Your Vegas

Your Vegas was a British rock band from Leeds, UK formed by Coyle Girelli, Mat Steel, Jon Langford, Mal Taylor and Mark Heaton.

The band have been a support act for Duran Duran in 2008.

Background information
The band started playing music together while attending Prince Henry's Grammar School in Otley, West Yorkshire. Their first band was called Orka but they later changed their name to Salvadore. In December 2004 they joined forces with Mark Heaton, a friend from the vibrant Leeds music scene.

They signed with indie label White Duke Records in 2005 and the band released two self produced singles, "Your Vegas" and "Flybuzz", the latter hitting number 12 in the UK Indie Chart. They began extensively touring the UK and in the summer of that year they performed on the unsigned stage at Leeds Festival.

2007 began with the band being chosen by Playboy magazine as one of their first Rock the Rabbit bands. The band designed a limited edition Your Vegas T-shirt for the campaign and performed at Playboy's spring break event in Cabo, Mexico.

They spent the rest of the year recording their debut album, A Town and Two Cities, with producer David Bendeth at his studio in New Jersey then, mixing it at Electric Lady Studios in New York City with Brian Sperber.

In January 2008, Your Vegas released their debut EP, A Town and Two Cities EP, which reached number 27 in the iTunes rock chart.

The rest of 2008 saw the band continuously on the road across the US and Canada, as they completed six major North American tours including supporting two tours with The Bravery, as well as several dates on tour supporting Duran Duran. Over the summer, Your Vegas headlined their own east coast tour of America and performed at various US Music festivals, including The Bamboozle, Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, and All Points West.