Noel Brady, known on stage as Big Chief Flaming Star, is an Irish showband singer from Cabra West in Dublin. A lifelong Elvis Presley fan, he took the Flaming Star name from a Presley film of that title.

A 1997 Hot Press feature by Liam Fay says the group that became The Indians had been Casino and took the Indians name on 16 January 1971, still needing a frontman. They found Brady at a talent contest in the Drake Inn, Stillorgan, doing an Elvis number. Hot Press presents him as joining after that rebrand. On Muso he is also tagged to Casino Showband; whether he was ever in Casino, or only in The Indians after the rename, is not settled here.

Brady became the Indians’ lead vocalist. RTÉ’s Documentary On One programme Night With A Showband (first broadcast 3 November 1978) follows them to a Wexford ballroom and lists Eamon Keane (trumpet), Noel Brady (vocals), John Woodfull (guitar), Chris Mullahy (drums), Brian Woodfull (bass) and Shay O’Reilly (trombone). By 1997 Hot Press found Brady still on the road with long-time colleagues including Eamonn Keane (Sitting Bull).