Career
After the inclusion of their single All Dressed Up on compilation album Class of 81 produced by Simon Grigg’s Propeller Records, Grigg signed the band to his label. This was followed by the release of See Maine Gone, the first New Zealand single ever to enter the charts at number one. The band released three more top-40 singles and the album If this is Paradise, I"ll Take the Bag.
The group disbanded in 1983, making its final public performance as the headliners of the 1983 Sweetwaters Music Festival.
Van der Fluit returned to school after the break-up of the, earning a Masters in Music from University of Auckland in the late 1980s. Upon completing his degree, van der Fluit moved to London, where he was in the band, Magik, which released an album and a number of singles.
In 1993, Van der Fluit returned to Auckland. In 1998 with former Meemees bandmate O"Neill, he founded Liquidstudios, which composes original music for the advertising, film, and television industries.
Liquidstudios was the first audio company to earn that award.
Van der Fluit and O"Neill also composed Romeo and Juliet – The Rock Opera, which premiered in June 2010 at ArtsEd in London. As part of the production arrangement, a small percentage of all future gross earnings from the musical will go to ArtsEd to fund its scholastic activities. Van der Fluit and O"Neill are also near completion of a second musical-rock opera, about the assassination of Martin Luther King, Junior.
Van der Fluit is also the co-author of Thought Miracles, published in 2002 (HarperCollins - ).
