Steve Hackett – Reviews, concert reports, interviews and all the information about the former Genesis guitarist.
After his surprise album Genesis Revisited Steve Hackett played four shows in Japan with his band. These gigs were preserved as the live double album The Tokyo Tapes.
Steve Hackett spoke about Genesis Revisited and other projects in an interview with Helmut Janisch on 22 October 1996.
An unusual Steve Hackett album was released in 1996. Steve recorded new versions of a number of Genesis classics, added an orchestra, and published Genesis Revisited at first only in Japan, but later also in Europe. The album also features an impressive list of guest musicians.
Steve Hackett’s foray into the blues provides us with a new studio album aptly called Blues With A Feeling.
After a time of little output Steve Hackett achieved a sort of comeback in 1993 when he released a new rock album called Guitar Noir.
An archive of all Steve Hackett tour dates between 2009 and 2017.
After the artistic and commercial success of Steve Hackett’s version of Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream as a guitar concert in 1997 another project like that was to be expected. And indeed it was announced a couple of years ago and published eight years after its predecessor.
Virgin / EMI Records have finally got around to releasing Steve Hackett’s early albums according to his ideas – to the delight of the musician and his fans alike, for the record company respected Hackett’s wishes about the sound as well as extras and the package.
He is always looking for “unbounded places where culture meet and influence each other”, and it seems Steve Hackett has found some more of them. He proudly lets us admire the collection of Wild Orchids he has collected since his last band album…
The Capitol is a long-established half-round theatre with seating in the gallerys and a sloping “arena”. The show seemed to be not completely sold out, but for a normal Monday it was quite a good attendance.
