S5 07: July 2023 - Firestations + more

July 1, 2023 Pictish Trail

A brand new hour of LOST MAP fun times, with PICTISH TRAIL and LAURA, chatting about upcoming gigs and all the latest releases through our POSTMAP CLUB... as well as a natter with FIRESTATIONS about the making of their excellent new album.

Hooray. It’s another episode of the Lost Map Podcast! LAURA opens today’s show with some light mastication, before indulging into full-on manifestation. What does that mean? Who knows, but PICTISH TRAIL is near by to mop up the juice with his super-dry chat about tax thresholds.

Thankfully there’s also some music. We’ve got tunes from MARTHA FFION, MARANTA plus the exclusive first play of the debut single from new collective band LOST MAP presents WEIRD WAVE.

This month’s featured interview is with Walthamstow’s shoegaze “unhappy slowcore” merchants, FIRESTATIONS. Mike, Laura and Martin talks us through the birth of the band, the songwriting process, and the making of their new album, Thick Terrain - which is out 14th July on limited edition vinyl.

To support what we do at Lost Map, you should join our club - PostMap Club! Membership starts at just £3, and you'll receive printed postcards delivered to your door every month, containing download codes for new music from the label. You'll receive a badge, too - as well as a newsletter and a discount of 15% on all records, CDs, tapes and other merch in our webshop. Digital & gift memberships are also available. Visit lostmap.com/club for details on how to join.

NEW MEMBERS (including Gift Subscriptions) during July 2023, will receive a bumper pack of postcards + all three releases in this the most recent VISITATIONS series, by Emma Kupa, Makeness and Alliyah Enyo.

EPISODE TRACKLISTING:

1. Martha Ffion - ‘What They Said About You'

2. Maranta - ’Carbon Copy’ (clip)

3. Firestations - clips of Thick Terrain

4. Firestations - ’Travel Trouble’

5. Lost Map presents Weird Wave - ‘Astral Difficulties / Weird Wave'

SOME INCREDIBLY USEFUL LINKS:

Join PostMap Club: lostmap.com/club

Lost In London

Firestations - Thick Terrain

Lost Map presents Weird Wave LP

Martha Ffion - The Wringer

If you’d like to get in touch with us, plop us an email: club@lostmap.com

This episode of the Lost Map Podcast was presented by Pictish Trail and Laura Doherty, edited and with additional production from Joe Cormack.

S3 10: August 2021 - PostMap Podcast, w/ Firestations + more

August 1, 2021 Pictish Trail

Trying to get his head back into festival-mode, PICTISH TRAIL is here to guide your ears through this month’s releases on Lost Map Records - including the return single from post-punk surrealists BAS JAN, the debut solo material from Savage Mansion’s ANGUS JOHNSON, and some hypnotic chanting from JENNY MOORE’S MYSTIC BUSINESS.

Laura and Bart give us another instalment of their LOST CHATS, inviting LAURA COPSEY from FIRESTATIONS’ into the hot seat this time - with some scintillating questions from Smash Hits Magazine, and a wee bit of chat about Firestations new Pixel Wilderness EP.

And in this month’s FIRST GIG WORST GIG we meet ANGUS JOHNSON (aka Craig Angus), who tells us of his first gig as a punter, and his worst gig as a performer.

EPISODE TRACKLISTING:

1. Clip of Bas Jan - ’You Have Bewitched Me’

2. Clip of Angus Johnson - ’Trouble Of Mine'

3. Jenny Moore’s Mystic Business - 'He Earns Enough'

4. Clips of Firestations Pixel Wilderness EP and ‘Machine Country’

5. Angus Johnson - ’Something To Be Done'

To support Lost Map, and to listen to music featured in the programme in full, you should join our PostMap Club. A monthly membership starts at just £3, and you'll receive printed postcards delivered to your door every month, containing downloads of new music from the label. You also receive a membership badge, newsletter and discount codes for other stuff from our webshop. Visit lostmap.com/club for details on how to join.

Lost Map Podcast is presented by Pictish Trail. Additional production and editing by Joe Cormack. This episode is made possible with support from Creative Scotland.

S3 05: March 2021 - PostMap Podcast, w/ Alexia Avina + more

March 1, 2021 Pictish Trail

Allow Pictish Trail to expel his hot air (chat, not farts) on a balloon ride from his home on the Isle of Eigg, Scotland, across the Atlantic and over to the other side of America, where we meet ambient-folk artist Alexia Avina in Portland, Oregon; with just enough puff, we travel back over to meet Firestations in Walthamstow, London, before returning almost full circle to sunny Glasgow for some gossip with Savage Mansion.

Once again, Pictish Trail goes through this month’s PostMap Club releases, playing brand new music from the Lost Map label - including tracks from Sulka, Savage Mansion, and an exclusive live session with Alexia Avina.

Ambient-folk artist, Alexia Avina tells us all about her start in music, the scene in Montreal and the making of her album Unearth, as well as the story behind the new live session she’s recorded for us. The full session video will be live-streamed on Thursday 11th March 2021, with free access for PostMap Club members.

In First Gig / Worst Gig, we are joined by Mike, Laura and Martin from Firestations - who show off their cool indie-credentials with anecdotes of the first gig they attended as punters … before shovelling the bleak reality of life in a band with tales of the worst gig they’ve ever played themselves.

Due to (un)popular demand, our regular feature THIS OR THAT has been cancelled this month - and has been replaced with a pilot for a new segment called Lost Chats. This month, staff members Bart & Laura talk the nitty-gritty with Craig Angus from Savage Mansion, about his new single, upcoming album, and also the link between dogs and terrorist organisations (terrierists?). This is a clip of a full episode that will be made available to PostMap Club members later in the month.

EPISODE TRACKLISTING:

1. Sulka - Clip of ’Hollow Days’ / ‘Hollow Days (acoustic version)'

2. Savage Mansion - Clip of ‘Wig Wise’

3. Alexia Avina - Clips of Unearth + live session

4. Alexia Avina - ‘Know My Place’ (live session)

5. Firestations - Clip of ‘Low Ratio (Sunken Version)'

6. Savage Mansion - ‘Prizes’

Lost Map Podcast is presented by Pictish Trail. Additional production and editing by Joe Cormack. This episode is made possible with support from Creative Scotland.