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It’s a beauty way to go.

Alright, enough of that. There’s been a lot of press recently regarding the current musical prowess of several of our more famous ‘hosers’. Namely a young fellow named Justin, a less younger fellow named Drake and three geezers named Rush. Much of this press is illuminating the fact that this year, the Grammy’s will have a very Canadian feel as we joust for several awards spread out across many different categories. Rush has been nominated on several occasions before but have never brought home the big prize. We certainly expect this to be the breaking point and hope that we can bring home the big prize for Rush and everyone involved in every part of this amazing film.

In the meantime, Rush has a marginally satirical mention in the upcoming Rolling Stone magazine which opens with a particularly noticeable Zeppelin line. Have a read and click for the large version. Don’t forget to comment to let us know what you thing of …

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Ya! Crazy! The film affectionately referred to as The Rush Doc has been noticed by the Grammy committee and may just take home one of the biggest awards in the business. Today the Grammy Nominees found out who they were with a list of 109  unique music categories. Beyond the Lighted Stage was nominated in the very last category covering Best Long Form Music Video.

The complete list of nominees can be found on the main Grammy Awards page here http://www.grammy.com/nominees. Rush is in deep and will need to find a few crotchety old Rush fans in the juror list to overcome documentaries covering Blur, The Doors, Arif Mardin, and The White Stripes.

This is an incredible validation of what Banger Films has been able to bring to the big screen considering Geddy and Neil pretty much laughed them out of the room when they first broached the subject. The rest is history of course. What came out the other end was an endearing expose of probably the ‘worlds biggest cult band’. Okay, that phrase has been beaten to death hasn’t it?

For the hell of it, why don’t you check out the Tribeca interview which took place a couple days before Sam and Scott were handed a cheque for $25,000. Nice peeps. Oh by the way it appears that this version has been edited and thus the butchery of the word ‘Canada’ by the host was removed.

Congrats to all the crew at Banger Films HQ.

Hi Folks. Fantastic news (for those of you in these areas) !! The Rush documentary is set to release to a select few Canadian Theatres on June 10, 2010. Be sure to keep an eye on the theatres and don’t miss out!! Here, I’ll just get to the point below:

EXPERIENCE IT.

ONE NIGHT ONLY THURSDAY, JUNE 10 at 7pm

RUSH: Beyond the Lighted Stage is Released to the Following Theaters:

SCOTIABANK THEATRE, TORONTO

CINEMARK TINSELTOWN, VANCOUVER

THE UPTOWN, CALGARY

CINEMA DU PARC, MONTREAL

CINEMA LE CLAP, QUEBEC CITY

* Additional Le Clap screenings on Fri June 11 at 7 & 9:15pm and Sat June 12th at 9:15pm *

There is a ton of great press out there and some scathingly terrible review as well, which are quite hilarious, and clearly do nothing to serve the good of the writer. Here, check this one out. Some fantastic quotes in here especially “Lead singer and bassist Geddy Lee‘s high-pitched voice, especially, is a demon wail of an epileptic cat with cancer — a banshee on helium.” => magic..

http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2010/04/agonies_of_rush.php

Also to get you in the mood here are a few clips  from various places (thanks Darren for sending these over)

Lovely interview with a few dudes: You need to flip over to the Tube cuz they disabled embed. But come back and tell us what you think!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_UUsxoFWpo

Audio interview by Richard Crouse:

Part 2

Enjoy Kids, Good luck finding tickets to the shows cuz they’re gonna sell out!!

Brief post here. Just read a great little interview on the Tribeca Film Festival website. After the massive buzz and feedback rolling across the net after the premier screenings over the weekend it was inevitable that there would be some PR with the fellahs. A particularly funny few words about Nickleback *cough*. Why not check out the Beyond the Lighted Stage Movie trailer again.

Here’s a fantastic interview with Sam, Scot, Geddy, Niel, Jillian and John: Especially humorous is the inability to pronounce Canada…

Nice going Daddy !! Sanchez MkFaj and Andre Saj-longjohn on the Tribeca Red Carpet

Check out another printed interview with Scot and Sam here.

Also as I do every now and then Spreading some link love to these posts below. Go check em out and join the discussion if you like the writing.

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=139101

http://www.filmhobbit.com/new/Release-Dates-Planned-For-Rush-Beyond-The-Lighted-Stage-18276.html

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704446704575206863334687160.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_sections_lifestyle

http://www.rounder.com/artist/news/detail.aspx?nid=4134&aid=97596

Great, Honest review of the film here http://cinemablend.com/new/Tribeca-Review-Rush-Beyond-The-Lighted-Stage-18212.html