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From Left: Tony Smith, guitar & vocals; John Campion, bass & vocals; Mal Finlayson, drums;

Graeme Bates, guitar, percussion & vocals; Chris Ampleford, guitar, keyboards & vocals;

THE SONGS

The Band

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Graeme Bates

 New lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist fresh from a musical career on the Gold Coast of Australia.

Chris Ampleford

(ex Fleetwood Mac Experience) lead and slide guitar keyboards and vocals has performed internationally as well as in NZ. He briefly teamed up in Australia with Gordon Waller of UK pop duo Peter & Gordon who had a string of number one hits worldwide in the sixties.

John Campion,

bass and vocals has played in bands both in NZ and the UK. He was a member of Auckland band Natural Gas in the seventies who were resident band in the Colony Nightclub and later at Windsor Park.





Mal Finlayson, drums, has worked with many bands around Auckland including iconic sixties surfing band The Silhouettes and rock band Drut in the seventies. He has also performed in CCR and Fleetwood Mac tribute shows.


Tony Smith, guitar and vocals has a long musical history going back to the wildly energetic band Disraeli Gears who were runners-up to The High Revving Tongues in the 1968 Battle of the Bands in Auckland.

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