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On this day, 29 June 1980, former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett played Cardiff’s Top Rank on his Defector tour.
Stephen Richard Hackett (born 12 February 1950) came to prominence as a member of the British progressive rock group Genesis, which he joined in 1970. Hackett remained with the band for eight albums before leaving in 1977 to pursue a solo career.
Hackett's first post-Genesis album was Please Don't Touch, released in 1978. As with Voyage of the Acolyte, much of the material on the album was in the style of progressive rock. It did contain, however, much more vocal work. Hackett, who had never sung lead on a Genesis song, turned over most of the vocals to a number of singers, including folk singer Richie Havens, R&B singer Randy Crawford, and Steve Walsh of Kansas.
A pair of progressive rock albums followed—1979's Spectral Mornings and 1980's Defector. They were both Top 40 albums in the UK, while they charted #138 and #144 in the United States, respectively. Hackett toured Europe for the first time as a solo act in 1979, and in August performed at the Reading Festival. The Defector tour brought him to the United States for the first time since his last tour with Genesis.
Tour Setlist
Slogans
Every Day
The Red Flower of Tachai Blooms Everywhere
Tigermoth
Kim
Time to Get Out
The Steppes
The Toast
Narnia
Black Light / Blood on the Rooftops / Horizons
Sentimental Institution
Jacuzzi
Spectral Mornings
A Tower Struck Down
Clocks - The Angel of Mons
Please Don't Touch
The Show
It's Now or Never
(Elvis Presley cover)
Hercules Unchained
