WAYPOINTS #140
29/05/19
"NOTHING SUFFERED NOTHING GAINED"
FEAT: CALLUM EASTER, HOWLIN' FLING, THE POSTMAP CLUB, SAVAGE MANSION, MOLLY LINEN, CRISPS + MORE...
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HANGIN' ON THE TELEPHONE WITH CALLUM EASTER
WATCH AND SHARE THE VIDEO FOR 'TELL EM' BOY':
bit.do/tell_em_boy
BOOK TICKETS FOR CALLUM'S HEADLINE SHOW AT THE HUG'N'PINT, GLASGOW, SATURDAY, JULY 27: http://bit.ly/2QvLUXe
In the flourishing field of #relatablecontent Callum Easter has, with the new video for his woozily oscillating nearly-ballad 'Tell em' Boy', produced a masterpiece so truly empathetic it's as if he's been shinning up the drainpipe and peering in our front window. In which our hero sits slumped in the sofa in the dark in front of a flickering TV screen, forlornly gabbing into a telephone receiver in what looks like tranquilized slow-motion. With whom is he speaking in this keenly-observed real-life vignette? A lost lover? A trusted friend? An estranged parent? Add the mangled carcass of a Morrisons rotisserie chicken, some empty Kestrel tins, a string of drool and another rapidly escalating Jackpot 247 bill into the picture and that it's, that's the scene – that's most nights round ours. #sorelatable.
Available now as a PostMap postcard single and as part of our PostMap Club subscription service, 'Tell em' Boy' is the latest single taken from Callum's extraordinary debut album Here Or Nowhere. Vinyl copies of which are now – and don't say we didn't warn you about this – SOLD OUT in the Lost Map web shop (though you may still find one or two left at his merch stall at shows, or in select independent record stores). This album is always available to download instead, of course. But can you frisbee a download at someone's face in a random, elaborate and expensive act of revenge for a transgression of the distant past? I think we all know the answer to that.
In other Callum Easter news – he's doing a headline show at the Hug'n'Pint in Glasgow on Saturday, July 27 with support from special guests including the Steven Thomas Band and FRANk, tickets are on sale now. We'll be there – our Jackpot 247 numbers finally came up and we're feeling FLUSH.
CALLUM EASTER LIVE:
FRI, MAY 31 @ LOST MAP'S HOWLIN' FLING, ISLE OF EIGG [SOLD OUT]
SAT, JUN 22 @ SOUTHERN EXPOSURE FESTIVAL,
SUMMERHALL, EDINBURGH [TICKETS]
SAT, JUN 29 @ THE LEXINGTON, LONDON
(W/ VIC GODARD AND THE SUBWAY SECT) [TICKETS]
FRI JUL 5-SAT JUL 6 @ KELBURN GARDEN PARTY,
KELBURN CASTLE AND ESTATE, LARGS [TICKETS]
FRI JUL 19-SUN JUL 21 @ DOUNE THE RABBIT HOLE FESTIVAL,
CARDROSS ESTATE, PORT OF MENTEITH [TICKETS]
SAT, JUL 27 @ THE HUG'N'PINT, GLASGOW
(HEADLINE SHOW W/ SPECIAL GUESTS) [TICKETS]
SAT, AUG 17 @ SEBRIGHT ARMS, LONDON (W/ PRAM)
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JUST TWO MORE SLEEPS 'TIL HOWLIN' FLING
AWWWWOOOOOOOO!
NEVER BEEN THERE? NOT DOING THAT? GET THE T-SHIRT ANYWAY:
lostmap.com/products/howlin-fling-shirt
Free Love! Jason Lytle! Sacred Paws! Malcolm Middleton! Rozi Plain! Delicious food by the Hug'n'Pint! Boozes (various)! Other exciting things excitedly punctuated! The Howlin' Fling festival is nearly upon us and we are PUMPED! But look, we're not going to lie – the forecast on Eigg this weekend isn't exactly looking like T-shirt weather. Still, that's no excuse for making the following mistakes:
1) Not having a tremendously good time at Lost Map's Howlin' Fling. In spite of the rain. It's a little known fact that "Eigg" is in fact an ancient Gaelic word meaning "so wet even your pants will squelch but who cares because BOOZE". To Eigg dwellers a good healthy downpour is but a minor inconvenience, a mere trifle, a "bonus wash". Besides, all Howlin' Fling events happen in the Ceilidh Hall this year, which has a lovely dry roof, so you needn't go outside that much at all if you don't want to. Just make sure to come well prepared for the campsite. Proper tent, waterproofs, torch, spare pants and all that. Wellies are 100% recommended. Eigg in the rain is very wellies.
