Mike + The Mechanics played a warm-up gig to a select audience in the London club Hanover Grand – even before the album had come out.
After he had finished reminiscing about his time in Genesis Steve Hackett released a real solo album again. Darktown is, the title gives it away, rather gloomy…
When the Calling All Stations tour ended Ray Wilson turned to his solo project, a band he called Cut_. In the line-up was Nir Zidkyahu, who had already drummed for Genesis. The album Millionairhead came out in spring 1999.
In 1996, Genesis founding member Anthony Phillips gave us the ninth album from his Private Parts & Pieces series. .
It actually took quite long for Phil Collins to release a real Greatest Hits album. Helmut Janisch examines what …HITS is about.
In 1998 Phil Collins played an unusual tour: After the successful 1997 tour he brought back his big band and played some 20 shows.
Genesis fans flocked to the shows, of course, when Genesis toured Europe in 1998. Here are some guest reviews…
In 1998, Genesis finally released their boxset Genesis Archive 1967-1975. Read more in our in-depth review about the boxset.
From November to mid-December 1997 Genesis had scheduled the first leg of their North American tour. Slow ticket sales and technical problems caused that part of the tour to be postponed indefinitely first and cancelled completely later. The first show was therefore the Budapest show on 29/01/1998.
Besides the eleven tracks on the album itself Calling All Stations spawned seven more new tracks that were released on a number of singles.