The material is from the Boerderij show during the Arena Re-Visited Tour in 2018. The 48 page booklet contains photographs taken throughout the tour!
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the birth of "The Visitor", the favourite album of the first fans, Arena gave them a great gift: during the 2018 European tour, the band played the entire work! The event was recorded and released the following year as a live album "Re-Visited Live!"…
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.
The gathering of Arena's famous musicians makes a super-group: Mick Pointer (Ex-Marillion) plays the drums, Clive Nolan (Pendragon) the keyboards, and Keith More (Asia) played the guitar until replaced by John Mitchell (Ex-Kino). Vocalist Rob Sowden has been with the band since Immortal? and the bass player is Ian Salmon. There have also been some guest appearances by Tracy Hitchings (singer of Quasar, Strangers on a Train & Landmarq) and Steve Rothery (Marillion's gifted guitarist).
"Songs From The Lion's Cage" is then a very professional Progressive rock, both close to Marillion and hard-rock. "Pride", their second opus issued in 1996 (one year after the previous one) confirmed the high musical level of this band, at a time when they added a touch IQ to their music…