The Live Archive is a series of live recordings from Steve Hackett. There are six CD releases since 2001 and have become a popular collection for fans.
2001: Live Archive 70s 80s 90s
Disc 1: 70s (Hammersmith Odeon, London 30/06/79)
- "Intro" – 2:00
- "Please Don't Touch" – 5:46
- "Tigermoth" – 3:37
- "Every Day" – 7:29
- "Narnia" – 4:36
- "The Red Flower of Tai Chi" – 4:03
- "Ace of Wands" – 7:23
- "Carry On Up the Vicarage" – 3:33
- "Etude in A min" – 0:37
- "Blood on the Rooftops" – 0:18
- "Horizons" – 1:58
- "Kim" – 2:36
- "The Optigan" – 1:29
- "A Tower Struck Down" – 3:30
- "Spectral Mornings" – 6:57
Disc 2: 70s (Hammersmith Odeon, London 30/06/79)
- "Introductions" – 1:07
- "Star of Sirius" – 10:16
- "Shadow of the Hierophant" – 9:35
- "Clocks" – 7:18
- "I Know What I Like" – 8:50
- "Wardrobe Boogie" – 5:02
- "Racing in A" – 12:15
- "Racing in A Coda" – 2:07
Disc 3: 80s (Castel Sant' Angelo, Rome 13/09/81)
- "The Air Conditioned Nightmare" – 5:00
- "Jacuzzi" – 5:04
- "Funny Feeling" – 5:07
- "Ace of Wands" – 7:47
- "Picture Postcard" – 5:18
- "The Steppes" – 6:50
- "Every Day" – 6:28
- "Overnight Sleeper" – 4:28
- "Hope I Don't Wake" – 4:25
- "Slogans" – 5:18
- "A Tower Struck Down" – 3:26
- "Spectral Mornings" – 5:39
- "The Show" – 3:52
- "Clocks" – 6:08
Disc 4: 90s (The Grand Theatre, London 08/06/93)
- "Medley: Myopia, Los Endos, Imagining, Ace of Wands, Hackett to Pieces" – 4:56
- "Vampyre with a Healthy Appetite" – 6:13
- "Sierra Quemada" – 4:20
- "Take These Pearls" – 4:56
- "In the Heart of the City" – 5:32
- "Walking Away From Rainbows" – 3:38
- "There Are Many Sides to the Night" – 5:20
- "Kim" – 2:25
- "Dark As the Grave" – 5:26
- "Always Somewhere Else" – 6:17
- "Lost in Your Eyes" – 5:02
- "Spectral Mornings/Firth of Fifth/Clocks" – 8:13
- "Cinema Paradiso" – 3:16
- "...In That Quiet Earth" – 5:20
2001: Live Archive 70s : Newcastle
(City Hall, Newcastle 26/10/79) (exclusive to Camino Records for a limited time as Disc 5 of the Live Archive 70s 80s 90s)
- "Please Don't Touch" – 7:53
- "Tigermoth" – 3:41
- "Every Day" – 7:26
- "The Steppes" – 5:52
- "Narnia" – 4:10
- "Red Flower of Taichi Blooms Everywhere" – 3:02
- "Sentimental Institution" – 2:38
- "Star of Sirius" – 9:39
- "Spectral Mornings" – 6:42
- "Clocks" – 5:29
- "Ace of Wands" – 5:05
- "Hands of the Priestess" – 6:04
- "Racing in A" – 7:51
The last three tracks were recorded at Hammersmith Odeon, London 30/10/78.
2003: Live Archive NEARfest
Recorded at Patriots Theater, Trenton, New Jersey 30/06/02.
Disc 1
- "The Floating Seventh" – 1:44
- "Mechanical Bride" – 6:33
- "Medley" – 5:11
- "Serpentine Song" – 6:54
- "Watcher of the Skies" – 5:18
- "Hairless Heart" – 2:58
- "Firth of Fifth" – 3:23
- "Riding the Colossus" – 4:25
- "Pollution B" – 2:24
- "The Steppes" – 6:17
- "Gnossienne no. 1" – 3:38
- "Walking Away From Rainbows" – 3:53
- "In Memoriam" – 7:19
- "The Wall of Knives" – 0:47
- "Vampyre with a Healthy Appetite" – 5:34
Disc 2
- "Spectral Mornings" – 7:29
- "Lucridus" – 0:54
- "Darktown" – 5:12
- "Camino Royale" – 8:30
- "Every Day" – 7:09
- "Horizons" – 2:02
- "Los Endos" – 6:07
2004: Live Archive 03
Compiled from Hackett's 2003 To Watch The Storms European tour.
