You would think that on the day he releases a new album and kicks off an extensive tour, former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett might have better things to do than to chat with John Scott for Hifi Pig. Thankfully though, it appears not.
STEVE HACKETT SECONDS OUT +MORE TOUR OF THE UK FEATURES THE WORKS OF GENESIS Steve Hackett Seconds Out +More Tour begins on 10th September 2021 at the Leicester De Montfort Hall. Steve recently announced the release of his new studio rock album Surrender of Silence on 10th September.
Costello’s last visit to Edinburgh saw him deliver a two-and-a-half-hour tour de force that will be hard to forget. It’s a night that Elvis himself has good reason to remember. Having decided not to go public about a recent cancer treatment he had thrown himself back into public performance a little too soon. Edinburgh saw […]
I love Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon album. I love reggae, especially with an added dollop of dub. When the Easy Star All-Stars released Dub Side Of The Moon In 2003, I approached it with a slight sense of trepidation; would it be great or would it be a terrible gimmick? Fortunately it […]
The word genius is much overused in the world of music. In truth there have been no more than a handful of people that the term can accurately be applied to since the birth of rock and roll. We could spend all day arguing about who those people might be, but the fact that Lee […]
I can still remember the first time I saw Paul Carrack. It was on Top Of The Pops way back in 1974 singing How Long with his band Ace. It was their only hit but it has become something of a radio classic, the type of song that makes you stop whatever you’re doing and […]
Tonight I shook the hand of Amy Helm; the hand that was held in the hands that held the sticks that played the drums on The Weight and The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down and helped to invent the musical genre we now now as Americana. As a lifetime fan of The Band and […]
Like them or not, tribute bands are here to stay. Despite the fact that every one of the half a dozen tribute bands I have seen has been nothing short of excellent, I still harbor a slight feeling of apprehension whenever I go to see one – that sense of “not the real thing” is […]
It has been around eighteen months since Robert Cray came to town, touring his latest album Robert Cray & Hi Rhythm. He’s back again tonight with no new album to promote and in a much larger venue.
It has been more than 40 years since Steve Hackett recorded Wind and Wuthering, his last studio album as a member of Genesis. Since then he has done more than anyone else to keep the legacy of the prog-era Genesis alive. Oddly these efforts have gone largely unrecognised by his former band mates, although they […]
Following the recent announcement that legendary prog-rock band Camel will bring their acclaimed live show to London’s Royal Albert Hall in Sept 2018, the band are happy to reveal that this will be preceded by an extensive run of UK tour dates.
Start to End are a collective of Scottish musicians who have garnered a reputation by tackling a brave, diverse selection of classic albums and playing them from start to finish.
The Wedding Present are one of those bands that I seem to be intertwined with having seen them many times over a long period of time. The first time I remember seeing them was in Leeds in about 1994 at the Town and Country Club and not that long after they had released their single […]
Some nights are not to be forgotten. Like the first night I saw Elvis Costello and The Attractions here at The Playhouse, back in 1981, rattling through a setlist that included a mashup – way before anyone knew what a mashup was – of Watching The Detectives and Stevie Wonder’s Masterblaster and later a spine-tingling […]
2018 marks the 50th anniversary of Nils Lofgren’s life as a touring musician. By the time he was 18 he had garnered enough of a reputation to be asked by Neil Young to play on his After The Gold Rush album, going on to be involved in the infamous Tonight’s The Night album and tour. […]
This gig marks a first for me – I confess to having only recently discovered Scott Matthews when I heard, almost by accident, the track ‘Elusive’ (which has won an Ivor Novello songwriting award) from his debut album – which, as it turns out, was released some 12 years ago. That’s correct – 12 years!! […]