2) Failing to purchase an Official Howlin' Fling 2019 T-shirt. Weather be damned! These bad boys are unique, stylish, fragrant, offer approx 65% upper-body coverage and come in a variety of colours including "I haven't seen the sky in three days" blue and "gangrenous" green. These T-shirts are guaranteed to get you laid* or your money back**. They're on sale now for a limited time only (until June 7), and make for a fine garment whether you're coming to the festival or not. If you are coming and we spot you knocking around in your Official Howlin' Fling 2019 T-shirt, soaked to the bone, then you will win an instant free gift***.
*Yes you may consider this an offer
**No this is probably not legal
***Hypothermia
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AN EARNEST APPEAL TO JOIN THE POSTMAP CLUB
It's not often that we're especially earnest in these newsletters. In fact, we have an instinctual aversion to earnestness – it makes us feel a bit boak-y, like Brannigans crisps, or smoking a massive bong while riding backwards on a children's roundabout. But let us interrupt your scheduled broadcast of frivolous nonsense for just a moment, as in the interests of the continued good health of Lost Map Records, we get "a bit earnest". Okay, here we go, wish us luck. *Clears throat*.
Running an indie record label in the 21st century is HARD, guys. There's a simple reason for that and it's because, quelle surprise, nobody really wants to pay for music anymore. People are still fine with paying for Other Important Things – and indeed paying more than ever for Other Important Things. Such as, say, booze, or sandwiches, or Christmas cards, or drugs, or haircuts, or haircuts while on drugs. But paying for music? Pfft, most people get all *tumbleweeds* when we suggest such a crazy thing. "I'll just listen to it for free on Spotify," they say, as we remind ourselves to buy one less Christmas card this year.
So that's in part why we came up with the idea for the PostMap Club – a subscription service whereby, in exchange for a regular tiny small sum of money every month, we send you high-quality fresh musics, badges and other cool bumf on a routine basis. It's like Christmas, but it's every single month forever! It's so cheap even the upper-tier deluxe Gold Blend option costs less than the price of a pint (unless you drink in grotty old man hovels, in which case it's less than the price of a pint plus a packet of Brannigans, 🤢). You wouldn't think twice about drinking ten pints and then throwing up in a bush of a good night out, would you? We don't ask for the price of the other nine pints, nor even the sick. We just ask for the price of that one, humble pint.
And it's not like we're asking for something for nothing, because if we do say so ourselves, the run of PostMap singles we've done so far this year – including brand new music by the likes of Martha Ffion, Savage Mansion, Victoria Hume, Romeo Taylor and Randolph's Leap – has been really exceptional. We're on a roll. And we've got loads more great stuff where that all came from too. Watch this space.
So do yer old pals Lost Map a favour, and sign up to the PostMap Club now. If you join before the end of the month of May then you will very soon afterwards through your letterbox receive copies of our superb latest signing Molly Linen's dreamy double-banger 'Away' / Over That Hill' and Callum Easter's above-mentioned opus 'Tell 'em Boy'. We'll announce the June releases soon. For a full breakdown of the benefits of being in the PostMap Club, additional to our eternal gratitude, read on. Thanks, guys
*EARNESTNESS ENDS*
REGULAR BREW
(£3 + postage, per month)
WHAT YOU GET:
- Postcards (obvs)! At least two collectible PostMap postcards sent to your door at the end of every month – each containing download codes for a mixture of brand new music on Lost Map, alongside a random selection from our archives
- Badge! Plus a new badge for every year of your subscription
- Monthly newsletter! Containing hot goss / farmyard shite
- Discounts! On other Lost Map releases, merchandise and gigs
- Feelgood glow! Help support a plucky young independent record label go about its merry business
GOLD BLEND
(£5 + postage, per month)
WHAT YOU GET:
- All of the above except a bigger badge
- Supposing you and a Regular Brew member were out on a ten pint bender and we spotted you both being violenty sick in a bush... we would stop to hold back the hair of the Gold Blend Member only.
