WayPoints #217

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WAYPOINTS #217 15/05/24 "I WAS BIDING MY TIME" FEATURING: AFTERLANDS, KINBOTE, BLIND YEO, FLO LINES, SUSAN BEAR, AMY MAY ELLIS, PICTISH TRAIL + MORE AFTERLANDS' DEBUT ALBUM WE ARE THE ANIMALS IN THE NIGHT IS OUT NOW STREAM AND SHARE SESSION PERFORMANCE OF 'WHALE SONG' BUY WE ARE THE ANIMALS IN THE NIGHT ON 12" VINYL It feels like so very long ago now that we bumped into Davey from Afterlands mid-pandemic in a Sainsbury's™ car park and heard all about the exciting new songs he was working on with Rick Anthony AKA Rick Redbeard AAKA Rick from The Phantom Band. At that time their fledgling recording project didn't even have a name (let's call it Beforelands). And yet we were intrigued. Mainly we were hungry for the Sainsbury's Indian Takeaway Chicken Tikka, Jalfrezi, Rice & Naans Ready Meal for 2™ we'd just purchased. But also we were intrigued. Fast forward some years later, and Afterlands' magnificient debut album We Are The Animals In The Night is finally out in the world via yer old pals Lost Map Records and being bought and consumed as voraciously by listeners as were the eight onion bhajis we ate that fateful day. If not so much the long since out-of-date jar of mango chutney, which is still putrefying disgustingly in the back corner of the fridge, in what has become a kind of ad hoc home science project. Apt to warm you from the inside hotter than a fiery chicken pakora, We Are The Animals In The Night received a glowing ★★★★ review from The Scotsman, and got a nice plug from Gideon Coe on BBC6 Music the other night. Get a taste of Afterlands doing it live by watching them perform the stunning noirish ballad 'Whale Song' – featuring Jill O'Sullivan (Sparrow and the Workshop / Jill Lorean) on vocals and violin – as part of a Lost Map Session filmed at Pianodrome in Edinburgh here. The rest of the session is available exclusively to subscribers to Lost Map's PostMap Club subscription service. Catch Afterlands on tour in Glasgow, Aberdeen and Edinburgh next month, then in London supporting Pictish Trail in September (all dates/details below). You bring the poppadums, we'll bring the chutney ☣️ ------------------- WATCH AND SHARE THE NEW KINBOTE VIDEO From Krull (1983) to Highlander II: The Quickening (1991) the Lethal Weapon franchise, Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000), Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005), and all of the Jason Bourne films except the last one (rubbish), we quite simply love great filmmaking. Which is why Matt Gibb AKA Kinbote is a man true to our own heart. A cinephile who lives for the expressive rush of the perfecty framed shot, profoundly human characterisation and the romance, drama and poetry of the screen. To promote his recent, really amazing new album Hemisphere – which you can buy now on CD with zine from the Lost Map web shop dot com – Matt together with other filmmaking friends made a video for every single song on the record. He screened them all live last month, as part of a special audio-visual launch show for Hemisphere – and he'll be doing more of the same in future at dates TBA. In the meantime, you can watch one of the videos, for the track 'Thousand Smiles'. In which a ghostly figure stalks a barren Scottish countryside, between trippy animated segments where the landscape turns into a kind of quasi-Biblical geological soup replete with cool lightning. It could use a couple of guys fighting with massive swords, but otherwise 10/10 no notes. ------------------- THE MAY LOST MAP PODCAST 1) Hey speaking of Afterlands, hear them talking about their new album on the new Lost Map podcast. 