WayPoints #182

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WAYPOINTS #182 10/06/21 "I FEEL HER IN THE AIR WHERE WE WERE" FEAT: KOPPIES, KINBOTE + KISZES, FIRESTATIONS, CALLUM EASTER, BUSTA RHYMES + MORE OFTEN IMITATED, NEVER DUPLICATED: MEET KOPPIES   - SELF-TITLED DEBUT EP AVAILABLE NOW AS PART OF POSTMAP CLUB - PRE-ORDER LIMITED-EDITION CD RELEASE - STREAM AND SHARE 'HOSPITAL SONG' It's hard to believe, we know, but beyond the foot of the bed, out the front door (trousers on), past kebab house 'Palace Aroma', through the big Tesco's car park, over the ring road, across the fields where they're building the new houses and much, much further still, there lie distant mystical lands known quite simply as... "abroad". We know this because a brand new band which Lost Map is excited to be working with, indie-folk five-piece Koppies, actually come from abroad, or as they call it "Johannesburg". Which they explain is to be found in another place called "South Africa" (confusing). Now, normally we would laugh something like this off as an elaborate hoax – like the Moon landings, romantic love or "Slough". But they have shown this "abroad" to us, on the internet. And if history has taught us anything, ladies and gentlemen, it's that everything on the internet is real. Led by not just one nor two but three extremely talented songwriters – our very own Victoria Hume, whose wonderful solo material we have been releasing for a number of years now, plus acclaimed and multi-award-nominated South African songwriters Matthew van der Want and Chris Letcher – Koppies command an embarrassment of riches when it comes to treating your ears to just really enjoyable combinations of words/music. Their self-titled debut EP proves it in fine style and is available right now via Lost Map's PostMap Club subscription service (sign up here), ahead of a limited-edition CD release on July 2 (pre-order now). You can hear Koppies talking about all of this and more in a new episode of the Lost Map Podcast. BETTER YET, PostMap Club subscribers will receive access from June 17 to an exclusive live session by Koppies, filmed in abroad "Johannesburg", and streamed direct to your device thanks to yer old pal the internet. Just order up a Palace Aroma, kick back, enjoy and wonder why you need ever leave the house again. ------------------- JUNE'S LOST MAP PODCAST 1) The lovely soft voice of a Scottish man is talking utter b*llocks up inside your head – are you going crazy?! 2) No! It's just the June Lost Map Podcast, presented by Pictish Trail. 3) Feat a Koppies primer, Kinbote + Kiszes not knowing who Harold Bishop and Lou Carpenter are, and PT talking, like we say, utter b*llocks. BUY TICKETS FOR JUPITER RISING 1) Lost Map are helping curate an actual IRL festival. OMFG! 2) Pictish Trail, Romeo Taylor, Rachel Aggs, Callum Easter, Alabaster dePlume + more @ Jupiter Artland near Edinburgh, Aug 28-29. 3) Tickets on sale now. ------------------- JUNE POSTMAP CLUB FEAT. KINBOTE + KISZES JOIN OUR CLUB Friends are important. We know because we had one once – it was at high school circa 1994 and he was called Scott Sneddon, and he was really into Jean Claude Van Damme movies. He used to watch them every lunchtime up the high flats, smoking bongs with his aunt Liz. He'd then come back to school and excitedly act out scenes from Hard Target (1993) or Kickboxer (1989) up the back of the classroom. One time he roundhouse kicked a bunsen burner and it set fire to some curtains. Most afternoons Scott would later fall asleep. He left school aged about 14 and we never saw him again. So sad. We've managed fine without friends since then – who needs another friend after a friend like Scott? – but the point remains: friends are important. Just look at what Kinbote AKA Matt Gibb has achieved in collaboration with his friend Owen McAllister, AKA Kiszes. Available as part of June's PostMap Club and also streaming now, they have achieved the song 'GPA' – an ultra-dreamy summertime electro pop anthem for taking off your shirt to then making out with a hot guy or a hot girl or just your own hot hand (we heat ours up by sitting on it for a while). Incredibly, friends