The only thing better than Tuff Love releasing yet another brand new EP - as they'll do on November 6 in the form of Dregs, which you can pre-order now from the Lost Map webshop - then it's Tuff Love bringing said brand new EP to your town and just bloody well playing songs from it right there in front of you thankyouverymuch. If you want to get face 2 face with Julie and Suse in the manner described, then you're in luck because they are very soon as in this November soon embarking on what is not called Tuff Love's Rad Action Super Fun Party Mega Tour Yeah IV, even if it probably should be called that now that we see all those exciting words side by side.
Read moreMeet Rozi Plain's 'Best Team' ...
As of 18th September, Rozi Plain's new album, Friend, has been officially released across mainland Europe - and so to celebrate we've got a video of her latest single, 'Best Team', to share with you. In the vid, Rozi forms quite a violent looking girl gang ... who interlock hands and threaten all and sundry with a wall-of-death. It's got Kate Stables from This Is The Kit in it, looking especially violent. Click READ MORE to watch the video ...
Read moreListen to the new single from Tuff Love's 3rd EP!
Completing their triumphant trio of introductory EPs, Julie & Suse (aka Tuff Love), are excited to announce their new EP Dregs, which is due Nov 6th via Lost Map Records. If you pre-order the Dregs EP from the Lost Map webshop right now, you'll receive an instant download of the lead single 'Duke'.
Read moreKID CANAVERAL'S XMAS BAUBLES TICKETS WERE ON SALE ... THEN SOLD OUT!
Kid Canaveral's 2015 edition of Christmas Baubles will be an intimate affair at Pilrig St Paul's Church Hall in Edinburgh on Saturday, December 19. Tickets have sold out.
Read moreSEAMUS FOGARTY GET HIS DUCKS IN A ROW
Seamus Fogarty's new EP Ducks and Drakes is out on September 4, 2015 on super rare-edition 12” vinyl with self-designed screen-printed sleeve (250 copies only) and as a BandCamp / iTunes download. For a limited time, you can purchase the 12" EP with the double CD of Seamo's debut album, God Damn You Mountain, at a special price of just £14.99.
It will be launched with a "launch" show, such is the custom, at Servants Jazz Quarters in London TONIGHT ... that's Tuesday, September 1. Tickets are on sale here
Read moreGASSSSP! IT'S A SUMMER SALE!
We have an utterly disgusting SALE on.
We’re selling a wide selection of incredible Lost Map items at frankly putrid prices.
Have a look at this page: www.lostmap.com/sale
You’ll get all nauseous at our discounts, dry heave at our reduced price bundles, and positively gag at the very thought of all the pounds you are prospectively saving. As if that wasn’t enough, the added 10% discount on all orders over £50 (if you enter the code SCORCHER at check-out) will damn near make you disgrace yourself all over your clean tile floor.
Look, don’t say we didn’t warn you. Be sure and clean up after you.
Oh, and you’re welcome.
Read moreHowlin' Fringe this weekend - last few tickets onsale now! Bands! Beers! Food! Comedy! Haircuts!
AKA 11 REASONS TO GO TO PENICUIK THIS WEEKEND
Howlin' Fringe is kicking off tomorrow, Saturday 8th August ... and we've got 11 reasons as to why you should visit Penicuik!
Read moreFULL LINE-UP FOR HOWLIN' FRINGE ANNOUNCED!
Slow Club, Seamus Fogarty, The Pictish Trail, Tuff Love, Randolph's Leap, Kid Canaveral, Rozi Plain and Supermoon: let's get that bit out of the way first, which is to say the full line-up for Lost Map's Howlin' Fringe! at Penicuik Town Hall on Saturday, August 8. Save for the pending additions of a few funny people ("comedians") TBA, anyway, assuming we can coax one or two of them away from the orgy of queuing and wasted paper that is the "Edinburgh Fringe". Our last remaining tickets are on sale at £18, so get buying now if you don't want to miss out.
Read moreSeamus Fogarty announced for Howlin' Fringe!, and new EP on the way too!
Soooo ... now that it's only a month until our Howlin' Fringe! all-day event takes place in Penicuik Town Hall (Saturday 8th August) it's about time we started announcing the line-up! Over the next few weeks, we'll drip-feed you with details of who is playing ... and the first act we can announce is our very own Seamus Fogarty.
Read moreShow us yer Howlin' Fringe!
Oh you greedy sods you. Since they went onsale two weeks back you've been snapping up tickets to our Howlin' Fringe! mini-festival at Penicuik Town Hall on Sat Aug 8 faster than we could say "wait, we've accidentally set the postage rate too low!", Early-Birds have long since flown out the door. There are another few advance tickets at £15 remaining, after that it's £18 full-price briefs all the way. Shop, dear friends - shop like the wind!
We've just started a new competition ... in the build up to the event, we'd like you to share photographs of some of your most howlin' hairdos - from the explosive bangs your sadistic mother styled for you for a school photograph as a gap-toothed sprog, to that ill-advised severe combover you sported when you were going through your teeny emo phase. Haircut catastrophes, dodgy doos, follical misfires, barber-based balls-ups - we'll take 'em all! ...
Read moreRozi Plain - new video, remixes and postcard!
Following the release of her spellbinding and critically-acclaimed new album Friend on Lost Map Records in May, London-based, Winchester-born singer-songwriter Rozi Plain presents her latest single 'Friend City'.
Released in postcard format as part of our unique PostMap series (snail-mailed physical postcards stamped with a download code), the single comes backed with four exclusive remixes by Pete Robertson (The Vaccines), Boxed In, our ol' pal Delifinger (OLO Worms) and Lost Map's own Seamus Fogarty. Hailed as “a delicious piece of wonky pop... utterly unique” by Clash Magazine, it's availalable to buy now, while the accompanying video directed by James Hankins (another OLO Worm!) is available to view and share here
Read moreTuff Love on tour in November!
