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NEXT STOP VEGAS

Bringing The Good Times Back To Hartlepool

ne of the brilliant sides to defunct PigPen Festival near Trimdon in
writing this magazine is getting 2007 and 2009.. When “Vanity Rules”
Othe opportunity to discover the met its inevitable end in April 2017, the
talent around our wonderful town. This 3 of us decided to just jam some covers.
month I put a real great covers band in We sat in a pub and wrote down the
the spotlight, Next Stop Vegas’. music we liked listening to, listed a few
bands we were in to and got down to
The band formed in May 2017, primarily playing for fun. To our great surprise
to play covers we all loved to listen to. it sounded pretty good but we were of
Paul, Barney and Mark have been in course missing a singer.
original bands such as “Goodbye Hayley
Mills”, who once played a support slot In walks Steven Dunn, a seasoned singer
with The Stranglers at their convention from bands such as “Crimson Skies”
of 1993 in New Cross, London, and and “Last Anthem”. He’s the baby of
The Vanity Rules, who played the now the band as the rest of us are older than

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