Big MuffTour Programs
More Than Souvenirs
Published 8th April, 2007On several occasions, tour programs were sold to the public. These full colour booklets have become very rare now. They contained pictures, merchandise, band members, and also essays about John's music. Of course the new record proves his best up to date but in general these were good stories.
John also got biographical sections in several festival programs, like Glastonbury 1986, Cropredy 1987 or the 1999 Guinness Fleadh. The same goes for the 1982 Six Of The Best concert program, the Genesis reunion for Womad in the Milton Keynes concert bowl.
Sunshine Boys Tour 2001
Published 30th April, 2001John Martyn, Danny Thompson.
The first decent tour program in years was sold for £ 7,00 at the merchandise stand during The Sunshine Boys Tour (May-June 2001). The sixteen page booklet contains stories about John Martyn and Danny Thompson and came accompanied with a nice five track sampler CD.
The Apprentice Tour 1990
Published 1st March, 1990The 12 page program features the tour dates, tour credits, the (uncredited) Chas Keep story, his discography and three biogs for the band members. Copies were priced £ 5,00. Both the story and the discography served as basis for the 1991 Record Collector article.
The Foundation Tour 1987
Published 1st September, 1987The program has 12 pages and is entirely in black and white. It features an itinerary, an anonymous essay Laying the foundations, an illustrated discography, a paragraph on support band Cry No More and another on the available merchandise. Also there's an advert about the Cacophony vinyl rerelease of Live at Leeds. The program carries mainly promo pictures. One interesting picture shows John jamming with Eric Clapton at the Island Birthday party; this must have been the 25th anniversary on July 4th 1987 at Pinewood Studios. The tour lasted through September and October 1987. The title of the album is misspelled Foundation; also the album fails in the discography.
Piece By Piece Tour 1986
Published 1st February, 1986The program (36 pages) consists of the booklet that accompanied the Piece by piece box set, but has 14 pages extra with mainly tour information and adverts. It also features an album discography. The Brendan Quayle piece is essential reading; the story has been recycled on several CD liner notes, especially of the Serendipity sampler. But this version is longer and has some quotes about the Danny Thompson era that apparently were censored later on.
Six Of The Best
Published 2nd October, 1982Six Of The Best
A Benefit for Womad
Milton Keynes Concert Bowl
SATURDAY 2nd OCTOBER 1982
Well Kept Secret Tour 1982
Published 1st August, 1982John's Band
Jeff Allen, Drums
Jeff is a leading session drummer whose credits read like a who's who of the record business. Formerly in East of Eden for four years he went on to play with Bonnie Tyler, Barbara Dickson, B.A. Robertson and on literally hundreds of records.
Glorious Fool Tour 1981
Published 1st February, 1981John's Band
Jeff Allen, Drums
Jeff is a leading session drummer whose credits read like a who's who of the record business. Formerly in East of Eden for four years he went on to play with Bonnie Tyler, Barbara Dickson, B.A. Robertson and on literally hundreds of records.
