Live Archive Series

The Live Archive is a series of live recordings from Steve Hackett. There are currently 6 CD releases since 2001 and have become a popular collection for fans.

2001: "Live Archive 70s 80s 90s"

Disc 1: 70s (Hammersmith Odeon, London 30/06/79)

#"Intro" - 2:00
#"Please Don’t Touch" - 5:46
#"Tigermoth" - 3:37
#"Every Day" - 7:29
#"Narnia" - 4:36
#"The Red Flower of Tai Chi" - 4:03
#"Ace of Wands" - 7:23
#"Carry on Up the Vicarage" - 3:33
#"Etude in A min" - 0:37
#"Blood on the Rooftops" - 0:18
#"Horizons" - 1:58
#"Kim" - 2:36
#"The Optigan" - 1:29
#"A Tower Struck Down" - 3:30
#"Spectral Mornings" - 6:57

Disc 2: 70s (Hammersmith Odeon, London 30/06/79)

#"Introductions" - 1:07
#"Star of Sirius" - 10:16
#"Shadow of the Hierophant" - 9:35
#"Clocks" - 7:18
#"I Know What I Like" - 8:50
#"Wardrobe Boogie" - 5:02
#"Racing in A" - 12:15
#"Racing in A Coda" - 2:07

Disc 3: 80s (Castel Sant' Angelo, Rome 13/09/81)

#"The Air Conditioned Nightmare" - 5:00
#"Jacuzzi" - 5:04
#"Funny Feeling" - 5:07
#"Ace of Wands" - 7:47
#"Picture Postcard" - 5:18
#"The Steppes" - 6:50
#"Every Day" - 6:28
#"Overnight Sleeper" - 4:28
#"Hope I Don’t Wake" - 4:25
#"Slogans" - 5:18
#"A Tower Struck Down" - 3:26
#"Spectral Mornings" - 5:39
#"The Show" - 3:52
#"Clocks" - 6:08

Disc 4: 90s (The Grand Theatre, London 08/06/93)

#"Medley: Myopia, Los Endos, Imagining, Ace of Wands, Hackett to Pieces" - 4:56
#"Vampyre with a Healthy Appetite" - 6:13
#"Sierra Quemada" - 4:20
#"Take These Pearls" - 4:56
#"In the Heart of the City" - 5:32
#"Walking Away From Rainbows" - 3:38
#"There Are Many Sides to the Night" - 5:20
#"Kim" - 2:25
#"Dark As the Grave" - 5:26
#"Always Somewhere Else" - 6:17
#"Lost in Your Eyes" - 5:02
#"Spectral Mornings/Firth of Fifth/Clocks" - 8:13
#"Cinema Paradiso" - 3:16
#"...In That Quiet Earth" - 5:20

2001: "Live Archive 70s : Newcastle"

(City Hall, Newcastle 26/10/79) (exclusive to Camino Records for a limited time as Disc 5 of the Live Archive 70s 80s 90s)

#"Please Don't Touch" - 7:53
#"Tigermoth" - 3:41
#"Every Day" - 7:26
#"The Steppes" - 5:52
#"Narnia" - 4:10
#"Red Flower of Taichi Blooms Everywhere" - 3:02
#"Sentimental Institution" - 2:38
#"Star of Sirius" - 9:39
#"Spectral Mornings" - 6:42
#"Clocks" - 5:29
#"Ace of Wands" - 5:05
#"Hands of the Priestess" - 6:04
#"Racing in A" - 7:51 The last three tracks were recorded at Hammersmith Odeon, London 30/10/78.

2003: "Live Archive NEARfest"

Recorded at Patriots Theater, Trenton, New Jersey 30/06/02.

Disc 1

#"The Floating Seventh" - 1:44
#"Mechanical Bride" - 6:33
#"Medley" - 5:11
#"Serpentine Song" - 6:54
#"Watcher of the Skies" - 5:18
#"Hairless Heart" - 2:58
#"Firth of Fifth" - 3:23
#"Riding the Colossus" - 4:25
#"Pollution B" - 2:24
#"The Steppes" - 6:17
#"Gnossienne no. 1" - 3:38
#"Walking Away From Rainbows" - 3:53
#"In Memoriam" - 7:19
#"The Wall of Knives" - 0:47
#"Vampyre with a Healthy Appetite" - 5:34

Disc 2

#"Spectral Mornings" - 7:29
#"Lucridus" - 0:54
#"Darktown" - 5:12
#"Camino Royale" - 8:30
#"Every Day" - 7:09
#"Horizons" - 2:02
#"Los Endos" - 6:07

2004: "Live Archive 03"

Compiled from Hackett's 2003 To Watch The Storms European tour.

