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The show is underway in Cleveland Ohio and the crew has spent all day setting up multiple cameras to capture this historic concert on Rush’s 2011 Time Machine tour.

In 1974 Donna Halper, at that time the Music Director at WMMS Cleveland spun Rush to American listeners for the first time… The rest is history and so Rush and Banger Films team up again to show their appreciation for this town by filming the show for a full length concert DVD to be released at a later date.

Sam took a second out of his busy setup schedule to shoot us a pic from the Venue. Enjoy and please feel free to stop by and share your thoughts of the show or anything that crops up.

Thanks for the pic Sammy. Have a Fantastic Shoot.

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.

Hey! with all this press flying around about the Rush Documentary, why don’t you drift over to our Amazon link and pre-order your copy of the DVD… Check out this link below. Our affiliate id is linked so when you buy through the link, Amazon will kick us back a few cents. Spread the word!!

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After you’ve finished with your pre-order, swing back and check out a few more of the latest press pieces that are flooding the net with all the awards and screenings going on. With such a crapload of BS blogs with rehashed duplicate content out there, it takes a bit of weeding but with a bit of help we can usually expose a few of the well written pieces for you. Shout out to DW for keeping the good ones floating in.

A beauty review of the movie from The Documentary Blog: Rush Beyond the Lighted Stage Hot Docs Review

Here’s another one from Keren Bliss at NoiseCreep: Rush Documentary Shows Trio’s Humor And Camaraderie

Another award for the Boys and Girls at Banger Films. Hot Docs Audience Awards Winners Announced

V Magazine interview with Sam and Scot. Meet the headbangers bringing you the history of this epic Canadian rock band

Great CNN Interview with new footage: Rush keeps rocking with a new documentary and tour. CNN’s Andrea Mineo speaks with the band.

Nifty site featuring global theatrical release info for the Documentary. Rush Beyond the Lighted Stage: Global Theatrical Release Dates

I know I’m sorta late getting this out, but…..

Well, they’ve done it again, in a different city with a new documentary. Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage has just won the Tribeca Heineken® Audience Award. Hot on the heels after winning a similar fan choice award for Iron Maiden: Flight 666 at the South by Southwest festival in Austin Texas last year. This time however the award comes with a niftly little cash award of $25,000. Come on!! Well done guys. This simply confirms the ability of Banger Films to script and develop ground breaking documentaries which step outside of the standard ‘music documentary’ formula.

Along with this amazing news, here are a few more video links from various sources as they popped up in the news feeds. Or check out the posts over at Rush is a Band for some killer posts with links throughout!

Short gala night piece from the HotDocs opening night with some face time with Scot and Sam and Rush (Yup, the fellahs made it to the Canadian Premiers as they should, well done!).

Go read up on Day 2 of Hot Docs. Then check out some more of the same regurgitated story of the Tribeca fans choice award. As if we can get enough of that. Thanks ABC News! Here’s some more link love for The Wrap cuz I think the title is great. There are also a ton of magnificent films that passed through town on the Tribeca bill, check out a few news pieces on them in this feed. Thanks again D for sending over this link of some interview footage of Sam and Scot and whatnot.

Oh and this guy is having a great time listening to himself talk. It is great reading actually.