He sauntered on to the stage, wearing his trademark black and started his solo set with his version of Mason Williams' Classical Gas, which I'm sure most people round here would recognise. Then, before the next track, he explained that his fingers were talced up, not coked up! Each to their own, I guess. The inter track banter was great, and included him explaining that after his solo set, the would be a break whilst we could all go and get drunk, thus making the second part, with the trio, sound much better! The solo set was heavily based on his Bay Of Kings album, with Bay Of Kings, Black Light, Barren Land, Tales of the Riverbank and The Skye Boat Song all getting played, along with the classic Horizons. He also played a song called The Mexican and a medley of tracks from his new album Metamorpheus.

After the promised 30 minute break, he returned with Roger King on keyboards and his brother John Hackett on flutes. The other members of the trio certainly added their own share to the songs. The first two tracks Jacuzzi and Bacchus were well received, but the crowd let out a loud cheer when they started their piece of Firth of Fifth. The next track, an improvisation, blended into Spectral Morning's The Red Flower of Tai Chi Blooms Everywhere and Hands of The Priestess from Voyage Of The Acolyte.

The he introduced a track called M3 which was something that Roger had been working on, a pleasant, if short, piano piece.  Then Steve took us back to 1973 and Selling England By The Pound's contentious track (apparently this almost got dropped) After The Ordeal, which in turn ran into Hairless Heart. Then they played GTR's Imaging and Second Chance, before performing what Steve called "a jazz flute scat thing, like a cross between Vaughn Williams and Kirk somebody" otherwise known as Jazz On A Summers Night.

Steve took a break for the next track - Next Time Around - from one of John's albums inspired by Erik Satie (later explained as an eccentric 19th Century French composer), and it was dedicated to some relations who had turned up. In fact, after playing Kim, from Please Don't Touch, they played three tracks by Satie. Not that I can recall their names.

Steve then introduced Bay Of Kings' The Journey with a tale about his Mothers Father before finishing the set with a magnificent acoustic version of the brilliliant Ace Of Wands. They left the stage to a rapturous applause that lasted well over five minutes, before returning to play Walking Away From Rainbows and Gnossiennes No. 1

Terry Tannenbaum