- Free crisps (Brannigans, sorry)
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PICTISH TRAIL, SAVAGE MANSION AND CALLUM EASTER FOR SOUTHERN EXPOSURE
Last time we partook of a bit of southern exposure in public it resulted in a sizeable fine and a very stern warning from a magistrate. But don't let that put you off coming to an exciting weekend of live music at Summerhall in Edinburgh, June 21-22 featuring three Lost Map acts among many others. Trousers recommended.
TICKETS ON SALE NOW
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THE LOST MAP GIGS'N'TOURS MEGAMIX
♫ "You can tell eeeeverybody, this is tour song" ♫
ALABASTER DEPLUME LIVE:
SUN, JUN 2 @ FIRE IN THE MOUNTAIN, ABERYSTWYTH
SAT, JUN 22 @ CLOUDSPOTTING, LANCASTER
FRI, JUN 28 @ FUSION FESTIVAL, GERMANY
SAT, AUG 10 @ BEZAU BEATS FESTIVAL, AUSTRIA [TICKETS]
FRI, AUG 16 @ WE OUT HERE FESTIVAL, CAMBRIDGESHIRE [TICKETS]
MARTHA FFION LIVE:
JUNE 21-23 @ SOLAS FESTIVAL, ERROL PARK, PERTHSHIRE [TICKETS]
SAT, SEP 7 @ SKYE LIVE, PORTREE, ISLE OF SKYE [TICKETS]
MOLLY LINEN LIVE:
MAY 31-JUN 1 @ LOST MAP’S HOWLIN’ FLING FESTIVAL, ISLE OF EIGG [SOLD OUT]
PICTISH TRAIL LIVE:
MAY 31-JUN 1 @ LOST MAP'S HOWLIN' FLING, ISLE OF EIGG [SOLD OUT]
SAT, JUN 15 @ CUPAR ARTS FESTIVAL, CUPAR, FIFE
(W/ PHILL JUPITUS) [SOLD OUT]
FRI, JUN 21 @ SOUTHERN EXPOSURE FESTIVAL,
SUMMERHALL, EDINBURGH [TICKETS]
SUN, AUG 4 @ PLAYGROUND FESTIVAL, ROUKEN PARK, GLASGOW [TICKETS]
AUG 15-18 @ GREEN MAN FESTIVAL, WALES [SOLD OUT]
SEP 6-8 @ BRITISH SEA POWER'S KRANKENHAUS FESTIVAL, MUNCASTER CASTLE, BARROW-IN-FURNESS [TICKETS]
RANDOLPH'S LEAP LIVE:
MAY 31-JUN 1 @ LOST MAP’S HOWLIN’ FLING FESTIVAL, ISLE OF EIGG [SOLD OUT]
JUL 26-28 @ INDIETRACKS FESTIVAL, DERBYSHIRE (FULL BAND)
SAT, OCT 12 @ OLD CINEMA LAUNDERETTE, DURHAM
(ADAM SOLO SUPPORTING BROKEN CHANTER)
SAT, OCT 19 @ BRAEMAR GALLERY, BRAEMAR
(ADAM SOLO SUPPORTING BROKEN CHANTER)
ROMEO TAYLOR LIVE:
MAY 31-JUN 1 @ LOST MAP’S HOWLIN’ FLING FESTIVAL, ISLE OF EIGG [SOLD OUT]
ROZI PLAIN LIVE:
MAY 31-JUN 1 @ LOST MAP’S HOWLIN’ FLING FESTIVAL, ISLE OF EIGG [SOLD OUT]
SAVAGE MANSION LIVE:
MAY 31-JUN 2 @ LOST MAP’S HOWLIN’ FLING FESTIVAL, ISLE OF EIGG [SOLD OUT]
SAT, JUN 22 @ SOUTHERN EXPOSURE FESTIVAL, SUMMERHALL, EDINBURGH [TICKETS]
SAT, JUN 29 @ STRANGE BEHAVIOURS FESTIVAL, STIRLING
SAT, JUL 20 @ DOUNE THE RABBIT HOLE FESTIVAL, CARDROSS ESTATE, PORT OF MENTEITH
REGINALD DWIGHT:
STILL ALIVE (AT TIME OF WRITING)
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