Concert review

Leith, Citadel, 19 Jan 1975

25 Jan 1975
Melody Maker
John Gibson

JOHN MARTYN

THE sound of running water in a pitch black hall. The lights go up and John Martyn in a grubby raincoat with his back to the audience, looks round in surprise, pretending he has been caught in the middle of answering nature's call.

Southampton, June 1974

29 Jun 1974
New Musical Express
Frank Dixie

John Martyn/ Southampton

"NICE TO see ya," cried the exuberant John Martyn in between yet another pint of cloudy beer. "To see ya nice," was the spontaneous reply. And indeed it was.
With the preliminaries over John began the task of stimulating the semi-conscious audience. This was achieved successfully with help from nimble-fingered double bass player Danny Thompson, whose musical reflexes suggested he was having multiple orgasms.

London, Shaw Theatre, 14 Oct 1973

27 Oct 1973
Melody Maker
Karl Dallas

A lesser man might have taken his audience slowly, by easy stages, through from his acoustic beginnings onto his electronic now. After all, moving from wooden sounds to solid state electricity has always been a hard road, and has floored many a great talent before him, who has had to wait a while until his audience catches up with him.

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