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Mull Historical Society release their new single 'Watching Xanadu' on 28 January

MULL HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Local hero Colin McKintyre of Mull Historical Society steers his team of musical archivists towards mainstream success. Crud has audio streams at your disposal.

08/01/2002

To follow on from their debut album 'Loss' released in October last year, the Mull Historical Society release their new single 'Watching Xanadu' on 28 January. This is the fourth single off the album, with previous releases being 'Barcode Bypass', 'I Tried' and 'Animal Cannabus'.

Local hero, Colin MacIntyre, songwriter and inventor of Mull Historical Society, was born and bred on the island of Mull, just off Scotlands' west coast. Although his early musical experiences are known to have consisted of watching his uncle's covers band rehearsing and gigging around the island, there's little doubt that much of Colin's youth was mis-spent trawling through the archives of Beach Boy records, Aztec Camera debuts and the entire back-catalogue of Creation Records. His debut album, 'Loss' is testament to that, honouring as it does all the tight, dizzily tuneful arrangements of Wilson and the innocent vocal whirl of Frame and Fannies alike. It's an album that's still rooted in first hand experience, however, whether it's the monotony of working in a BT call-centre or of musical awakenings:

"I can remember seeing all these guitars and just falling in love with them," he recalls. "I can still see this wallet full of song sheets about a foot high they used. That's really how I got into music, through listening to them playing these mainstream rock classics."

And BT Directory Enquiries? 2 numbers please?

"I love the language of BT," he explains. "There's this scary corporate conviction to the company that you can't help admiring, even if you find it goes against everything you believe in. I've kept their mission statement and every time it mentions BT I've changed it to Mull Historical Society."

Colin's first non-listed band, Trax, is said to have comprised of family and friends, playing the local town hall and generally just larking around. His next band, 'The Lovesick Zombies', a continuation of 'Trax' played Beatles, Bowie and The Clash covers in Tobermory's old Distillery building on Mull's harbour front using, as is the fashion for any wannabe rock star, broom handles for mic stands.

A move to Glasgow and the appointment of a new mic stand saw Colin knock about the employment ladder with the same lack of discernible game plan that marred his work on the field. A stint at BT, and the spare-time lure of a four-track recorder eventually saw the birth of the MHS:

"I wrote the song Mull Historical Society and thought it was a good band name. I did have doubts whether it was too long, but people seemed to like it. Smells Like Marzipan never really meant anything and I always felt a bit daft phoning people up saying 'Hi, this is Colin from 7-11'. After a while, a name's just a name anyway."

Strangely enough, the song itself was based on a 'real' Mull Historical Society, whose column in Mull's local paper had inspired Colin originally.

"Mull Historical Society has definitely got an agenda," he explains somewhat cryptically. "As much as my family has a history or tradition on Mull and I grew up there, I don't want to be seen as parochial or twee. That's not part of the plan. Anyway, almost everything I've ever written has been in Glasgow. But people seemed to be intrigued."

For Colin it's a piece of work that he feels accurately represents the last 15 years - no mean achievement when you consider two hundred and ninety odd songs lay on the cutting room floor upon its completion. And how does he feel the singles have so far?

"I didn't really know what to expect from Barcode - I knew when I recorded it in the studio (having had it on 4-track for a while) that it sounded on tape exactly as it did in my head, so I was happy with it, but you never can tell what other people will make of your stuff. The chart position was fine....it had no video and no advertising or real profile other than the press it received of its own back - it was only really intended to get record companies interested and make the music media aware...which is exactly what it did - as opposed to troubling Top of the Pops!"

Mull Historical Society release their new single 'Watching Xanadu' on 28 January.

Read Crud's track by track interview with Colin McIntyre here >

Audio
Barcode Bypass
Animal Cannabus

Instead
Watching Xanadu

Relevant Sites:
Band site - www.mullhistoricalsociety.com

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