WAYPOINTS #188
02/12/21
"LET THE WHOLE YEAR MELT LIKE SNOW"
FEATURING: BAS JAN, MARANTA, GORDON MCINTYRE, HERBERT POWELL, PICTISH TRAIL, SULKA, THE SWEET BABY JESUS + MORE
POSTMAP CLUB XMAS SHOPPING SPECIAL
– ALL MEMBERS GET 15% OFF EVERYTHING IN THE LOST MAP WEBSHOP (EXCEPT CERTAIN GIG TICKETS + SUBSCRIPTION PRODUCTS)
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Christmas is still as yet not omi-cancelled (information correct at time of writing), and therefore WE ARE SO YULE-PÜMPED to welcome you to our brand new festive double-banger this weekend in the fair cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow. Our first live event(s) in over two years, Lost Map's Christmas Humbug welcomes pals from near and far for two nights of live music, DJ sets, revelry, mischief and assorted merriment, with a different line-up each night. Do one, do both, do neither (don't do neither). Do Christmas right. Do it with yer old pals, Lost Map. Do us. Get us done.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3 @ SUMMERHALL, EDINBURGH:
CALLUM EASTER (SYSTEM ALBUM LAUNCH), JENNY MOORE'S MYSTIC BUSINESS, GORDON MCINTYRE, MARANTA + EHFM DJs
8pm-1am
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4 @ MONO, GLASGOW:
HERBERT POWELL (COMEBACK GIG), JENNY MOORE'S MYSTIC BUSINESS, SAVAGE MANSION, SULKA, HAPPY SPENDY
+ FREE LOVE DJs
6.30pm-1am
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BAS JAN R BACK BABY YEAH!
Glorious harmonies! Big wonky choruses! Screaming electric violin solos! Songs about interesting things like sex cults and updating your profile picture! Is it the return of the mighty Bas Jan? Baby U Know it! Available on digital platforms now, ‘Vision of Change’ is the second single – following the release of ‘You Have Bewitched Me’ in August – taken from the forthcoming new Bas Jan album, due for release on January 28, 2022, and available for pre-order now. It’s the follow-up to their critically acclaimed 2018 debut album Yes I Jan, which was hailed for its “messy majesty” (9/10, Uncut) and “beautifully fractured art-pop” (★★★★, Mojo).
Bas Jan were co-founded in 2015 by songwriter, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Serafina Steer. The band now features Emma Smith (Jarv Is, Meilyr Jones, Seamus Fogarty and founder member of the Elysian Quartet) on violin, bass and electronics, Rachel Horwood (Trash Kit, Bamboo, Jenny Moore’s Mystic Business) on drums and Charlie Stock on electric violin.
“Baby U Know marks a consolidation of Bas Jan as a four piece,” says Serafina. “Making the album represented a coming together out of the solitudes of 2020, carving out the possibility of a future for the band at a time when Brexit and Everything cast all those things very much into doubt or, at best, made them a very low priority. The time constraints of having to finish the record before one of the band entered third trimester of pregnancy, and with a winter lockdown pending, probably added a rawness to these recordings. It’s kind of a pragmatically hopeful record.” |
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LAST XMAS POSTAGE DATES
1) Santa, we are afraid to report (look away now children) is not real. Absolute b*llocks. Lies.
2) What is real, is the postal service.
3) Final dates for posting from the Lost Map web shop:
RoW: Monday, December 6
EUROPE: Friday, December 10
UK: Friday, December 17
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LISTEN TO THE DECEMBER LOST MAP PODCAST
1) It's Easter, at Christmas.
2) It's Callum Easter, in the December edition of the Lost Map Podcast, available to listen to now.
3) Also featuring a First Gig Worst Gig from Gordon McIntyre, an introduction to Maranta, and your host, Pictish Trail.
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FINAL BANDCAMP FRIDAY
1) As we always say after eating a family sized tin of Quality Street alone in the car outside Lidl, "all good things must end".
2) So too Bandcamp Friday. Last one is December 3.
3) Shop Lost Map! 10% off everything for PostMap Club members.
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GIVE THE GIFT OF POSTMAP THIS CHRISTMAS
FEAT. NEW MUSIC FROM MARANTA, GORDON MCINTYRE AND FIRESTATIONS
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December marks the final installment of Lost Map's PostMap Subscription service for 2021, and thus it's a suitably seasonal feast, packed with youth and Christmas cheer. Before we get to that, remember that you can give the gift of Lost Map this Christmas by ordering one of our PostMap Club Gift Memberships for a friend, loved one or mortal enemy. Just pop us an email and we'll let you know the options (our address is club@lostmap.com).
In the PostMap sack for December:
- Maranta: New to Lost Map, an exciting young Edinburgh synth-pop duo whose new single 'Stop Pretending' is a politically charged bittersweet disco banger about disillusionment, large-scale social failure and ecological crisis. A party anthem for the apocalypse. Not v Christmassy but still v v good!
- Gordon McIntyre: A Christmas card of three wintry/festive delights from the singer-songwriter behind Edinburgh indie-pop cult heroes Ballboy. Contains the tracks 'Berlin', 'Me and You and the Ghosts of Christmas Past' ( also available as part of the Joyzine Advent Calendar) and a cover of the Field Mice's 'Below The Stars'. More new solo material from Gordon coming on Lost Map next year!
