Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators bring the Flying Blind tour to The Factory in Chesterfield on Wednesday, May 19, 2027. It is one of the last North American dates on a world run built around the band’s fifth studio album.
The record, Flying Blind, arrives February 26, 2027, on Gibson Records. The title track is already out. Kennedy said he liked the flow of the opening chord progression and wrote the lyric about people looking for a shortcut to happiness or enlightenment. The album was recorded largely live with longtime producer Michael “Elvis” Baskette at Studio Barbarosa in Florida. Slash plays guitar and pedal steel. Kennedy sings. Todd Kerns is on bass, Brent Fitz on drums, and Frank Sidoris on rhythm guitar.
That lineup has been the constant since Apocalyptic Love in 2012. World on Fire, Living the Dream, and 2022’s 4 followed. Flying Blind is the first album of new songs from the group since 4. Slash’s 2024 release, Orgy of the Damned, was a blues-covers project with a rotating cast of guests. The new record’s track list includes “Avarice and Greed,” “Good Time Girl,” “Thrill Seeker,” “One of Your Kind,” “Looking for a Miracle,” “Sweet Kill,” “Here in Babylon,” “(Don’t) Thread the Needle,” “Rev My Heart,” and “Stem the Flow.”
St. Louis sits late on the North American leg. The tour opens in South America in early April, then hits the U.S. on April 23 in Reno. Kansas City gets The Midland on May 4. After Boston, New York’s Beacon Theatre, and Nashville’s Ryman, the band rolls into Chesterfield on May 19, then finishes the U.S. run in Norman and Tulsa. Europe follows in June.
The Factory, at 17105 North Outer 40 Road, holds about 3,000 and puts a 60-foot stage in front of a room that has already hosted Kennedy. He opened for Mammoth there in November 2025. This time he is not the opener. Expect the catalog that made this partnership stick — “Anastasia,” “World on Fire,” “Bent to Fly,” “Driving Rain” — mixed with the new material, and the usual Guns N’ Roses moments Slash works into these sets.
