Site History 2001

  • December 24 2001: New muffclip (Fly High by Bridget St. John).
  • December 15 2001: Neil Young link added to Links page.
  • December 13 2001: Clarified James Macpherson's entry in the guestbook.
  • December 12 2001: New muffclip: Seven Black Roses from Sweet Certain Surprise.
  • December 8 2001: Cover added to John Perry's Fretwork story. 1981 Ticket stub on giglist.
  • December 6 2001: Been very busy, Italian gig suspected on giglist.
  • November 27 2001: New muffclip (Easy Blues from 1968!).
  • November 25 2001: Details Bottom Line 1983 completed including liner notes.
  • November 23 2001: Slipcue.com link from Joe Sixpack added (links page). Squeezed an Edinburgh venue out of Stuart Lapping's poster (giglist).
  • November 21 2001: Changed fanfoto on home page. Started a Typical section (People).
  • November 19 2001: 1968 John Peel tape described on Recordings page, Radio section. Different From The Book lyrics added.
  • November 16 2001: Talvin Singh remix promo revisited.
  • November 15 2001: 1985 Utrecht gig added, thanx Ashvini Panday.
  • November 13 2001: New muffclip (Easy Blues from Sweet Certain Surprise).
  • November 10 2001: Some work on various CD release dates.
  • November 8 2001: 1993 Suffolk Festival had JM too... but no date yet.
  • November 7 2001: Details Sweet certain surprise added including liner notes. (Collectors)
  • November 6 2001: 1975 Birmingham gig added, also 1998 Suffolk Festival. Thanx John Hillarby for deleting emails.
  • October 31 2001: 1971 Tour mentioned on Claire Hamill's website (giglist). Peter Diakovsky dug up a Sydney concert tape...
  • October 30 2001: Sweet certain surprise available, announcement of Live at the Bottom Line, New York 1983.
  • October 29 2001: New muffclip (Dealer from Live at the Town and Country Club).
  • October 24 2001: Finally able to finalize Live at the Town and Country Club (Collectors).
  • October 18 2001: Apprentice tour program proved much longer than expected (Print page).
  • October 16 2001: Details Old Grey Whistle Test DVD added (Records page).
  • October 15 2001: New muffclip (Bötz by Conrad Bauer). Dave Maddern's live list is back, Links page.
  • October 10 2001: Three UK gigs 1980-1981 added, great fan Mike France. Recovered from Voiceprint hangover.
  • September 28 2001: 1983 Bremen gig discovered on German site. Also April 1986 Hamburg venue solved, tschüß Dierk Schlie. Revised Radio recordings section.
  • September 25 2001: New muffclip (Back At Two by Scullion). Details OGWT DVD building up.
  • September 22 2001: 1998 Edinburgh gig recovered, Kenny Mathieson. Recognised the Waterfront from movie (Tell them video).
  • September 18 2001: Cover pic and liner notes Live at the Town and Country club 1986 added.
  • September 17 2001: Rerelease of Sweet Certain Surprise bootleg on Voiceprint.
  • September 11 2001: Don't Want To Know.... The world will never be quite the same.
  • September 10 2001: New muffclip (Bless the Weather from Henry Afrikas, 1993).
  • September 9 2001: Live at Leeds record got more appropriate page.
  • September 8 2001: Neil Ardley and Landmarks pages got better seethrough covers.
  • September 6 2001: Different mix for US pressing of Couldn't Love You More (Glorious fool).
  • September 4 2001: Primrose Hill promo saved from oblivion. (Collectors)
  • September 2 2001: Memory Lane added to Shopping page. Sound advice to About page.
  • September 1 2001: BBC DVD compilation coming up. Big Muff lyrics got a little bigger.
  • August 29 2001: Some more details of the new Live in concert release (Live from London).
  • August 26 2001: New muffclip (Small hours/ Anna, live at Glasgow 1983).
  • August 25 2001: Details Glasgow Radio Clyde recording from 1983 added.
  • August 21 2001: Stuart Lapping provided an excellent explanation for some difficult Perfect Hustler lines. Also a nice JM anecdote from Glasgow.
  • August 20 2001: Recovered from a complete Format C:... Tony MacLaughlin gave some improved Piece by piece details.
  • August 15 2001: Added the Sunshine Boys tour program to the Print page. Good and recommended reading...
  • August 13 2001: More details Deliver Me single (Collectors).
  • August 11 2001: New muffclip (Deliver Me in the Geert Huinink version). Found an extra 1995 movie. Various small remarks.
