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The Steve Hackett Band is on tour in the U.S. now and plays Thursday, March 28, 8 pm @ Orpheum Theatre in Madison. Tickets are still available at https://madisonorpheum.com/event/steve-hackett/. His current touring line-up includes himself on guitar, harmonica and vocals, keyboardist Roger King and multi-instrumentalist Rob Townsend (both since 2001), vocalist Nad Sylvan (since 2013), bassist Jonas Reingold and drummer Craig Blundell (both since 2018).
On Mar 21 Psychoacoustics aired an exclusive interview with Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett in anticipation of his 3/28 Madison appearance at the Orpheum. Hear Steve’s thoughts on “music for the deaf”, the studio use of AI & other tools, what progressive rock has in common with Shakespeare and the Beatles, why “keyboard players don’t like humans” and his memories of some hilarious “Spinal Tap” moments with the band. Host Reverend Velveteen‘s conversation with progressive rock wizard Hackett is interspersed throughout the show, which also features a plethora of tunes from his new solo album The Circus and the Nightwhale along with plenty of Genesis masterpieces from his ’72-74 tenure, including several from a live 2022 Brighton concert by the Steve Hackett Band.
The whole show remains available on-demand at archive.wortfm.org through April 4.
[All photos by Lee Millward]
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Official Press Release:
Today he is pleased to reveal the first single, and the albums opening track, ‘People of the Smoke’, and you can watch the video now here: https://www.youtube.com/
Steve says of the track: “People of the Smoke spins us all back in time to 1950, when bustling post-war London was stifled with smog from trains, chimneys, industry and smokers. I was born into that world! This song kicks off an album following my life’s journey both literally and metaphorically…”
The new album is available to pre-order on several different formats, including a Limited CD+Blu-ray media book (including 5.1 Surround Sound & 24bit high resolution stereo mixes), Standard CD Jewel case, Gatefold 180g Vinyl LP & as Digital Album. All feature the stunning cover painting by Denise Marsh. Pre-order now here: https://stevehackett.
‘The Circus And The Nightwhale’ is Steve’s first new music in over two years. Recorded between tours in 2022 and 2023 at Siren studio in the UK – with guest parts beamed in from Sweden, Austria, the US, Azerbaijan and Denmark, the line-up for ‘The Circus And The Nightwhale’ includes some familiar faces alongside Steve on electric and acoustic guitars, 12-string, mandolin, harmonica, percussion, bass and vocals. Roger King (keyboards, programming and orchestral arrangements), Rob Townsend (sax), Jonas Reingold (bass), Nad Sylvan (vocals), Craig Blundell (drums) and Amanda Lehmann on vocals. Nick D’Virgilio and Hugo Degenhardt return as guests on the drum stool, engineer extraordinaire Benedict Fenner appears on keyboards and Malik Mansurov is back with the tar. Finally, Steve’s brother John Hackett is present once more on flute.
The full track listing is as follows:
1. People Of The Smoke
2. These Passing Clouds
3. Taking You Down
4. Found And Lost
5. Enter The Ring
6. Get Me Out!
7. Ghost Moon and Living Love
8. Circo Inferno
9. Breakout
10. All At Sea
11. Into The Nightwhale
12. Wherever You Are
13. White Dove
Summing up ‘The Circus And The Nightwhale’, Steve says: “It’s a lovely journey that starts dirty, scratchy and smoky and becomes heavenly and divine. How can you resist it?”
Steve recently completed his North America Tour where he continued his ‘Foxtrot At Fifty + Hackett Highlights’ run. This year, he will tour the world extensively, including a brand new UK tour ‘Genesis Greats, Lamb Highlights & Solo’, which will see him return to the legendary Royal Albert Hall. For the full list of dates, head to: http://hackettsongs.com/
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