{"id":138,"date":"2004-01-22T21:13:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-22T21:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/?p=138"},"modified":"2004-01-22T21:13:00","modified_gmt":"2004-01-22T21:13:00","slug":"a-nineteen-year-old-writes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/a-nineteen-year-old-writes\/","title":{"rendered":"A Nineteen Year Old Writes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year I finished an entry below<\/a> with a brief recollection of the singer John Martyn<\/a> who was about to return to performing after an operation. In it I mention an interview I did with John when I was a student. Within a week, the hosts of both of the John Martyn<\/a> web-sites, John and Hans, had written to me asking if I had a copy of the interview. I dug it out from the alcove at the back of the spare room and posted it off.<\/p>\n

Today, Hans put the whole thing (and a review of the album that John was touring, One World<\/a>) on line. You can read it here<\/a>. It’s pretty weird, reading stuff you wrote aged nineteen, with no thought of it lasting a month, 26 yers later, but, apart from my over-use of the word “somewhat’ and rather more casual drug references than I’d make now that I’m a ‘responsible’ author, it reads OK, and there’s some interesting stuff there about John’s music, views on drugs and the posthumous reputation of Nick Drake.<\/p>\n

John’s touring in May and I’ll be rushing from an MA class to see him at Nottingham’s Royal Concert Hall.<\/p>\n

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Last year I finished an entry below with a brief recollection of the singer John Martyn who was about to return to performing after an operation. In it I mention an interview I did with John when I was a student. Within a week, the hosts of both of the John Martyn web-sites, John and Hans, had written to me asking if I had a copy of the interview. I dug it out from the alcove at the back of the spare room and posted it off. Today, Hans put the whole thing (and a review of the album that John was touring, One World) on line. You can read it here. It’s pretty weird, reading stuff you wrote aged nineteen, with no thought of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}