Live review: Dave Hill, album launch for Dirty Foot Lane at Mount Hotel, Wolverhampton 29/10/26

It’s not the usual sort of venue I’ve seen him at over the years but one of the function rooms in the rather plush surroundings of the Mount Country Manor Hotel on the outskirts of Wolverhampton is the setting for the official launch event for Dave Hill’s first ever solo album, Dirty Foot Lane. With a mix of music and chat, Hill is questioned by TV presenter and long-time Slade fan, Nick Owen, together with a specially-assembled band playing a selection of songs from the album and an old Slade hit to finish. Except it isn’t Nick Owen to start with as he has the wrong night in his diary (!) so a member of the organising crew ably fills in until Owen hurriedly makes his way over to the venue. Just as Hill’s surprisingly thoughtful autobiography (So Here It Is! released back in 2017) was not simply a well-rehearsed selection of ’70s glam-era anecdotes, but delved into stark class tensions in Hill’s wider family background, his late mother’s long-running mental health battles as well as…

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