John Martyn 1985 Cambridge Folk Festival (As broadcast by the BBC)
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- čas přidán 17. 08. 2018
- I used to really enjoy listening and indeed recording the BBC Radio 1 In Concert series on a Saturday evening during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. I still have the cassette tapes and as the BBC has no immediate plan to make these available to the public I have decided to release close to 250 of these historical recordings on my CZcams channel.
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I remember this vividly - I went to the festival by myself as most of my mates were metalheads at the time. I was there for 2 bands. The Pogues and John Martyn. I spent much of the early afternoon waiting for him in the tent and was sat about 7 rows back. A remarkable performer and like The Pogues unconventional and unpredictable. I miss him.
John was a genius ..
I was there. The tent was so packed I had to listen from outside. Aside from the music, and some surprising arrangements of songs I knew from the records, my biggest memory of it was the smell of hot fat coming from the donut van I was standing next to. Good times...
Am sure all lovers of J.M. music appreciates any uploads with my own rare live 83 Ludwigshaven German concert video amongst them and like you thanks to dedication by ensuring I was home to press record on the good old VHS recorder. Hard to believe I appear to have been the only one or at least wise enough to digitise it years later before the tape gave up. That said I met J.M. a few times back stage in Hamburg and enjoyed a drink or two in his company and my only gripe being, considering the vast amount of material he had, was never hearing live versions of Perfect Hustler, Hearts and Keys, Never Say Never, Pascanel (Get Back Home), Didn't Do That, Please Fall in Love with Me, Don't You Go from the from Glorious Fool album. Last time I saw him live was 1998 in the Sauchiehall St, Glasgow where he had us all laughing as he played with a broken toe. Later years I didn't go to see him live anymore as he put on the weight, slur his ways thru songs ou could hardly understand a word and after knowing and seeing him in far better healthy and better times that's not the lasting memory I wanted to have. I know us fans of his all celebrate his music but its a damn shame no one and nothing could seem to tame him nor tempt him away from being so destructive and his own worst enemy but that's maybe me just being selfish. Something that's not often highlighted is as an musician and entertainer you would hear some of the best banter with audience's ever, especially when he was on the ball and flip from his posh English to hard Scottish dialects within the sentence and not just to audience's but also back stage in conversation and that always made me smile. RIP J.M.
For me it was remarkable that his shows were so varied.every time I saw him it was different. Last time I saw him was in Carlisle in 1995 or 1996 he played songs from a forthcoming Album entitled “And”
It was a great night . The sheer quality of the music across the years is astonishing !
Someone please help me with my memories, I am a Cambridge lad, but live in Italy now(have done for 35yrs), I vividly remember seeing John up at the CATTLE MARKET on Hills Road Cambridge in the late 80's. I am buggered if I can remember the venue....The Folk festival took place on Midsummers common If I am not wrong?(Strawberry fair ) It's been so long.......
Such memories. I remember being there, and the other year John was there, once with Danny Thompson on bass
i was there, before he played I bumped into him and Danny Thompson strolling through the grounds. John Martyn was my idol and I had so much I would have liked to say and ask him, but I was a painfully shy teen and was rendered practically speechless but managed to ask for their autographs, had nothing for them to write on so they both signed the cover of my folk festival programme that I had just bought, a treasured possession!!
it was the following year, 1986 www.johnmartyn.info/content/22nd-cambridge-folk-festival
brings it everytime
The BBC released this on CD.
Oh forgot to say thanks for posting these shows !
This sounds like Alan Thompson on bass. Saw John several times and was never disappointed. Though Danny Thompson seemed to make him behave a little better. Never really got the main stream recognition he deserved but hay Ho always easier for me to get tickets