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<\/p>\nIt\u2019s impossible to sum up Mitch Wilson in a snip. Hairdresser, yes. Nightclub owner, yes. Entrepreneur, yes. But when asked to describe himself, he responds. \u201cI\u2019m just a chancer really.\u201d<\/p>\n
Interviewing him on the balcony of his Playa d\u2019en Bossa property early this season, wasn\u2019t my first encounter with Mitch. We both hail from the same small English city in the Midlands \u2013 Wolverhampton. He ran a landmark nightclub there, which I frequented as a teenager. He was something of a trailblazer in the city, and his nightclub attracted people from far and wide. From the flaming torches outside to the drag queen dancers in the unisex toilets \u2013 this was the early \u201890s and long before it had been done on any scale. It won more awards than any club at the time, apparently. But this isn\u2019t the only string to his bow, nor the start of his story.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was a waste of time at school,\u201d he says. \u201cSo I ended up at college doing hairdressing, and I spent two years learning, then one day it just clicked. I was hanging out with my friends at a place called The Rum Runner in Birmingham, it was one of the coolest clubs at the time. My friend had opened it. They attracted a band called Duran Duran \u2013 they had just found a guitarist \u2013 and they formed the band there and then. They asked me to do their hair because they had no money basically, so the five of them came to our shop which was called Wilson, Wilson and Wilson Handmade Hair Cutting \u2013 and we did the five hair cuts for Girls on Film. I was with them for about three years, and they\u2019d call me up and go \u201ccome to America\u201d. My sister married one of them, they have four kids!\u201d<\/p>\n
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His fascinating life led to another famous encounter.\u00a0 In great detail he recalls what seems to be one of his most treasured memories. \u201cOne Sunday, it\u2019s raining and I get a call from John Taylor (Duran Duran).\u201d He asks Mitch if he had heard of the band called Queen. \u201cObviously I had and then I\u2019m asked to do the hair for the drummer Roger (May). So that night I go over to their hotel in Birmingham \u2013 they have the whole top floor of the hotel. Freddie is there and he\u2019s asking me something about his hair \u2013 and I snip a bit off! He was a lovely bloke!\u201d Later that evening the band gave Mitch 50 access-all-area passes for the show that night, and afterwards he was summoned backstage to recommend a nightspot for the band to party. \u201cI take them to a club called Liberty\u2019s where I normally go. When we get there the manager demands Freddie goes home to get changed because he was wearing jeans! Can you believe it? So Freddie says \u2018go into that club and take every girl out of that place and we\u2019ll make a party\u2019. And we did!\u201d<\/p>\n
Mitch went on to own a number of night spots in the Wolverhampton area including the Canal Club in 1996 \u2013 which he describes as a phenomenon. It was straight after that when he moved to Ibiza and set up a holiday rental company \u2013 ApartmentsinIbiza.com.<\/p>\n
But what is it about the island that makes it so special, I ask: \u201cIt is the just best place on earth isn\u2019t it. I go to Bali, Tulum, Mykonos but this is just the best.\u201d<\/p>\n
Thank you, Carlie Carpenter (@mothercrlic<\/a>), for being the craziest hair dresser of all time. Dress by Respect The Effect (@respectheffect<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\t\t