Having just come off tour with Ride, and playing to a packed out tent at Field Day, Tuff Love are currently locked away in Suse's flat, putting the finishing touches to some new recordings. DO NOT DISTURB. We're not allowed to tell you any more about the sounds emanating from that room ...
BUT ... we can tell you that the band have just announced a string of dates in November. They're playing Sheffield (9th), Leiceister (10th), Brighton (11th), London (12th), Hebden Bridge (13th), Manchester (14th) and York (15th) ... with more dates to be announced later.
But before all that, the Tuffs have got a jam-packed summer of festivals ...
Read moreLost Map's Howlin' Fringe! →
Lost Map Records are thrilled to announce a brand new hairy live music and comedy all-day happening for summer 2015: Lost Map's Howlin' Fringe! at Penicuik Town Hall in Penicuik, Midlothian on Saturday, August 8, 2015.
Tickets go on sale Thursday 21st May. For more info, click here: http://lostmap.com/howlinfringe
Read moreRozi Plain: Marc Riley session, UK tour and imminent album release!
On Monday, May 4th, Rozi Plain's new album Friend is officially released.
You can pre-order the album right now, on CD, LP or as part of a special t-shirt + CD/Vinyl bundle. When it arrives, with the gentle drop of a needle on lovely thick black spinning vinyl, your world will becomes a calmer, gentler, better place. So let's PAAAAAARTTYYYYYYYY ...
The Rozz-master General is in session for the ever-charming Marc Riley on BBC 6Music TONIGHT from 7pm (be sure to tune in! http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00c72y1) ... and then headed on tour around the country!
Read moreINSECT HEROES ARE OUT OF THIS (BEAUTIFUL) WORLD
Lost Map's leading (only) psycho-tropical pop band Insect Heroes are not of this universe.
Latest single, ‘Beautiful World’ is a desolately beautiful garage-psych ballad that sings to the death grip intensity of true romance amid the early-morning dregs of a party, with a chorus none more toxically euphoric than “I’m so happy, I could die”. Frontman George Thomas, has put together a video of reverse tree-surgery, in which trees regenerate around a colour-flipped city-scape ...
Beautiful World has yet another incarnation ... If you head over to our CLUMPS section, you can tune in to BBC Radio 4000 and get your ears around Beautiful World, a podcast/radio-play performed, and put together for your ear-hole enjoyment by the band.
Read moreLost Map's Record Store Day Cavalcade of Joyfulness
It's Record Store Day this Saturday (18th April) - a day where music fans, and queueing enthusiasts, joyfully gather together in one big conga-line. You can purchase rare re-pressed records, new depressed records, scratch'n'sniff cassettes and talk to people directly in front of you, and directly behind you, in an orderly formation. It's a celebration of music and the people who like music.
Ladies and gents, for Record Store Day this year, Lost Map brings to you ... a split 7" single from Tuff Love and Lazy Day, and a 12" live LP from Randolph's Leap.
GRAT 00°5 - Tuff Love / Lazy Day 'Groucho' b/w 'Portrait', 7" + download GRAT 00°6 - Randolph's Leap Most Clunky, 12" live LPRead more
Rozi Plain - Friend - Available to pre-order now!
Rozi Plain, one of the most unique and original voices in alt-folk, has a spellbinding new album - Friend - which is released on May 4, 2015.
You can now pre-order the album on CD, LP (with download), or as part of a special t-shirt bundle from the Lost Map webshop ...
Read moreTuff Love still love you - new RSD single, and Toothbrush Tour!
Hot on the heels of their Dross E.P., released in February ... Tuff Love have a brand new, exclusive single, 'Groucho' - a süper loved-up blast of woozy harmony-driven scuzz-pop, which premiered over on The Line Of Best Fit earlier this week.
The song is being released in select independent shops for Record Store Day, as part of a split 7" with Lazy Day. Tuff Love are also out on tour, starting TOMORROW (Thursday April 2nd) IN LONDON, so be sure to go and see 'em - click READ MORE for dates and ticket links ...
Read moreJosie Long - Buy her new Tape and T-shirts!
Josie Long joins the Lost Map family, with two hilarious comedy shows collected on limited edition cassette tape / download. New t-shirts also in stock!
Fresh from a UK tour supported by The Pictish Trail, Josie Long (aka the official Funniest and Nicest Person You Will Ever Meet Ever™) has released a limited edition oceanic-blue C-90 cassette tape - yes, a tape, remember tapes? - on oor humble label as part of our LOST CAT series.
It doesn't feature a collection of Josie's lesser-know bassoon jams (much as we wish it did) but instead two of her incredibly funny live shows, 2010's Be Honourable, and 2011's The Future Is Another Place. We've also got some new t-shirts in stock, designed by Josie's favourite illustrators ...
Read moreJosie Long added to ICDTTM bill!
If you are a fan of stand-up comic Josie Long, then you are not alone. Because Lost Map loves her, too. And we're overwhelmed with excitement to announce that she'll be joining us at Glasgow's CCA on Saturday March 21st, as part of the Randolph's Leap music & comedy bonanza, I Can't Dance To This Music III.
NOT ONLY THAT ... Josie has become a full-fledged member of the Lost Map family, as we are releasing a limited edition blue C-90 cassette tape (!) featuring two of her live shows - 2010's Be Honourable, and 2011's The Future Is Another Place - as part of our LOST CAT series ... alongside a range of brand new Josie Long t-shirts. PHWOAAAR. We'll be selling these through our web-shop soon ... but you'll also be able to grab 'em if you come to I Can't Dance To This Music III.
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