Steve Hackett, Genesis Revisited Extended, York Barbican, October 26

This show will feature a heap of Genesis classics, including gems he could not include on his award-winning Genesis Revisited tours in 2012 and 2013.

“Due to the success of the Genesis Revisited shows, we're extending both the dates and the concept in 2014. We'll launch into a full Genesis set with favourites from last year, such as The Musical Box, Dancing With The Moonlit Knight and Supper's Ready, along with the addition of other Genesis classics that are often requested and the audiences deserve to hear," says Steve.

Genesis Revisited has taken Hackett, Genesis’s lead guitarist from 1971 to 1977, from Russia to the Algarve on a tour of 16 European countries, and he announced this autumn's shows as long ago as last November, such has been the reaction to his concerts.

"I did a year of Genesis Revisited shows and as a result there were a lot more offers of shows because Genesis are not touring and there's tremendous interest in the early days of the band that spawned Peter Gabriel," he says.

Steve was the first ex-member to re-record and tour the songs of that era on 1996's Genesis Revisited and he returned to the material for 2012's Genesis Revisited II. "Genesis were still up and running at the time of the first record, but since then people writing their degree papers have been writing to me about those Genesis years," he says.

"The Eighties' Genesis material was easier for the audience to absorb, but what makes any musician want to go out and play Bach and have to go into therapy afterwards to recover?

"The challenge! Yes, the early Genesis music was complex; yes it was wordy, but those are the interesting aspects that have stuck around."

Steve recalls how they were criticised for writing things that sounded like they came from books rather than their own experiences.

"But we were young guys and it didn't matter if we'd lived those experiences. The music ran the gamut from prog rock to pantomime; there was humour; syncopated stuff – which was Peter's influence – and Tamla Motown and the influence of the blues," he says.

"There was music from the European tradition in terms of the classical input from Tony Banks's musical background; strong harmonics and lots of zany ideas in between. I'm still very proud of those songs and on the Genesis Revisited II album there are even more songs from Trespass that brought the house down. Now I do it as an all-out thrash, getting busy with the wah-wah pedal."

- Steve Hackett, Genesis Revisited Extended, York Barbican, October 26, 7.30pm; sold out.