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STEVE HACKETT
GENESIS REVISITED – SECONDS OUT + MORE
FRIARS AYLESBURY at the WATERSIDE THEATRE 18 OCTOBER 2021
TICKETS go on
sale on FRIDAY 10 JULY 2020 10.00am from ATGtickets.com,
Seetickets.com and Ticketmaster.co.uk.
Presale tickets
go on sale on Thursday 9 July at 10.00am from ATGtickets.com to
Friars Aylesbury newsletter subscribers only. Go to
www.aylesburyfriars.co.uk
for free Friars newsletter subscription. Also from Planet Rock via
Gigantic.com.
The presale link will be sent out
this Wednesday evening 8th July to those who subscribe to the Friars
Aylesbury newsletter
Tickets limited
to a maximum of 4 per person. Please note the Waterside Box Office
is not open due to CV19.
Following his
stunning sell-out Friars date in November 2019, Steve Hackett
returns to Friars Aylesbury, the place where Genesis began, for a
special one-off show featuring songs from the Genesis live album
‘Seconds Out’ plus other tracks from Steve’s solo albums. This will
be the first new Friars date to be announced since the CV19
lockdown.
Seconds Out
was the hugely successful double album recorded on Genesis’s 1977
concert tour together with The Cinema Show, from their 1976
tour, and featured Steve Hackett on guitar alongside Mike
Rutherford, Tony Banks and Phil Collins who had taken on the role of
vocalist following the departure of Peter Gabriel. The tour included
music from each of the six studio albums from Steve’s time in
Genesis and marked his final recordings with the band as he left to
pursue his solo career upon its completion.
Says Steve:
“I hugely look
forward to being back on the road in the UK, bringing the whole of
Seconds Out back to life! The set features some of the most
thrilling Genesis material, this time all numbers played in full,
plus additional surprises...”
Steve will be
joined on the tour by regular musicians Roger King (keyboards),
Jonas Reingold (bass), Rob Townsend (saxes/flutes) with Nad Sylvan
on vocals.
Craig Blundell
(Steven Wilson, King Crimson, Iron Maiden) will be on drums &
percussion. He was voted by Modern Drummer and Rhythm Magazine
readers as one of the top progressive and forward thinking drummers
in the world.
Steve’s
autobiography, A Genesis In My Bed is published on 24th July
2020. Steve talks candidly about his early life, his time with
Genesis, and in particular his personal relationships with the other
four band members, with great insight into the daily goings on of
this major rock band.
About
Steve Hackett
Steve Hackett
joined Genesis at the beginning of 1971 and first played Friars
Aylesbury in June 1971. He quickly gained an international
reputation as the guitarist in the band’s classic line-up alongside
Peter Gabriel, Tony Banks, Mike Rutherford and Phil Collins. Steve’s
intricate guitar work was a key element of Genesis albums from
Nursery Cryme (1971) to Wind And Wuthering (1977)
including the classic Selling England By The Pound.
After leaving
Genesis at the end of 1977, Steve’s solo career, which now spans
more than 30 albums, has demonstrated his extraordinary versatility
with both electric and acoustic guitar. Steve is renowned as both an
immensely talented and innovative rock musician and a virtuoso
classical guitarist and composer and this was recognised in 2010
when he was inducted into the Rock Hall Of Fame. He has also worked
alongside Steve Howe of YES in the supergroup GTR.
Steve’s
compositions take influences from many genres, including jazz,
classical and blues. For his later studio works The Night Siren
(2017) and At The Edge Of Light (2019) Steve has explored the
influences of world music.
Reviews
from Steve Hackett’s most recent Genesis Revisited Tour
‘the
night’s prog feast.. was Selling England’ ‘ which allowed the
guitarist’s band to fully showcase their talents…’ ‘for one
evening at least it was fantastic to dance with the Moonlit Knight
once more.’ Simon Carter - The News Portsmouth
‘Hackett's
guitar effortlessly carves a path through the songs
mixing melodic lines with experimentation and flat out rock...’
‘The individual personalities of the band also shine throughout…’
Stuart Avis -The Brighton Magazine
‘a great
riff, great lyrics and another guitar solo to die for...’ ‘the
magic seems never-ending...’ Alan Jones – Getreadytorock
‘complex time
changes and elaborate melodies were recreated by Hackett’s superb
band with verve and skill.’ ‘Hackett may well be the best
guitarist around. Oh, and a great light show too. Obviously.’
S Copeland - Brighton Argus
“This
is a consummately highly talented group of musicians, possibly the
best working band currently playing anywhere in the world.
Seriously.”
Paul H Birch –
Ramzine
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