Rare BBC Transcription Services Disc – John Martyn at Glastonbury Festival 1986

Recorded at the Glastonbury Festival on 21 June 1986. The full set list was Solid Air, Bless The Weather (both omitted from this disc), Mad Dog Days, The Dealer, Outside In, Big Muff,  Love Of Mine (omitted), Serendipity, Lookin’ On, John Wayne, Johnny Too Bad and Over The Rainbow.

Subsequently released as BBC Radio 1 Live In Concert on CD in March 1992 (Catalogue Number: WINCD 012 Winsong International) but again without the omitted songs.

BBC Transcription Services discs were only made available to overseas radio stations for broadcast purposes and were not made available for sale to the general public. Typically only 100 copies of each disc were produced with instructions to the overseas radio network to destroy the disc at the end of the licence period. The original BBC Transcription Services labels were green and white, and the record was accompanied by programme / cue sheets.

Side 1
1. Mad Dog Days
2. The Dealer
3. Inside Out
4. Big Muff
5. Serendipity

Side 2
1. Lookin’ On
2. John Wayne
3. Johnny Too Bad
4. Over The Rainbow

Catalogue Number: CN 4819/S BBC
Matrix / Runout: Side A – 12 FPS 157024 and Side B 12 FPS 157025