Matt and Owen achieved all of this without even being in the same room! Was it magic or was it the internet? WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE? Also included in the PostMap Club's haul o' spicy June tunes is the new EP by Koppies including exclusive access to their live session from June 17 (see above), and a brand new track 'Sun In Your Eyes' from a forthcoming new EP by Firestations (new live date from them below). A round-up of the now THREE PostMap Club membership tiers and their respective prices and benefits is as follows below – new members note that you will receive a bumper double pack of postcards in your first installment, also including NEXT MONTH'S postcards (i.e July's).   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 sh*te.     - 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. CLUB BISCUIT £10 + postage, per month     - All of the above except with an EVEN BIGGER badge. ------------------- HELP US HELP A GOOD CAUSE ON JUNETEENTH 1) On Friday, June 18 Bandcamp are holding their second annual Juneteenth fundraiser, where they'll donate 100% of their sales share to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. 2) We plan to match Bandcamp’s commission on all sales, then donate the proceedings to Refuweegee. ------------------- THE LOST MAP GIGS'N'TOURS MEGAMIX ♫ "Yo Spliff where the weed at? Gig me some more" ♫ RACHEL AGGS LIVE: AUG 27-29 @ JUPITER RISING FESTIVAL, EDINBURGH, UK ALABASTER DEPLUME LIVE: THU, AUG 19 @ ABBOT RIPTON, CAMBRIDGE, UK FRI, AUG 27 @ GOSFORTH CIVIC THEATRE, NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, UK AUG 28 @ JUPITER RISING FESTIVAL, EDINBURGH, UK SAT, SEP 11 @ WEST HILL HALL, BRIGHTON, UK THU, NOV 11 @ LE GUESS WHO? FESTIVAL, UTRECHT, NDL CALLUM EASTER LIVE: AUG 27-29 @ JUPITER RISING FESTIVAL, EDINBURGH, UK FELL LIVE: FRIDAY, JUL 30 @ WALTHAMSTOW TRADES HALL, LONDON, UK [w/ FIRESTATIONS] FIRESTATIONS LIVE: FRIDAY, JUL 30 @ WALTHAMSTOW TRADES HALL, LONDON, UK [w/ FELL] CLÉMENTINE MARCH LIVE: SUN, JUN 13 @ PAPER DRESS VINTAGE, LONDON, UK PICTISH TRAIL LIVE: AUG 27-29 @ JUPITER RISING FESTIVAL, EDINBURGH, UK SAT, OCT 9 @ LIMELIGHT, BELFAST, UK* SUN, OCT 10 @ THE ACADEMY, DUBLIN, IRL* MON, OCT 11 @ STYLUS, LEEDS, UK* TUE, OCT 12 @ LEADMILL, SHEFFIELD, UK* THU, OCT 14 @ MANCHESTER CATHEDRAL, MANCHESTER, UK* FRI, OCT 15 @ LIQUID ROOM, EDINBURGH, UK* SAT, OCT 16 @ QMU, GLASGOW, UK* MON, OCT 18 @ INVISIBLE WIND FACTORY, LIVERPOOL, UK* TUE, OCT 19 @ TRAMSHED, CARDIFF, UK* WED, OCT 20 @ SWX, BRISTOL, UK* FRI, OCT 22 @ EXHIBITION LONDON, LONDON, UK* SAT, OCT 23 @ CHALK, BRIGHTON, UK* TUE, MAR 22 @ THE HARE AND HOUNDS, BIRMINGHAM, UK^ WED, MAR 23 @ BOILEROOM, GUILDFORD, UK^ THU, MAR 24 @ CLWB IFOR BACH, CARDIFF, UK^ FRI, MAR 25 @ LOUISIANA, BRISTOL, UK^ SAT, MAR 26 @ OMEARA, LONDON, UK^ SUN, MAR 27 @ THE HOPE & RUIN, BRIGHTON, UK^ TUE, MAR 29 @ BODEGA, NOTTINGHAM, UK^ WED, MAR 30 @ TRADES CLUB, HEBDEN BRIDGE, UK^ THU, MAR 31 @ CLUNY, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, UK^ FRI, APR 1 @ GULLIVERS, MANCHESTER, UK^ SAT, APR 2 @ ST MARY'S CREATIVE SPACE, CHESTER, UK^ SUN, APR 3 @ BRUDENELL SOCIAL CLUB, LEEDS, UK^ THU, APR 7 @ SUMMERHALL, EDINBURGH, UK^ FRI, APR 8 @ BEAT GENERATOR, DUNDEE, UK^ SAT, APR 9 @ THE LEMON TREE, ABERDEEN, UK^ SUN, APR 10 @ THE TOLBOOTH, STIRLING, UK^ * = Supporting Django Django ^ = Supported by Savage Mansion SAVAGE MANSION LIVE: SEE ABOVE DATES AROUND UK SPRING 2022 w/ PICTISH TRAIL SULKA LIVE: SAT, NOV 13 @ STAG AND DAGGER FESTIVAL, GLASGOW, UK ROMEO TAYLOR LIVE: AUG 27-29 @ JUPITER RISING FESTIVAL, EDINBURGH, UK BUSTA RHYMES: STILL ALIVE (AT TIME OF WRITING) ------------------- JOIN OUR FACEGROUP 1) Facebook is a social media website that's about to get landed with a big fat tax bill. 2) Join the Lost Map Loop Facegroup for chat / nonsense / ROFL. 3) Still ROFL. LISTEN TO THE WAYPOINTS PLAYLIST 1) ♫ Feeee-lin', so good today ♫ 2) ♫ Ain't nobody, standing in my way ♫ 3) ♫ Tomorrow, it's gonna be a price to pay ♫ 4) ♫ Way-points Playlist, so good today ♫   ------------------- NO CONTEXT ROMEO TAYLOR ------------------- IN THE SHOP NOW:

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