WAYPOINTS #151
16/01/20
"IT WAS ALL A BIT TOO MUCH FOR ALL OF US"
FEAT: ALABASTER DEPLUME, PICTISH TRAIL, CLÉMENTINE MARCH, HAPPY SPENDY, MICHAEL BOLTON + MORE...
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#HNY! HERE'S SOME NEW MUSIC BY ALABASTER DEPLUME
New year, new decade, new YOU! We're getting the twenny-twennies off to a flying start here at Lost Map with news of not just one but several new albums, starting with a fresh one from Alabaster dePlume – bandleader, composer, saxophonist, activist, orator and vibesmaster extraordinaire. Dry January? Not anymore because we just PISHED OUR PANTS with excitement. And we haven't even had a drink!
To Cy & Lee Instrumentals Vol. 1 is a collaboration between Lost Map, Chicago-based avant-jazz label International Anthem and the Total Refreshment Centre in London. It'll be released on 12” vinyl and via digital services on February 28, 2020 – and is preceded by the single ‘Whisky Story Time’ b/w ‘Song Of The Foundling’, which is released as a PostMap postcard as part of January's PostMap Club subscription service, and also available now on digital platforms. The follow-up to Alabaster’s critically-acclaimed 2018 album The Corner of a Sphere, the album draws together 11 different instrumental tracks, some old and some brand new, recorded over eight years in cities around the UK. It's titled in tribute to Cy Lewis and Lee ‘Shredder’ Bowman, whom Alabaster met while working for Ordinary Lifestyles, a charity in Manchester which supports people with disabilities to live in their own homes and enjoy fulfilling lives.
As an exercise in helping them learn to socialise better, Alabaster would devise and sing improvised vocal melodies with the two men, recording their impromptu sessions on his phone. He later began to use these scratch improvisations as templates for fully-realised recordings. “These tunes were not composed in response to the lives of my friends Cy and Lee," explains Alabaster, "they are products of the times we had, while supporting each other through difficulties, and learning from one-another, about courage, people, and life. They’re an impression of what we found was needed, to exist, and a celebration of communication that’s free from the demands of words.”
We're not crying, you're crying!
ALABASTER DEPLUME LIVE:
FRI, FEB 14 @ ST JAMES THE GREAT, LONDON
(ALBUM LAUNCH SHOW) [TICKETS]
SAT, FEB 29 @ THE HOT TIN, FAVERSHAM [TICKETS]
SAT, MAR 21 @ WEST HILL HALL, BRIGHTON [TICKETS]
FRI, APR 10 @ THE GOODS SHED, STROUD [TICKETS]
FRI, APR 17 @ MOTEL MOZAÏQUE FESTIVAL, ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS [TICKETS]
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- New signings 2 Lost Map
- B-side = big honkin' hApPy HaRdCoRe remix by Romeo Taylor
- Happy Spendy support Romeo Taylor at Stereo, Glasgow, Friday January 31 [TICKETS]
- New EP + album coming soon!
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PICTISH TRAIL @ CELTIC CONNECTIONS THIS FRIDAY
- @ ST LUKE'S, GLASGOW, JANUARY 17 w/ SUPPORT FROM ROZI PLAIN [TICKETS]
- THEN ALL OVER THE UK ON A HEADLINE TOUR (TIX ON SALE NOW)
- PRE-ORDER THE NEW ALBUM THUMB WORLD, RELEASED FEBRUARY 21: firerecords.com/product/pictish-trail-thumb-world
- WATCH + SHARE LYRIC VIDEO FOR 'BAD ALGEBRA': youtu.be/snUvGH-5m7w
"Eigg eccentric journeys into outer space and virtual reality," "magic and sci-fi, beauty and horror", "sounds as though it’s being played on an ’80’s games console on the point of exploding" – not our words but the words of Uncut magazine, who have given Thumb World a tidy 8/10 rating in the first review of Pictish Trail's new album. We're not blushing, you're blushing!
Experience Pictish classics past and future as they are intended to be experienced – live and loud, while you're busted out of your chops on nasty cheap lager – as he opens his travels for 2020 with a show as part of the Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow this Friday, January 17 at St Luke's, with support from Lost Map alumnus Rozi Plain. After that Pictish is off on his biggest ever UK headline tour, visiting some of the UK's finest towns and cities from Birmingham to Bristol, Dundee and "London". His pants are packed (x1 pair jockey shorts, unsoiled at time of writing) – just show him the open road.
PICTISH TRAIL LIVE:
FRI, JAN 17 @ CELTIC CONNECTIONS,
SAINT LUKE'S, GLASGOW (w/ ROZI PLAIN) [TICKETS]
TUE, MAR 24 @ HARE & HOUNDS, BIRMINGHAM [TICKETS]
WED, MAR 25 @ BOILEROOM, GUILDFORD [TICKETS]
THU, MAR 26 @ CLWB IFOR BACH, CARDIFF [TICKETS]
FRI, MAR 27 @ LOUISIANA, BRISTOL [TICKETS]
SAT, MAR 28 @ OMEARA, LONDON [TICKETS]
SUN, MAR 29 @ THE HOPE & RUIN, BRIGHTON [TICKETS]
TUE, MAR 31 @ BODEGA, NOTTINGHAM [TICKETS]
WED, APR 1 @ TRADES CLUB, HEBDEN BRIDGE [TICKETS]
THU, APR 2 @ CLUNY 2, NEWCASTLE [TICKETS]
FRI, APR 3 @ GULLIVERS, MANCHESTER [TICKETS]
SAT, APR 4 @ BRUDENELL SOCIAL CLUB, LEEDS [TICKETS]
THU, APR 9 @ TOLLBOOTH, STIRLING [TICKETS]
FRI, APR 10 @ BEAT GENERATOR, DUNDEE [TICKETS]
SAT, APR 11 @ QUEEN'S HALL, EDINBURGH [TICKETS]
SUN, APR 12 @ LEMON TREE, ABERDEEN [TICKETS]
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JOIN THE POSTMAP CLUB!
