Steve Hackett (acoustic)
July 11th, 1983
Edinburg, UK @ Edinburgh Queens Hall 
unknown audience > low-gen cassette > ? > CDR

01. Bay of Kings - 2:46.69
02. Calmaria - 3:42.32
03. Hands of the Priestess - 3:58.14
04. Jacuzzi - 3:47.29
05. The Barren Land - 2:54.27
06. Tales of the Riverbank - 2:31.64
07. Second Chance - 2:53.08
08. The Japanese Koto - 4:33.61
09. Petropolis - 2:45.36
10. Kim - 2:23.44
11. Pierrot - 1:57.54
12. Munich - 3:19.01
13. The Journey - 3:04.52
14. Ace of Wands - 3:40.54
15. A Cradle of Swans - 2:55.22
16. Jazz on a Summer Night - 3:09.49
17. Horizons - 1:49.02
Total: 52:13.18

Liner Notes by Peter Renfro

Back in 1990 I received an incredible trade-list from a guy named Malcolm Beaton from Scotland. 
The list comprised of two parts – the primary trade list, and a secondary list of original 
recordings he was getting rid of. A first generation of Hackett’s Edinburgh Queens Hall was 
listed in the latter category and somehow I was lucky enough to get it.

The show was on a 60-minute cassette tape and sounded incredible to my ears. 
For years I believed it was a recording straight off the soundboard. 
Billy Budis, Hackett’s soundman back then and manager today, 
confirmed for me that this show most definitely did not originate from the board. 
Since digitizing the cassette tape and working to clean it up, 
it is readily apparent that it is an audience recording. 
The first minute or so you can hear the taper moving the microphone around. 
I have boosted the volume to bring it in line with the rest of the recording. 
I don’t know what kind of equipment was used originally for the recording – 
I suspect reel-to-reel tape because the audio level varies slightly throughout 
the recording (the level is adjusted down after “Jacuzzi”). 
I do not know if Malcolm Beaton was the original taper, 
but I do believe his cassette was made from the original recording. 
The tape flip occurs in the middle of “Kim”, but the second side restarts the song 
from the beginning, indicating that the original recording ran uninterruptedly.

I have been amazed that a recording of this quality has essentially remained 
un-traded after all these years. To the best of my knowledge, this is the best 
sounding recording of the ’83 acoustic tour. 
I was very disappointed to see this tour (and the “Highly Strung” tour) 
ignored on the archives release from Hackett last year. 
I consider this to be the definitive acoustic concert from Hackett – 
the reception from the crowd is incredible and the performances are fantastic!