"I wish I had forced myself to do solo shows a lot earlier," says Colin. "Having done it, what you get immediately is a sense of where the dead spots are in a song. You can sing a line and get an immediate response, so you know when you've made your point and can move on." On his recent tour, Colin has been playing a mixture of new material and his favourite back catalogue tracks, recreating the songs acoustically and giving his voice space to carry the drama. This album captures the spirit of those concerts, recorded acoustically at London's famous Abbey Road studios in November 1999.