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Johnny Campbell and The Detours  —  Profile

Larry McKay	Kevin Frewer	Johnny Campbell	John Clinton	Trevor Wright
Click here for the Johnny Campbell and The Detours official website ..... Johnny Campbell and The Detours epitomised the young Rock bands of the early 1960s.  They played the church dance circuit and grew to take over Max Merritt's parents' Christchurch Youth Club Sunday afternoon gig when Max Merritt and The Meteors moved to Auckland.  They experimented with their early "Robbins" recordings and developed a distinctive sound which made their "Surf City" gig one of the most popular, and distinctively different, of the era.  They later moved into town to take up residence at the Laredo Nitespot on Christchurch's Cambridge Terrace, where they inherited the top slot from Dave Miller and The Playboys (later to morph into, Dave Miller and The Byrds).  The high-point of the band's career was opening the Rolling Stones/Roy Orbison show in Christchurch in February of 1965.  After a short reformation, and a residency at The Mecca Nitespot, the group finally broke up in 1966.  The line-up for Flaxwood Festival 2014 included Kevin Frewer on keyboards.