The live music venue in Fletching Sussex regularly hosts live music events and I have taken photographs of Steve playing both acoustically and with his touring musicians brother John Hackett, Rob Townsend, Roger King and Amanda Lehmann.
See the full collection of photographs on the Steve Hackett Gallery.
Just added a collection of photographs I took during Peter Gabriel’s fist tour after leaving Genesis and promoting his first album Peter Gabriel also known as Peter Gabriel 1 CAR.
I can’t remember where I took these photos – I think it’s either 25th or 26th April 1977 Hammersmith Odeon as it was then. See Peter Gabriel in the Gallery.
Here is the set list from that show:
Together and Apart documentary, broadcast last Saturday night on BBC2, has created quite a stir among the original Genesis fans, mainly because of the gross oversight of the Steve Hackett contribution to the band and also completely ignoring his solo work. You can see some of the great support Steve is getting on his Facebook page.
Anyway I have proof that Steve was the foundation for the other members in a couple of my Headley Grange photographs, he’s actually holding up the tree. Although it looks as though he’s thinking about letting go!
See all the photographs I took on the GALLERIES page
Four of my photographs of Headley Grange are being featured as new and original archive material in the new Together and Apart Genesis documentary being screened on BBC2 on 4th October.
These are the photographs featured.
Headley Grange
Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford, Tony Banks and Steve Hackett in the garden at Headley Grange
Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford, Tony Banks, Peter Gabriel and Steve Hackett in the garden at Headley Grange
Peter Gabriel in the kitchen at Headley Grange
Spanning an incredible 42 years, ‘R-Kive’ is a new 3-CD, 37-track set that documents the band’s history in the most comprehensive way yet. Compiled by the band themselves via a process of collaboration and elimination, ‘R-Kive’ takes an in-depth, chronological journey through the catalogue and – for the first time ever for a Genesis collection – includes three personally chosen selections from the solo careers of Tony Banks, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, Steve Hackett, and Mike Rutherford / Mike + The Mechanics.
The exhibition of the Genesis Pictures I took in the 70s were on show at Trading Boundaries last week culminating in it coinciding with the Steve Hackett concert on the evening of Saturday 30th June.
Trading Boundaries was packed with Steve Hackett (and Genesis) fans who all enjoyed a brilliant evening of music. Steve had his nylon strung classical guitar for the evening, not his more usual famous Les Paul electric guitar.
Steve was accompanied by the hugely talented Rob Townsend on flute and saxophone as well as his brilliant jazz solo on a penny-whistle!
Roger King supplied great keyboards and the trio played a wide selection of music from Steve’s albums as well as some of the gorgeous melodic compositions he co-wrote with Genesis.
After almost two hours of music,Steve stayed afterwards and spent almost an hour talking to people from the audience, many of whom had travelled considerable distances to see the concert.
I met lots of people from the audience before and after the concert who were fascinated with the Genesis pictures that they’d never seen before and shared Genesis stories and my experience of taking the photographs of Steve Hackett and the other members of Genesis while they were rehearsing and recording The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway in July 1974 – a mere 38 years ago!
For lots more exclusive Genesis Pictures see www.GenesisPictures.co.uk
For more information about Steve Hackett see www.HackettSongs.com
One of the areas of Trading Boundaries where the Genesis Pictures exhibition was held
All photographs on this post taken by Richard Haines
In anticipation of the Steve Hackett gig on Saturday 30th June at Trading Boundaries, Sheffield Green, Near Fletching, East Sussex TN22 3RB, there is an exhibition of a selection of the rare unpublished photographs I took of the early Genesis line up in 1973-1974. The exhibition will run from Saturday 23rd June to Sunday 1st July and the images will be available to purchase at a specially discounted rate during that period.
Steve Hackett
Steve is renowned as an immensely talented and innovative rock musician. He was lead guitarist with Genesis as part of their classic line up with Gabriel, Collins, Banks and Rutherford, that produced acclaimed albums such as Selling England by the Pound (a favourite of John Lennon). With Steve’s extraordinary versatility in both his electric guitar playing and his composing, he involves influences from many genres, including Jazz, World Music and Blues. He is equally adept in his classical albums that include renditions of pieces by composers from Bach to Satie, his own acoustic guitar compositions that have gained the admiration of many, including Yehudi Menuhin, and ambitious guitar/ orchestra albums such as A Midsummer Night’s Dream, recorded with the Royal Philharmonic. With Genesis, Steve’s guitar playing produced some of the most memorable moments, from the sensitivity of his acoustic sound on Horizons and Blood on the Rooftops the dramatic rock guitar solos of Firth of Fifth and Fountain of Salmacis. As he embarked on his solo career he developed his exceptional range, pushing musical boundaries into exciting areas, inventing new sounds and also techniques such as ‘tapping’. His solo career went from strength to strength and the mid eighties not only saw the hit single Cell 151, but also the Steve Hackett and Steve Howe super group GTR, highly successful in America.
I was commissioned to take photographs of Genesis in 1974 at Headley Grange in Hampshire where they were writing and rehearsing their album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. These photographs have laid dormant in my collection until recently when I decided to post them onto my website www.GenesisPictures.co.uk so they could be shared.
A quick update by the organiser on the Charterhouse gigs last weekend – there were so many supporting emails from people who came and from those who couldn’t come – so it seems worth reporting back on how it all went.
“We were 3/4 full on Friday and pretty much sold out on Saturday, resulting in an amazing atmosphere in the hall. The ‘unplugged’ set was superb with a really lively Q&A to follow with some great questions from the audience …
The auction was first class – culminating on Saturday when we sold the Platinum Award from Tony Banks for £740! Nearly £3k from the auction and best part of £1000 in the door collection. Our hope is that we finally give £8000+ to Shooting Star CHASE – we are still waiting for figures to come in and will let you know final figures.
If you’d like to donate, you can here>>
A few photo highlights below – courtesy of Richard Haines and his www.genesispictures.co.uk online biz – do take a look (Quote CHASE to give 20% of any purchase to the charity). Great response to his picture display at the gigs and he kindly donated the ‘flower’ to the auction (went for £280!!). Thanks Richard.”
PS – Don’t miss their forthcoming shows … Book at www.g2online.co.uk