Banbridge return for the MiamiThe Miami Showband last night kicked off a nationwide tour in Ballymena, Co Antrim, 30 years after three of its members were shot dead in a loyalist loyalist American colonist loyal to Britain in the American Revolution. About one-third of American colonists were loyalists, including officeholders who served the British crown, large landholders, wealthy merchants, Anglican clergy and their parishioners, and Quakers. ambush. The popular Seventies cabaret band were returning to Dublin after a gig in Banbridge, Co Down, when the UVF UVF Ulster Volunteer Force UVF St Lucia, Saint Lucia - Hewanorra (Airport Code) attacked their van in 1975. The gunmen had planned to set up a fake checkpoint wearing British army uniforms The British Army uniform developed along roughly the same lines as uniforms in other European armies. Its signature colour had become standardised as red for both foot and mounted units by the end of the seventeenth century, except for the Royal Horse Guards and Royal Artillery who and conceal explosives in the band's van to make it look as though they were smuggling smuggling, illegal transport across state or national boundaries of goods or persons liable to customs or to prohibition. Smuggling has been carried on in nearly all nations and has occasionally been adopted as an instrument of national policy, as by Great Britain bombs. But the explosives detonated prematurely, killing two of the gang. UVF gunmen then opened fire killing singer Fran 0'Toole, guitarist Tony Geraghty and trumpeter Brian McCoy. Two others were badly injured in·jure tr.v. in·jured, in·jur·ing, in·jures 1. To cause physical harm to; hurt. 2. To cause damage to; impair. 3. while a sixth member was not present. The band will return to Banbridge in December to pay tribute to the fans who had made them feel so welcome in the Seventies. Bassist and manager Steve Travers said: 'Banbridge marked the last time we were really happy on stage, so Banbridge is a very good memory for us.' The group made a return performance in Belfast in September. 
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