Genesis – reports, reviews, interviews, tour dates, a discography and further information about your favourite rock group.
Four sold-out nights at the venerable Wembley Stadium brought Genesis an entry into the Guinness Book Of Records. In 2003 they released the video footage of the shows on DVD. Daniel Schwarz has watched it for you.
The film that covers the six sold-out shows at Earl’s Court in 1992 was finally released on DVD on 2001. Genesis presented themselves for the first time in sumptuous 5.1 sound on the rather new DVD medium. Alexander Pfaff has checked it out for you.
Robin Platts published a compact biography about Genesis in 2001. Volker Stöckemann had a closer look at it …
Ten years after the A History video from 1991 Genesis have published the more compact and up-to-date Genesis Songbook. Whether the new approach in this documentary lives up to the first attempt from 1991 is something Christian Gerhardts considers in this review.
The successful first Archive set was followed by a second archive covering the years from 1976 to 1992. Tom Morgenstern and Helmut Janisch discuss whether the new box is a worty successor to the first.
Alan Hewitt’s book offers a rapid introduction to the world of Genesis. He introduces the major events as well as all members of the band, providing a relatively comprehensive biography. A special feature of this book is a table of tour dates as they were known at the time the book was prepared for printing.
It took Genesis more than 30 years to release a real Hits compilation. They had earned the right long ago, but in the end they probably were more of an album band. Read here to find out what Hits means and whether it is worthwhile getting.
Genesis fans flocked to the shows, of course, when Genesis toured Europe in 1998. Here are some guest reviews…
For three years a rumour was floating around in the Genesis fan community about a project that was finally released on June 22, 1998 after it had been postponed several times: the Genesis Archive 1967-1975. We recount the story up to that release and then take a good look at both the design and the music of the (first) Genesis box-set.
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.