  • August 9 2001: New York Clapton Tour Date finally fixed by Ekkehard Müller. Nick Stevenson got inspired by the Giglist to remember the WOMAD benefit.
  • August 7 2001: Corrected recording date and release date for Town and Country club release. Live in London on DVD again, thanx Andy Simmons.
  • July 10 2001: Details and liner notes Kendal 1986 and Germany 1986 added.
  • July 8 2001: Sunshine Boys sampler CD added to Collectors page.
  • July 6 2001: Update Collectors page because of newly discovered Canadian single. Dutch fan captured for posterity.
  • July 4 2001: New muffclip (Dealer from the Sunshine Boys tour program sampler). Three shops added to Shopping page.
  • July 3 2001: 1983 Glasgow club added to giglist (Stuart Lapping).
  • June 26 2001: Small changes in fonts.
  • June 23 2001: Passed 50.000 hits. Karaoke remark added to Landmarks page.
  • June 20 2001: Deny This Love single updated, giglist also. Shrinking boys tour.
  • June 17 2001: Reorganised the kitchen hardware. New muffclip: Blue Monk by Danny Thompson.
  • June 10 2001: One Birmingham gig cancelled. Good US vinyl shop added. Footnote added to Movie page. CD release for Ralph McTell's Right Side Up.
  • June 8 2001: Verve disaster (1998) got a footnote on giglist. sitenote Jack the Lad lyrics.
  • June 6 2001: Small updates on tourdates. Replaced higher ASCII values with proper html.
  • June 3 2001: New muffclip: One Day Without You from John M. and Danny T., Germany 1986.
  • May 31 2001: Unknown 1976 interview found featuring JM and Danny Thompson. Two other Voiceprint releases. Adrian Belew kicked from Guest list (thanx Patrick Teugels).
  • May 28 2001: Cat number for Neil Ardley on CD (Jean-Paul Minjolle). Remark about Johnny Too Bad single.
  • May 24 2001: Eric Clapton/ JM story added from Hamish Imlach's autobiography (Books section). Some more photographers.
  • May 22 2001: Dug up a good load of photographers, People section.
  • May 20 2001: New muffclip: another Cambridge 1985 live track, Big Muff.
  • May 19 2001: October 1974! US gig recovered with credits to J. Batchelor (Esquire). Found some pictures for pictures page.
  • May 16 2001: More producers and engineers from Recordings page. Beverley story promoted to Print section. 'Museum' mystery from Morning Becomes Eclectic interview solved.
  • May 14 2001: Interesting Beverley story from Mojo provided by Pete 'Mojo working' Grant.
  • May 13 2001: Stripped Record files from redundancies to make room for engineers. People page expanded. Jean-Paul Minjolle spotted Neil Ardley oldie on Japanese CD.
  • May 11 2001: New muffclip (Johnny Too Bad live Cambridge 1985). New 1989 gig on Dave Maddern's list.
  • May 04 2001: 1986 London gig found, in Dave Maddern's live list. Also a Radio London recording.
  • May 02 2001: Started with the Movies page (Martyn). Additions welcome.
  • May 01 2001: Details Cambridge 1985 radio broadcast added (Recordings). Small correction Johnny Too Bad lyrics.
  • April 30 2001: New muffclip (Don't Look Away by Brian Auger's Oblivion Express).
  • April 27 2001: Redesign completed. Added a guestbook and a chatbox to celebrate new url. Small changes to Sunshine Boys tourdates.
  • April 25 2001: Print section overhauled.
  • April 22 2001: Waded through the Records section, Collectors quarter and Recordings territory.
  • April 19 2001: Finally a real url: http://www.johnmartyn.nl.
  • April 18 2001: Layout lyrics revised. Started on Records section.
  • April 15 2001: New muffclip (God's song from Dublin 1997 bootleg).
  • April 11 2001: Invented a more flexible, 'thematic' menu. Munich 1990 gig added, thanx Georg Portenkircher. Started simplifying the layout.
  • April 9 2001: Sunshine Boys tourdates copied from John Hillarby's John Martyn Net.
  • April 7 2001: Liner notes Patterns in the rain added.
  • April 5 2001: New muffclip (Angeline, live Germany 1986 with Danny Thompson). Two more Sunshine tourdates. Lee Barry's book not ready to be published yet.
  • April 3 2001: Lyrics Deliver Me delivered. Corrected the promo records info about this one.
  • April 2 2001: Got an excerpt from the new Free biography Heavy load from a kind person. (Print page).
