71 years today... and still selling out the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.
It is encouraging to see that people are still engaged with John's music and career. Only yesterday I got an unknown picture from Sweden of John performing in Uppsala, Sweden at the monumental Barowiak theatre (below).

If you want to get in touch with people who feel the same way, look for the John Martyn Group on Facebook. Amazing stuff is shared on that platform.

This month, ten years will have gone by since John's passing. This, and an upcoming all-star remembrance concert in the context of Celtic Connections at the Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow, is reason for Uncut magazine to give some attention to JM.

Their February issue features a three page article on the making of the track Solid Air, by Graeme Thomson. There's a lot of direct quotes from the people involved: John Wood, Dave Mattacks, Danny Thompson, John 'Rabbit' Bundrick and Tristan Fry.
Funny thing is that Uncut also wrote about Solid Air ten years earlier, in December 2000. This piece is called Emotional Rescue. Both stories have been sort of recreated on this site.

During the last few months I found a LOT of new Dutch publications. Announcements, articles and a dozen concert reviews. Sometimes there were three journalists in the audience. I added them all and I think they can be translated reasonably well by the Google service.
Try this for starters:
https://www.johnmartyn.info/list/publications/14
https://www.johnmartyn.info/list/reviews/14

Today John would have turned 70.
So here's a happy birthday to the man that makes Heaven a less boring place.

For the fifth time in succession, the John Martyn Summer Gathering is to be held in Yorkshire. This is a non-profit event that stretches out over the entire weekend of the 22nd, 23rd and 24th of June. Various performing artists have been contracted but one can also expect guitar enthousiasts having workshops (so you can finally work out those tunings). Several people visiting actually knew John so it will prove to be both interesting and amusing.

Today John would have reached the age of 69. This calls for a small ceremony.
Last week I managed to find a new promo item for two Sunshine's Better remixes. Two white labels, with no description on it. And a pitch-black cover.

Let's hope for John that the sun shines better on the other side..