on 16th December 2022
This Friday’s MHS archive now uploaded from the vaults is… Mull Historical Society performing ‘The Final Arrears’ live on ‘Born Sloppy’ on Channel 4. Filmed: 3/03/03. Taken from the second MHS album ‘Us’, now available to PRE-ORDER on special vinyl reissue along with ‘Loss’ & ‘This Is Hope’. Presented by Sara Cox, fellow guests included: Supergrass, […]
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on 9th December 2022
Hello all, counting down to MHS at Glasgow’s Celtic Connections and the ‘Archaeology’ retrospective release / reissues, this Friday’s “Mull” archive is a main stage performance from 2002’s T in the Park – were you there?? A memory from me? Meeting Dave Grohl side of stage, and his mum… who was on tour with him. […]
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on 17th November 2022
Hello all — I’m delighted to share this ‘life-flashing-before-the-eyes’ anniversary news below! It does all look very nice and you can get your hands on them now. It has been fun to revisit, dig dig dig for previously unreleased tracks and rework. I hope the ‘real’ Mull Historical & (now) Archaeological Society’ won’t mind me taking a leaf […]
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on 13th October 2022
BUY TICKETS 2023: THE YEAR OF ‘MULL’: 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 really hope all of you who booked last year […]
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on 17th December 2021
Sharing my tombs to date, for grown-ups & little ones! I’ve been busy working on new books (all at once with new tunes too, which seems to be my way). And f…inally Ivor Punch is returning too. All from the good folk @wnbooks @orionbooks @littledoorbooks >> More You can find out more and order Colin’s books […]
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on 15th December 2021
Check out this excellent new book by music journalist and author Tom Clayton, featuring a chapter on MHS debut album ‘Loss’ (even if it wasn’t that quiet!!) The quiet music of 1998-2003 bridged the gap between two cultures, two generations and two centuries. As the nineties wound down and a new millennium approached, the UK […]
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on 15th December 2021
Check out all the MHS Releases & Goodies on Xtra Mile Recordings * COLIN SIGNS NEW RECORD DEAL WITH XTRA MILE RECORDINGS * NEW MHS ALBUM ‘MELTWATER’ DUE IN 2022 * MHS GLASGOW CELTIC CONNECTIONS SHOW JANUARY 22nd * LONDON 100-PIECE ORCHESTRA SHOW FEAT. MHS MARCH 13th Hello Society, I’m delighted to have just signed a new record […]
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on 28th October 2021
TICKETS MULL HISTORICAL SOCIETY PERFORMS ‘LOSS’ WITH SPECIAL GUESTS CELTIC CONNECTIONS: SATURDAY, JANUARY 22ND 2022 SAINT LUKE’S, GLASGOW, 7:30PM WITH YVONNE LYON 20th ANNIVERSARY PERFORMANCE OF DEBUT ALBUM ‘LOSS’ 2022 WILL SEE A NEW MHS ALBUM & CATALOGUE REISSUES PRAISE FOR ‘LOSS’ “The best acoustic pop album of the year.” – […]
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on 24th December 2020
Hello ‘Society Members’ & Friends, Wishing you and your families a safe and happy Christmas and a healthy 2021, at the end of what has been an unheralded year for us all. I’d like to share this little film, a new arrangement of ‘Little Bird‘, recorded in August back home at An Tobar Arts Centre, Tobermory, isle […]
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on 3rd May 2020
WATCH MHS/COLIN LOCKDOWN LIVE #1 HERE Hello “Society”, Well… after a little connection blimp at the start, our Facebook Lockdown Live “island” stretched from Mull to Milwaukee (via the Republic of Mancunia), Kosovo to Kyle of Lochalsh, Belarus to Birmingham, Newcastle via NYC, to New Zealand… and beyond… you really are special and thanks […]
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Hello All, I hope you and yours are safe and well during this time. Mull Historical Society has always been about building communities for me. So with that in mind, I would like to invite you, my community, to come together for a gathering where I’ll share some MHS tunes and a book reading […]
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on 11th November 2019
Performing ‘5 More Minutes’ – It was a real pleasure to be back home sharing my very first stage: the Aros Hall, Tobermory on the isle of Mull with former Home Secretary (and near pop star) Alan Johnson at our second Tobermory Book Festival – me in the interviewers’ seat this time channelling my inner […]
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