Cyberclogs

So, I'm finally getting round to writing about the momentous and rare occasion when one of the world's biggest touring bands came to town (no, not REO Speedwagon), Rush, who played at the SECC on Wednesday there, and well, they were terrific as usual.

With their new album Snakes and Arrows out Rush came to Glasgow and put on a great show, starting off with Limelight, they ploughed through as much of their prolific repotoire as they could manage in the space of 3 hours. There were some songs they played which believe it or not I didn't actually recognise (the second one in fact, what the hell was it?!). But the highlights were plenty, which for me included Tom Sawyer (which had a funny South Park intro video to it), Dreamline with its terrific green light show, XYZ the finisher of the night, but the main highlight for me was Natural Science (off of Permenant Waves) which was terrific and one of their best songs from the early 80s period. Also I can't go without mentioning Neil Peart's terrific drum solo, which involved using an electronic drum kit aswell, which sounded like something out of an 80s video game!

Rush as usual displayed their quirky Canadian sense of humour throughout the show with their funny backscreen projection videos, not to mention the one at the start which saw Geddy Lee dress up as a Scotsman, affecting the best Scottish accent from a Canadian since Mike Myers (ok slight sarcasm there). The only slight criticism I could speak of is probably the price of the tickets, at 45 quid, they were very steep, no matter how good Rush were it is a bit exorbitant. But Rush put on one hell of a good show and they don't come here often enough and I look forward to when they do again.