Steve Hackett

De Boerderij

Zoetermeer, Nederland

May 30th 2026

Remastered audience recording.

Steve sounding good with his new (mostly ex-Flower kings) line-up.

I'm going to see them next month in Leicester.

trivia corner: The Frau and I once had breakfast with Lalle Larson.

We were staying at the same hotel in Uppsala.

regards

Titus

Disc 1

01 The Devil's Cathedral

02 band intros/Every Day

03 The Sea Inside

04 Ace of Wands

05 The Steppes

06 Camino Royale

07 Shadow of the Hierophant

Disc 2

01 Dancing with the Moonlit Knight

02 The Cinema Show/Aisle of Plenty

03 piano solo/Firth of Fifth

04 Supper's Ready

05 Dance on a Volcano/drum solo/Los Endos/Slogans

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The cost of gigging crisis. (part two: 1978)

Reposted from September 2022

You'll have to take my word for it, but this 'D' is in fact Hawkwind.

We see that Mr. Brock has upped his fee to £3.

£2.80 seems to be the standard going rate in 78.

Judas Priest and Steve Hackett being examples:

Perhaps surprisingly, the mighty Meat Loaf only charged £2.50.

So the big man wins the Titus Luxor 'People's Champion of 1978' award.

regards

Titus

Steve Hackett

Barcelona Teatre Musical

Catalonia, Spain

May 28th 2014

Remastered audience capture.

Not as long as the show I posted from the US leg of this tour.

Our Catalonian amics are very enthusiastic and occasionally talkative

but I think the reworked recording turned out quite well.

regards

Titus

Disc 1

01 intro/Dance on a Volcano

02 Dancing with the Moonlit Knight

03 Fly on a Windshield/Broadway Melody of 1974

04 The Fountain of Salmacis

05 The Musical Box

06 band intros/I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)

07 Acoustic Ramble/Horizons

08 Firth of Fifth

Disc 2

01 Lilywhite Lilith

02 The Knife

03 Supper's Ready

04 Watcher of the Skies

05 Los Endos

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Steve Hackett

Academy Of Music

Northampton, MA

March 11th 2020

Remastered audience recording.

I first posted this in 2020 but I have recently done a new version.

Both are now available. (the illusion of choice?)

This was Steve's last show pre pandemic.

Complete Selling England played.

IKWIL has an interesting arrangement.

regards

Titus

Disc 1

01 intro/Every Day

02 Under the Eye of the Sun

03 Beasts in Our Time

04 The Steppes

05 The Virgin and the Gypsy

06 Jacuzzi

07 Spectral Mornings

08 Slogans

09 Clocks- The Angel of Mons

10 Dancing with the Moonlit Knight

11 I Know What I Like (in Your Wardrobe)

Disc 2

01 Firth of Fifth

02 More Fool Me

03 The Battle of Epping Forest

04 After the Ordeal

05 The Cinema Show/Aisle of Plenty

06 Deja Vu

07 The Musical Box

08 Watcher of the Skies

2020 version

2025 version

Steve Hackett

Stardust Theater

Norwegian Pearl

The Gulf of Mexico

March 12th 2024

Remastered audience recording.

It will blast yer barnacles and shiver yer timbers matey. 

All aboard with Steve, mind the gangplank :)

regards

Titus

01 People of the Smoke 

02 Circo Inferno 

03 These Passing Clouds

04 The Devil's Cathedral 

05 Watcher of the Skies

06 Can-Utility and the Coastliners 

07 Supper's Ready 

08 Los Endos

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Steve Hackett

Royal Albert Hall

London, England

October 23rd 2024

Remastered audience recording.

I'll wager it won't be long before this gig is out on CD and/or DVD.

The sound quality is 'not bad' with minimal crowd chatter

but occasionally the band's volume overwhelms the taper's mics

especially when Jonas hits those bass pedals.

