{"id":299910,"date":"2026-02-24T15:17:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T15:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/299910\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T15:17:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T15:17:06","slug":"rush-talks-fun-experience-working-with-new-drummer-anika-nilles-105-7-the-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/299910\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush talks \u2018fun\u2019 experience working with new drummer Anika Nilles \u2013 105.7 The Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Getty_Rush_022326-2.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid w-100 wp-post-image\" alt=\"Getty Rush 022326\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Presenters Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee of Rush speak onstage at the 32nd Annual Rock &amp; Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony at Barclays Center on April 7, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Mike Coppola\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>The members of Rush are giving fans an update on how things are going with new drummer Anika Nilles as they get ready to launch their Fifty Something tour. It\u00a0will be their first tour since the 2020 death of drummer Neil Peart.<\/p>\n<p>Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson\u00a0talked to the U.K.\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=liti9ag3yEk&amp;t=1s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Planet Rock<\/a>\u00a0about the tour, revealing that\u00a0Nilles\u00a0already knows about\u00a025 Rush songs. Lee noted it\u2019s been \u201creally fun to watch\u201d her get to know the material.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s one thing to play it for the first time and to work out what are the parts that have to be essentially Neil Peart\u2019s parts and what parts she can make her own,\u201d Lee said. \u201cAnd that has been wonderful to watch and really exciting for Al and I because now she doesn\u2019t have to think about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lee explained that\u00a0Nilles didn\u2019t know much of their music coming into the gig.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe knew, of course, a couple of the big songs, and of course every drummer on earth knew Neil and his reputation, he was very respected,\u201d Lee said. He\u00a0noted that Nilles\u00a0did know\u00a0their hit \u201cTom Sawyer,\u201d but she \u201cwas kind of nervous\u201d to play it because it\u2019s such an important song.<\/p>\n<p>Lee\u00a0and Lifeson also discussed their plans\u00a0to pay tribute to Peart\u00a0during the show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re gonna do two sets,\u201d said Lee. \u201cIn each of those sets, we\u2019ll take a song and, you know, do a bit of our own way of tributing to Neil, and of course, his presence will be throughout the evening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The North American leg of the tour kicks off on June 7 in Los Angeles. The tour will also hit South America, Europe and the U.K. Tour dates can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rush.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Rush.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Presenters Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee of Rush speak onstage at the 32nd Annual Rock &amp; Roll Hall&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69,72800],"class_list":["post-299910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}