2) Also feat. talking from Johnny / Laura about e.g. lurking, hair, people called Ian. You can skip those bits. 3) Also feat. new music from Amy May Ellis, Flo Lines and Blind Yeo.  NEW SUSAN BEAR ALBUM COMING SOON 1) It's called 'Algorithmic Mood Music' and we can promise you that it is absolutely good music. 2) Out June 28 on limited-edition LP and CD, available to pre-order now. 3) Have a lil' taste by listening to a new remix of 'Drift' by SHEARS.  T-SHIRTS R BACK IN TIME FOR SUMMER 1) Summer is here which ofc means: drink 11 lagers, whip off your T-shirt and twirl it madly around your head singing Nelly's 'Hot In Herre' (sic). 2) But first you'll need a T-shirt and we can help with that. 3) Lost Map black/yellow/green tees available to order, £22. ------------------- MAY POSTMAP CLUB FEAT. BLIND YEO + FLO LINES JOIN OUR CLUB STREAM AND SHARE 'OTHERSIDE' BY BLIND YEO STREAM AND SHARE 'I WAS BIDING MY TIME' BY FLO LINES There's been so much exciting new music coming Lost Map's way in recent months and the May PostMap Club song dümp proves it by featuring not just one but two brand new signings. The first comes all the way from down there, i.e. Cornwall, in the shape of eclectic cosmic folk collective Blind Yeo. Led by singer, songwriter and guitarist Will Greenham and featuring a shifting cast of other players, the project emerged from a creatively explosive residency at the newly opened Cornish Bank in 2022 – a vibrant not-for-profit community arts space in Falmouth at the heart of a thriving underground Cornish scene . It has since grown into a psychedelic carnival of sound best experienced live, as Blind Yeo's memorable set at Lost Map's Xmas Humbug in Edinburgh in December proved. Their debut single 'Otherside' is a six-and-a-half-minute blur of motorik beats, rave synths and jagged electric guitar runs. They're playing a bunch of festivals this summer – see below for details. Also new to Lost Map is Flo Lines. No relation to Flo Rida, she's a London-based musician and artist who introduces herself intriguingly with The only thing left is everything EP – a pair of patiently searching, yearning, droning alt-folk songs between them lasting an immersive 12 minutes. The EP documents the steady development of Flo’s fascinating, collage-like approach to music making, informed by her background in radio production and audio-visual art. Combining sounds both found and played, she blends compositions from different takes captured in different spaces both indoors and out, to create slow sonic medleys that transport the listener through different places and feelings. Likened by a friend to “the feeling of ‘cold wind on your face’”, the song ‘I was biding my time’ is available to stream and share now. Flo will play an EP launch on Wednesday, June 12 at Avalon Cafe in London. Also included in this month's PostMap Club: Afterlands: Lost Map Session Four songs from the We Are The Animals In The Night LP recorded exclusively for PostMap Club members at a chilly Pianodrome in Edinburgh, filmed by Mario Cruzado, with sound by Robyn Dawson. 