Slash Ft. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators

Living The Dream Tour

EAGLE VISION

No sleep in Hammersmith.

With all the hoopla surrounding Guns N’ Roses’ Not In This Lifetime tour, Slash’s partnership with Myles Kennedy risks becoming a sideshow. As this set from the Eventim Apollo reminds us, that would be a great injustice. With four solo albums to mine, the guitarist has

strength in depth: The Call Of The Wild and Halo are cattle prods for a crowd who hardly need encouragement, and the quality flows through a louche Back From Cali, a weighty By The Sword and a spiky Anastasia, the latter capped with a warp-speed solo the great man could never have pulled off back in the day.

As for Kennedy, while he’s inevitably a safer prospect than Axl Rose – his patter is largely limited to requests to “see those hands”, and there’s never any danger he’s about to swan-dive into the audience to confiscate a camera – it’s difficult to imagine a frontman who could sing these songs better. ■■■■■■■■■■