SLASH Announces 'World On Fire' Fall North American Tour

Slash and his band — MYLES KENNEDY & THE CONSPIRATORS — will launch the next leg of the “World On Fire” North American tour in September 18.

The dates are as follows:

Sep. 18 – Providence, RI – Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel
Sep. 19 – Clark, NJ – Food Truck and Rock Carnival -festival
Sep. 21 – Hamilton, ON – Hamilton Place Theatre
Sep. 23 – Toronto, ON – Sound Academy
Sep. 24 – Montreal, QC – Metropolis
Sep. 26 – Northfield, OH – Hard Rock Live
Sep. 27 – Detroit, MI – The Fillmore
Sep. 29 – Grand Rapids, MI – The Intersection
Sep. 30 – Fort Wayne, IN – Piere’s Entertainment Center
Oct. 02 – Marksville, LA – Paragon Casino – Mari Center
Oct. 04 – Louisville, KY – Louder than Life Festival
Oct. 07 – Minneapolis, MN – Mill City Nights
Oct. 09 – Calgary, AB – Grey Eagle Resort and Casino
Oct. 10 – Edmonton, AB – Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
Oct. 12 – Vancouver, BC – Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Oct. 13 – Seattle, WA – Moore Theater
Oct. 15 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Depot
Oct. 16 – Denver, CO – Fillmore Auditorium
Oct. 18 – San Francisco, CA – Warfield Theater
Oct. 20 – Chandler, AZ – Wild Horse Pass Hotel and Casino
Oct. 21 – Anaheim, CA – House of Blues
Oct. 23 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium
Oct. 24 – Temecula, CA – Pechanga Resort & Casino

Speaking about his working relationship with THE CONSPIRATORS — Myles Kennedy (vocals), Brent Fitz (drums), Todd Kerns (bass) and Frank Sidoris (touring guitarist) — Slash told Australia’s Moshcam: “It’s just something that clicked right from the very beginning. Initially, Myles and I just had that spark, sort of a creative connection, from the very, very beginning. And that’s something that’s established; it always happens when we work together. And then, with Brent and Todd, it’s the same kind of thing where we just have a really great writing and performing and recording chemistry, where everybody just really digs what we are about individually and collectively, and it just works.”

SLASH FEATURING MYLES KENNEDY & THE CONSPIRATORS are scheduled to stay on the road until the end of the year, after which they will take a short break before beginning work on the follow-up to their 2014 album “World On Fire”.

“We’re working on new material for the next record,” Slash told Billboard.com. “When this tour’s over we’ll start going in and doing some pre-production and probably go into the studio some time in mid-to-late spring and record.”

Regarding how the new songs are shaping up, Slash says: “They sound very rhythmic and that’s definitely something that, for me personally, I’m going for. We’ll see what that turns into. It changes. It sort of evolves; you start out with one idea and that sort of morphs into another idea. At this point it sounds like it’s going to be really awesome, so I’m excited about it.”

Slash recently told Classic Rock magazine about his songwriting approach: “On the road is the platform that I find is the easiest for me to work on new material,” he said. “It’s easier here than it is for me to do when I’m at home. So I just get going. I take my phone and I record ideas on the phone and then we jam stuff at soundchecks; when we have soundchecks. So we compile a bunch of ideas, and then when the tour is over, we go home and, sort of, hash them out.”

“World On Fire” sold around 29,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No. 10 on The Billboard 200 chart. The CD arrived in stores on September 16, 2014 via Slash‘s own label Dik Hayd International distributed through Roadrunner Records (Europe, Middle East, Africa and Latin America).

“World On Fire” is the second album to feature Slash‘s regular backing band, MYLES KENNEDY & THE CONSPIRATORS, and follows up 2012’s “Apocalyptic Love”, which sold around 38,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No. 4 on The Billboard 200 chart.

On Slash self-titled solo effort he employed a different vocalist on each track, before settling on ALTER BRIDGE member Kennedy for both touring and eventually recording.

Fonte: Blabbermouth.net