TV recording
Scotland's Music - Love & Loss
Published 10th November, 2007Second episode of Scotland's Music aired 10 November 2007. John performs Hurt In Your Heart in the studio live, with band member Foster Paterson, Alan Thompson and Arran Ahmun.
Later With Jools Holland (3)
Published 28th May, 2004Series 23, show #4.
One For The Road and Johnny Too Bad and a short interview.
Saturday Live
Published 13th November, 1999Appearance on Irish TV show Saturday Live with May You Never, to promote four upcoming gigs.
Songwriters' Circle
Published 30th July, 199946 minutes
BBC 2 series, also known as In The Round.
John features in show with four solo 'hits'.
Transatlantic Sessions II
Published 16th October, 1998Second series, partly released on two cd's.
John participates in episodes 6 and 7 with Excuse Me Mister and He's Got All The Whiskey.
Boxed Set
Published 1st September, 199825 minutes
John does a good job for a small invited studio audience; music interlaced with mini-interviews.
VH1 Cable TV
Published 6th March, 1998Live studio performance for pay tv channel.
Later With Jools Holland (2)
Published 1st June, 1996Series 7, Show 4
Three songs, two from the And era.
Transatlantic Sessions I
Published 5th April, 1996Brief TV appearances in Scottish series of 30 minute films. "Musicians Aly Bain from Shetland and Jay Ungar from New York are joined by top country singers, musicians and songwriters from Scotland, Ireland and Norht America." The series was a Pelicula Films production for BBC Scotland, "filmed on the Atlantic Coast of Scotland" at the Montgreenan Mansion House Hotel, Kilwinning, Ayrshire.
Loudon & Co #4
Published 3rd August, 1994John is guest in a Scottish BBC2 show hosted by Loudon Wainwright III. He performs Big Muff turning into Hurt In Your Heart with unchanged rhythm. John on electric guitar, John Giblin on acoustic bass guitar, at the Old Fruit Market, Glasgow.
Talking Loud
Published 24th March, 1993Appearance in Scottish program. No further details yet.
Later With Jools Holland (1)
Published 5th November, 1992Series 1, show 5
Three greatest hits in band versions, in No Little Boy style.
The introductory jam is the theme of Big Muff.
Party Pieces
Published 28th August, 1991Part of a series of selected highlights from The Garden Party transmitted during the summer of 1990. John performs Deny This Love and also Send Me One Line which was not transmitted before.
Sigue Sigue Plastic
Published 19th March, 1991John apparently participated in the final episode of the Spanish youth magazine Sigue Sigue Plastic.
It was broadcast the 19th March 1991. John plays Send Me One Line with the band from The Apprentice Tour. The track lasts 3 minutes and partly plays during the final credits.
We see a young Spencer Cozens on keyboards, probably Alan Thomson on bass, probably Miles Bould on drums and also a saxophone player.
Paul Weller was on the same show. "Su único compromiso era realizar un playback en el último programa de PLASTIC, en el que también participaba John Martyn, emitido en directo desde Barcelona al día siguiente."
Push The Boat Out
Published 1st January, 1991Push The Boat Out was a series hosted by Aly Bain and filmed during Glasgow's Mayfest in 1990, during Glasgow's 1990 period as European City Of Culture. The series, shown on BBC Television in 1991, was set aboard a floating venue: the Renfrew Ferries.
Big Muff