Steve Hackett Announces Release of Foxtrot at Fifty + Hackett Highlights Live in Brighton.

Legendary guitarist Steve Hackett presents his brand-new live audio/visual extravaganza, with the release of ‘Foxtrot at Fifty + Hackett Highlights: Live in Brighton’, set for release on the 15th September 2023.

Filmed & recorded live on his 2022 UK tour, in the coastal city of Brighton, UK, this release documents Steve and his band celebrating the 50th anniversary of the much-loved Genesis album ‘Foxtrot’. Played in full, this album features fan favourites including ‘Watcher Of The Skies’ and ‘Supper’s Ready’. The show also features a set of Hackett solo material, including ‘The Devil’s Cathedral’ from his latest studio album ‘Surrender of Silence’, and the powerful ‘Ace of Wands’.

Shot by long time collaborator Paul Green, you can now watch the band perform ‘Watcher of the Skies’ here: https://youtu.be/bFgdvFnAVX0

Mixed by Chris Lord-Alge & mastered by Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound, the album is now available to pre-order on Ltd 2CD+Blu-ray & Ltd 2CD+2DVD, both including bonus behind the scenes interviews, as well as 5.1 surround sound. A Ltd Deluxe 180g 4LP edition will also be available, and you can pre-order now here: https://stevehackett.lnk.to/FoxtrotAtFiftyHackettHighlights-LiveInBrighton

The full track-listing is:

1. Intro / Ace of Wands

2. The Devil’s Cathedral

3. Spectral Mornings

4. Every Day

5. A Tower Struck Down

6. Basic Instincts

7. Camino Royale

8. Shadow of the Hierophant

9. Watcher of the Skies

10. Time Table

11. Get ‘Em Out by Friday

12. Can Utility and the Coastliners

13. Horizons

14. Supper’s Ready

15. Firth of Fifth

16. Los Endos

Steve Hackett & band continue their busy touring schedule with further “Foxtrot At Fifty & Hackett Highlights” dates in North America beginning in October.

For the full list of dates, head to: http://hackettsongs.com/tour.html

Steve Hackett is joined live by Roger King, Rob Townsend, Nad Sylvan, Craig Blundell & Jonas Reingold, as well as on occasion special guest Amanda Lehmann.

About Steve Hackett

Steve Hackett joined Genesis at the beginning of 1971 and gained an international reputation as the guitarist in the band’s classic line-up alongside Peter Gabriel, Tony Banks, Mike Rutherford and Phil Collins. Hackett’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, Hackett’s solo career, which now spans more than 30 albums, has demonstrated his extraordinary versatility with both electric and acoustic guitar. Hackett 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.

Hackett’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) Hackett has explored the influences of world music. Recent tours have seen Hackett celebrate his time with Genesis including a spectacular 2018 tour in which he realised a long-held ambition to perform the works of Genesis live with his band and an orchestra.

The lockdown enforced by the 2020 global pandemic has proven to be a particularly creative period for Hackett. He began by releasing Selling England by the Pound & Spectral Mornings: Live at Hammersmith, a live recording of 2019’s hugely successful tour celebrating that Genesis classic

together with the 40th anniversary of one of his most-loved solo albums. Lockdown also gave Hackett the opportunity to write and record two new studio albums, the UK Classical Chart hit Under A Mediterranean Sky and the forthcoming Surrender of Silence.

In 2021, Steve and his band returned to touring, celebrating the classic Genesis live album ‘Seconds Out’, on what was one of his most successful tours to date.

Foxtrot at Fifty plus Hackett Highlights, US/Canada dates 2023:

3 October 2023 – Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, MONTREAL, QC, CANADA – TICKETS

5 October 2023 – Massey Hall, TORONTO, ON, CANADA – TICKETS

6 October 2023 – State Theatre, ITHACA, NY, USA – TICKETS

7 October 2023 – The Theater at Innovation Square, ROCHESTER, NY, USA – TICKETS

8 October 2023 – The Forum Theatre, BINGHAMTON, NY, USA – TICKETS

10 October 2023 – Hart Theatre, ALBANY, NY, USA – TICKETS

12 October 2023 – Wilbur Theatre, BOSTON, MA, USA – TICKETS

13 October 2023 – Garde Arts Center, NEW LONDON, CT, USA – TICKETS

14 October 2023 – Town Hall, NEW YORK, NY, USA – TICKETS

15 October 2023 – Whitaker Center, HARRISBURG, PA, USA – TICKETS

17 October 2023 – The Strand, PROVIDENCE, RI, USA – TICKETS