One of Genesis's early masterworks will be brought back to life on stage this year by one of the men who helped create it.

On the latest installment of Kyle Meredith With…, former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett discusses his new album, At the Edge of Light, and how it once again boasts band members from all over the globe.

When Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins quit Genesis, they became pop stars and media personalities. While this door was no doubt open to Steve Hackett as well, he chose a different path. As Gabriel, Collins and Genesis were going bigger, Hackett opted for a degree of artistry over mass appeal.

Steve Hackett has announced that he’ll release a new live album later this year.

Readers of this august publication will probably fall into two camps where progressive rock music is concerned: those that are familiar with it and those that aren’t. After all it is a genre which fell out of fashion dramatically from the early 1980s.

Steve Hackett thought his goose was cooked in 1972. Foxtrot was the 22-year-old guitarist’s second album with Genesis but he harboured misgivings about Supper’s Ready, the 23-minute opus that scampered through seven movements on side two.

The last time Steve Hackett played New York’s Beacon Theatre, it was April 1976, and Genesis had been on their first tour without frontman Peter Gabriel for a mere two weeks.

Although Steve Hackett is known for his ground breaking guitar work with the band Genesis, he is no stranger to singing.

In 1973, Britain was at a crossroads. The Conservative government seemed to be losing control of the various industrial disputes that raged in a union-dominated workplace; inflation was spiralling due to the increasing global economic crisis.

Former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett is going to perform the band’s 1977 live album Seconds Out in its entirety on a 2020 European tour.