WAYPOINTS #153
26/02/20
"I TAKE FOR GRANTED ALL THE THINGS YOU ASK OF ME"
FEAT: PICTISH TRAIL, ALABASTER DEPLUME, SAVAGE MANSION, HAPPY SPENDY, #SUBO + MORE...
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PICTISH TRAIL'S NEW ALBUM HAS LANDED
Comfortably the best album ever written about blotting out the Earth with your fat digit while enjoying a big ol' space pump, Pictish Trail's "life-affirming", "beautiful" and "winning" new album – not our words, but the words of "the media" – is released unto an unsuspecting cosmos at long last. To celebrate, we're having a party. A great big party and you're all invited. It's exactly like Susan Boyle's infamous #Susanalbumparty, except without the accidental double entendre. It's called #Pictishanalthumbparty and it involves literally sticking your thumb up your own or someone else's butt. We know, crazy right!??? Too much? Did we go too far this time? We did, forget we said it. Party's cancelled. Sorry #SuBo, we know you were game .
Instead, why not come and see Johnny and both of his (perfectly sterile and manicured) thumbs, as he heads out in support of Thumb World with his biggest ever UK headline tour? No digits fat or otherwise will be inserted anywhere without prior consent, don't worry. Joining the Trailster on the trail will be fellow Lost Mappers Savage Mansion, who are themselves readying a rockin' new album for release in the shape of the sensational Weird Country, which is due April 3, 2020 and already available for pre-order now. Look out for details of the #Savmanalbumparty closer to the time!
PICTISH TRAIL LIVE
(ALL DATES w/ SAVAGE MANSION):
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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ENJOY A NIGHT OUT WITH YOUR OLD PALS, LOST MAP
- Clémentine March + Callum Easter
& Lost Map DJs
- Gilded Balloon Basement, Edinburgh
- Thursday, March 19
- Treat yo'self
TICKETS
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REJOICE! ALABASTER'S NEW ALBUM IS OUT ON FRIDAY
Clinically guaranteed to restore lapsed faith in life, music and your fellow man (Tories not included), His Right Reverend Alabaster dePlume's brand new album To Cy & Lee – Instrumentals Vol. 1 arrives this Friday and THANK GOD FOR THAT, tbqh.
Featuring 11 different instrumentals, some old and some brand new, recorded over eight years in cities around the UK together with a coterie of collaborators, including Dan ‘Danalogue’ Leavers of The Comet Is Coming and Sarathy Korwar, it's a gently uplifting celebration of connectedness, community and that special way in which music can break down barriers, transcend language and empower expressions of the otherwise inexpressible. A record drenched in pure, righteous humanity. Did we mention that the vinyl is purple?
Alabaster is taking it on the road in coming months, and if you were fortunate enough to catch any of his album launch show at Church of Sound in London a couple of weeks back (some footage here), then you will know that his gigs are an ecstatic experience not to be missed. In the meantime, we're just gonna carry on turning his lyrics / catchphrases into those motivational posters that get shared on Facebook by school friends you no longer talk to.
SAT, FEB 29 @ THE HOT TIN, FAVERSHAM [TICKETS]
THU, MAR 5 @ DE ROODE BIOSCOOP, AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS
SAT, MAR 21 @ WEST HILL HALL, BRIGHTON [TICKETS]
SAT, APR 4 @ PEDDLER NIGHT MARKET, SHEFFIELD
SUN, APR 5 @ THE TALLEYRAND, MANCHESTER
FRI, APR 10 @ THE GOODS SHED, STROUD [TICKETS]
FRI, APR 17 @ MOTEL MOZAÏQUE FESTIVAL,
ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS [TICKETS]
SAT, JUN 20 @ POSTLIP HALL FARM B&B, WINCHCOMBE, UNITED KINGDOM
THU, AUG 20 @ GREEN MAN FESTIVAL, BRECON BEACONS
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FEBRUARY POSTMAP CLUB:
NEW HAPPY SPENDY + VICTORIA HUME
SIGN UP NOW
Lost Map continue to thrust things enthusiastically through the letterbox of ill-warned patrons, in the form of our PostMap Club subscription service. February's installment contains two absolute diamonds if we do say ourselves. The first of which is A FULL BRAND NEW EP by Glasgow based synth-pop purveyors of feelgood sad songs Happy Spendy. Featuring five future classics including the Kleenex-slaying 'Feelings 2', Ready When You Are will be available digitally from Friday, February 28 – as well as feature as part of a compilation album of all three EPs Happy Spendy have recorded to date, which we'll be releasing in the summer.