(Do Fear) The Hierophant!

regards

Titus

Disc 1

01 intro/People of the Smoke

02 Circo Inferno

03 These Passing Clouds

04 The Devil's Cathedral

05 band Intros/Every Day

06 Hands of the Priestess

07 A Tower Struck Down/bass solo

08 Camino Royale

09 Shadow of the Hierophant

Disc 2

01 The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

02 Fly 0n a Windshield - with Steve Rothery

03 Broadway Melody of 1974

04 Hairless Heart

05 The Carpet Crawlers - with Ray Wilson

06 The Chamber of 32 Doors

07 Lilywhite Lilith

08 The Lamia

09 It

Disc 3

01 Dancing with the Moonlit Knight

02 The Cinema Show

03 Aisle of Plenty

04 Firth of Fifth

05 drum Solo

06 Los Endos inc. Slogans

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Steve Hackett Acoustic Trio

Teatro Saschall

Firenze, Italy

April 26th 2005

Remastered audience recording.

Although our Florentine friends are generally respectful and attentive

their applause after each piece dwarfed the music

so it was difficult/challenging to work with.

I tried my best to do it justice.

Anyone who is British, and of a certain age, will remember the opening tune.

When rodents were tortured by being forced onto a plastic toy boat

...much to our delight!

Had Hammy Hamster been a water rat he would have jumped ship at the first opportunity.

I struggled with the setlist but hopefully I'm not too far off with the titles.

There are many improvs and references to different compositions.

regards

Titus

Set 1 (solo)

01 Tales of the Riverbank

02 Tribute to Segovia/Horizons

03 Metamorpheus/Bay of Kings

04 Classical Gas/Brand New

05 Black Light/The Barren Land

06 Skye Boat Song/improv

Set 2 (trio)

01 band intro/Jacuzzi/Overnight Sleeper

02 Bacchus/Firth of Fifth

03 Alto Flute/The Red Flower of Tachai Blooms Everywhere/Hands of the Priestess

04 After the Ordeal/Hairless Heart

05 M3

06 Imagining/Second Chance

07 Jazz on a Summer's Night

08 Next Time Around

09 Kim

10 Idylle/Aubade/Meditation

11 The Journey

12 Ace of Wands

13 Walking Away from Rainbows

14 Gnossiene No.1

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Steve Hackett

Ancienne Belgique

Brussels, Belgium

October 4th 2015

Reposted from September 2021

but now with alternative remasters.

Another fine Lylian recording (slightly tweaked)

Brilliant gig.

I hope the current band can raise their game

to the level of performance exhibited here.

regards

Titus

Disc 1

01 intro/Spectral Mornings

02 Out of the Body/Wolflight

03 band introductions

04 Every Day

05 Love Song to a Vampire

06 The Wheel's Turning

07 Loving Sea/Nad Sylvan intro

08 Icarus Ascending

09 Star of Sirius/Ace of Wands

10 A Tower Struck Down

11 Shadow of the Hierophant

Disc 2

01 Get 'em Out By Friday

02 Steve talks

03 Can-utility and the Coastliners

04 After the Ordeal

05 The Cinema Show/Aisle of Plenty

06 The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

07 The Musical Box

08 encore break

09 Clocks (The Angel of Mons)

10 Firth of Fifth

p.s. I originally posted the white mix

but now I'm black mix all the way!

Tried a matrix of the two...that was awful.

white mix

black mix

Steve Hackett

Historische Stadthalle

Wuppertal, Germany

April 16th 2023

My remaster of the last of three concerts

with orchestra and choir at the Historische Stadthalle.

Orchestras with rock bands can be hit and miss

but I think this show works really well.

The audience are very attentive and well behaved

although I removed/quelled a few of the louder whoops between songs

and a small part during the intro where our taper talked.

The source is very listenable but I found it a bit sharp,

especially the cymbals, so I tried to reduce that harshness

while maintaining an overall brightness.

It seems a bit more comfortable on the ears now (I hope)

Steve Hackett - guitars/vocals

Roger King - keyboards

Craig Blundell - drums, percussion

Rob Townsend - sax, flute and percussion

Jonas Reingold - bass, guitar

Nad Sylvan - vocals

Amanda Lehman - guitar

with

Sinfonieorchester Wuppertal (conducted by Brad Thachuk)

Choir Amici Del Canto (conducted by Dennis Hansel-Dinar)

regards

Titus

Disc 1

01 intro

02 Dance 0n a Volcano

03 Out of the Body/The Steppes

04 Firth of Fifth

05 Dancing with the Moonlit Knight

06 Blood on the Rooftops

07 Shadow of the Hierophant

Disc 2

01 ...in that Quiet Earth/Afterglow

02 Serpentine Song

03 El Nino

04 Supper's Ready

05 crowd

06 The Musical Box

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Steve Hackett

Cropredy, Oxfordshire UK

August 12th 2022

An audience recording straight off the butcher's block.

