Finland's SONATA ARCTICA have issued the following update:

"Dear Fans,

We're writing this in order to clear up some confusions about where, when and how we're going to film our next DVD. When the orginal DVD show in Milano was postponed when Elias broke his hand, we put off the preparations for the time being. Some days ago as we were starting to finish the preparation for the show, we realized that we've been misled about some of the costs for doing the DVD shoot. Mainly we're talking about the pyrotechnics permits, which would have cost roughly 10 times more than anywhere else. This, along with some other unexpected expenses, came as a total surprise to the band. In order to make things work we had to pull the plug on the shoot in Milano and move it to Finland we're we can afford to do a proper DVD shoot. Our management jumped the gun here and told our webmaster to change the info on the website, without us knowing about it and without an explanation.

So, that's the situation we're in right now. We can not even by a longshot afford to do a proper DVD shoot in Milano and will do it in Oulu instead (April 15th). By doing so we realize that we're letting down all our fans who were planning to come to the show. For that we apologize sincerely. We will play the show in Milano, with all the planned extra numbers, as well as a couple of extra tricks to make up for this mishap ....only the cameras won't be rolling this time. Rather than disappointing all our fans around the world who truly deserve a perfect live DVD we have to let down some of you. We are very sorry that things turned out this way."

Yours,

Sonata Arctica

The band's current live itinerary is as follows:

February

24 - Majestic Music Club - Bratislava, Slovakia
25 - Petöfi Csarnok - Budapest, Hungary
26 - Cvetlicarna - Ljubljana, Slovenia
27 - Alcatraz - Milan, Italy

March

1 - Masters of Rock Café - Zlín, Czech Republic
2 - Szene - Vienna, Austria
4 - Kaminwerk - Memmingen, Germany
5 - HsD - Erfurt, Germany
6 - Hof ter Lo - Antwerp, Belgium
7 - Garage - Saarbrücken, Germany
8 - Z7 - Pratteln, Switzerland
10 - Theatre Barbey - Bordeaux, France
11 - Apolo - Barcelona, Spain
12 - La Riviera - Madrid, Spain
13 - Rock Star Live - Bilbao, Spain
15 - Transbordeur - Lyon, France
16 - Élysée Montmartre - Paris, France
18 - Wulfrun Hall - Wolverhampton, UK
19 - Corporation - Sheffield, UK
20 - Garage - Glasgow, UK
22 - Academy 2 - Manchester, UK
23 - Milennium Music Hall - Cardiff, UK
24 - Sub 89 - Reading, UK

25.- Koko - London, UK

26 - Essigfabrik - Cologne, Germany
27 - Effenaar - Eindhoven, Holland
29 - Patronaat - Haarlem, Holland
30 - Halle Gartlage - Osnabrück, Germany
31 - Substage - Karlsruhe, Germany

April

6 - Pakkahuone - Tampere, Finland
7 - Tavastia - Helsinki, Finland
8 - Tavastia - Helsinki, Finland
9 - Finlandia-Klubi - Lahti, Finland
15 - Club Teatria - Oulu, Finland
16 - Umpitunneli - Tornio, Finland
21 - Bar Kino - Pori, Finland
22 - Rytmikorjaamo -Seinäjoki, Finland
23 - Klubi - Turku, Finland
24 - Klubi - Turku, Finland
27 - Nosturi - Helsinki, Finland
28 - Lutakko - Jyväskylä, Finland
29 - Puikkari - Kuopio, Finland
30 - Kerubi - Joensuu, Finland

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