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After 13 years, STEVE HACKETT is bringing his classic Genesis material back to North American stages with a brand-new show celebrating the very best of Genesis alongside highlights from his extensive solo career.

In 2013, Hackett’s North American and UK tours culminated in an acclaimed performance at London’s Royal Albert Hall, which was subsequently released as a live DVD. Since then, his timeless guitar work has continued to be heard throughout the classic Genesis albums of the 1970s, while Hackett and his world-class band have revisited several of those landmark records in concert to widespread acclaim.

Now, in 2027 and beyond, Hackett is taking the next step with a show featuring the very best Genesis songs from throughout his career, including some of the band’s biggest fan favorites, alongside a selection of classic material from his many solo albums.

Joining Hackett on these dates will be his long-standing bandmates Lalle Larsson (keyboards), Nad Sylvan (vocals), Jonas Reingold (bass, guitar, backing vocals), Rob Townsend (saxophone, flutes, additional keyboards, backing vocals) and Felix Lehrmann (drums).

Concerning the upcoming dates, Hackett said, “I’ll be bringing this thrilling new show out in 2027 to celebrate the very best of Genesis including the biggest fan favourites, as well as solo classics… To kick off, we’ll hit the east coast to the Midwest in April. Get your tickets early… it will be a blast!”

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COMPLETE 2027 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES

Saturday, April 10, 2027
Atlanta, GA — Center Stage Theater

Tuesday, April 13, 2027
Washington, DC — Warner Theatre

Thursday, April 15, 2027
Collingswood, NJ — Scottish Rite Auditorium

Friday, April 16, 2027
Collingswood, NJ — Scottish Rite Auditorium

Saturday, April 17, 2027
Lansdowne, PA — Lansdowne Theater

Monday, April 19, 2027
Ridgefield, CT — Ridgefield Playhouse

Tuesday, April 20, 2027
Ridgefield, CT — Ridgefield Playhouse

Wednesday, April 21, 2027
New York, NY — The Town Hall

Friday, April 23, 2027
Albany, NY — The Egg – Hart Theatre

Saturday, April 24, 2027
Boston, MA — Berklee Performance Center

Tuesday, April 27, 2027
Akron, OH — Goodyear Theater

Wednesday, April 28, 2027
Buffalo, NY — UB Center for the Arts

Thursday, April 29, 2027
Ithaca, NY — State Theatre of Ithaca

Saturday, May 1, 2027
Toronto, ON — Massey Hall

Sunday, May 2, 2027
Ottawa, ON — Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Ottawa

Tuesday, May 4, 2027
Montréal, QC — Théâtre St-Denis

Thursday, May 6, 2027
Québec, QC — Palais Montcalm

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Metal Breakdown Daily is one page, every weekday: the episode on the player below and the three stories in print, so you can listen, read, or both. Today leads with the James Hetfield Sphere speech: on Saturday night, four shows into Metallica’s Las Vegas residency, Hetfield stopped between songs to tell the room that ‘Metallica is not here, like some other entertainers, to influence you’, and that the band’s agenda is ‘love, energy and heavy music’. He named nobody. He didn’t have to.

Also today: Kelly Osbourne says she wrote ‘Please help me’ on a candle at her father’s grave and that help arrived the next morning in a black Mercedes, and Butcher Babies’ Heidi Shepherd says the hardest part of Carla Harvey leaving the band was ‘the loss of a best friend of 20-something years’.

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Scott Penfold opens today’s Metal Breakdown Daily with what James Hetfield told seventeen thousand people at the Sphere and who he meant, then Kelly Osbourne’s candle, the man in the mustard-coloured jacket, Heidi Shepherd on losing Carla Harvey, and a Take on whether a band gets to decide what its stage is for. Download the free Loaded Radio App on Apple iOS and Google Play and stream the show now.

James Hetfield At The Sphere: ‘Metallica Is Not Here To Influence You’

During Metallica’s fourth show at the Sphere in Las Vegas on October 10, James Hetfield told the crowd that the band is ‘not here, like some other entertainers, to influence you’, that the show exists to ‘forget about all the outside’ noise, and that ‘Metallica’s agenda is love, energy and heavy music’.

It started as a thank-you. ‘Unless you live in Vegas, you’ve come a long way to spend some time with Metallica,’ Hetfield said, acknowledging what a Sphere ticket costs in flights, hotels and time. Then he turned. ‘Metallica is not here, like some other entertainers, to influence you with their [expletive], okay? We are here, no [expletive], we’re here to forget about all the outside [expletive], okay?’ And the landing line, the one on every clip by Sunday morning: ‘Metallica’s agenda is love, energy and heavy music, baby!’

He didn’t say the word politics and didn’t name an entertainer, which is why the reaction split so cleanly. One camp heard a man protecting the one room where nobody is being sold anything; the other heard the biggest band in metal telling its audience to switch off. The night itself was the fourth in a row with a new song in the set, ‘Until It Sleeps’, and twenty shows remain through March.

Here’s the thing people arguing about it miss. Hetfield isn’t a man without convictions; he’s spent his adult life talking openly about sobriety, and the band’s All Within My Hands foundation has moved millions into food banks and trade schools. What he’s never done is tell a crowd who to vote for. Whether that’s the right rule for every band is The Take below. That it’s the rule for this band has been obvious for forty years; Saturday was just the first time he said it into a microphone the size of a building.

