WAYPOINTS #183
7/07/21
"YOU'RE NOT GOING DOWN WITH THE SUN IN YOUR EYES"
FEAT: MOLLY LINEN, A.R. PINEWOOD, FIRESTATIONS, CALLUM EASTER, PICTISH TRAIL, GARY NUMAN + MORE
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MOLLY LINEN'S NEW EP
Waving her hands in the air like she just don't care (she does care, she cares a lot), Molly Linen is back with more fine music from a forthcoming brand new EP. A lovely, hazy, bucolic, meditative lullaby that makes us want to take off all of our clothes, lay down in some tall grass and have a nice relaxing cry, 'The Day Starts' is available throughout the month of July as part of Lost Map’s PostMap Club subscription service (backed with bonus track ‘Hold’), as well as via digital platforms from July 8. Molly, who is more sophisticated than us, describes the song as “imagining a day in the life of a poet,” and "an attempt at capturing memories of long summer days spent in the dream-like warmth of my grandparent’s garden.” We're sorry about the taking off our clothes thing, Molly.
‘The Day Starts’ is the latest song to be previewed from Molly’s stunning forthcoming brand new EP Days Awake, which will be released on August 27, 2021 on eco-friendly 10” vinyl as well as via digital services – it's available for pre-order now (discount for PostMap Club members, see yr latest email). We should warn you that this EP – which contains the also extremely lovely song ‘A Lot To Give’ – comes with an extreme loveliness alert . It may cause you to do unexpectedly lovely things like smile lovely smiles at strangers, pet lovely dogs, tend lovingly to your houseplants or eat a lovely all-new McDonald's plant-based McPlant ™ sandwich. You, sir/madam, are lovin' it. |
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JULY'S LOST MAP PODCAST
1) "There's sh*t everywhere.
Human sh*t."
2) Not our words, but the words of Pictish Trail, in another thrilling segment of the Lost Map Podcast.
3) July ep also feat. chat with Adam Ross AKA A.R. Pinewood + First Gig Worst Gig with Rozi Plain and Kate Stables AKA This Is The Kit.
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GET UP
FOR JUPITER RISING
1) Like bread, erections and Christ, music festivals are rising, again.
2) Join Pictish Trail, Romeo Taylor, Rachel Aggs, Callum Easter, Alabaster dePlume + more @ Lost Map co-curated Jupiter Rising, near Edinburgh, Aug 28-29.
3) Tickets on sale now
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FIRESTATIONS' NEW EP
"You are stronger and tougher than you think," sing dream-pop dreamboats Firestations at the start of their new single 'Sun In Your Eyes' and while we know these words to be righteous and true, we can't help and hang our head in shame remembering that time we were in the Co-Op late one Thursday night shopping for a Bombay Bad Boy Pot Noodle ™ and attendant loo roll, and some feral children were hanging around and upon spotting our scraggly, haunted, unshaven features they all pointed at us and laughed and one of them proclaimed "hey mister, MOUSTACHEyou a question!!!" and, reader, we ran straight home and how we sobbed.
That lyric and other lyrics – indeed all of the lyrics – can be seen/heard by watching the lyric video for 'Sun In Your Eyes', which has been expertly put together by Bart, our own in-house video guru, albeit he was at the time in his own house and not our house meaning this one was technically done out-house (confusing, sorry). The track is taken from Firestations' hotttttt dawg new EP Pixel Wilderness, which is available to pre-order now ahead of its release on on August 6 as a limited-edition CDR with exclusive hand-made artwork. Pixel Wilderness represents the third and final installment in Firestations’ epic EP series Automatic Tendencies. A trilogy of thrillogies so hot it measures 1 MILLION Scoville units on the chilli heat scale . Incidentally the same heat as a super spicy snack made by a maverick Lancs man who pimped his Bombay Bad Boy Pot Noodle ™ with chilli powder and flakes from five ultra hot chillies as part of a charity challenge, landing him a job as the brand’s "spice consultant". Absolute scenes.
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THIS T-SHIRT KILLS FASCISTS
1) Alabaster dePlume is doing a new ltd edition run of his classic 'I Was Gonna Fight Fascism, But' tee.
2) It will help fund an EXCITING secret new project TBA soon (not radical communism, sorry).
3) On pre-order for one week commencing July 12.
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JUNE POSTMAP CLUB FEAT. A.R. PINEWOOD
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"A.R. friend's electric" sang Gary Numan in a hit of 1979, not long before he was arrested on suspicion of Cold War espionage (true story). While many at the time naturally presumed the pastel-faced synth-pop aviator to be high on a hash bong to come out with such hallucinatory claptrap, to him it all made perfect sense. Because the electric friend Numan had in mind was A.R. Pinewood, later to become the world's first and indeed only heartbroken cyber-cowboy country singer, of Lost Map Records (us) fame. A mere cyber-pup back then, little larger than a family-sized toaster oven, A.R. and Gary would fly off on all kinds of adventures together in Gary's beloved two-seater light Cessna, getting into all sorts of hilarious scrapes, including once being detained after accidentally overflying a Soviet submarine base (true story, look it up). Gary Numan of course grew up to become the famous actor Gary Oldman, but he and A.R remain great friends (electric) to this day and still exchange cards for Christmas and Hanukkah.
A.R. Pinewood (who also goes by the name Adam) you will be delighted to know has recorded a brand new mini-album called Moonfire, which is available NOW in full to all current and about-to-become PostMap Club subscribers (it'll also probably be available to purchase on Bandcamp at some point too, TBC). Eight tracks of auto-tuned automaton cowboy lovin', it's the follow up to 2020's superb No Life LP ( still on sale now), and it finds our artificially semi-intelligent hero on a voyage through... outer space! A frontier further than even Gary Numan dared go beyond at his very, very highest – both in the altitude sense and the hash bong sense (and indeed both senses at once). Gary Oldman, on the other hand, has several times been to space, in films including The Fifth Element (1997) and Lost in Space (1998).
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Also baked into the delicious PostMap Club pie 4 July is the new single 'The Day Starts' by Molly Linen (see above), and three exclusive bonus tracks by Callum Easter including an "alt version" of his forthcoming single 'System', the title track of his forthcoming new album. 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 August'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.
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SOME BIG NEW PICTISH TRAIL GIGS ON SALE NOW
1) Open up the hidden door, children, what's inside? It's Pictish Trail, doing a big fat shi...
2) ...gig, a big fat gig! As part of the Hidden Door Festival 2021 at Granton Gasworks, September 15.
3) Tix also on sale for PT supporting Hot Chip in Glasgow next June!
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THE LOST MAP GIGS'N'TOURS MEGAMIX
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
WED, SEP 15 @ HIDDEN DOOR FESTIVAL, GRANTON GASWORKS, 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^
FRI, JUN 3, 2022 @ JUNCTION 1, GLASGOW, UK (SUPPORTING HOT CHIP) [TICKETS]
* = 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
GARY NUMAN / OLDMAN:
STILL ALIVE (AT TIME OF WRITING)
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JOIN OUR FACEGROUP
1) Facebook is a social media website which you're 100% quitting soon because nobody uses it anymore and it SPIES on you. You've even deleted your profile pic.
2) Join the Lost Map Loop Facegroup for chat / nonsense / self-delusion.
3) Still on Facebook aren't you?
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LISTEN TO THE WAYPOINTS PLAYLIST
1) ♫ Bom-bay Bad Boy ♫
2) ♫ What'cha gonna do? ♫
3) ♫ What'cha gonna do when they come for you? ♫
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