Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
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
SH in action
ALISTAR FINDLAY is mesmerised by this multiple ‘Visions of Scotland’ assault on the audience’s eyes and senses
The Star's critics ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA reviews I Am Love, The Penguin Lessons, Freaky Tales, The Thicket
MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
New releases from Steve Knightley, Jupiter & Okwess, Jason Palmer, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Driver, Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Dan Sealey, Simin Tande, PAZ
JOHN GREEN relishes photography that unfolds a longstanding and poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
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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