SONATA ARCTICA Shooting Live DVD In Oulu, Finland Tonight
April 14, 2011, 13 years ago
Finnish bashers SONATA ARCTICA will shoot their long-awaited live DVD tonight (April 15th) in Oulu, Finland at Club Teatria. According to the band
it will feature "the biggest production we've ever had."
The DVD shoot was initially due to take place in September 2010 in Milan, Italy. It was then pushed to February 2011 when guitarist Elias Viljanen broke his hand. Due to unexpected costs, the shoot was finally moved to Oulu. The band issued the following statement regarding the change of plans in December 2010:
"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."
Watch for updates on the DVD shoot, coming soon.