- Firestations: more new music from the London dream-pop outfit swiftly following the Automatic Tendencies EP project, 'Reflection Spells' is a melancholy meditation on young love and doomed romance, arriving just in time for the season of happiness and good will.
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A round-up of the 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.
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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THE LOST MAP GIGS'N'TOURS MEGAMIX
ALABASTER DEPLUME LIVE:
THU, DEC 2 @ THE JAM JAR, BRISTOL, UK
SAT, DEC 4 @ BANK OF IDEAS, FALMOUTH, UK
FRI, DEC 10 @ THE COLOUR FACTORY, LONDON, UK [TICKETS]
CALLUM EASTER LIVE:
FRI, DEC 3 @ LOST MAP'S CHRISTMAS HUMBUG,
SUMMERHALL, EDINBURGH [TICKETS]
CLÉMENTINE MARCH LIVE:
MON, MAR 21 @ THE LIBRARY, OXFORD*
TUE, MAR 22 @ ROUGH TRADE, NOTTINGHAM*
WED, MAR 23 @ FULFORD ARMS, YORK*
THU, MAR 24 @ BOBIK'S, NEWCASTLE*
FRI, MAR 25 @ THE OLD HAIRDRESSER'S, GLASGOW*
SAT, MAR 26 @ WILDERNESS RECORDS, MANCHESTER*
SUN, MAR 27 @ ROUGH TRADE, BRISTOL*
* = Co-headline show w/ Molly Linen
FIRESTATIONS LIVE:
FRI, JAN 21 @ PAPER DRESS VINTAGE, LONDON (w/ THE LEAF LIBRARY) [TICKETS]
HAPPY SPENDY LIVE:
SAT, DEC 4 @ LOST MAP'S CHRISTMAS HUMBUG,
MONO, GLASGOW [TICKETS]
HERBERT POWELL LIVE:
SAT, DEC 4 @ LOST MAP'S CHRISTMAS HUMBUG,
MONO, GLASGOW [TICKETS]
JENNY MOORE'S MYSTIC BUSINESS LIVE:
FRI, DEC 3 @ LOST MAP'S CHRISTMAS HUMBUG,
SUMMERHALL, EDINBURGH [TICKETS]
SAT, DEC 4 @ LOST MAP'S CHRISTMAS HUMBUG,
MONO, GLASGOW [TICKETS]
SAT, DEC 11 @ DAYLIGHT MUSIC, ST JOHN ON BETHNAL GREEN, LONDON (LUNCHTIME SHOW w/ PICTISH TRAIL AND MOLLY LINEN)
MOLLY LINEN LIVE:
FRI, DEC 10 @ AVALON CAFE, LONDON
SAT, DEC 11 @ DAYLIGHT MUSIC, ST JOHN ON BETHNAL GREEN, LONDON (LUNCHTIME SHOW w/ PICTISH TRAIL AND JENNY MOORE'S MYSTIC BUSINESS)
FRI, DEC 17 @ THE MOTH CLUB, LONDON [SUPPORTING WITHERED HAND]
SAT, MAR 19 @ THE ROSSI BAR, BRIGHTON
SUN, MAR 20 @ FOLKLORE, LONDON
MON, MAR 21 @ THE LIBRARY, OXFORD*
TUE, MAR 22 @ ROUGH TRADE, NOTTINGHAM*
WED, MAR 23 @ FULFORD ARMS, YORK*
THU, MAR 24 @ BOBIK'S, NEWCASTLE*
FRI, MAR 25 @ THE OLD HAIRDRESSER'S, GLASGOW*
SAT, MAR 26 @ WILDERNESS RECORDS, MANCHESTER*
SUN, MAR 27 @ ROUGH TRADE, BRISTOL*
* = Co-headline show w/ Clémentine March
PICTISH TRAIL LIVE:
(TICKET LINKS FOR ALL SHOWS HERE)
SAT, DEC 11 @ DAYLIGHT MUSIC, ST JOHN ON BETHNAL GREEN, LONDON (LUNCHTIME SHOW w/ JENNY MOORE'S MYSTIC BUSINESS AND MOLLY LINEN)
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)
^ = Supported by Savage Mansion
SAVAGE MANSION LIVE:
SAT, DEC 4 @ LOST MAP'S CHRISTMAS HUMBUG,
MONO, GLASGOW [TICKETS]
+ SEE ABOVE DATES AROUND UK SPRING 2022 w/ PICTISH TRAIL
SULKA LIVE:
SAT, DEC 4 @ LOST MAP'S CHRISTMAS HUMBUG,
MONO, GLASGOW [TICKETS]
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JOIN THE LOST MAP LOOP
1) Facebook is a social media website where you can meet guys like me, Cliff (81), for friendship and maybe more this Christmas (must live in Barbados area).
2) Likes: mistletoe, wine, tennis, God. Dislikes: the BBC.
3) Find me on the Lost Map Loop Facebook group!
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LISTEN TO THE WAYPOINTS PLAYLIST
1) ♫ Chriiiiiistmas time ♫
2) ♫ Impersonating Grimes ♫
3) ♫ Twitter account sus-pended for a period of time ♫
LISTEN
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