Glad we finally have some news, altho it'll be even better when we get some real info about the album! Nonetheless, I'm very curious to see how this all develops. The impression I get is that the full show will be the new material, with an encore that has some older material - just a gut instinct tho.
That's even more solid evidence that this is some kind of concept album.
Would it possibly count as evidence against a double album? I can't imagine playing a double album live at every show, at the expense of much else. I know they played SFAM live as a whole, but that was a single album.
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. Double-album, played live in it's entirety at every show of that tour. 94 minutes and change. (SFAM is something like 77 or 78 minutes).
Floyd's The Wall was performed in it's entirety as well, and as is evident by the live version of the album (Is There Anybody Out There), was stretched out about 20 minutes more than the original 81 minute album.
And not that it really counts since it was 2 albums, but Queensryche did the 2006 tour where they did Operation: Mindcrime for the first set, O:M II for the second set (continuing the same story) and did an encore of older stuff.
Ballsy to go out and play a new album in it's entirety, first time since 6 Degrees I think? must be very confident of the material!
Not really. For World Tourbulence, they performed the title track for the second set of most Evening With shows, but not every other song from the album was also performed each night. The last tour where they regularly performed their current album in full was the Metropolis 2000 tour, altho there were some occasions where they did perform all the songs from Train of Thought at one show (only the first was in sequential order) and a handful of times they did all of Octavarium as a second set.
2-Disc concept album. I'm calling it.
That's already been called by nearly everyone else.
Yeah, but Chino didn't call it! That's the difference!