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IMAGINE the biggest challenge of your career is two weeks away. You need to be pacing the floor in anticipation. But you can't pace the floor when you're flat on your back with a slipped disc, staring at the ceiling.
Such has been Colin Reid's preparation for his Celtic Connections New Voices concert. From a mobile phone, immobile and prone, Reid opines from Belfast that things could be worse.
"If it had happened a week later, I'd have been really stuffed," says the soft-spoken guitarist. "As it is, I'll be there in Glasgow, even if it means I've to get a trolley from my bed to the stage, spinal injections, whatever."
Reid's rise at Celtic Connections has been fairly meteoric. Two years ago he was playing on the open stage, proving ground for up and coming talent, although, having heard his outstanding capabilities on a couple of previous occasions, his talent had pretty much up and come already.
Last year, he supported John Cale in the main auditorium and this year, as well as being a "New Voice", having joined...