Colin Macintyre, recording as The Mull Historical Society, celebrates his novel An Island Burning and new album with The Mull Historical Society.
Colin Macintyre plays The Joiners on Saturday 19 September, performing under the name The Mull Historical Society. He's coming to Southampton to celebrate two new releases at once: his novel An Island Burning and a new album.
If the name isn't familiar, it's because he's spent most of his career recording as The Mull Historical Society — a name he borrowed from his home on the Isle of Mull in the Hebrides twenty-five years ago. He's a multi-award-winning musician, songwriter, producer, author and playwright, and was once voted Scotland's Top Creative Talent. His gold-selling debut album Loss came out in 2001 and was written about his late father, the BBC Scotland correspondent Kenny Macintyre; it was named one of the best British records of the year, and the debut single 'Barcode Bypass' was NME's Debut Single of the Year in 2000.
Since then, he's released nine acclaimed albums, with three reaching the UK Top 20 and four singles making the Top 40. He's worked with Bernard Butler, Irvine Welsh and Annie Lennox, and has supported REM, Elbow and The Strokes on the road. He's just as active with the written word: he's written five books, including the 2015 novel The Letters of Ivor Punch, and wrote both the music and the book for the multi-genre musical Culloden. This particular night brings the two together, with the new album and the new novel An Island Burning taking centre stage.
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It's a Saturday night at The Joiners, so you've got plenty of time to get there and settle in before the music starts. The show is on Saturday 19 September.
