Europe - Steve Hackett Genesis Revisited Foxtrot at Fifty Hackett Highlights - European Tour 202
Steve Hackett Genesis Revisited Foxtrot at Fifty and Hackett Highlights - European Tour 2023
Hot on the heels of his most successful solo tour ever, Steve Hackett announces his Steve Hackett Genesis Revisited - Foxtrot at Fifty Hackett Highlights tour for 2022/2023. The tour marks the 50th anniversary of the legendary Genesis album Foxtrot which, in 1972, was pivotal in establishing the band as a major force in British rock.
The Steve Hackett Genesis Revisited - Foxtrot at Fifty Hackett Highlights tour also promises more Genesis favourites and highlights from Hackett's extensive solo catalogue.
Tour Dates - 2023
19 April 2023 - La Seine Musicale, PARIS, FRANCE
22 April 2023 - Lokschuppen, BIELEFIELD, GERMANY
23 April 2023 - Theater am Aegi, HANNOVER, GERMANY
24 April 2023 - Meistersingerhalle, NÜRNBERG, GERMANY
26 April 2023 - Verti Music Hall, BERLIN, GERMANY
27 April 2023 - Laeiszhalle, HAMBURG, GERMANY
29 April 2023 - Händelhalle, HALLE, GERMANY
02 May 2023 - Liederhalle Beethovensaal, STUTTGART, GERMANY
03 May 2023 - Lichtburg, ESSEN, GERMANY
04 May 2023 - Alte Oper, FRANKFURT, GERMANY
06 May 2023 - Eurogress, AACHEN, GERMANY
07 May 2023 - Rosengarten, MANNHEIM, GERMANY
08 May 2023 - Tivolivredenburg, UTRECHT, NETHERLANDS
09 May 2023 - Muziekgieterij, MAASTRICHT, NETHERLANDS
11 May 2023 - Amager Bio, COPENHAGEN, DENMARK
13 May 2023 - Slagthusets Teater, MALMÖ, SWEDEN
14 May 2023 - Concerthouse, GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN
16 May 2023 - Sentrum Scene, OSLO, NORWAY
18 May 2023 - Cirkus, STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
20 May 2023 - Kulttuuritalo, HELSINKI, FINLAND
25 June 2023 - La Riviera, MADRID, SPAIN
27 June 2023 - Kursaal Auditorium, SAN SEBASTIÁN, SPAIN
29 June 2023 - Teatre Coliseum, BARCELONA, SPAIN
30 June 2023 - Festival de Carcassonne, - Théâtre Jean-Deschamps CARCASSONNE, FRANCE
2 July 2023 - Konzerthaus, FREIBURG, GERMANY
3 July 2023 - Z7 Summer Nights, PRATTELN, SWITZERLAND
6 July 2023 - Arena Campo Marte, BRESCIA, ITALY
7 July 2023 - Piazza Duomo, PISTOIA, ITALY
8 July 2023 - Ostia Antica, ROME, ITALY
10 July 2023 - Belvedere di San Leucio, CASERTA, ITALY
12 July 2023 - Piazza Trento Trieste, FERRARA, ITALY
13 July 2023 - Piazza Grande, PALMANOVA, ITALY
15 July 2023 - Summer Fog Festival, Spodek, KATOWICE, POLAND
Guitarist Steve Hackett joined Genesis in 1971, making his band debut on the Nursery Cryme album which enjoyed a greater commercial success in Europe than the UK. After extensive touring, the band were encouraged, by audience reactions, to further experiment with ever longer compositions and develop their ability to incorporate strong narratives. This, in turn, allowed frontman Peter Gabriel more opportunity to indulge in the theatrics which helped to raise the band's profile.
"I think Foxtrot was a terrific achievement for Genesis at that time," says Steve Hackett. "I think there is not one weak track on the album, they all have their strong points and I'm really looking forward to doing the whole album live."
Foxtrot was critically acclaimed and became the first Genesis album to make the UK album charts. The first track, the sci-fi influenced Watcher of the Skies became a fan favourite and perennial live set opener while Get 'Em Out By Friday was a cutting slice of social comment about concrete tower blocks replacing aging slums, driven not by concern for communities but by the greed of developers.
Hackett was the lead writer of Can-Utility and the Coastliners, featuring some particularly strong musical ideas, and also contributed his classically-inspired solo piece Horizons. "The original version was a rough mix but there was something about it. A rough monitor mix can have things that something more considered won't necessarily possess. I liked the sound of the rough mix, so we went with that."
The album's highlight was the 23-minute epic Supper's Ready which remains a concert favourite and featured on Hackett's recent Seconds Out tour. "'Supper's Ready' was a sojourn, an odyssey and something that goes down very, very well with audiences now." Hackett adds. "As part of 'Second's Out' I've been playing the whole of that again, it really has stood the test of time."
"We were a young, struggling band at that time. By the time we were doing 'Foxtrot', the band was becoming more ambitious. 'Foxtrot' is a must for fans of the early Genesis work. Fifty years ago? It doesn't feel like those ideas are fifty years old because it was-genre defining, rather than following trends. It still sounds current, now."
