In a new interview with Music Radar, Rush bassist/vocalist Geddy Lee talked about the possibility of new music once the band wraps their 2026 headline run, “Fifty Something”. For the tour, Geddy and guitarist Alex Lifeson will be joined by German drummer Anika Nilles, who toured with Jeff Beck in 2022 and has been rehearsing with Geddy and Alex in preparation.
Geddy says writing music was already on his radar before the tour planning took over, and that early jamming with Alex opened a door he hadn’t expected: “My intent, before we got into this celebration of Rush‘s history, was to put some music together.”
“Now, I assumed I would be doing that on my own, not with Alex, but when we started jamming, I started seeing the possibility of doing something with Alex — but all of that went on hold now because there’s too much work. There’s too much work to do for this tour to even think about that, ” Lee added (via Blabbermouth). “But if we manage to survive the tour, and go back to Canada and have a rest, who knows what’ll happen, but I suspect some music will eventually come out.”
He also brought up Anika as a potential creative fit beyond the live setting, while making it clear nothing is locked in: “It would be fun to see what [Anika] can do in a creative situation. Like, that would be fun. But it’s all speculation until it isn’t, so…”
As for the tour itself, Rush will play multiple cities across Canada, the United States, and Mexico, starting June 7, 2026, at The Kia Forum in Los Angeles. The “evening with” format has the band playing two sets per night, with each show built from a 35-song catalog made up of the biggest hits and deeper fan favorites—meaning the setlists will change night to night.
Demand has been immediate. After Geddy and Alex announced the first 2026 dates in early October, the shows sold out fast. The band responded by expanding the run, doubling its length, and adding more dates afterward. At this point, “Fifty Something” is scheduled to run into fall and early winter, with sold-out stops already listed in Chicago, Cleveland, Fort Worth, Los Angeles, New York, and Toronto, plus dates in Atlanta, Boston, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C., among others.
