FLYERS SPLIT

Rip It Up, Issue 14, 1 August 1978, Page 7

FLYERS SPLIT

The Flyers have decided to split. The band which was called the Country Flyers until the sacking of singer Midge Marsden earlier this year, found a combination of financial problems and personnel troubles brought on the decision. Bassist Neil Hannan commented: ‘‘We thought there was no future in staying together in the same way. The band lost the initial direction which Midge had provided. And as well as this we just weren’t making enough money. We were moving too slow to build the band up again. So once Murray McNabb quit for financial reasons, I wasn’t prepared to find another keyboard player.” The members of the band will pursue independent careers. Neil Hannan will continue on the music he’s writing for Skin Deep, a locally produced movie, as well as continuing on an occasional basis in Hard Jazz with Murray McNabb.

Beaver has become resident vocalist at Cleopatra’s in Auckland. Guitarist Richard Kennedy has joined together with Red Mole musicians Jan Preston

(keyboards), Tony McMaster (bass) and Jean McAllister (vocals) as well as drummer Stan Mitchell to form Red Alert. Guitarist Paul Clayton who joined the Flyers earlier this year, then quit a couple of months ago, is now playing with Auckland funk band, Urban Road. The activities of drummer Bud Hooper are unknown.