Slash finally plays homecoming gig

Posted 25 Jul 2011 in Artist News, Featured

Slash finally came home to Stoke-on-Trent to play his first gig in the city where he lived as a young boy.

Tickets were hard to come by. When they went on sale, all 1,500 were snapped up in less than two hours and the line/queue, included fans from the USA and Japan, three generations of one family, and a heavily pregnant woman who said she was hoping the guitar playing would induce birth.

“I’ve been wanting to do this for a long time and for some reason it just never seemed possible,” said Slash.

“One of the things about doing the solo record and setting up my own tour was that I told the powers-that-be that I wanted to play in places I’d never played before, and so Stoke was something that was high on my list and I told them just make it happen.”

Slash, whose real name is Saul Hudson, left Stoke-on-Trent when he was five years old. But he said he still had “vivid memories” of the city.

The 1,500 fans who were treated to a three-hour marathon show on Sunday night will now be hoping that Stoke-on-Trent will become a permanent fixture on Slash’s future tours.

Source: BBC



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