Dream Theater keyboardist Jordan Rudess is featured in a new interview with Australia's Scenestr.com. An excerpt with Rudess discussing the band's live show is available below.

Rudess: "What we are presenting, so as far as our show goes it's very dialled-in. You can kind of think of it as a Broadway show or something. We don’t modify our music on-the-fly depending on what we think the audience is doing at the moment; it’s more like we are presenting our show which is prepared to be an experience, and hoping that people will go along for the ride, if you will. So far they seem to be enjoying the show. It’s dialled-in. It’s a real show. We know exactly what we are going to do and everybody in the crew knows what's happening with all of the lighting and visual changes and song changes."

"We haven’t been there for a while and we have missed coming there (Australia). It’s time we came back and luckily we are coming back. Anybody who knows Dream Theater is going to be pleased with the evening which we're presenting. It’s a mixture of our older music – like 'Awake' – plus a bunch of things from the newest self-titled album, and it’s going to be a treat for our long-time fans and for our newer fans, who are all going to really enjoy it. We are going to be really, really tight for sure, and we are really looking forward to it. It will be great to see everybody there again because it’s been just too long."

Go to this location for the complete interview.

Dream Theater will perform on October 29th in Melbourne at Palais Theatre and on October 30th in Sydney at Big Top Luna Park. Click here for ticket information.

Brookvale Records has checked in with the following Dream Theater-related announcement:

"Great news for all you Dream Theater fans; the test pressings for both Awake and Falling Into Infinity have officially been approved and we are in the final stages of production. We can’t think of a better way to follow the overwhelming response to our second pressing of Scenes From A Memory than with two more incredible Dream Theater titles.

Brookvale Records and Enjoy The Ride Records proudly present Awake and Falling Into Infinity on vinyl for the first time in North America. Details are as follows:

• Remastered For Vinyl

• Individually Hand-Numbered 2-LP Sets

• Stunning Gatefold Packaging