Mull Historical Society album Wakelines to be released in September


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Colin MacIntyre will release his eighth Mull Historical Society album on September 21st after recording sessions with Bernard Butler in London.

“This is my eighth album, but it feels all about firsts,” MacIntyre believes. “About going back. The first song I wrote for the album was ’14 Year Old Boy’. It tells the story of my first electric guitar being waded ashore to the isle of Mull, held high above the waves by my father, Kenny Macintyre. It was a Fender Telecaster guitar. Whenever I play the guitar even now I still expect an electric shock, to be plugged into the mainland, to be the 14 year-old boy again with his dreams, his sketched stageplots.”

“I had a feeling about the album that I needed to get somewhere new – it was Bernard who realised what I was saying was I needed to get under my skin, lay myself bare. I’ve long admired Bernard and I feel that he has left some of him on here too. To have him performing so much on the album is an added bonus!”

The album’s first preview is also the title-track, Wakelines, while a tour of the UK has been confirmed for the month of release. Butler will later join MacIntyre at the London Borderline gig on October 2nd.

Tour dates:

September
20 – Glasgow, CCA
21 – Edinburgh, Pleasance Bar
22 – Aberdeen, Lemon Tree
23 – Sheffield, Greystones
27 – Bristol, Louisana
28 – Manchester, Night & Day
29 – Oxford, The Cellar
30 – Newcastle, Cluny

October
1 – Leeds, Brudenell Social Club
2 – London, Borderline
4 – Brighton, Prince Albert
6 – Southampton, Heartbreakers
27 – Isle of Mull, Mull Theatre


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