WAYPOINTS #161
26/06/20
"JUST GOTTA RIDE IT"
FEAT: MARTHA FFION, A.R. PINEWOOD, SAVAGE MANSION, MOLLY LINEN, PICTISH TRAIL, V I S I T ▲ T I O N S, RONAN KEATING + MORE
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PRE-ORDER MARTHA FFION'S NEW ALBUM
NIGHTS TO FORGET
Here at Lost Map Records we have been known on occasion to get shall we say "creative" with the truth – e.g. remember when we said our dad was mates with The Terminator and he let us have a shot on his motorbike, or that time we claimed to be able to fit an entire deck of Jaffa Cakes ™ in our mouth in one go without choking? Lies. Point being: sometimes it's worth independently verifying some of the rambling, occasionally nakedly slanderous bollocks we type out late at night, semi-delirious on big bowls of full-sugar Alpen ™, towards these half-monthly Waypoints news-dümps, in order that you can be 100% confident as to the veracity of sweeping statements such as the following: Martha Ffion is real, real good at the musics.
This is provably true for several reasons, including the fact that the good people at BBC 6 Music and BBC Radio Scotland have been rinsing the sh*t (technical term) out of her latest single 'Want You to Know'. Just right now as we are typing this Gideon Coe has played it on his show. Night before that Roddy Hart played it on his show, a day after Lauren Laverne had played it on her show, not long before Vic Galloway played it on his show! Either they're all lazy and are copying one other, or it's verifiably just a really bloody good song, yeah?
And there's more: Spotify have added 'Want You To Know' to two of their editorial playlists, one called Scotify (Claire's Irish but still), and another called Hot New Bands ( ). Look, hurry up and just pre-order her new album Nights to Forget right now why don't you because you won't regret it. Still not convinced? Are you remembering that our dad knows The Terminator?!!!
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RIDE ME RONAN
- Hear Eimear from Happy Spendy's Me-in-3 picks on the Roddy Hart show for BBC Radio Scotland
- Includes Ronan Keating's song for our times 'Life Is a Rollercoaster'
GET INSIDE IT
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LOST MAP @ POP MUTATIONS
Imagine going outside? Imagine being around – *shudders* – people? Imagine one of those people tried to – *throws up in bin* – talk to you ? Imagine they tried to – *full blown panic attack* – touch you? Well in the words of Stevie Wonder: don't you worry about a thing, Mum, because lockdown ain't over yet and we are all still safe indoors for at least another weekend yet. Phew! But that doesn't mean we can't still have fun. Safe, healthy, non-contact fun between consenting adults with high-speed broadband connections. Internet fun. Introducing: Lost Map's Only Fans! Only kidding (but are we?). Introducing: Pop Mutations!
Brought to you by the in-house booking team behind Glasgow venues The Flying Duck, Stereo and Mono, Pop Mutations is three days of highest quality livestreamed live music and DJ sets by the crème de la Cadbury's Cream Egg of the underground music scene in Scotland and beyond. Is Lost Map invited? After a lot of lobbying, begging and straight up bribery you can bet your a$$ we are! No less than four of our finest artists will be representing across the weekend, all from the comfort of their own homes – Molly Linen, Romeo Taylor, Savage Mansion and, beamed all the way from Sweden, Undermedvetenheten – each fully clothed and packing good songs and patter aplenty. With virtual entertainment this good why ever leave the house again? IRL? I-R-HELLLLLLL, amirite???!
Romeo Taylor – Saturday, June 27, 8:40pm to 9:00pm
Undermedvetenheten – Sunday, June 28 - 11.30am to 12noon
Molly Linen - Sunday, June 28 - 5.00pm to 5.20pm
Savage Mansion - Sunday, June 28 - 8.00pm to 8.20pm
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AT HOME WITH FIRESTATIONS
- Livestream show on Facebook hosted by Life is a Minestrone, Sunday, June 28, 6.30pm
- Feat. songs, chat, a nice 1960s chaffinch sample
- Buy Firestations' v. good album
The Year Dot here/now
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LIVIN' IT UP AT THE HOTEL A.R. PINEWOOD
Strange but true: an early prototype model of A.R. Pinewood – Lost Map's first and indeed only fully-synthetic robo-country singer – was drifting up the West Coast of the U.S of A in the late 1970s when he was befriended by Don Felder from The Eagles. After a long dark night of the soul snorting copious amounts of WD-40, the lonesome cyborg-cowpuncher helped a v high Don to demo the song that would later become legendary cocaine anthem 'Hotel California', then provisionally titled '# XÆA-12'. It's perhaps a residual memory of this experience buried somewhere deep in his circuitry that inspired Pinewood to pen his latest guesthouse based lament 'Hotel', this one being a v lovely but also sad song all about a deserted and crumbling harbourside inn in Fife. He thought about calling it 'Hotel Fife', but it didn't have quite the same ring. It features on Pinewood's forthcoming debut album No Life, which is out next week and which you can pre-order now.
You can become the proud owner of a postcard single copy of the extremely moving song 'Hotel' (w/ exclusive b-side ‘If You’re Lonely’) by signing up the PostMap Club. Doing so will furthermore ensure you receive copies this month of Martha Ffion's extra fine song 'Want You to Know' (with an exclusive B-side), as well as Fell's Sides E/F EP (featuring the songs ‘Ida!’ and ’Nearly Here'). If you're new to the club in June, you'll additionally be posted out all of May's postcards by Martha Ffion, Savage Mansion, Happy Spendy and Undermedvetenheten. All that for as little as £3 / £5! That's great value, albeit not as great value as The Eagles' seminal album Hotel California which can be purchased in most good charity shops for as little as £1.
A reminder of the full benefits of joining the PostMap Club and our two membership tiers:
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. When you sign up you'll also receive the previous month's postcards, completely free
- 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, gigs
- Feelgood glow! Help support an independent record label
GOLD BLEND
£5 + postage, per month
- All of the above except with a bigger badge
- Pink champagne on ice
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SUBSCRIBE TO
V I S I T ▲ T I O N S : S 2
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GET IN THE LOST MAP LOOP
1) Facebook is a social media website which the government use for, like – *hits bong* – watching us, maaaan
2) Join the Lost Map Loop Facegroup for chat / nonsense / conspiracy theories
3) *Exhales*
JOIN!
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LISTEN TO THE WAYPOINTS PLAYLIST
1) We found love, oh
2) So don't fight it
3) Life is a rollercoaster, just gotta
RIDE IT!
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