Colin MacIntyre is a multi-award-winning musician, producer, author for adults and children, and playwright. Born into a family of storytellers and writers, he was raised on the isle of Mull in the Hebrides and has released 8 acclaimed albums to date, most notably under the moniker Mull Historical Society. He has achieved two UK Top 20 albums and four Top 40 singles to date, since his Gold-selling debut album, ‘Loss’. His new MHS album, ‘Wakelines’ was released to critical acclaim and was produced by Mercury/Brit-Award-winning Producer Bernard Butler.
Described by ’Time Out’ as a songwriting junkie, his newest musical alter-ego is Field Stars, a collaborative electro art-pop project, which the Guardian has described as “Perfect without being too box-ticking – going to be massive’. And from BBC Introducing: “More please. We’re listening.”
Colin has been voted Scotland’s Top Creative Talent at the Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Awards, as well #12 in the Greatest Scottish Artists of All Time public poll, and his single ‘Watching Xanadu’ made STV’s ’Scottish Greatest Album’. Colin has collaborated with a range of artists including Irvine Welsh, Annie Lennox, King Creosote, Tony Benn (appearing in Benn’s famous Diaries), among many others, and has toured worldwide, including with The Strokes, Elbow and REM. He has appeared across the board on TV and Radio, in the UK and abroad, including on ‘Later with Jools Holland’, ‘The Jonathan Ross Show’ and MTV.
Colin’s debut novel ‘The Letters of Ivor Punch’ (W&N) won the 2015 Edinburgh International Book Festival First Book Award and he has adapted it for the stage as ‘The Origins of Ivor Punch’, running in 2019 to sold out audiences in Glasgow & Edinburgh’s Traverse. It was shortlisted for the Guardian’s Not the Booker Prize.
His memoir, ‘Hometown Tales: The Boy in the Bubble’ (W&N), and his first book for children, ‘The Humdrum Drum’ with accompanying music (Little Door Books) were recently published in July 2018. Colin is a contributor to several writing/songwriting workshop programmes, including at Scotland’s National Writing Centre, Moniack Mhor. He performs and chairs ‘From Stage to Page’, a storytelling show with fellow musician-paperback writers featuring readings and songs. He has led the children’s feeding and educational charity Mary’s Meals in London, and once spent a year with the Scottish professional football club, Queen’s Park. He has performed at the major literary festivals, including the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Border’s Book Festival. Despite his absence of a working shield – Colin is a descendent of the Scottish Warrior Poet, Duncan Ban Macintyre.
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