copies of this 2-LP set available, each pressed on 180-gram HQ audiophile vinyl at RTI for the best possible sound.

RUSH has also announced that on June 26, "Snakes & Arrows" will be released as one of the first albums in the new MVI format. MVI (Music Video Interactive) is a DVD-based product that plays in all DVD players, computers, and video game consoles with DVD drives. The RUSH release will include the entire "Snakes & Arrows" album in 96kHz/24 bit hi-resolution stereo, the entire album in 5.1 surround sound, and a 45-minute in-studio documentary on the making of the album — titled "Rush: The Game of Snakes and Arrows."

The RUSH MVI will also offer the ability for fans to create their own mobile ringtones of all the tracks on the MVI using UrTone technology, as well as digital extras like wallpapers, buddy icons, and more. When fans register their MVI, they will unlock even more RUSH content including an exclusive poster from the band. Deluxe packaging will complete the release. The audio tracks on the MVI are pre-encoded for easy transfer to your computer, portable music player, or recordable CD. To learn more about the MVI format, please visit www.mvimusic.com.

The #3 premiere of "Snakes & Arrows" — the renowned rock trio's first new collection of original material in nearly five years — marked RUSH's highest chart debut since 1993, as well as the group's eleventh top ten album in the U.S. The band's extraordinary body of work — which includes such acclaimed works as 1976's "2112", 1981's "Moving Pictures", 1996's "Test for Echo", and 2002's "Vapor Trails" — has achieved worldwide sales exceeding 35 million units.

(Thanks: RushIsABand.com)

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