Star rating: ***
This sold-out show confirmed that, over three years since the last Mull Historical Society album, and in spite of their uneven live shows, there is still much affection for the songs of Colin MacIntyre, now trading under his own name. Given how he was the songwriter and focal point for his previous band, the change is in personnel rather than instrumentation, with the frontman switching between guitar and keyboards.

Unsurprisingly, as befits a gig that was to all intents and purposes an album launch, the emphasis was on the new songs, yet while they appear to continue in the tradition of MacIntyre's melodic rock roots, there was something unbefitting about the performance.

With prominent synthesisers and domineering drums, the overall sound was a strangely dated one, where the aim was bigness and subtlety was at a premium. MacIntyre even shouted between songs to add to the sense of being clobbered when smothered would have been preferable.

There were plenty of decent songs from both the past (Watching Xanadu and I Tried) and present (I Have Been Burned and Famous For Being Famous) included, but frustratingly the presentation, for all its wide-screen ambition, did them scant justice.