Colin MacIntyre

MacIntyre's father Kenny Macintyre was born in Oban then moved to Mull, an island off the west coast of Scotland. He was a bank clerk, a gift-shop operator and then BBC Scotland's Political Correspondent for ten years. His paternal grandfather, Angus Macintyre, was a poet and his brother Kenny Macintyre is a radio journalist for BBC Scotland Sport. MacIntyre was born on 8 April 1971 on Mull. He wanted to be a musician from a young age and grew up listening to his uncle's covers band. He formed a covers band of his own called Trax, later renamed Love Sick Zombies, while still at Tobermory Primary School. In the late 1980s he and his brother moved to Glasgow, where he attended Glasgow Caledonian University, ==Musical career==

MacIntyre coined the name Mull Historical Society after seeing an advert for an organisation which has since changed its name to the Mull Historical and Archaeological Society. His first album under the name, Loss in 2001, was inspired by his upbringing on Mull "Public Service Announcer" is about MacIntyre's time at BT, and is based on the rhythm of a telephone ring tone. "Barcode Bypass" is about a small shopkeeper threatened by the supermarkets. "Watching Xanadu", a song about watching the film Xanadu, In 2000-01 Mull Historical Society played support for Elbow and the Strokes, MacIntyre was named as "Scotland's Top Creative Talent" at the Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Awards in 2002. NME called it "a joyous slice of orchestral prozac". The track "The Supermarket Strikes Back" is a sequel to "Barcode Bypass" from Loss. The third Mull Historical Society album, This Is Hope, was released on B-Unique Records in 2004. It was inspired by a two-month visit to the United States, ending in New Orleans. One of its songs is about the death of David Kelly, In January 2005, Mull Historical Society was voted the twelfth-greatest Scottish band of all time by The List magazine. MacIntyre released The Water under his own name in 2008. He had written the album in New York, his wife's home city. The last track, "Pay Attention to the Human", features a poem written and performed by Tony Benn. In 2009, Irvine Welsh used the track "You're a Star" from The Water in his comedy Good Arrows. MacIntyre's fifth album Island, the second under his own name, was released in the UK in 2009. It features Kenny Anderson (King Creosote) on backing vocals on "Out Stealing Horses" and was recorded in MacIntyre's old primary classroom in Tobermory. In 2012, MacIntyre returned as Mull Historical Society for his sixth album City Awakenings, which is about London, New York and Glasgow. In early 2014 MacIntyre gigged as Mull Historical Society again, playing Loss in its entirety, to promote the best-of album which was released in 2015. Dear Satellite, a new Mull Historical Society record, was released in April 2016. The latest Mull Historical Society album, ''In My Mind There's A Room'', was released in July 2023. ==Literary career==

MacIntyre's first novel, The Letters of Ivor Punch, was published in May 2015 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. It is set on Mull. ==Discography==

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