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Throughout the summer and autumn, Horton put
his contacts to good use, booking repeat
appearances at the Marquee and the 100 Club, a
run of shows in Bournemouth, where the band was
already building a following, and the Isle Of Wight.
The shows saw the band at their peak. ‘Brilliant,’
says Taylor. ‘They were really good,’ says musician
John Hutchinson, ‘a proper band.’ David and The
Lower Third shared bills with The Pretty Things,
Gene Vincent and The Who (whose Pete
Townshend remarked to David and the band, ‘Shit,
was that one of my songs you just played?’). The
Lower Third often drew a better response than their
guest stars, and built up a rapport with most of them,
sailing out on the Isle Of Wight ferry every week,
sharing a tiny caravan and hanging out on the beach.
Horton’s contacts with the Marquee helped score
them a string of shows on Saturday mornings at the
club, playing live in support to guest artists like The
Kinks or Stevie Wonder, who would mime to their
own records, which were then broadcast on Radio
London complete with audience applause. The
optimistic mood brightened further with a trip to
Paris in November for dates at the Club Drouot.
Between shows, David worked on songs, often
with the whole band crammed into his bedroom at
Plaistow Grove. Today, David voices the insecurities
that he would never admit back then: ‘I didn’t know
how to write a song – I wasn’t particularly good at it. I
had no natural talents whatsoever … and the only
way I could learn was to see how other people did it.
I wasn’t one of those people who came dancing out