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Kelly Osbourne: The Candle At Ozzy’s Grave And The Man In The Mustard Jacket

Kelly Osbourne told The Sun that, unwell and badly underweight after Ozzy’s death, she wrote ‘Please help me’ on a white candle at her father’s grave, and that the next day Sharon arrived with a therapist and life coach, Chris Miller, whom she credits with turning her life around.

Kelly has been open about how badly the last year went. ‘It felt like everything inside me was dead and I didn’t want my son to see me like this,’ she said. Eating made her feel sick, the weight fell off, and the internet did what it does with a famous woman’s body. Her answer to the speculation: ‘I was just sad. I don’t wish that pain on anyone ever.’ Ozzy died in July 2025, seventeen days after the Back To The Beginning farewell in Birmingham, and the family has been grieving in public ever since.

Kelly practises candle magic, and she’s matter-of-fact about it. ‘My dad told me he would send me messages.’ So she went to the grave, lit the candle, and asked. The next morning a black Mercedes pulled up with Sharon and a man in a mustard-coloured jacket, and Kelly assumed she was being taken to rehab. He was Chris Miller. He got her into falconry, pushed her towards other hobbies, and she says he changed her life. She’s gained about twenty-eight pounds since the start of 2026, is out of the engagement to Sid Wilson, and calls the grief ‘an honor’, because it’s the measure of how much she loved him.

You can roll your eyes at a candle, or you can notice what the story is about: a daughter asked for help and her mother showed up the next morning with it. Sharon Osbourne has spent a year being the family’s spine in public. This is what it looks like in private. It’s the first good Osbourne story in a year that’s been short of them.

Butcher Babies: Heidi Shepherd On Losing Carla Harvey, ‘A Best Friend Of 20-Something Years’

Heidi Shepherd told SPIN that the hardest part of Carla Harvey’s departure from Butcher Babies was personal rather than professional, ‘the loss of a best friend of 20-something years’, and that she intends to carry the band on alone because ‘my journey is not done’.

Twenty years of ‘BFF right here with me’, as Shepherd put it, and now she wonders aloud whether she’ll ever have a friendship like it again. On Harvey’s choice she’s careful: she respects it, ‘that’s okay’, but she feels she owes it to the fans, managers and agents who’ve carried Butcher Babies for nearly two decades to keep going. ‘Stronger than ever,’ she says. Nightbloom, out October 2 on Howard Benson’s Judge & Jury label with Benson producing, is the first Butcher Babies record with one voice on it.

Harvey’s side has been on the record since 2024. She stepped away first for a serious eye injury, then said she felt ‘kind of squeezed out’ when the band toured without her, and that ten to twelve months a year on the road doesn’t work when you’re raising a stepdaughter. She now fronts The Violent Hour with her husband, Charlie Benante of Anthrax and Pantera. Nobody has thrown a punch in print, which, for a split this long in the making, is worth noting.

Two-singer bands don’t survive losing one; they become a different band wearing the same shirt. Butcher Babies did that in public, and both women handled it with more grace than most of their male peers manage. For a scene with more women fronting serious bands than at any point in its history, that’s the model.

The Take: Hetfield’s Right, And ‘Shut Up And Play’ Is The Wrong Reason

Hetfield is right that Metallica isn’t there to influence anyone, and the people defending him with ‘shut up and play’ are making the wrong argument on his behalf.

The easy version is lazy and wrong. Black Sabbath wrote ‘War Pigs’. Rage Against The Machine built a career on the stage as a pulpit. Megadeth’s first decade is political from the title down. Metal has never been apolitical, and anyone who says it should be hasn’t listened to much of it. If Hetfield had said ‘bands shouldn’t have opinions’, the other side of this would be right.

He didn’t. He said Metallica isn’t here to do that, and the fair counter-argument is that a band giving millions away through its foundation already has a platform and uses it, so the line is a distinction without a difference. It isn’t. Charity asks you for nothing. A lecture from the stage asks you to agree. Metallica built forty years on never asking you to agree with anything except the riff, and a Sphere ticket costs more than most people’s rent. The one thing you’re owed for that money is two hours where nobody is working on you.

So: a band gets to decide what its stage is for. Rage decided one thing, Metallica decided another, and both are honest. What’s dishonest is pretending the escape isn’t a choice too. Hetfield made it out loud, in front of seventeen thousand people who paid for exactly that. Love, energy and heavy music. Fine by us.

TL;DR

• James Hetfield told the crowd at Metallica’s fourth Sphere show (October 10) that the band is ‘not here, like some other entertainers, to influence you’ and that its agenda is ‘love, energy and heavy music’; he named nobody.
• Kelly Osbourne says she wrote ‘Please help me’ on a candle at Ozzy’s grave while unwell and underweight, and that Sharon arrived the next day with therapist Chris Miller; she’s gained about 28 pounds since January and calls her grief ‘an honor’.
• Heidi Shepherd says losing Carla Harvey meant losing ‘a best friend of 20-something years’; Butcher Babies’ Nightbloom (October 2) is their first album with Shepherd as the only singer, and Harvey now fronts The Violent Hour with Charlie Benante.
• The Take: Hetfield’s right, but ‘shut up and play’ is the wrong defence; a band gets to decide what its stage is for, and Metallica chose the escape honestly.

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