Disc 1

#"Mechanical Bride" - 6:45
#"Serpentine Song" - 6:40
#"Watcher of the Skies" - 5:30
#"Hairless Heart" - 2:42
#"Darktown" - 4:47
#"Camino Royale" - 7:52
#"Pollution B" - 1:58
#"The Steppes" - 5:42
#"Acoustic Medley" - 4:00
#"Kim" - 2:42
#"Walking Away From Rainbows" - 4:10

Disc 2

#"Slogans" - 4:03
#"Every Day" - 6:37
#"Please Don’t Touch" - 4:25
#"Firth of Fifth" - 3:07
#"The Wall of Knives" - 0:31
#"Vampyre with a Healthy Appetite" - 5:53
#"Spectral Mornings" - 5:48
#"Brand New" - 5:02
#"Los Endos" - 6:47
#"Clocks" - 4:29
#"In That Quiet Earth" - 6:07

2004: "Live Archive 04"

Recorded at Petofi Csarnok, Budapest, Hungary 03/04/04.

Disc 1

#"Intro" - 1:05
#"Valley of the Kings" - 5:37
#"Mechanical Bride" - 6:59
#"Circus of Becoming" - 3:09
#"Frozen Statues" - 3:48
#"Slogans" - 4:02
#"Serpentine Song" - 7:13
#"Ace of Wands" - 6:35
#"Hammer in the Sand" - 4:02
#"Blood on the Rooftops" - 5:55
#"Fly on a Windshield" - 3:04
#"Please Don’t Touch" - 3:57
#"Firth of Fifth" - 4:03

Disc 2

#"If You Can’t Find Heaven" - 3:27
#"Darktown" - 5:33
#"Brand New" - 5:49
#"Air-Conditioned Nightmare" - 4:08
#"Every Day" - 6:30
#"Clocks" - 5:46
#"Spectral Mornings" - 5:46
#"Los Endos" - 8:16

2005: "Live Archive 05"

Recorded during Steve's "Acoustic Trio Tour" in April 2005 to promote his recent studio outing "Metamorpheus".

Disc 1

#"Intro" - 0:18
#"Japonica" - 5:12
#"Andante in C" - 4:11
#"Tribute to Segovia" - 3:51
#"Metamorpheus excerpts" - 1:49
#"Bay of Kings" - 5:49
#"Classical Jazz" - 3:43
#"Sapphires" - 1:34
#"Mexico City" - 1:48
#"Black Light" - 4:56
#"Skye Boat Song" - 1:07
#"Pease Blossom" - 3:43
#"Horizons" - 2:48

Disc 2

#"Intros" - 1:24
#"Jacuzzi" - 4:21
#"Bacchus" - 2:15
#"Firth of Fifth (excerpt)" - 2:33
#"Improv" - 3:02
#"The Red Flower of Tai Chi Blooms Everywhere" - 2:16
#"Hands of The Priestess" - 8:13
#"After The Ordeal" - 2:08
#"Hairless Heart" - 3:46
#"M3" - 2:49
#"Imagining" - 1:19
#"Second Chance" - 4:09
#"Jazz On A Summer's Night" - 3:29
#"Next Time Around" - 4:36
#"Kim" - 3:47
#"Avant Dernière Pensées" - 3:46
#"The Journey" - 4:05
#"Ace Of Wands" - 4:29
#"Walking Away From Rainbows" - 4:13
#"Gnossiennes Nº. 1" - 4:46

2006: "Live Archive 83"

Recorded at Edinburgh's Queens Hall on 04/11/83.

#"Calmaria"
#"Hands of the Priestess"
#"Jacuzzi"
#"The Barren Land"
#"Tales of the Riverbank"
#"Second Chance"
#"Oriental Improvisation"
#"Petropolis"
#"Kim"
#"The Water Wheel"
#"Concert for Munich"
#"The Journey"
#"Ace of Wands"
#"A Cradle of Swans"
#"Jazz on a Summer's Night"
#"Horizons"
#"Time Lapse at Milton Keynes"
#"Bay of Kings"