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. - CD! All new physical members get the free double CD Ten Years Of Lost Map included with their first mailout.    - 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. -------------------  AMY MAY ELLIS: ON TOUR + NEW REMIXES 1) It's one year since we released Amy's debut album Over Ling And Bell and it's still a) wonderful and, b) available. 2) Catch her on tour with big Willy Mason (dates below). 3) Listen to new remixes by Rob Pemberton and Delifinger. ------------------- THE LOST MAP GIGS'N'TOURS MEGAMIX AFTERLANDS LIVE: FRI, JUN 7 @ HUG AND PINT, GLASGOW * SAT, JUN 8 @ THE TUNNELS, ABERDEEN * THU, JUN 13 @ LEITH DEPOT, EDINBURGH * SAT, SEP 28 @ KING’S PLACE, LONDON (SUPPORTING PICTISH TRAIL) * = w/ Jill Lorean + Rick Redbeard ALABASTER DEPLUME LIVE: FRI, JUN 14 @ HOUSE OF MUSIC, BUDAPEST, HU SAT, JUN 15 @ NEW SYNAGOGUE, ŽILINA , SK FRI, JUL 19 @ KIRJURINLUOTO, PORI, FI FRI, JUL 26 @ VELODROM, BRNO, CZ SUN, JUL 28 @ GIARDINO SCOTTO, PISA, IT THU, AUG 1 @ MUZIEKGEBOUW, AMSTERDAMSE BOS, NL FRI, AUG 2 @ SECOLARE FESTIVAL, CORATO, IT SUN, AUG 4 @ LUPO 340, CESENATICO, IT SAT, AUG 10 @ OPENLUCHTTHEATER, ANTWERP, BE SUN, AUG 11 @ HOUGHTON FESTIVAL, NORFOLK, GB SAT, AUG 24 @ RALLY FESTIVAL, SOUTHWARK PARK, LONDON AMY MAY ELLIS LIVE: WED, MAY 15 @ WHERE ELSE?, MARGATE* THU, MAY 16 @ PORTLAND ARMS, CAMBRIDGE* FRI, MAY 17 @ MOTH CLUB, LONDON* SAT, MAY 18 @ MOTH CLUB, LONDON* * = supporting Willy Mason BALLBOY LIVE: SAT, JUL 13 @ INDIEFJORD, BJØRKE, NO BLIND YEO LIVE: SAT, JUNE 1 @ GREAT ESTATE FESTIVAL, CORNWALL SAT, JULY 13 @ TROPICAL PRESSURE FESTIVAL, CORNWALL SAT, JULY 27 @ CORNISH BANK SUMMER CAMP, TREFFUSIS ESTATE, FALMOUTH SUN, SEP 1 @ SMUGGLERS FESTIVAL, KENT FLO LINES LIVE: WED, JUN 12 @ AVALON CAFE, LONDON FREE LOVE LIVE: SAT, JUN 29 @ BIG CITY FESTIVAL, QUEEN'S PARK, GLASGOW (w/ MOGWAI, SLOWDIVE + MORE) FRI, JUL 5 @ MARANTA PRESENTS: MICROSTERIA, KELBURN GARDEN PARTY, KELBURN CASTLE, LARGS SAT, JUL 20 @ THE SPEYSIDE FANTASTIC PARTY, OLD BRIDGE INN, AVIEMORE (w/ PICTISH TRAIL) GORDON MACINTYRE LIVE: SUN, JUL 14 @ INDIEFJORD, BJØRKE, NO MARANTA LIVE: FRI, JUL 5 @ MARANTA PRESENTS: MICROSTERIA, KELBURN GARDEN PARTY, KELBURN CASTLE, LARGS PICTISH TRAIL LIVE: FRI, MAY 31 @ LEITH FRANKLIN ACADEMICAL BEIGE CRICKET CLUB, EDINBURGH (FULL BAND, w/ SPECIAL GUESTS TBA) [SOLD OUT] SAT, JUN 1 @ WEST MALVERN SOCIAL CLUB, MALVERN THU, JUL 18 @ POP MUTATIONS FESTIVAL, GLASGOW (SOLO) FRI, JUL 19 @ THE ATTIC, TOLBOOTH, STIRLING (SOLO) SAT, JUL 20 @ THE SPEYSIDE FANTASTIC PARTY, OLD BRIDGE INN, AVIEMORE (SOLO; w/ FREE LOVE) SUN, AUG 18 @ GREEN MAN FESTIVAL, WALES [SOLD OUT] WED, SEP 25 @ THE LENDING ROOM, LEEDS * THU, SEP 26 @ COMMON GROUND, OXFORD * FRI, SEP 27 @ GREEN DOOR STORE, BRIGHTON * SAT, SEP 28 @ KING'S PLACE, LONDON (w/ AFTERLANDS) * SUN, SEP 29 @ THE PRINCE ALBERT, STROUD (SOLO) MON, SEP 30 @ THE ENGINE ROOM, NORTH SHIELDS (SOLO) FRI, OCT 4 @ LEITH FRANKLIN ACADEMICAL BEIGE CRICKET CLUB, EDINBURGH (w/ SPECIAL GUESTS TBA) [SOLD OUT] * FRI, OCT 25 @ THE CROWN HOTEL, NANTWICH (SOLO) * = Special stripped-back shows, accompanied by Semay Wu on cello, Gillian Fleetwood on harp, and Susan Bear on keys/bass SDF LIVE: FRI, JUL 5 @ MARANTA PRESENTS: MICROSTERIA, KELBURN GARDEN PARTY, KELBURN CASTLE, LARGS SUSAN BEAR LIVE: FRI, JUL 5 @ NICE'N'SLEAZY, GLASGOW (PART OF FANTASTIC MAN CLUBNIGHT) IN THE SHOP NOW:

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