AFTER 55 years of non stop touring you would imagine that a group like the Searchers would be either ready to finally hang up their high button black stage suits or at least severely trim their punishing schedule.

In fact the last year`s datesheet of one hundred and fifty shows is already a cut back on their regular run of two hundred plus concerts a year. And stop? Looking at the dates ahead of them there is precious little chance of that in the near future.

They are due at Dunfermline's Carnegie Hall on Saturday April 21.

And if they did it would not be due to a dip in their popularity.

The Searchers were formed in the late fifties as a skiffle group by John McNally who was quickly joined by guitarist Mike Pender, drummer Chris Curtis and bassist Tony Jackson.

John McNally is still in the mix and he will be joined Frank Allen Spencer James Scott Ottaway