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John Martyn At The Quays

Anonymous
Galway Advertiser

John Martyn at The Quays

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ON APRIL 8 the great John Martyn plays a very special gig al The Quays. Martyn, one of the most gifted and brilliantly original singer/songwriter/musicians in contemporary music, has had an extraordinary career since he first gave notice in the early 70s that he wasn't prepared to be lied down to any particular conception of music by attaching fuzzbox, echoplex and phase-shift to his acoustic guitar. Purists beware!

Codevilla, Suona John Martyn

Anonymous
La Stampa

CODEVILLA, SUONA JOHN MARTYN

CODEVILLA. Alla soglia dei cinquant'anni John Martyn non ha ancora perso il gusto di suonare: il chitarrista inglese che si merita un posto nella storia del rock si esibisce stasera, alle 22:30, al Thunder Road accompagnato dalla sua Electric Band. Per Martyn si tratta di un ritorno in Italia, a quindici anni di distanza dal suo precedente concerto: pochissime le date che il suo tour europeo prevede nel nostro Paese.

Electric Folk/ John Martyn

Chris Nickson
Discoveries #102

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.

Frog to Prog: Pink Label LPs

Stuart Penney/ Chris Savage
Record Collector #205

Island Albums Part 1

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.

Gig of the weekend

Anonymous
The Mirror

THE Guide to what's on

THE Republic

GIG of the weekend

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.

What a Combination

Anonymous
Reading Chronicle

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.

Observations

Charlotte O'Sullivan
The Observer

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?

Legendary John Martin Plays Roisin Dubh

Anonymous
Galway Advertiser
That's Entertainment
Legendary John Martin Plays Roisin Dubh

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.

Mystery Man

Alastair Mabbott
The List #240

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.

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