JAMES WALSH is moved by an exhibition of graphic art that relates horrors that would be much less immediate in other media
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Legendary guitarist stakes claim to rock immortality
The clock turns back for TOM STONE as he’s reminded of the splendour of seminal Genesis album The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Steve Hacket and band at the Royal Albert Hall
RON JACOBS welcomes the translation into English of an angry cry from the place they call the periphery
GUILLERMO THOMAS recommends a useful book aimed at informing activists with local examples of solidarity in action around the world
HENRY BELL is provoked by a book that looks toward, but does not fully explore the question of who gets to imagine the shapes of cities to come
MATTHEW HAWKINS surveys the upcoming programme of contemporary dance in Glasgow, and picks some highlights
‘Chance encounters are what keep us going,’ says novelist Haruki Murakami. In Amy, a chance encounter gives fresh perspective to memories of angst, hedonism and a charismatic teenage rebel.
Steve Hackett
Royal Albert Hall, London
IN DRAB early 1970s Britain as the left-wing optimism of the late ’60s slipped away, Genesis captured the zeitgeist as prog-rock pioneers, crafting intricate and sometimes sinister depictions of a land where faded Victorian grandeur lingered and yet a strange new world of brutal social realities was taking hold.
With Peter Gabriel as frontman — and tonight’s star at the Royal Albert Hall, Steve Hackett on lead guitar — the group produced an album a year from 1969 to 1974.
The work becoming progressively less whimsical and darker, culminating in the magnum opus to alienation The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, Gabriel’s last album with the group, and the focus of Hackett’s current tour.
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