S5 06: June 2023 - Martha Ffion + more

Join PICTISH TRAIL and his pal LAURA for another hour of LOST MAP goodness, chatting about upcoming gigs and all the latest releases through our POSTMAP CLUB... as well as a natter with singer-songwriter MARTHA FFION about the making of her new album.

Gasp! PICTISH TRAIL and LAURA cannot stop gasping. There’s hardly any HAIRBAND cassettes left - GASP! There’s a brand new collective band - GASP!  There’s also new music from SULKA, MAKENESS plus the MARANTA remix of FREE LOVE's latest single … GASP O’GASP!


This month’s featured interview is with Glasgow-based, Irish singer-songwriter, MARTHA FFION. She talks us through her life in music, and the making of her new album, The Wringer - which is out 30th June 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 June 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. Hairband - ‘Desserts'

2. Sulka - ’Weekend’ (clip)

3. Makeness - ‘Avoidance' (clip)

4. Martha Ffion - clips of The Wringer

5. Martha Ffion - ’The Man'

6. Free Love - ‘All The Same To Me’ (Maranta remix)



SOME INCREDIBLY USEFUL LINKS:


PostMap Club: lostmap.com/club

Lost In London: howlinfling.com/lost-in-london

Martha Ffion - The Wringer: lostmap.com/products/martha-ffion-the-wringer

Hairband - Under The Plow: lostmap.com/products/hairband-under-the-plow

Blindboy Podcast about Gasping


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 13: November 2021 - PostMap Podcast, w/ Herbert Powell + Martha Ffion + more

November’s edition of the Lost Map Podcast features the celebrity voices of Alan Rickman, Craig Ferguson, Anthony Fantano, and Luigi from Mario Kart, and yet none of these people actually appear. What does that mean? You must listen, my friends.


PICTISH TRAIL has got so much to tell you about forthcoming album projects, and our newly announced HUMBUG! Christmas shows, but instead he’s decided to have an existential crisis about his lack of knowledge of the Incredible String Band back-catalogue. Bear with him, folks.

HERBERT POWELL’s long-awaited debut LP, Here In My Scheme, Here It Ends is finally released on November 5th, and their interview about the making of it is every bit as funny, weird, angular and erotic as the album itself. The band headline the Glasgow edition of HUMBUG! at Mono on Saturday 4th December. Tickets: https://www.lostmap.com/tickets/humbug

MARTHA FFION takes us down memory lane, sharply turns around and stabs us in the gut with her painful recollections in First Gig Worst Gig. Thankfully we’re soothed afterwards by a cover of her song ’Someone Who Cares’, performed by GOOD DOG. The cover version appears on a new cassette, which collects other covers, live versions, home demos and remixes, which you can check out, here: https://www.lostmap.com/products/martha-ffion-captured-on-cassette-tape

There’s also the first play of a new song from SAVAGE MANSION, and a taster of tracks from BAS JAN and ALEXIA AVINA, plus a cut from the upcoming CALLUM EASTER album. Callum headlines the Edinburgh edition of HUMBUG! on Friday 3rd December at Summerhall, alongside Gordon McIntyre (Ballboy), Jenny Moore’s Mystic Business, and Maranta: https://www.lostmap.com/tickets/humbug


EPISODE TRACKLISTING:
1. Bas Jan - ’Vision Of Change’ (clip)

2. Alexia Avina - ‘How Can I Learn’ (clip)

3. Savage Mansion - ‘Life More Abundant’

4. Clips of Herbert Powell’s Here In My Scheme, Here It Ends LP

5. Herbert Powell - ’Castration Memes’
6. Good Dog - ’Someone Who Cares’ (Martha Ffion cover)
7. Callum Easter - ’My Love'


To support Lost Map, and to own the music featured in the programme, 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.

S3 01: November 2020 - PostMap Podcast, w/ Martha Ffion + more

Lost Map Podcast gets a reboot! Join your host Pictish Trail for the first episode of a new series, centred around PostMap Club - our monthly membership programme, where we send you postcards containing downloads for new music from the label.

Hello, Pictish Trail, here! Welcome to Series 3 of the Lost Map Podcast - we’ve given it a bit of a reboot. We’re going to try and release a brand new episode of the pod on the first day of each month, centred around new music that we have released through our PostMap Club. Wish us luck.

PostMap Club is our membership programme, where - from just £3 - you can receive printed postcards delivered to your door every month, containing downloads for new music from the label. You also receive a membership badge, monthly newsletter and discount codes for other stuff from the label. Visit lostmap.com/club for details on how to join.

In this episode of the podcast, you’ll hear some scintillating chat with Claire McKay, aka Martha Ffion. She tells us about the making of her new album - Nights To Forget - and reveals all the details of an exclusive live session she’s recorded, entitled Captured On Cassette. The full session was filmed, and will premiere live on Wednesday 25th November - PostMap Club members will get free access, and tickets will also be available to purchase separately from lostmap.com.

We’ve also got a face-to-face interview between Laura and Mike from the band Firestations - they give us the scoop on a new series of EPs they’re releasing with us over the coming months. The first EP, Automatic Tendencies is out on November 6th, and features the single ’Small Island’ and a “sunken version” of ‘Greenmount’, clips of which you can hear in this episode.

In First Gig / Worst Gig, we ask artists to tell us about the first gig they ever attended as a punter, and the worst gig they’ve ever played as a performer. Our first contestant for this feature is Callum Easter, whose debut album - Here Or Nowhere - recently won the public vote for Scottish Album of the Year. Both his first gig and his worst gig choices are absolutely harrowing.

Another new regular feature is called THIS OR THAT, in which we ask a series of quick-fire questions on the hottest of all hot topics. The first person to take the challenge is a brand new signing to the label, SULKA. But will he choose this, or that?!!? His new single ‘Fear It’ is out now, and the postcard comes with an exclusive acoustic version.

We’ve got clips of music from all the above, and there’s also a brand new track (in full!) from Clémentine March. A packed show!

EPISODE TRACKLISTING:

1. Martha Ffion - ’Nights To Forget’ (Captured On Cassette live session)

2. Martha Ffion - ‘Going Out In Style’ (Captured On Cassette live session)

3. Callum Easter - ‘Make A Move’

4. Firestations - ’Small Island’

5. Firestations - ‘Greenmount’ (Sunken Version)

6. Sulka - ‘Fear It’

7. Clémentine March - ‘Elixir’ (Single Version)

To support Lost Map, join our PostMap Club! Go to lostmap.com/club for more details.

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.