Disc 1
- "Mechanical Bride" – 6:45
- "Serpentine Song" – 6:40
- "Watcher of the Skies" – 5:30
- "Hairless Heart" – 2:42
- "Darktown" – 4:47
- "Camino Royale" – 7:52
- "Pollution B" – 1:58
- "The Steppes" – 5:42
- "Acoustic Medley" – 4:00
- "Kim" – 2:42
- "Walking Away From Rainbows" – 4:10
Disc 2
- "Slogans" – 4:03
- "Every Day" – 6:37
- "Please Don't Touch" – 4:25
- "Firth of Fifth" – 3:07
- "The Wall of Knives" – 0:31
- "Vampyre with a Healthy Appetite" – 5:53
- "Spectral Mornings" – 5:48
- "Brand New" – 5:02
- "Los Endos" – 6:47
- "Clocks" – 4:29
- "In That Quiet Earth" – 6:07
2004: Live Archive 04
Recorded at Petofi Csarnok, Budapest, Hungary 03/04/04.
Disc 1
- "Intro" – 1:05
- "Valley of the Kings" – 5:37
- "Mechanical Bride" – 6:59
- "Circus of Becoming" – 3:09
- "Frozen Statues" – 3:48
- "Slogans" – 4:02
- "Serpentine Song" – 7:13
- "Ace of Wands" – 6:35
- "Hammer in the Sand" – 4:02
- "Blood on the Rooftops" – 5:55
- "Fly on a Windshield" – 3:04
- "Please Don't Touch" – 3:57
- "Firth of Fifth" – 4:03
Disc 2
- "If You Can't Find Heaven" – 3:27
- "Darktown" – 5:33
- "Brand New" – 5:49
- "Air-Conditioned Nightmare" – 4:08
- "Every Day" – 6:30
- "Clocks" – 5:46
- "Spectral Mornings" – 5:46
- "Los Endos" – 8:16
2005: Live Archive 05
Recorded during Steve's Acoustic Trio Tour in April 2005 to promote his recent studio outing Metamorpheus.
Disc 1
- "Intro" – 0:18
- "Japonica" – 5:12
- "Andante in C" – 4:11
- "Tribute to Segovia" – 3:51
- "Metamorpheus excerpts" – 1:49
- "Bay of Kings" – 5:49
- "Classical Jazz" – 3:43
- "Sapphires" – 1:34
- "Mexico City" – 1:48
- "Black Light" – 4:56
- "Skye Boat Song" – 1:07
- "Pease Blossom" – 3:43
- "Horizons" – 2:48
Disc 2
- "Intros" – 1:24
- "Jacuzzi" – 4:21
- "Bacchus" – 2:15
- "Firth of Fifth (excerpt)" – 2:33
- "Improv" – 3:02
- "The Red Flower of Tai Chi Blooms Everywhere" – 2:16
- "Hands of The Priestess" – 8:13
- "After The Ordeal" – 2:08
- "Hairless Heart" – 3:46
- "M3" – 2:49
- "Imagining" – 1:19
- "Second Chance" – 4:09
- "Jazz on a Summer's Night" – 3:29
- "Next Time Around" – 4:36
- "Kim" – 3:47
- "Avant Dernière Pensées" – 3:46
- "The Journey" – 4:05
- "Ace of Wands" – 4:29
- "Walking Away From Rainbows" – 4:13
- "Gnossiennes Nº. 1" – 4:46
2006: Live Archive 83
Recorded at Edinburgh's Queens Hall on 04/11/83.
- "Calmaria"
- "Hands of the Priestess"
- "Jacuzzi"
- "The Barren Land"
- "Tales of the Riverbank"
- "Second Chance"
- "Oriental Improvisation"
- "Petropolis"
- "Kim"
- "The Water Wheel"
- "Concert for Munich"
- "The Journey"
- "Ace of Wands"
- "A Cradle of Swans"
- "Jazz on a Summer's Night"
- "Horizons"
- "Time Lapse at Milton Keynes"
- "Bay of Kings"