The agency is (McLeod Holden) but Pete Mcleod retired some time ago. Pete was a founder member of Roger Blooms Hammer + managed them after he left till they split up in the early 70's. RBH were quite popular in the North. They were the support act for Pink Floyd at a gig in Leeds one time (you can buy online a replica poster for the gig).
I had forgotten that, that he was in Roger Blooms Hammers. Pete was a few years older than me so I guess he would be retired by now.
I had forgotten that, that he was in Roger Blooms Hammers. Pete was a few years older than me so I guess he would be retired by now.
My mother would have been at a lot of those, she liked Helen Shapiro too as I remember seeing a record lying around when I was a kid. She tells some stories about Elton John too but I think she ran into him in London or West Yorkshire, she probably wasn't around here to see him play
I was pretty lucky then growing up because I lived almost directly opposite Fairview Studios in Great Gutter Lane, Willerby so I got to see the groups coming + going to record. It was only a detached house with a pair of bay windows to the front. Keith Herd constructed the recording studios on the ground floor in the two downstairs front rooms. Mind you at that time I did not know most of the artistes arriving except the local bands such as The Rats. Every summer my mother + stepfather would move down to the South of France for extended holidays at a static caravan we had. Which meant in National Lampoon Animal House parlance 'party time'. I used to have all weekend parties. At one Mick Ronson turned up with an acoustic guitar. Wow! The way he played that guitar. Another night Ray Harvey turned up uninvited. Of course I did not dear say you cannot come in! When you got to know him we was an ok bloke. It was strange in later years bumping into him pushing a pram, or should I say in Hull lingo a 'tansad'.
I remember the studio well, I used to hang around Willerby Square at the time. Also used to go to Duke in Ferriby Sunday evenings to see the Rats as well as other local bands.
Used to go in the Duke at Ferriby most Sundays. Do you remember the middle aged dj with the odd hair?
There was a guy who went, and I am not sure he was the DJ, but he seems to have like black tar on his head which was combed to make it look like hair.
That could be any dj in the Duke in the past 50 years. The dj's at The Trees were much better looking.
Valbon didn't last long, someone set fire to it last night... http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Valb...-significant/story-28774309-detail/story.html
Mine was David Whitfield at Hull New Theater around 62/63. Not really my choice but I got free tickets as my mam worked there. I hear they have a statue of him outside the theater now. Probably the biggest star Hull has produced. He was the first British male vocalist to earn a gold disc and the third overall. He was the first to reach the Top Ten of the Billboard Top 100, and the first artist from Britain to sell over a million copies of a record in the US. (wiki) Two years before Gerry and the Pacemakers.:- Should have been a city anthem.
From memory that place opened as dram shop in 1974 ish - can't remember whether it was a change of name or a closed pub brought back to life
