Perhaps more than any other veteran rocker, Hunter has been a man who hasn’t spent long periods looking in the rear-view mirror. Indeed, Debbie Speer, features editor at the tour-reporting website Pollstar, reports most of the venues are at least three-quarters sold now and “they’re on their way to sellouts.” I mean I knew, there’d be interest in Cleveland and it would be all right in New York because I do OK (in those markets), but I didn’t think there would be that much interest elsewhere. “I don’t know where these people (fans) are anymore – a lot of people aren’t even with us. “This is going back a long time,” continues Hunter, Mott’s lead singer-songwriter and sometime guitarist-pianist. tour in 45 years, an eight-date jaunt that stops at Boston’s Orpheum Theatre on April 9. Hunter, on the phone from his Connecticut home, is talking about the first Mott the Hoople U.S. I wouldn’t want to do it year-round, but now and again …”
“This,” says Ian Hunter, “is a different sort of thing for me. tour in 45 years stops at Boston’s Orpheum Theatre on April 9.