PostMap subscribers can also look forward to Victoria Hume's 'February' / 'Little Ray' landing on their doormat if it hasn't done so already – two utterly dreamboat new ethereal piano ballads from the nomadic English singer-songwriter. “February was written... last February,” explains Victoria, “in a state of dissociation, living in a city I didn’t know and travelling several times a week through big and small stations late at night, midwinter. Sometimes the trains worked, sometimes they didn’t. I wrote it all in one go the morning after a gig (not mine) in Huddersfield." Shout out to the Huddersfield massssiiiiiiivve!!! *AIRHORN*
A reminder, if you'll permit us, of our two tiers of PostMap membership and just some of the attendant benefits of being – as ol' 50 Cent would put it – 'In Da Club':
REGULAR BREW
- (£3 + postage, per month)
- Postcards! 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)
- All of the above except with a bigger badge
- Bottle full of bub, hug if you into getting "rubbed" (🤢)
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ENJOY A DAY OUT WITH YOUR OLD PALS, LOST MAP
- We're curating a stage at the brand new Jupiter Rising festival at Jupiter Artland
- August 29-30
- All your Lost Map favourites + more
- Early-bird tickets on sale now
- Treat yo'self
TICKETS
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THE LOST MAP GIGS'N'TOURS MEGAMIX
CALLUM EASTER LIVE:
THU, MAR 19 @ GILDED BALLOON BASEMENT, EDINBURGH (w/ CLÉMENTINE MARCH & LOST MAP DJs) [TICKETS]
CLÉMENTINE MARCH LIVE:
WED, MAR 4 @ ROUGH TRADE EAST, OLD TRUMAN BREWERY, LONDON
THU, MAR 19 @ GILDED BALLOON BASEMENT, EDINBURGH (w/ CALLUM EASTER & LOST MAP DJs) [TICKETS]
ED DOWIE LIVE:
SAT, MAR 21 @ MADE IN STIRLING, STIRLING
SUN, MAR 22 @ THE GLAD CAFE, GLASGOW
MOLLY LINEN LIVE:
THU, FEB 27 @ THE DOUBLET, GLASGOW (w/ EUGENE KELLY)
SUN, MAR 15 @ CCA, GLASGOW (w/ SPINNING COIN)
RANDOLPH'S LEAP LIVE:
SAT, FEB 29 @ THE OLD HAIRDRESSER'S, GLASGOW (w/ JO MANGO)
SUN, MAR 1 @ SNEAKY PETE'S, EDINBURGH (w/ HAILEY BEAVIS)
THU, MAR 19 @ THE EMPIRE BAR, HACKNEY EMPIRE, LONDON*
FRI, MAR 20 @ THE OAST COMMUNITY CENTRE, RAINHAM*
SAT, MAR 21 @ GULLIVERS, MANCHESTER*
SUN, MAR 22 @ WESTGARTH SOCIAL CLUB, MIDDLESBROUGH*
FRI, MAR 27 @ PUFFIN COFFEE, KILCHOAN*
* = ADAM SOLO w/ MOONSOUP + BROKEN CHANTER
ROZI PLAIN LIVE:
SAT, FEB 29 @ EARTH, LONDON (SUPPORTING FIELD MUSIC)
WED, MAR 25 @ SOUTH STREET ARTS, READING
THU, MAR 26 @ ST MARY'S CHURCH, TOTNES
FRI, MAR 27 @ MARINE THEATRE, LYME REGIS
SAT, MAR 28 @ RITUAL UNION, BRISTOL [TICKETS]
SUN, MAR 29 @ THE MUSICIAN, LEICESTER
#SUBO:
ROMEO TAYLOR:
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