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What Next

Tyneside rock band formed in mid-late 1980s

Tyneside rock band What Next was formed by Tony Mckenna - Guitar, Alan Young - Vocals, Ian Maxwell - Keyboards and Peter Samwase - drums. They were joined in September 1987 by David Handy - bass guitar.

The band split in summer 1988 and reformed with vocalist Simon Todd and recorded demos of songs Closer To you, In your Game and Not The One and were contacted by a local record company. They recorded anothe demo for Paradise Lost and Apathy and were scheduled to sign a record contract but the company offices burnt out the nuigh before the siging.