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    May 27, 2022 5 minutes

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    LOCAL HEROES

    I live in a small rural village outside Chester and play in a covers band locally. Our last gig was for a small beer festival, raising money for the local primary school in the village community centre. We had a crowd of 200-plus and ended the night with calls for an encore, happy punters and great feedback.

    There are a number of similar villages nearby, each with their own band, playing to a local crowd for their own particular good causes. Our band, The Warning Flower, formed around eight years ago when a bunch of parents got together to ‘do it ourselves’ when the fundraising ball could not afford to hire someone to play. We decided to dust off our instruments (my guitar had been gathering dust for 10 years) and have a go. We soon had a setlist together, got our heads down and, with the support of a

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