Arena - Double Vision (2018)

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Arena - Double Vision (2018)

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Arena have announced they’ll play a run of live dates across the UK and Europe from next month. The tour has been scheduled to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their third studio album The Visitor and to accompany the launch of their new record Double Vision, which will arrive on May 25.

Arena will play the whole of the The Visitor during the shows, with keyboardist and songwriter Clive Nolan telling Prog that Double Vision also pays tribute to their 1998 album.

He says: “There are seven tracks and one of them addresses some of the questions that were never answered on The Visitor. That one is called The Legend Of Elijah Shade and it’s 22-minutes long.”

Arena will also celebrate The Visitor with a 20th Anniversary Remastered Edition, which is now available for pre-order from the band’s website.

And as for revisiting the landmark album, Nolan says: “Playing the whole of The Visitor again is going to be very interesting because we haven’t done it for 20 years.

“When I went out with Arena at that time, I had nine keyboards, a set of bass pedals and two 12u rack units full of samplers. Now I’m going out with just two keyboards and I think I can do pretty much everything I did on those nine keyboards!”

Following the European dates, Arena will cross the Atlantic for a performance at Quebec’s Auditorium Du Cegep FX Garneau on May 26.