In the wake of the departure of Neil O’Connor, who joined his sister Hazel’s band, the Flys disbanded in 1980. In 1990 See for Miles Records released the compilation album, Love and a Molotov Cocktail , that Q Magazine described as “angry, angsty, and splenetic guitar tunes with power chords”.…
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Their second LP, Own , was released on 11 October 1979 and contained 14 new tracks and was their last release on EMI. Like their debut album and all their singles it did not chart in the UK. The band moved to Parlophone Records and released an EP, Four from…
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The group spent early 1979 sharing the bills with such acts as The Psychedelic Furs , the Pretenders , and Black Slate . It was around this time that Pete King, who later joined After the Fire , left the band and was replaced on drums by Graham Deakin .…
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The release of their first LP , Waikiki Beach Refugees , came on 17 October 1978. It contained a rerecording of “Fun City”, the future single “Beverley”, and the title track “Waikiki Beach Refugees” which EMI had released as a taster single on yellow vinyl in September.
Their initial EMI release came on 20 January 1978, the EP Love and a Molotov Cocktail , which was a release of two of the tracks from Bunch of Five ; “Love and a Molotov Cocktail”, “Can I Crash Here?”, and a new track “Civilisation”. “Love and a Molotov Cocktail”…
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Their career began by regularly opening for the English punk band the Buzzcocks . In late 1977, with Lyn Dobson on saxophone , they self-released the EP Bunch of Five with the tracks “Saturday Sunrise”, “Love and a Molotov Cocktail”, “Can I Crash Here?”, “Me and My Buddies”, and “Just…
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Flys evolved from a band from Coventry , England named Midnight Circus. Midnight Circus was composed of Dave Freeman ( guitar , vocals ), Joe Hughes ( bass ), Neil O’Connor (vocals, guitar, keyboard ), and “a string of unnamed drummers”. In 1976 their manager’s brother, Pete King , joined…
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