01 Sep 1996
FROM 1967, ISLAND WAS AT THE CENTRE OF THE PROGRESSIVE ROCK MOVEMENT. IN THE FIRST PART OF A SERIES, STUART PENNEY & CHRIS SAVAGE RELIVE THE CLASSIC PINK LABEL YEARS, WHICH INTRODUCED THE WORLD TO JETHRO TULL, FREE AND KING CRIMSON.
02 Aug 1996
THE Republic
Millstreet Music Fair, Cork, Sunday
The line-up for this one-day event in the spacious Green Glens Arena has something for nearly everybody, from full-blooded celtic soul brothers Van Morrison and Shane MacGowan to the glittery contemporary pop of The Corrs and the camp shenanigans of Bono's buddy Gavin Friday.
04 Jan 1996
Hamish Imlach, who has died aged 55, was a movable feast. Wherever he was became quickly the center of a party, marked by uproarious laughter, the consumption of copious draughts of any available beverage, and the cooking and demolition of exotic foods.
23 Jun 1995
SOME alliances are just too brain-achingly bizarre to get a grip on.
For example, in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Robert de Niro played opposite Richard Briers.
Surely that couldn't really have happened. Gerry Adams sitting down for a cosy chat with Patrick Mayhew? Fair enough. Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat involved in a bit of cosy parley over tea and crumpet? Yeah, why not. But Travis Bickle meets Tom out of The Good Life? Truth is, indeed, stranger than fiction.
05 Feb 1995
The body of a Sioux chief is to be returned to his tribal homelands, after lying in a Brompton cemetery for 103 years. Do you care where you are buried?
01 Dec 1994
One of the classic singer/songwriters and musicians of the last thirty years, John Martyn, will play two exclusive gigs at Roisin Dubh on Monday and Tuesday, December 5th and 6th. If you haven't got a ticket by now, then it's time to start hustling because those on sale after the gigs were announced sold out in a record-breaking two hours. That's the kind of reputation John Martyn has.
04 Nov 1994
As John Martyn plays in Scotland for the first time in, ooh, too long, Alastair Mabbott looks back over the history of this musical alchemist.
07 Oct 1994
FOLKCLUB
Il secondo appuntamento della stagione al «Folk Club» in via Perrone è saltato all'ultimo momento. Sabato 8 ottobre, era infatti atteso John Martyn, il fuoriclasse inglese. Ma martedì scorso è stato colpito da infarto. Sembra non sia grave, ma per ora è ricoverato all'ospedale di Birmingham e ne avrà per chissà quanto. Il fatto è che, insieme alla data torinese, sono saltati la bellezza di quaranta concerti già fissati in tutta Europa.
07 Aug 1994
Don't call it folk! John Martyn is 46, but he's not too old to kick up a stink if you dare lump him in with the finger-in-ear brigade. Paul Tingen dons his profanity-proof sou'ester to meet Britain's most eccentric and unique guitar stylist.
28 Apr 1994
Il cantautore scozzese John Martyn sarà in questi giorni in Italia per tre concerti: domani a Bergamo, il 30 a Bologna e il primo maggio a Vicenza. Promuove il tour l'agenzia «Musical box» di Cesena.
