Anyone on here attend this concert by the pre Bowie MTH ? Tix on sale from Brickhouse (City lost at home 1-2 to the mighty Norwich that day.) please log in to view this image
I've got that poster - went to the concert - Ian Hunter always got the crowd rocking - saw them in Bridge and at Malcolm's too
Saw MTH a couple of years ago. Fantastic, nostalgic, majestic. Ian Hunter had a truly magnificent head of hair. Although because he’s a hundred and seven I suspect that it may have been a syrup.
They played at Brid- Trevor Boulder worked for my uncle in Anlaby as a hairdresser and got us tickets and meet with the band backstage - Bowie never appeared though
Saw some film of their reunion concerts and Ralphs/Hunter still on it. Poor old Buffin not at the races, but typically MTH, they brought him on for the encore and someone helped him with the drumming. 11/10 on the Poignant-o-meter.
Always thought that was another Hull Bowie Urban legend " He used to wait in a car on Anlaby Common for the bassist to finish at the barber's you know" Seems this was FACT. He may have even had some chips from Barons on corner of Bernadette.
Dixon's barbers ;- died last year in his late eighties - retired years ago - I remember he dyed my hair blonde in the early seventies and my mother going ballistic when I got home
Cheers, I know they played Brid but Doncaster twice and not Hull seems a bit strange, didn't Bowie used to go to Duke in Ferriby with Mick Ronson as well? Still the New York Dolls played Malcoms on 3 Nov 72 and hardly anywhere else in the UK.
Aye, when I saw them Buffin’s Alzheimer’s was too advanced for him to play. Martin Chambers from The Pretenders subbed on the sticks. Since then both he and Overend Watts have died. The remaining members are touring again this April however.
I've got a load of Buffins drumsticks tfrom Malcolm's - they kept sticking them in the low polystyrene ceiling on the stage and then proceeded to rip the ceiling down - they were then banned from appearing there again
Underrated singles of the 70s top contender, Hunter on vocals, Ronson on guitar. Curiously Hunter veers from American to Cockney to native Shrewsbury in the course of the song, but the expert arrangement and musicianship that MR brings to it elevates it above the dross of the era. They didn't deserve to be blown away by the unforgiving hurricane of punk rock.
I have a distant memory of seeing them in Malcoms too. One of the band was from Hull. Poor fella had a stroke in later life and spent his last years in a wheelchair. I used to pick him up and take him to a day centre. He had difficulty communicating but he always came alive when a decent sound came over on the bus radio. Still lived off Willerby Road. Talking six, seven maybe eight years ago now and heard he passed away a couple of years ago.