lostmap.com/postcards/club
- At least two collectible PostMap postcards through your letterbox end of every month
- Also badges, other shite
- January postcards from Alabaster dePlume and Savage Mansion
- £3 Regular Brew / £5 Gold Blend
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In a little over two weeks we'll be releasing the eclectic, charming and truly cosmopolitan debut album by London-based gallic wonder Clémentine March. Get to know her better with this short and informative multiple-choice quiz. Five correct answers on a postcard wins a star prize*.
*Free and immediate unsubscription from our shite patter
Le Continent is sung in English, French, Spanish and which other language?
a) Portuguese
b) 汉语
c) Glaswegian
Clémentine characterises herself as “an alt-rock teenager from the 90s”. Her life was changed forever when she heard which single for the first time in 1991?
a) 'Time, Love & Tenderness' - Michael Bolton
b) 'I Wanna Sex You Up' - Color Me Badd
b) 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' - Nirvana
Clémentine lived in Brazil in her 20s, where she became immersed in choro and samba. A love of Vila Lobos, Caetano Veloso and which other famous Brazilian first took her to that country?
a) Fat Ronaldo
b) Milton Nascimento
c) V close vag wax
In parallel with her burgeoning solo career, Clémentine is a much in-demand multi-instrumentalist, for artists including Snapped Ankles, Rozi Plain, Alabaster dePlume and which other Lost Map artist?
a) Bas Jan
b) Insect Heroes
c) Romeo Taylor
Have I derived any kind of benefit from this lazy piece of lolz "content"?
a) No
b) No
c) Fuck no
CLÉMENTINE MARCH LIVE:
SAT, FEB 1 @ RESONANCE FM SESSION
FRI, FEB 7 @ FOLKLORE, LONDON – LE CONTINENT ALBUM LAUNCH (TICKETS)
WED, MAR 4 @ ROUGH TRADE EAST, OLD TRUMAN BREWERY, LONDON |
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THE LOST MAP GIGS'N'TOURS MEGAMIX
CALLUM EASTER LIVE:
SAT, JAN 18 @ SNEAKY PETE'S, EDINBURGH [SOLD OUT]
SUN, JAN 19 @ SNEAKY PETE'S, EDINBURGH [TICKETS]
FRI, JAN 31 @ ELSEWHERE, MARGATE (w/ GIRL RAY) [TICKETS]
ED DOWIE LIVE:
FRI, JAN 17 @ CLWB IFOR BACH, CARDIFF
SAT, MAR 21 @ MADE IN STIRLING, STIRLING
SUN, MAR 22 @ THE GLAD CAFE, GLASGOW
MOLLY LINEN LIVE:
SAT, JAN 18 @ CELTIC CONNECTIONS, THE HUG AND PINT, GLASGOW [TICKETS]
SUN, JAN 26 @ A WALTZ ACROSS THE CARPET – TINY CHANGES FUNDRAISING CONCERT, ASSEMBLY ROOMS, EDINBURGH [TICKETS]
ROMEO TAYLOR LIVE:
FRI, JAN 31 @ STEREO, GLASGOW (w/ HAPPY SPENDY) [ TICKETS]
SAT, FEB 1 @ THE MASTURBATRIX, DELICIOUS CLAM, Sheffield
MON, FEB 2 @ WHARF CHAMBERS, LEEDS
THU, FEB 13 @ PAPER DRESS VINTAGE, LONDON (w/ SLIME CITY)
FRI, FEB 14 @ YES BASEMENT, MANCHESTER
SAT, FEB 15 @ BAR LOCO, NEWCASTLE
SUN, FEB 16 @ VENUE TBC, YORK
ROZI PLAIN LIVE:
FRI, JAN 17 @ CELTIC CONNECTIONS, SAINT LUKE'S, GLASGOW
(w/ PICTISH TRAIL) [TICKETS]
SUN, JAN 26 @ THE HARE AND HOUNDS, BIRMINGHAM
MON, JAN 27 @ ST MARY'S CREATIVE SPACE, CHESTER
TUE, JAN 28 @ THE PORTLAND ARMS, CAMBRIDGE
WED, JAN 29 @ THE TIN AT THE COAL VAULTS, COVENTRY
SAT, FEB 1 @ ELSEWHERE, MARGATE
SAT, FEB 29 @ EARTH, LONDON (SUPPORTING FIELD MUSIC)
THU, MAR 26 @ ST MARY'S CHURCH, TOTNES
FRI, MAR 27 @ MARINE THEATRE, LYME REGIS
SAVAGE MANSION LIVE:
THU, JAN 30 @ GLAD CAFE, GLASGOW (INDEPENDENT VENUE WEEK) [TICKETS]
FRI, JAN 31 @ SUMMERHALL, EDINBURGH (w/ THE NINTH WAVE) [TICKETS]
MICHAEL BOLTON:
STILL WOULD
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