The Flys (UK band)
The Flys was a music group of the second wave British punk and was founded in Coventry in 1977.
Band History
Founded by Hazel O'Connor's brother Neil O'Connor, who is also the majority of the songs wrote, David Freeman, Joe Hughes and Pete King, the band initially called "Midnight Circus", but quickly changed their name to The Flys to.
Musically influenced by The Who and The Creation, the outward appearance derived from the mods, they played melodic punk rock and brought the first EP Bunch of Five under its own label out.
Later they signed to EMI and released a number of singles such as name dropping, Fun City, Beverley and Love and a Molotov cocktail, which can also be found on the first album Waikiki Beach Refugees, as well as several LPs.
The band was an insider tip. So the magazine Sounds " recognized timeless, sophisticated pop songs with Hitklasse and significant and sophisticated style, and a very balanced and informal communication between English rowdiness and American casualness ... somewhere between the Byrds, Tom Petty, Ramones, The Rolling Stones and even the Beatles ". For commercial breakthrough did not happen. In 1980, the band members left after a brawl in the rehearsal room.