{"id":1688,"date":"2012-05-22T19:38:42","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T19:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/05\/22\/rush-announces-first-european-festival-appearance-in-34-years\/"},"modified":"2012-05-22T19:38:42","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T19:38:42","slug":"rush-announces-first-european-festival-appearance-in-34-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2012\/05\/22\/rush-announces-first-european-festival-appearance-in-34-years\/","title":{"rendered":"RUSH Announces First European Festival Appearance In 34 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache2.allpostersimages.com\/p\/LRG\/38\/3810\/HUOIF00Z\/posters\/rush.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"158\" height=\"105\" \/><br \/>Canadian rock legends RUSH have been confirmed for next year&#8217;s edition of the Sweden Rock Festival, set to take place June 5-8, 2013 in S\u00f6lvesborg, Sweden. It will mark the band&#8217;s first appearance at a European festival in 34 years (since they played at Pinkpop in Holland in 1979).   <!--more-->  <br \/>Sweden Rock Festival 2013 will be a four-day festival featuring a total of 80 bands performing on five outdoor stages. <\/p>\n<p>Tickets will be made available September 25. <\/p>\n<p>In 2004, RUSH played in Sweden for the first time in 25 years, selling out the Globe <br \/>Arena in Stockholm. The overwhelming audience response marked the <br \/>beginning of a passionate love story between the band and Sweden, and on June 8, 2013 they will be back again. The event promises to be a <br \/>magnificent assault on all senses \u2014 Geddy Lee (vocals\/bass), Alex Lifeson (guitar) and Neil Peart (drums) tell the Sweden Rock organizers that the stage production will be one of the greatest in RUSH&#8217;s entire history, and the biggest they have ever brought to Europe. <\/p>\n<p>RUSH&#8217;s first new collection of original material in over five years and their first studio release via Anthem\/Roadrunner Records, &#8220;Clockwork Angels&#8221; will be released on June 12.<\/p>\n<p>Source: rocknrolla<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian rock legends RUSH have been confirmed for next year&#8217;s edition of the Sweden Rock&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}