  • April 1 2001: Moved counter and Stats to new url without loss of data.
  • March 30 2001: Release date Lee Barry book moved to end May. Moving homepage announcement.
  • March 28 2001: Kossoff gig and account traced by Ian Barnett in new Free biography. Struggling with the counter...
  • March 27 2001: May You Never lyrics got footnote.
  • March 26 2001: Details Bliss single and promo added. Huntingdon Hall gig. Link to Paul Tingen website (print page).
  • March 25 2001: New muffclip (Rather Be The Devil, live Germany 1986 with Danny Thompson). Cambridge gig June added. Note for Sandy Grey (London Conversation).
  • March 22 2001: Busy underground with new (cable) connection and telephone line.
  • March 19 2001: Patterns in the rain released; details added to Compilations section of Records page.
  • March 18 2001: Hard to find 7 magazine story added about new Sister Bliss single.
  • March 16 2001: Sunshine Boys Track listings uncovered by Mister Hillarby.
  • March 14 2001: Two sisters Bliss for sale. Hiss On The Tape single proves shorter than album version.
  • March 12 2001: New muffclip (fragment of Yes We Can from the Pulse video).
  • March 7 2001: Obscure track listing for Live '85 release. Lesson in literature on fucking jumpers by Tony Moylett (Pulse video).
  • March 5 2001: Catalogue numbers for Bliss singles, thanx Simon Titley.
  • March 4 2001: First Sunsine Boys tourdate. Extra vinyl cat number for Cooltide.
  • February 23 2001: New muffclip (fragment of Cooltide from the new video). Lyrics Yes We Can added.
  • February 22 2001: Dotmusic interview mentioned. 1982 gig review added, tip Rob Caldwell. New background sound.
  • February 19 2001: Details Tell them I'm somebody else video finally added. Don't forget to buy this one in the merchandise stand..
  • February 18 2001: Mean Fiddler 1987 gig commented by Bryan Dunbar.
  • February 15 2001: Faithless single to be heard on John Martyn Central.
  • February 12 2001: Changed the homepage pic. More realistic price for upcoming Patterns in the rain release. 1987 Brussels gig dug up by Patrick Teugels.
  • February 10 2001: New muffclip (Pork Chops and Gravy by the Ink Spots).
  • February 7 2001: 1980 Dutch radio recording discovered, Recordings page. Nice treat Jos van Oost.
  • February 5 2001: More details and new jpg Foundations video.
  • February 3 2001: Barbara Jones remembered (first!) 1972 and April 1974 gig.
  • January 31 2001: New muffclip (Big Muff live, VPRO, 1980). Broke the hit record (185). Updated mailing list links
  • January 28 2001: Added a customized storefront to the menu.
  • January 25 2001: Good gig in Camden, and announcement Martyn/ Thompson 1985 CD release.
  • January 24 2001: Updates for Recordings list, subsequent pages and Musisicians. Made holes in the Record, Shops and FUQ pages for my new sponsor. (No strings attached.) About page updated, various broken links repaired.
  • January 22 2001: Interesting 1994 Guitar magazine story added to Print page. Great service mr Jan Calon. Independiente tour competition announced. Passed 40.000 hits.
  • January 21 2001: New muffclip: May You Never, live 1992 radio (Kershaw session). Sad news again, my father Harrie van den Berk (June 11 1917) passed away January 18th after having been ill for three months.
  • January 16 2001: Details 1983 Moondogs tape (Recordings). Remarks about Piece by piece CD releases.
  • January 14 2001: Details Kershaw sessions (Recordings) with two pics. Pinpointed 1985 Cambridge date thanks to Ben Whalley MBE. 1981 Paradiso gig: good memory Jos van Oost. Mention of Patterns in the rain release (March 16).
  • January 13 2001: Two new gigs and four tickets from the eighties added to giglist, thanx Loïc Folmer from Denmark. Also 1980 Melkweg (Amsterdam) mystery solved, merit Jos van Oost.
  • January 10 2001: New muffclip: Suzanne live from 1996 Andy Kershaw show. Dedicated to my mother, Pieta van den Berk-Klokgieters, September 20 1916 - January 2 2001.
  • January 9 2001: Line-up BBC Live concert added.
  • January 7 2001: Cleaned up the logfiles with improved navigation.
  • January 4 2001: 1980 Milan concert specified on giglist, thanx Giampaolo Abbondio.
  • January 1 2001: Happy New Year! - but not for me :o( Found release date for Bliss single.