15 Jun 2021
The 2021 edition of the John Martyn Gathering has been cancelled. The last weekend of June option could not go ahead because of the prolongued covid measures, and after examining the possibilities of the weekend of July 23rd one had to conclude that too many people would not be able to attend at a one month's notice. So the next chance to meet fellow Johnkies is probably going to be next January in Glasgow.
We had come, most of us, to pay homage to and enjoy the results of a 26-year career, spanning 21 albums.
John is filmed and interviewed during the recording of Sapphire, at Compass Point studios, Nassau, Bahamas
"The first one's for you," John Martyn told the capacity audience at Her Majesty's Theatre on Tuesday as he ripped into a song which has become almost his signature tune, May You Never.
01 Aug 1979
Welcome… at last, to Northern Ireland's first major folk festival!
01 Dec 1977
I once saw a girl absolutely cream some poor bastard with a John Martyn record. He'd whispered some lewd suggestion in her ear and she just whipped around and gave him a tremendous shot in the temple with a copy of So Far So Good.
When we eventually met in Regent Street later that afternoon, I found John to be as elated and as ebullient as ever about the release of his new album Bless The Weather.
Still, highly recommended.
Irvillac en Bretagne, près de Landerneau, est certainement le festival le plus poussiéreux auquel il m'ait été donné d'assister depuis bien longtemps. Sur ce champ récemment moissonné, à flanc de côteau, on se serait bientôt cru à un moto-cross!
30th-odd album plus old song collection from Glaswegian songwriter.
De deux choses l'une: ou bien l'on considère que c'est une compilation, donc un disque d'un intérêt mineur, accessoire, et l'on signale juste si c'est bien fait.
Appparently there are two John Martyns. There is the electric John Martyn and there is the acoustic John Martyn.
During his November 2008 tour John was shortly interviewed in the Thistle City Barbican Hotel lobby near the London Barbican theatre. Host for BBC 6 music is Shaun Keaveny.
After his brilliant, but all too short, appearance at Fife Aid, there's no doubt that John Martyn's series of solo concerts will be obligatory for Festival-going music lovers.
Mention Folk-Rock to an American and you're going to conjure up visions of Roger McGuinn with a Rickenbacker and granny glasses performing 'Mr Tambourine Man,' or maybe Dylan and the Band being booed at Newport. Use the same phrase in England and it's a different kettle of fish altogether. Bob who? Roger what? Over there it's the real stuff, Fairport and Steeleye, and the crowning glory known as Electric Folk, when the traditional ballad met the 1960s and 70s, and everyone came away happy.
door RENE DE VROEDE
DET ÄR ÖDETS IRONI att John Martyn, som spelade på Barowiak i tisdags, skulle få en början till ett ordentligt genombrott med låten Over The Rainbow från senaste LPn Sapphire. Ironiskt därför att den är bland de ytterst få låtar han spelat in som han inte skrivit själv.