It's Steve's recent show at the annual Fairport Convention bash.

'near Banbury'...hmmm...ride a cockhorse... (Stop that right now...Ed.)

Jonas' bass comes through beautifully on this.

Hackett has effectively head-hunted him from being a Flower King.

Roine Stolt's brother, Michael, has returned to TFK bass duties.

regards

Titus

Disc 1

01 Clocks - The Angel of Mons

02 Shadow of the Hierophant

03 Robbery, Assault and Battery

04 Afterglow

05 Firth of Fifth

06 The Musical Box (closing section)

Disc 2

01 Supper's Ready

02 The Cinema Show/Aisle of Plenty

03 Dance on a Volcano

04 Los Endos

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Steve Hackett

Weyfest

Farnham, Surrey

September 2nd 2012

A shorter than usual festival set with the band consigned to warm-up act for ASIA.

I suspect that is why, even though Amanda Lehmann is present,

we only get the instrumental version of the Hierophant.

I'm not well up on this festival...looks interesting:

Sound improves after the first track during which there are obviously issues.

Steve, jokingly, refers to it as a soundcheck.

It's an audience sourced recording which is quite good

and the punters are well behaved.

I resisted the urge to push it too much

so you might need to crank it up a notch of two to let it breathe.

'Waking to Life' somehow reminds me of Monsoon. (remember them?)

regards

Titus

01 Every Day

02 Loch Lomond

03 The Phoenix Flown

04 Waking to Life

05 Firth of Fifth

06 Shadow of the Hierophant

07 Fly on a Windshield/Broadway Melody of 1974

08 Sleepers

09 Los Endos

link

Superb show from Steve Hackett and Co. in Manchester last night.

I thought they played better than they do on the Bexhill recording.

Was talking to a couple of guys in the interval.

They were enthusing about this "great bass player".

I gave them the full Flower Kings sales pitch and they took notes!

...and then I encouraged them to visit a certain blog 😀

Thanks to Paul P.  for the photos.

regards

Titus

Steve Hackett

'Foxtrot at 50'

De La Warr Pavilion

Bexhill, UK

September 17th 2022

A lovingly remastered audience recording.

There are a few digital clicks,

mostly noticable in some of the quieter moments,

which I couldn't remove without adversly affecting the music.

Generally, though, I was reasonably pleased with the result.

Enjoy!

regards

Titus

Disc 1

01 intro/Ace Of Wands

02 The Devil's Cathedral

03 Spectral Mornings

04 Everyday

05 A Tower Struck Down/bass solo

06 Camino Royale

07 Shadow of the Hierophant

Disc 2

01 Watcher of the Skies

02 Time Table

03 Get 'em Out by Friday

04 Can-Utility and the Coastliners

05 Horizons

06 Supper's Ready

07 band introductions/encore break

08 Firth of Fifth

09 Myopia/Los Endos/Slogans

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Steve Hackett

Bottom Line

New York 

September 30th 1980

Another show from The Bottom Line.

Reasonable quality but has a timecode displayed throughout.

This one takes me right back to his first solo tour in 78

as the band line up was pretty much the same.

I was unsure about Pete Hicks as a lead vocalist at the time.

but I appreciate him more with the passing of time.

This is my re-authored DVD and I altered the cover art to match.

You get bonus points if you can identify the music I used for the extras.

regards

Titus

01 Slogans

02 Every Day

03 The Red Flower of Tachai Blooms Everywhere

04 Tigermoth

05 Time to Get Out

06 The Steppes (cut)

07 Acoustic Set: Blood On The Rooftops/Horizons

08 Kim

09 Narnia

10 Jacuzzi

11 Sentimental Institution

12 Spectral Mornings

13 A Tower Struck Down (cut)

14 Clocks

15 band introductions

16 The Show

17 It's Now or Never

18 Please Don't Touch

Extras:

19 Photography by Roger Salem

20 pre-show footage

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Steve Hackett

The Bottom Line

New York 

August 18th 1992

This is a decent quality copy in MKV format.

