I took a sidestep from Celtic Connections to attend a “songwriters in the round” event at the legendary King Tut’s venue. The Songwriter Round is a monthly event at the venue and is designed to showcase new and emerging artists. Love Song no.1 was written for her husband (sitting next to me) with a real touch of jazz showing in its unconventional but smoothly rendered 5/4 time signature and a superb scat-singing section. Towards the end of the song, Mallory constructed audience-astonishing rising pyramids of notes that were just stunning to listen to. This was really underlined in the group finale when Steven took the lead on Sam’s A Change Is Gonna Come.