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Opening act has Las Vegas spirit with British accent

By Jerry Fink (contact)

Thursday, May 8, 2008 | 2 a.m.

In Today's Sun

Your Vegas hails from ... a small English market town northwest of Leeds.

Otley is best-known for its annual folk festival and as the birthplace of the most famous Chippendale — furniture maker Thomas, not the male dancers.

Members of Your Vegas list Las Vegas rockers the Killers among their favorite bands. But they took their name from the title of their first single.

“It seemed to sum us up,” lead singer Coyle Girelli says. “It’s about escaping to a different place, wherever that is.”

The group started out as Nirvana-influenced grunge rockers, but slowly changed its image. “Making a racket turned into thinking about making songs,” guitarist Mat Steel says.

The musicians moved from Otley to Leeds, an indie music hotbed (Kaiser Chiefs, the Cribs), and then to New York City. The moves explain the title of the band’s major label debut, “A Town and Two Cities,” due out this month.

(For those who need a sonic reference point, think U2 meets Coldplay.)

Your Vegas meets our Vegas on Friday and Saturday when it opens for Duran Duran at The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel.

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