This is a busy time of year for Eddi Reader.
Her appearance as part of Phil Cunningham's Christmas Songbook troupe is a much-loved fixture in the festive calendar, but for November Reader has been touring with her own band, promoting Vagabond, her 10th solo album.
The evening was a mixture of new material including Back The Dogs, Baby's Boat and Macushla and classics like Perfect and The Moon is Mine from her Fairground Attraction days, when Reader described their time supporting Deacon Blue as being "about as welcome as a fart in a spacesuit".
There were traditional Scottish folk tunes - although not always played entirely traditionally. "Don't tell the Folk Police," Reader pleaded ahead of her version of a strathspey, part sung in Gaelic. And there were songs that seemed to be conjured up on the spur of the moment just for the sheer joy of playing them and putting the band at risk of breaking the Concert Hall's curfew.
This was biography through music with tales about Reader's granny, her kids, her travels, and Edinah, her brief encounter with Amy Winehouse. The impression of her mum singing Moon River at family parties was funny and moving. "This is how I learned to sing," Reader explained.
Reader always surrounds herself with exceptionally talented musicians: guitarist and stellar songwriter Boo Hewerdine, Reader's new husband John Douglas, the multi-instrumentalist Gustaf Ljunggren, accordion player Alan Kelly - who kept nipping out for a smoke - jazz pianist Steve Hamilton and double bassist Kevin McGuire.
It was also an evening with great humour and drama.
There's a sitcom to be made around Reader's life - it would be like crossing Mrs Brown's Boys with Tutti Frutti.
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