TV recording

Studio performance or live registration

Scotland's Music - Love & Loss

Director: 
Andy Twaddle
10 Nov 2007

Second 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.

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Later With Jools Holland (3)

28 May 2004

Series 23, show #4.
One For The Road and Johnny Too Bad and a short interview.

Saturday Live

13 Nov 1999

Appearance on Irish TV show Saturday Live with May You Never, to promote four upcoming gigs.

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Songwriters' Circle

Director: 
Janet Fraser Crook
30 Jul 1999

46 minutes
BBC 2 series, also known as In The Round.
John features in show with four solo 'hits'.

Transatlantic Sessions II

Director: 
Mike Alexander
16 Oct 1998

Second 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

Director: 
Peter Barber-Fleming
1 Sep 1998

25 minutes
John does a good job for a small invited studio audience; music interlaced with mini-interviews.

VH1 Cable TV

6 Mar 1998

Live studio performance for pay tv channel.

Later With Jools Holland (2)

1 Jun 1996

Series 7, Show 4
Three songs, two from the And era.

Transatlantic Sessions I

Director: 
Mike Alexander
5 Apr 1996

Brief 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

Director: 
Maureen White
3 Aug 1994

John 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

24 Mar 1993

Appearance in Scottish program. No further details yet.

Later With Jools Holland (1)

5 Nov 1992

Series 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

28 Aug 1991

Part 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

Director: 
Tinet Rubira
19 Mar 1991

John 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."

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Push The Boat Out

1 Jan 1991

Push 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.

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