Very nice footage presumably from a Japanese rebroadcast

as there are subtitles that look Japanese to me.

It's 'pro-shot' but I don't think any of the people involved

need apply to the BBC any time soon!

An unusal, for Steve, four-piece band.

Dave Ball is great on the bass.

He was also a member of Barbara Thompson's Paraphernalia.

regards

Titus

Camino Royale

Take These Pearls

Always Somewhere Else

In The Heart of the City

Walking Away From Rainbows

In That Quiet Earth

Dark as the Grave

Everyday

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Steve Hackett

with The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

conducted by Bradley Thachuk 

Kleinhans Music Hall, Buffalo, NY

March 3rd 2017

Newly remastered Hackett show with an orchestra.

A rare jittery piano intro to 'Firth of Fifth'

from Roger King who is normally flawless.

It's an audience capture but the crowd are generally well behaved.

regards

Titus

Disc 1

01 Dance on a Volcano

02 Out of the Body

03 The Steppes/Steve talks

04 Firth of Fifth

05 Dancing with the Moonlit Knight

06 Blood on the Rooftops

07 Shadow of the Hierophant (end section)

Disc 2

01 In That Quiet Earth

02 Afterglow

03 Serpentine Song

04 Supper’s Ready

05 The Musical Box

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Steve Hackett

Capitol Theatre

Port Chester, New York

March 29th 2014

Another killer 150min+ set from Steve & co.

It's Genesis all the way.

A newly remastered audience recording

and I'm quite pleased with the results.

regards

Titus

Disc 1

01 intro

02 Dance on a Volcano

03 Dancing With the Moonlit Knight

04 pedal hospital

05 Squonk

06 Fly on a Windshield

07 Broadway Melody of 1974

08 The Lamia

09 The Return of the Giant Hogweed

10 The Musical Box

11 I Know What I Like

12 Horizons

Disc 2

01 Firth of Fifth

02 Lilywhite Lilith

03 The Knife

04 The Fountain of Salmacis

05 Supper's Ready

06 Watcher of the Skies

07 Los Endos

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Steve Hackett

The Birchmere

Alexandria VA USA

June 27th 2002

It was 20 years ago today...

Here's an audience sourced remaster

and the only recording I have of this tour/set.

I spent some time working on it

but I'm not sure how successful the result was.

Some really good stuff here though so I hope you enjoy it.

The Genesis songs are all instrumental versions.

This gig was on the day John Entwistle died

and Steve dedicates the closing section to him.

regards

Titus

Disc 1

01 The Floating Seventh

02 Mechanical Bride

03 Medley

   (inc. Myopia/Los Endos/Ace of Wands/Please Don't Touch)

04 Serpentine Song

05 Watcher of the Skies

06 Hairless Heart

07 Firth of Fifth

08 Riding the Colossus

09 Pollution

10 The Steppes

11 Gnossienne #1

12 Walking away from Rainbows

13 In Memoriam

Disc 2

01 The Wall of Knives/Vampyre with a Healthy Appetite

02 Spectral Mornings

03 Lucridus/Darktown

04 Camino Royale

05 band introductions

06 Every Day

07 dedication to John Entwistle

08 Shadow of the Hierophant

09 Los Endos/Dancing with the Moonlit Knight

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Steve Hackett report

Bradford 2021

Thouroughly enjoyed it. Far better than the Tull show.

I was relieved the sound and performance

seemed much improved compared to the Liverpool gig I posted.

My first time in Bradford and I quite liked it.

Drink prices were very good as well!

Even the local car park was Genesis themed:

I don't often take photos at concerts (as you can probably tell)

but in my role as roving reporter for TLD I took a couple.

Row K turned out to be the 5th row...strange..,but nice for me.

Maybe they have their own version of the alphabet in Bradford?.

The whole band were on good form

and they looked like they were really enjoying themselves.

Man of the match: Jonas Reingold.

regards

Titus

Two gigs next week.

The first in over 18 months.

2nd row for Tull in Blackburn

and 7th row for Steve  Hackett in Bradford.
I'm really looking forward to live music again.

regards

Titus