This year's RUSHfest Scotland will take place next weekend on May 15-17 at Drygate Brewery and the Barrowland Ballroom in Glasgow. Envy of None's Maiah Wynne will be the featured guest along with author Kevin J. Anderson, and tickets for the event are available to purchase here. They are also running a fundraiser raffle for the Funding Neuro cancer charity, where the winner receives two great tickets to Rush's tour kickoff in Los Angeles on June 7th. You can make a donation for your chance to win at justgiving.com. RUSHfest Scotland founder Steve Brown was recently interviewed for MetalTalk.net to discuss the event along with his thoughts on Rush's comeback tour, detailing his personal experience when he heard the news:
... "Our drummer, Jamie from St Andrews, had her finger on the pulse with Reddit. She heard rumblings the week before the announcement." "We were gigging a lot down South, so that particular week I had booked myself into a hotel in Kendal for three days. Over the weekend beforehand, Jamie had said, 'Look, there's something on Reddit. I think an announcement's coming.' I was like, okay, and then it was that Monday afternoon, 6th October, and the bomb dropped. It just fried my mind completely. "I was planning to do my VAT returns and shit like that. I was just going to get bogged down in a hotel life in Kendal. That was my Monday. So, I didn't have any insider knowledge as such." ...
You can read the entire interview with Steve here, and find out more about RUSHfest Scotland via rushfestscotland.co.uk. Pianist David Sanderson has also just released a new album for RUSHfest Scotland which features unique and fresh interpretations of Rush's music on piano. The album is available as a limited edtion vinyl LP with just 300 copies made, each including access to a full digital download of the album, which is also available for purchase separately. All profits from sales of the album go to Funding Neuro , and you can secure your copy via Bandcamp.
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