MULL HISTORICAL SOCIETY AT CELTIC CONNECTIONS PERFORMING 'LOSS' & 'US' ALBUMS IN FULL

Schedule

Fri Feb 03 2023 at 07:30 pm

Location

Saint Luke's & The Winged Ox | Glasgow, SC

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Hello all - I’m delighted to announce this show to kick off a busy year for me after last year’s unavoidable Covid postponement. Celtic Connections is always special and this time ‘Us’ is thrown into the mix too. I truly appreciate how these albums seem to have found their way into people’s hearts & minds over the past 20-plus years, which makes me feel like quite the spring chick... ‘Loss’ was about dealing with grief, celebrating life and a tribute to Community too, and so I feel blessed it found one. ‘Us’ was about those who remained, reaching outwards and making sense of an exciting, hugely changeable, time in my life. So I’m sure it will be an emotional life-flashing-before-my-eyes journey. Over the past few years I’ve had possibly my biggest creative surges in both music and writing, juggling the puzzle of where to land loads of new ideas. It reminds me of the time leading up to making ‘Loss’ when it all started to make sense. So I’m excited to have the first three albums’ reissued on vinyl ('This Is Hope' for the first time), plus an 85-track Complete Recordings Box-set retrospective out in Feb, for which I hope the “real” MHS wont mind me borrowing their “Archaeological” arm in the title. A new MHS album will follow in '23. "C’mon and join us!" More news below -- Colin
2023: THE YEAR OF ‘MULL’:
MULL HISTORICAL SOCIETY PERFORMS ‘LOSS’ & ‘US’ ALBUMS AT Celtic Connections
WITH SPECIAL GUESTS * SUPPORT: Yvonne Lyon
• CELTIC CONNECTIONS: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3rd 2023
• Saint Luke's & the Winged Ox, GLASGOW, 7:30PM
• 21st & 20th ANNIVERSARY PERFORMANCES OF ‘LOSS’ & ‘US’
• LAUNCHING ‘ARCHAEOLOGY: COMPLETE RECORDINGS 2000-2004’ – an 80-track
• 4-CD BOX-SET AND COLOUR VINYL REISSUES OF FIRST 3 MHS ALBUMS
• NEW MHS ALBUM & NEW MACINTYRE NOVEL IN 2023
PRAISE FOR ‘LOSS’:
“The best acoustic pop album of the year.” 9/10 – NME
“Sumptuous choirs and choruses. One of the best British records of the year.” 5/5 – Uncut
“Euphoric, chiming songs of wide-eyed wonder. A major new songwriting talent.’ – 5/5 The Scotsman
“A beacon of originality in a tiresome sea of dross.” – Time Out
“He has arrived as if fully-formed. A tartan clad debut of aspiring proportions.” – The Observer
PRAISE FOR ‘US’:
"Tuneful and plaintive pop gems. An Album of the Year contender for sure." Rolling Stone Magazine 5/5 (Top 75 albums)
“The best remedy for difficult-second-album syndrome is a lush dose of introspection. Tumultuous glory at every second. Brilliant.” 5/5 – The Guardian
“Pure sonic invention, MacIntyre writes about what matters most. A major songwriting force.’ Sunday Herald
Colin MacIntyre – the multi-award-winning musician, producer, author for adults and children and playwright -- presents his sumptuous, universally lauded and Gold-selling Top-40 breakthrough Mull Historical Society album ‘Loss’ on it’s 21st anniversary, PLUS, on its 20th anniversary, a full performance of the classic Gold-selling Top-20 follow-up, ‘Us’, on what proves to be a special night at Celtic Connections. MacIntyre has released 8 acclaimed albums to date, achieving two UK Top 20 albums and four Top 40 singles. The night will see special guests tba joining MacIntyre on stage. From the heartfelt charm of instant classic, game-changing NME Debut Single of the Year, ‘Barcode Bypass’, to the rip-roaring MTV-adorned, ‘I Tried’ & ‘Animal Cannabus’, to the pop perfection of Top 20 hit ‘The Final Arrears’ to the powerfully emotive fan fave ‘5 More Minutes’ and the exquisite ‘The Supermarket Strikes Back’, this proves to be a reflective and celebratory night. The show will launch the release of ‘Archaeology: Complete Recordings 2000-2004’ – a career milestone of MacIntyre’s early period which includes the first 3 Mull albums ‘Loss’, ‘Us’ & ‘This Is Hope’ specially reissued on colour vinyl (‘This Is Hope’ for the first time) and an 85-track 4 CD Box-set of those albums including unreleased rarities, demos, covers, exclusive photographs and MacIntyre’s book extracts, on Demon records. It will also include a chapter on ‘Loss’ from the acclaimed book by Tom Clayton ‘When Quiet Was The New Loud’ published this year (despite it not being a particularly quiet album!). Joining MacIntyre at Saint Luke’s will be CC faves Sorren Maclean & Hannah Fisher, Seonaid Aitken Music, Fiona Shannon and Andy Samson. 2023 will also see MacIntyre release a new MHS album on Xtra Mile Recordings. MacIntyre has been voted Scotland's Top Creative Talent at the Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Awards, as well into the Greatest Scottish Artists of All Time public poll (only 3 years into his career), and the ‘Loss’ hit single ‘Watching Xanadu’ made STV’s ’Scottish Greatest Album'. ‘Loss’ was also a recent subject of the Sunday Herald’s ‘Scotland’s Best Albums’ series. His debut novel ‘The Letters of Ivor Punch’ won the 2015 Edinburgh Book Festival First Book Award, and his memoir 'Hometown Tales' came out in 2018. 2023 will also see a new novel from MacIntyre.
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Saint Luke's & The Winged Ox, 17 Bain Street, Calton,Glasgow, United Kingdom

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