21 Apr 2022
After two years of Covid misery it looks like things are finally getting back to normal and this goes for the John Martyn Summer Gathering too. The 2022 edition is to take place the weekend of 17, 18 and 19 June at Hackforth Village Hall, North Yorkshire.
01 Jan 1993
This picture was shot for Permanent Records. Probably around the time they released Couldn't Love You More (September 1992). It was not used until April 1997 though, for the cover of The Very Best Of.
13 Nov 1982
War hero Thomas McGeachy lived with danger long after he hung up his rifle. But the 64-year-old ex-commando was blissfully unaware of the potentially-explosive situation for 40 years.
29 Nov 1980
So there was this Scotsman, Irishman and Englishman propping up the bar in a shabby pub in the heart of Glasgow. The Irishman, whose name escapes me, and his Scottish pal, John Martyn, are heading steadily out of the realms of dreary sobriety towards that state of intoxication which Martyn, in his brick thick Glaswegian brogue, refers to simply as a "hoolie".
GOOD TIME AT MAYNE HALL
Few people see the ashes of total and utter chaos from which the phoenix that is a concert arises. On Sunday, 21st August I was privileged enough to witness this miracle. The concert was the Jansch / Martyn configuration with the local support of Dodsworth and Sullivan.
Cash Box was a US based weekly magazine for the music industry trade publishing record charts. This two page advert was to support sales during the stadium tour with Traffic and Free.
The text is clearly written for shop owners.
This full page advert quotes two reviews, one from Melody Maker's Monty Smith (19 November) and one from Vivien Goldman (Sounds, 26 November). This places the earliest possible publishing date at 3 December.
