PHIL Collins has retired, passing the family prog-rocking business to his son, Simon. Peter Gabriel has always maintained a Robert Plant-style aloof distance from his former band. Mike Rutherford pursues a career in AOR with Mike and the Mechanics. And Tony Banks now composes classical music. But there's no shortage of punters who still want to hear classic Genesis material. Into the vacuum has flooded a plethora of tribute acts. Steve Hackett, who left the band in 1977, is now the sole ex-member of Genesis who seems happy to keep the flame alive – not least, one suspects, because he scored a top 30 hit last year with his Genesis Revisited II album.
"These songs just refuse to lay down and die," he smiles, eliciting a huge round of applause from the capacity crowd. Perhaps to distance himself from those tribute acts that specialise in recreating early Genesis shows right down to the tiniest detail, Hackett invokes the composer's right to tinker.
There are no audience-alienating radical reworkings, but his guitar is, as you might expect, more prominent. There are also rather more wind instruments than we remember from the early Genesis albums, thanks to the presence of jazzer Rob Townsend in the six-strong line-up.
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