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Song (LYRICS BELOW):
Recorded, Mixed & Produced by Colin MacIntyre
Colin: vocals, guitars, bass guitar, keyboards, mandolin, drums & percussion
Piper: Calum MacLean & Tobermory High School Pipe Band
Additional vocals - Mary Kirsop (Colin's gran)
Mastered By Frank Arkwright at Abbey Road.
Video:
Archive fan footage courtesy of Tartan Army legend and leading Scottish football author: Ronnie McDevitt: www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Ronnie...
Feat. Colin's Gran, Colin's Godson, Tobermory High School Pipe Band, his Tartan Army niece & nephew, and Bonnie the dog!
MHS: www.mullhistoricalsociety.com
Colin's Author site: www.colinmacintyre.com
PRESS RELEASE:
Colin MacIntyre/Mull Historical Society releases new mash-up of footie anthems ahead of Scotland’s European Championship opener with host nation Germany.
The music release comes only days after Colin’s new novel, WHEN THE NEEDLE DROPS was published (Black & White Publishing).
The song is in-part inspired by the 1982 Scotland team with John Gordon Sinclair and BA Robertson cult classic, We Have A Dream. Put out ahead of the opening tie of the European Championships (Euros) against host nation, Germany on 14th June at the Allianz Arena, Munich, home of the legendary Bayern Munich.
Football is in acclaimed musician & writer Colin MacIntyre’s blood, with his father, the late Kenny MacIntyre, a passionate and briefly professional player, and his brother Kenny now a football journalist for the BBC. Some of Colin’s most treasured memories from his youth are of trips down from Mull to watch Scotland at Hampden, and his dad’s playing career meant Colin even got the chance to play with some ex and current professionals -- Charlie Nicholas, Ally McCoist, Pat Nevin, Ian McCall and Davie Moyes - who all feature in the song lyrics and have also graced Mull Historical Society tournament teams in the past.
Colin even spent a year training for Queens Park FC, under the robust-regime of the infamous Eddie Hunter. But in the end, after running up and down every step of the national stadium but never actually playing a game, music won out. Nine albums later, this new song has come about after Colin performed a mash-up of ‘We Have A Dream’ and ‘Wild Mountain Thyme’ live on BBC Scotland’s ‘Off The Ball’ with Tam Cowan and Stuart Cosgrove.
Colin explains:
“The day after I performed the mash-up on BBC Radio Scotland, I was appearing at the Bloody Scotland festival and on the way home I couldn’t stop myself penning some new lyrics, to encompass the legends of Scotland Teams’ old, alongside those of the current team. In my mind I imagined them all on the same pitch - and so a challenge was set by Stuart & Tam and an idea born. Two of my very earliest memories, are of marvelling live at Archie Gemmill's famous goal against Holland at the World Cup in 1978, and loving BA Robertson’s hit song of the era, ‘Bang Bang’ - so it seems fitting that I’ve now been inspired by both of those in this song.”
Colin’s old school even features in the track in the form of Tobermory High School Pipe Band, led by local Mull musician Callum MacLean (son of the legendary and greatly respected accordionist) and MacIntyre’s 96-year-old grandmother Mary Kirsop - a huge football fan herself - even makes an appearance on the track, last heard on the third Mull Historical Society album. Colin's cousin and godson is the young player starring in the video, with the famous Jim Baxter No.6 shirt.
“It’s also the very first song I’ve recorded in my new home studio”, adds MacIntyre. “But - fittingly for a Beatles-obsessed kid - was mastered at Abbey Road Studio.”
LYRICS:
V1
AND DALGLISH IN ’82
ARCHIE GEMMEL STICKIN’ IT UP THE NETHERS
McQUEEN’S BULLET HEADER
BAXTER’S WEMBLEY TURF MADE HEATHER
WHEN WE GO SCOTLAND GO
V2
SOUNESS, MILLER, McCLEISH, HADRIANS WALL
CHARLIE NICK, McCOIST, WEE NEVIN
MCFADDEN’S FRENCH REVOLUTION
DAVIE COOP ON THE LEFT WING IN HEAVEN
WHEN WE GO SCOTLAND GO
WE HAVE A DREAM
IF DREAMS COME TRUE
THEN BONNIE SCOTLAND
I’LL PLAY FOR YOU
I HOPE AND PRAY
THAT IF I DO
THEN BONNIE SCOTLAND!
I’LL SCORE THE WINNING GOAL FOR YOU
V3
ROBERTSONS' ANDY & JOHN DOWN THE WING
SCOTT MCTOMINAY LIKE THUNDER
AND THE PASS FROM JOHN MCGIN
TO JOE JORDAN’S TOOTHLESS WONDER
WHEN WE GO SCOTLAND GO
WE HAVE A DREAM…
AND WE’LL ALL GO TOGETHER
THE TARTAN ARMY BINDS
WE’LL CROSS THE LINE TOGETHER
WHEN WE GO SCOTLAND GO
AND WE’LL ALL GO TOGETHER
ARM IN ARM FOR ALL TIME
AH WE’LL SEE THE WORLD TOGETHER
WHEN WE GO SCOTLAND GO
WE HAVE A DREAM…
WHEN WE GO SCOTLAND GO
WHEN WE GO SCOTLAND GO
EVENTS:
7pm TUES 4th JUN - Waterstones Sauchiehall St, Glasgow
7pm WEDS 5th JUN - Blackwell’s, Edinburgh
www.mullhistoricalsociety.com
Contact: fiona@stonehillsalt.co.uk