John Martyn Johnny Too Bad

This honest and often blackly hilarious film shows Martyn at home in Ireland during the leadup to and aftermath of an operation to have one of his legs amputated below the knee Contributors include sometime collaborator and buddy Phil Collins the late Robert Palmer Ralph McTell Island Records founder Chris Blackwell fellow hellraiser bassist Danny Thompson Johns exwife Beverley Martyn and younger generation fan Beth Orton We see a man incapable of compromising his creative vision from his folk club roots in the Sixties through a career of continuous musical experimentation Along the way there is a surreal rollcall of accidents and incidents including a collision with a cow