[dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”]A[/dropcap]s a supergroup formed by Pendragon’s keyboard player Clive Nolan and former Marillion drummer Mick Pointer, Arena’s brand of heavy neo-prog is as cheesy as hell.
But they do the whole thing so well it just doesn’t matter.
– Tim Hall, reporting on Arena at the Trinity Live benefit gig, May 2014.
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