{"id":587470,"date":"2026-05-16T15:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T15:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/587470\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T15:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T15:15:08","slug":"mott-the-hooples-ian-hunter-to-get-a-plaque-in-oswestry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/587470\/","title":{"rendered":"Mott the Hoople&#8217;s Ian Hunter to get a plaque in Oswestry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mott the Hoople split in 1974, but has since reformed on a number of occasions for tours and live gigs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last August, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cx2q7ygydn2o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">blue plaque was unveiled in Ross-on-Wye<\/a>, the hometown of the band&#8217;s original bassist and drummer, Peter Overend Watts and Dale Griffin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A two-day celebration, Mottfest, also took place in the Herefordshire town <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c33ryvj88zlo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">last October<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kerr said he had been in touch with its organiser, and was planning what he hoped would be &#8220;a great day&#8221; in Oswestry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;A lot of people have said they&#8217;ll travel down here to see the plaque unveiling,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He suggested local celebrations, on a date to be confirmed, could include the showing of a couple of Mott the Hoople films at a local cinema, a record fair and evening entertainment in pubs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mott the Hoople split in 1974, but has since reformed on a number of occasions for tours and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-587470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}