According to the BBC News, former GUNS N' ROSES/current VELVET REVOLVER guitarist 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.

The queue, which snaked around the Victoria Hall in Hanley, 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.

"I have memories that I went to school there, of the basic neighbourhood that I lived in. I remember exactly what the house looked like.

"Just everything in general, for some reason my memory is really clear.

"Better than my memory of later years."

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.

Read the entire report here.

Slash's setlist featured:

'Been There Lately'

'Nightrain'

'Ghost'

'Mean Bone'

'Back From Cali'

'Civil War'

'Rocket Queen'

'Nothing To Say'

'Starlight'

'Promise'

'Watch This'

'Doctor Alibi'

'Patience'

Guitar Solo / 'Godfather Theme'

'Sweet Child O' Mine'

'Slither'

Encore:

'By The Sword'

'Mr. Brownstone'

'Paradise City'

Check out fan-filmed footage below: