S5 04: April 2023 - Hairband + more

April 1, 2023 Pictish Trail

Join PICTISH TRAIL and LAURA over the next hour, for all the latest music and gossip from Lost Map, as well as an in-depth chat with HAIRBAND about the making of their debut album.

It’s April Fools Day, and PICTISH TRAIL and LAURA are really struggling to make important Lost Map announcements convincingly. Will there actually be a Howlin’ Fling this year? Thankfully there’s new music from MARTHA FFION, FIRESTATIONS, plus tracks from L.T. LEIF and AMY MAY ELLIS, to break up the tedium.

This month’s interview is with Emma, Simone and Rowan of HAIRBAND, who chat to us from Rowan’s living room in Glasgow - with fellow bandmate Rachel sending messages from Berlin. They talk us through the making of their fantastic new album, Under The Plow - which is out on 21st April on very limited edition cassette.

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 April 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. L.T. Leif - ’Taste Of Elastic'

2. Martha Ffion - ’The Wringer' (clip)

3. Firestations - ’Undercover’ (clip)

4. Hairband - clips of Under The Plow

5. Hairband - ‘Varipapa'

6. Amy May Ellis - ’Wild Geese’ (Delifinger remix)

SOME INCREDIBLY USEFUL LINKS:

PostMap Club: lostmap.com/club

Howlin’ Fling: howlinfling.com

31st May, Glasgow, Lost Map Under Gaia: howlinfling.com/shhh/lost-map-under-gaia

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

Amy May Ellis - Over Ling And Bell: lostmap.com/products/free-love-inside

L.T. Leif - Come Back To Me, But Lightly: lostmap.com/products/lt-leif-come-back-to-me-but-lightly

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.

S5 03: March 2023 - Free Love + more

March 1, 2023 Pictish Trail

Once again, PICTISH TRAIL and LAURA have convened via the internet, to tell you all about the latest releases from Lost Map. In addition to new music from FELL, THE GN BAND, AMY MAY ELLIS and HAIRBAND, there’s also some illicit goss about certain projects that we’re not supposed to tell you about. Yet.

This month’s interview is with Glasgow acid-pop gurus, Suzi & Lewis, aka FREE LOVE, who talks us through the making of their new album, Inside - which is out now on limited edition pink vinyl, as well as a special Dinked Edition from participating record shops.

NEW MEMBERS (including Gift Subscriptions) during March 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:

Fell - ‘Elephants'
Amy May Ellis - ‘Wild Geese’ (clip)
The GN Band - ’The Bell Song’ (clip)
Free Love - clips of Inside
Free Love - ‘It’s A Feeling'
Hairband - ’Surfacing'

SOME INCREDIBLY USEFUL LINKS:

PostMap Club: lostmap.com/club

Free Love - Inside: lostmap.com/products/free-love-inside

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

Amy May Ellis - Over Ling And Bell: lostmap.com/products/free-love-inside

Fell - Mallows Marsh: lostmap.com/products/fell-mallows-marsh

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.

S5 02: February 2023 - L.T. Leif + Hairband + more

February 1, 2023 Pictish Trail

It’s the first day of a new month, which means PICTISH TRAIL and LAURA are in their jammies, and ready to pod. On today’s episode, there are fresh tunes from CLÉMENTINE MARCH, SDF, and FREE LOVE to enjoy, as well as information about a brand new signing to the label roster, HAIRBAND … but first they had to make sure they expressed their opinions on the disgusting instagram advert and accompanying tour ticket prices by MADONNA. What an absolute disgrace.

This month’s interview is with Canadian songsmith L.T. LEIF, who talks us through their life in music, their move to Glasgow and the making of their new album, Come Back To Me, But Lightly - which was released late-January 2023 on limited edition vinyl via Lost Map, in association with our good friends OK Pal Records.

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 February 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.

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EPISODE TRACKLISTING:

1. Clémentine March - ‘Silence'

2. Hairband - ‘Unconscious Rivals’ (clip)

3. SDF - ‘Dinosaur’ (clip)

4. L.T. Leif - clips of Come Back To Me, But Lightly

5. L.T. Leif - ‘Sign On The Window'

6. Free Love - ‘Fight Or Flight'

SOME INCREDIBLY USEFUL LINKS:
PostMap Club: lostmap.com/club

Lost Map @ Celtic Connections 2023: celticconnections.com/event/1/10-years-of-lost-map

L.T. Leif - Come Back To Me, But Lightly: lostmap.com/products/lt-leif-come-back-to-me-but-lightly

Free Love - Inside: lostmap.com/products/free-love-inside

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, with additional production from Joe Cormack.

S5 01: January 2023 - Your New Year Mega-Mix Work Out Tape

January 1, 2023 Pictish Trail

If you spent all of 2022 in a coma, don’t worry - PICTISH TRAIL can bring you up to speed on everything you’ve missed. Except Eastenders, he didn’t watch any of that. Actually, he did watch the Xmas Special, but he wasn’t 100% sure of what was going on.

Singer-songwriter PICTISH TRAIL runs the independent record label and collective LOST MAP from his home, on the Isle of Eigg, Scotland. Join him for the next 72 minutes, as he runs through a choice selection of tracks from the label catalogue over the past 12 months, as well as some spins of brand new “as yet unreleased" material. The perfect soundtrack for your New Year / New You fitness regime work-out … in so far as it starts out quite energetic, and then gets a bit wheezy, slightly trippy, and then blissed out. By which point you’ll thoroughly deserve a cup of tea and the remaining segments of that Terry’s Chocolate Orange you got for Xmas.

Oh there’s some gossip about Howlin’ Fling!, too. You’ll have to listen to find out, mind.

To support what we do at Lost Map, 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 for 15% on 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 January 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. Pictish Trail - ‘The River It Runs Inside Of Me’ (MF Tomlinson remix)

2. Makeness - ‘I Can See For Miles’

3. Bas Jan - ‘Progressive Causes’ (Progressively Crooked mix)

4. Free Love - ‘Dans Le Noir’

5. SDF - ‘Can’t Get High’ (Single Edit)

6. Maranta - ‘Let Your Lover Go’

7. Gordon McIntyre - ‘Lean Into Me’

8. Savage Mansion - ‘There Is No Love (Delete Yourself)’

9. Amy May Ellis - ‘Rain From The East’

10. Alexia Avina - ‘Dew Drop’

11. Susan Bear - ‘Slack’

12. Alabaster dePlume - ‘Again’ (feat. Falle Nioke)

13. Fell - ‘Staring At The Knives’

14. L.T. Leif - ‘Gentle Moon’

SOME POTENTIALLY REALLY USEFUL LINKS:

PostMap Club: lostmap.com/club

Lost Map @ Celtic Connections 2023: celticconnections.com/event/1/10-years-of-lost-map

Fell - Mallows Marsh album: lostmap.com/products/fell-mallows-marsh

Ballboy - Club Anthems 2001 reissue: lostmap.com/products/ballboy-club-anthems-2001

L.T. Leif - Come Back To Me, But Lightly pre-order: lostmap.com/products/lt-leif-come-back-to-me-but-lightly

Free Love - Inside album: lostmap.com/products/free-love-inside

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 produced and presented by Pictish Trail.

S4 11: December 2022 - Fell + more

December 1, 2022 Pictish Trail

Join PICTISH TRAIL (on Eigg) and LAURA (in Edinburgh) for an hour of Lost Map goodness, some gossip about our highlights of 2022, as well as some chat from FELL about the making of their new album.

PICTISH TRAIL and LAURA ramble through this month’s releases on PostMap Club, as well as unveiling their own personal non-Lost Map highlights of 2022. There’s new music from L.T. LEIF, FIRESTATIONS and SUSAN BEAR, plus all the info on our upcoming live events, as well as a track from the vaults from BALLBOY.

Our featured interview this month is with NICOLAS BURROWS of the band FELL, who talks us through his life in music, and the making of his new album, the psych-pop odyssey Mallows Marsh - the physical edition of which is released this month, on CD with an accompanying 40 page lyric book and art print. Fell are performing at our afternoon showcases for Daylight Music in London (10th Dec) and Faversham (11th Dec), as well as traveling north for our HUMBUG! Xmas showcases in Glasgow (16th Dec) and Edinburgh (17th Dec). Ticket info below.

To support everything we do at Lost Map, you should join 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 for 15% on 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. ALL NEW MEMBERS (including Gift Subscriptions) during December 2022, will receive a bumper pack of postcards + all three postcards in this year’s VISITATIONS series, by Emma Kupa, Makeness and Alliyah Enyo, delivered in time for Xmas!

EPISODE TRACKLISTING:

1. L.T. Leif - ‘Pass Back Through'

2. Firestations - ’Swim Under The Winter’ (clip)

3. Susan Bear - ‘Bye’ Instrumental (clip)

4. Fell - tracks from Mallows Marsh

5. Fell - ‘Death Of A Naturalist’

6. Ballboy - ‘I’ve Got Pictures Of You In Your Underwear’

SOME POTENTIALLY USEFUL LINKS:

PostMap Club: lostmap.com/club

Fell - Mallows Marsh album: lostmap.com/products/fell-mallows-marsh

Ballboy - Club Anthems 2001 reissue: lostmap.com/products/ballboy-club-anthems-2001

L.T. Leif - Come Back To Me, But Lightly: lostmap.com/products/lt-leif-come-back-to-me-but-lightly

Lost Map @ Daylight Music, London: bit.ly/3zRMpmn

Lost Map @ Daylight Music, Faversham: bit.ly/3UsLUqL

Lost Map HUMBUG! tickets: lostmap.com/tickets/humbug-2022

Lost Map @ Celtic Connections 2023: celticconnections.com/event/1/10-years-of-lost-map

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

Lost Map Podcast is presented by Pictish Trail and Laura Doherty. Additional production and editing by Joe Cormack

S4 10: November 2022 - VISITATIONS - Alliyah Enyo

November 1, 2022 Pictish Trail

Reunited via the internet, PICTISH TRAIL and LAURA chat through all this month’s releases on Lost Map, including a VISITATIONS EP from ALLIYAH ENYO, new music from FELL and FREE LOVE, and some ol’ classics from BALLBOY.

After a couple of months of touring and cavorting with middle-aged alt-rock heroes, PICTISH TRAIL has returned to Eigg, and realises that the Lost Map admin pile has gone out of control. Thankfully LAURA is on-hand, via internet connection from Edinburgh, to sort through this month’s releases on PostMap Club, and our upcoming live music events.

Our featured interview this month is with ALLIYAH ENYO, a multi-disciplinary artist from Edinburgh, who came up to stay in St Franny’s Bothan on Eigg in May of 2022 to take part in our VISITATIONS residency project. She chats to us about her life in music, her debut album release for Somewhere Between Tapes, her performance at Hidden Door Festival, as well as her experience on Eigg.

Also this month … we’ve got a taste of new music from FREE LOVE; an as-yet-unreleased album track from FELL; something from the vaults by BALLBOY; as well as news on a variety of upcoming label showcases - including two shows in December for DAYLIGHT MUSIC, the line-up for our HUMBUG! events in Glasgow and Edinburgh, plus info on the first of many "10th Anniversary" shows for 2023.

EPISODE TRACKLISTING:

1. Ballboy - ’Donald In The Bushes With A Bag Of Glue'

2. Free Love - ‘Open The Door’ (clip)

3. Alliyah Enyo - clips of VISITATIONS 0303

4. Fell - ’The Seed'

SOME POTENTIALLY USEFUL LINKS:

PostMap Club: http://lostmap.com/club

Alliyah Enyo VISITATIONS tape: lostmap.com/products/visitations-0303

Alliyah Enyo on Instagram: instagram.com/alliyahenyo

Alliyah’s Somewhere Between Tapes release: somewherebetweentapes.bandcamp.com/album/echos-disintegration

Lost Map @ Daylight Music, London: https://bit.ly/3zRMpmn

Lost Map @ Daylight Music, Faversham: https://bit.ly/3UsLUqL

Lost Map HUMBUG! tickets: lostmap.com/tickets/humbug-2022

Ballboy - Club Anthems 2001 reissue: lostmap.com/products/ballboy-club-anthems-2001

Fell - Mallows Marsh album: lostmap.com/products/fell-mallows-marsh

Lost Map @ Celtic Connections 2023: celticconnections.com/event/1/10-years-of-lost-map

You can find Pictish Trail over on Twitter, @pictishtrail, and Laura over at @dohoodle

Lost Map Podcast is presented by Pictish Trail and Laura Doherty. Additional production and editing by Joe Cormack

S4 09: October 2022 - Maranta + more

October 1, 2022 Pictish Trail

Speaking from a car park outside a guesthouse in Totnes, while nursing a mid-tour hangover, join PICTISH TRAIL for a scintillating 50 minutes or so, of Lost Map goodness.

Hullo. Pictish Trail, here. I’ve been on the road, touring for the past few weeks - and I’ve left it faaaaar too late to write any coherent show-notes for this month’s episode … but, let me tell you, it is jam packed with new tunes from L.T. LEIF, FELL and THE GN BAND, plus an interview with MARANTA about their recently released Deux Pleasure EP, and a brand new ALEXIA AVINA single. There’s also some exclusive news about our Christmas HUMBUG! shows!

To support Lost Map, and to help us release more music in 2022, 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'll receive a membership badge, too - as well as a newsletter and discount codes for other stuff from our webshop. Gift memberships are also available. Visit lostmap.com/club for details on how to join.

EPISODE TRACKLISTING:

1. L.T. Leif - ’No Birds'
2. Fell - ‘We Could Do Anything’
3. The GN Band - ‘I Don’t Know Why I Try’
4. Maranta - clips of Deux Pleasure EP
5. Maranta - ‘Made Of Vibration’
6. Alexia Avina - ‘Let It Die'

SOME POTENTIALLY USEFUL LINKS:

PostMap Club: http://lostmap.com/club
L.T. Leif on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ltleif
Maranta - Deux Pleasure EP: lostmap.com/products/maranta-deux-pleasure
Maranta - EP launch party, Edinburgh 5th October: lostmap.com/tickets/maranta-voodoo-rooms
Alexia Avina - Crush EP preorder: lostmap.com/products/alexia-avina-crush

You can find Pictish Trail over on Twitter, @pictishtrail, and Laura over at @dohoodle

Lost Map Podcast is presented by Pictish Trail. Additional production and editing by Joe Cormack

S4 08: September 2022 - VISITATIONS - Makeness

September 1, 2022 Pictish Trail

Join PICTISH TRAIL and his good pal LAURA for an hour of music and chat about all things LOST MAP, including an interview with electronic producers MAKENESS about their trip to the Isle of Eigg...

The summer is suddenly fizzling out, and so it’s back to school for PICTISH TRAIL and LAURA. There’s a run through of PICTISH TRAIL’s TOP 5 MOMENTS OF GREEN MAN FESTIVAL, which - surprise surprise - are mostly about his own performances. There’s some daft chat about Little Boots, Hot Shots Part Deux, and a very special cameo for the regular PostMap Club spiel. On top of all this, there's a taste of brand new music from MARANTA and ALEXIA AVINA, as well as some gig news and album tracks from SUSAN BEAR and DELIFINGER.

Our third series of our artist residency programme, VISITATIONS, continues with a release from London-based electronic maestros, MAKENESS, the project of London-based producer and performer Kyle Molleson and friends. Kyle journeyed up to the Isle of Eigg in February 2022, accompanied by his bandmate Gus Beamish-Cook, where they spent a week in St Franny’s Bothan writing and recording brand new material - which PostMap Club members can listen to, exclusively, in full. In this episode of the podcast, we caught up with Kyle and Gus at their local skate park, where they talk us through their life in music, and the experience they had recording on the island, featuring clips of the truly banging tracks they made together.

EPISODE TRACKLISTING:

1. Susan Bear - ‘Projection'

2. Maranta - ‘Pleasure’ (clip)

3. Alexia Avina - ‘You’ (clip)

4. Makeness - clips of VISITATIONS 0302

5. Makeness - ‘I Can See For Miles’

6. Delifinger - ‘Warm Parasite'

SOME POTENTIALLY USEFUL LINKS:

PostMap Club: http://lostmap.com/club

Makeness on Instagram: instagram.com/makeness_

Susan Bear Alter album launch, Glasgow 15th September: http://ctzn.tk/susanbear
Maranta - Deux Pleasure EP preorder: lostmap.com/products/maranta-deux-pleasure
Maranta - EP launch party, Edinburgh 5th October: lostmap.com/tickets/maranta-voodoo-rooms
Alexia Avina - Crush EP preorder: lostmap.com/products/alexia-avina-crush
Delifinger - Small Love preorder: lostmap.com/products/delifinger-small-love

Pictish Trail September Tour 2022: pictishtrail.co.uk/gigz

You can find Pictish Trail over on Twitter, @pictishtrail, and Laura over at @dohoodle

Lost Map Podcast is presented by Pictish Trail. Additional production and editing by Joe Cormack

S4 07: August 2022 - Festi-Bonkers

August 1, 2022 Pictish Trail

It’s the height of festival season, so what better way to spend an hour than in the company of three festival burn-outs, PICTISH TRAIL, LAURA and BART OWL? Join them as they purge their desires and inner-demons to recall their fantasy festival line-ups and darkest memories...

In our first episode of the podcast to be recorded IN PERSON for a long time (since the Free Love episode in 2018, or possibly the Xmas spesh with Malcolm Middleton?), PICTISH TRAIL travels down to Edinburgh to chat face-to-face with LAURA in the confines of her flat, making use of both toilets, under the watchful eye of guest co-host BART OWL. Together they share their memories of the recent HOWLIN’ FLING ISLAND FAMILY GATHERING event on Eigg, delivering all the salacious goss you’ve come to expect from this gibbering podcast. Boobs at the moon? Drunken ceilidh dancing? Two toilets? It’s all in here.

Continuing our festival theme, we've got a clip of a Howlin’ Fling live session from COURTNEY MARIE ANDREWS recorded during her visit to Eigg - the full video version of which is available exclusively to POSTMAP CLUB members. We’ve also got new PostMap music from DELIFINGER and THE GN BAND - who respectively offer some insight into their dream festival line-ups and nightmare hellscapes.

We’ve even got a special edition of our First Gig Worst Gig segment, with Oliver from SDF guiding us through his own sordid weekender experiences in FIRST FEST/WORST FEST. It’s almost like being there. So much so, during all the excitement, we’ve lost our pal L.T. LEIF somewhere on site - but they’ve just left us a message telling us where we can find them…

EPISODE TRACKLISTING:

1. Pictish Trail - ‘Remote Control'
2. Courtney Marie Andrews - ‘Loose Future’ (Howlin’ Fling Session) (clip)

3. Delifinger - ‘I Don’t Even Want To Know’ (clip)
4. The GN Band - ‘It’s Nuts’ (clip)
5. SDF - ‘Broken Glass’

6. LT Leif / OK Jazz - ’Skype Me'

SOME USEFUL LINKS:

PostMap Club: http://lostmap.com/club

SDF Rhythm Of The Rubicon pre-order: https://www.lostmap.com/products/sdf-rhythm-of-the-rubicon

L.T. Leif - Introducing tape: https://www.lostmap.com/products/lt-leif-introducing

Pictish Trail upcoming tour dates: https://pictishtrail.co.uk/gigz

You can find Pictish Trail, Laura and Bart over on Twitter: @pictishtrail @dohoodle & @Bart_Owl

Lost Map Podcast is presented by Pictish Trail. Additional production and editing by Joe Cormack

S4 06: July 2022 - Gordon McIntyre, SDF + more

July 1, 2022 Pictish Trail

PICTISH TRAIL has been so busy organising the 'Island Family Gathering’ event on Eigg that he's run out of time to record a conversation with LAURA this month - so you'll just have to listen to him all on his own. His voice sounds different on its own, doesn’t it?

We’re half-way through the year, normally a time to take stock, and ruminate over the delights of the past 6 months, while sipping a colourful cocktail, drifting across an outdoor swimming pool on a lilo, wearing only a thong. PICTISH TRAIL doesn’t have time for any of that, mind you. He’s struggling to remember how to erect the food marquee for the upcoming ISLAND FAMILY GATHERING event happening on Eigg this weekend, and has used up all his mobile data perusing unhelpful instructional videos. As such, he’s been unable to have a web-chat with his usual co-host, LAURA. She has managed to send over a lo-fi recording via dial-up, mind you.

GORDON McINTYRE is our featured interview this month, talking us through his songwriting process, and the making of his brand new solo LP, Even With The Support Of Others - which is out on LP on July 15th.
As well as all that, we've got music and tour news from BAS JAN and ALEXIA AVINA, some PostMap Club sounds from a mysterious London-based electronic collective known simply as SDF, plus a full run-down of all the different acts playing at the Island Family Gathering.

To support Lost Map, and to help us release more music in 2022, 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'll receive a membership badge, too - as well as a newsletter and discount codes for other stuff from our webshop. Gift memberships are also available. Visit lostmap.com/club for details on how to join.

EPISODE TRACKLISTING:

1. Bas Jan - 'Baby U Know'
2. SDF - 'Can’t Get High'
3. Gordon McIntyre - clips of Even With The Support Of Others
4. Gordon McIntyre - 'In The Halls Of The Transplant Ward'
5. Alexia Avina - 'On The Path'

SOME USEFUL LINKS:

PostMap Club: http://lostmap.com/club
Gordon McIntyres Even With the Support Of Others pre-order: https://www.lostmap.com/products/gordon-mcintyre-even-with-the-support-of-othersGordon McIntyre + LT Leif, St Vincent’s Chapel, Edinburgh, 22nd July: https://www.lostmap.com/tickets/gordon-mcintyre-album-launchLost Map Showcase, Daylight Music London, 16th July: http://daylightmusic.co.uk/event/348/
Pictish Trail + Bas Jan September Tour 2022: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cei6iEaq5_O/

You can find Pictish Trail over on Twitter, @pictishtrail

Lost Map Podcast is presented by Pictish Trail. Additional production and editing by Joe Cormack

S4 05: June 2022 - Susan Bear, LT Leif + more

June 1, 2022 Pictish Trail

Now they are seasoned podcasters, Pictish Trail and Laura discover that it’s nigh-on impossible to avoid slipping into Partridge every 5 minutes. The show might as well be called Mid-Morning Mappers, at this point.

Summer has arrived, but PICTISH TRAIL and LAURA are defiantly “taps ann”, and reporting to you from their respective homes on the Isle of Eigg and Edinburgh, with all the latest goss from Lost Map Records. There’s also some chat about chickens.

SUSAN BEAR is our featured interview this month, talking us through her life in music, and all the inside goss on the making of her new solo album, Alter, released on limited edition vinyl on June 10th. We also witness the return of FIRST GIG WORST GIG, with a brand new signing, the Canadian singer-songwriter LT LEIF - a tale which veers from homely to homeless.

On top of all that, we've got a selection of tracks from the other releases in this month's POSTMAP CLUB mail-out - new music from MARANTA and JENNY MOORE’S MYSTIC BUSINESS - as well as tracks from releases by SULKA and EMMA KUPA.

To support Lost Map, and to help us release more music in 2022, join 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'll receive a membership badge, too - as well as a newsletter and discount codes for other stuff from our webshop. Gift memberships are also available. Visit lostmap.com/club for details on how to join.

EPISODE TRACKLISTING:

1. Sulka - ‘Discord’

2. Maranta - ’Our Love’ [clip]

3. Jenny Moore’s Mystic Business - ’He Earns Enough’ (Hiro Ama remix) [clip]

4. Susan Bear - clips of Alter

5. Susan Bear - ’New Ghost'

6. LT Leif - ’The Best’

7. Emma Kupa - ‘I Hope’

SOME USEFUL LINKS:

PostMap Club: http://lostmap.com/club

Susan Bear’s Alter pre-order: https://www.lostmap.com/products/susan-bear-alter

Pictish Trail September Tour 2022: https://pictishtrail.co.uk/gigz

You can find Pictish Trail over on Twitter, @pictishtrail, and Laura Doherty @dohoodle

Lost Map Podcast is presented by Pictish Trail. Additional production and editing by Joe Cormack

S4 04: May 2022 - VISITATIONS - Emma Kupa

May 1, 2022 Pictish Trail

A new month means a new pod, but Pictish Trail isn’t even sure what day of the week it is, let alone month … luckily Laura ‘LoHoDo’ is on-board to help steer us through this month’s PostMap Club releases, including the return of our residency project, VISITATIONS...

Back on the Eigg! After a month of touring, PICTISH TRAIL is suddenly realising that he should have done a lot more admin while on the road, and a lot less research of the locations of motorway service stations with a Greggs bakery; meanwhile Lost Map’s in-house sonic-sommelier, LAURA DOHERTY rejoins the pod, and fills us in on the various boozes she’s imbibed whilst pretending to watch a gig.

We are delighted to announce the return of V I S I T ▲ T I O N S, our residency series on the Isle of Eigg, where we invite musicians to stay on the island, and record new music for us. We have integrated the project into our POSTMAP CLUB series, and our featured interview this month is with indie-pop singer-songwriter, EMMA KUPA - who stayed at St Franny’s Bothan for a week in late-June 2021. She tells us of her beginnings in music, her work with STANDARD FARE, THE HAYMAN KUPA BAND, MAMMOTH PENGUINS, as well as the story behind her debut solo album, and - of course - the time she spent on the island making a nine-track mini-album for VISITATIONS. All PostMap Club members will receive the music she made, immediately, and a stand-alone limited edition cassette version will be available to pre-order later this month, due for release mid-June 2022.

On top of all that, we've got a selection of tracks from the other releases in this month's POSTMAP CLUB mail-out - new music from GORDON McINTYRE and SUSAN BEAR - as well as album tracks from releases by ALEXIA AVINA and ALABASTER dePLUME.

EPISODE TRACKLISTING:

1. Alexia Avina - ‘A Little Older’

2. Gordon McIntyre - ’I Crave Rivers, I Crave Seas’ (clip)

3. Susan Bear - ’Mario Golf 2’ (clip)

4. Emma Kupa - clips of VISITATIONS

5. Emma Kupa - ‘CCTV'

6. Alabaster dePlume - ’I’m Gonna Say 7’

SOME USEFUL LINKS:

PostMap Club: http://lostmap.com/club

VISITATIONS: lostmap.com/visitations

Alabaster dePlume 2022 touring, GOLD: https://www.instagram.com/p/CcBDSBPK5qQ/

Pictish Trail September Tour 2022: https://pictishtrail.co.uk/gigz

You can find Pictish Trail over on Twitter, @pictishtrail, and Laura Doherty @dohoodle

Lost Map Podcast is presented by Pictish Trail. Additional production and editing by Joe Cormack.

S4 03: April 2022 - Pictish Trail on Tour, Alabaster dePlume + more

April 1, 2022 Pictish Trail

Pictish Trail and his hairy guitarist, Joe, are sat in a budget hotel, wondering if they can actually produce a coherent podcast while on tour…

Life on the road! Join PICTISH TRAIL in his Premier Inn, as he discusses the perils of touring in the time of COVID, and the perks of having a twin room to himself. Co-host, and fellow band-member, JOE CORMACK slaps some sense into him.

In our featured interview, we catch up with the one and only ALABASTER dePLUME just before he boards a plane to America. He talks us through his brand new album, GOLD, which is out now on Lost Map / International Anthem / Total Refreshment Centre.

We’ve got a selection of tracks from this month’s POSTMAP CLUB mail-out, including clips of new music by MOLLY LINEN, BAS JAN x CROOKED MAN and DELIFINGER.

EPISODE TRACKLISTING:

1. Molly Linen - ’Spring’

2. Bas Jan x Crooked Man - ’Progressive Causes’ (Progressively Crooked mix) (clip)

3. Delifinger - ’Hold On Blue’ (clip)

4. Alabaster dePlume - clips of GOLD

5. Alabaster dePlume - ’A Gente Acaba’

6. Pictish Trail - ’Nuclear Sunflower Swamp'

SOME USEFUL LINKS:

PostMap Club: http://lostmap.com/club

Pictish Trail + Savage Mansion UK tour, March/April 2022: https://pictishtrail.co.uk/gigz

Alabaster dePlume album, GOLD: https://www.lostmap.com/products/alabaster-gold

You can find Pictish Trail over on Twitter, @pictishtrail.

Lost Map Podcast is presented by Pictish Trail. Additional production and editing by Joe Cormack.

S4 02: March 2022 - James Acaster, Savage Mansion + more

March 1, 2022 Pictish Trail

Pictish Trail and Laura spill the details on an upcoming Isle of Eigg event, then guide you through this month’s releases on the Lost Map label; Savage Mansion talk us through their incredible new album; and comedian James Acaster reveals his First Gig Worst Gig experiences.

When popular Hebridean songsmith PICTISH TRAIL sang the song ‘IT CAME BACK’, he wasn’t just referring to a recurring bout of illness … he was, of course, hinting at the return of Howlin’ Fling! - the live music event he hosts on the Isle of Eigg. In todays episode he regales co-host LAURA DOHERTY with all the details of a new Howlin’ Fling event, ISLAND FAMILY GATHERING, happening over July 1st & 2nd.

In our feature piece, we’re joined by Craig Angus and Beth Chalmers from the Glagow-based alt-rock titans SAVAGE MANSION, who reveal all about the making of their recently released new album, Golden Mountain, Here I Come.

We’ve also got a genuine celeb on the show - JAMES ACASTER (who stars in the video of the previously mentioned Pictish Trail song, ‘IT CAME BACK’). He’s taking part in our First Gig Worst Gig segment this month, and does not hold back. The fact that he does this all while simultaneously hula-hooping makes his confessions all the more emotional.

As always, we’ve got a selection of tracks from this month’s POSTMAP CLUB mail-out, including clips of new music by SUSAN BEAR, GORDON McINTYRE and ALEXIA AVINA.

To support Lost Map, and to help us release more music in 2022, join 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'll receive a membership badge, too - as well as a newsletter and discount codes for other stuff from our webshop. Gift memberships are also available. Visit lostmap.com/club for details on how to join.

EPISODE TRACKLISTING:

1. Pictish Trail - ’Melody Something’
2. Susan Bear - ’M6’ (clip)
3. Gordon McIntyre - ’Tiny Marks’ (clip)
4. Savage Mansion - clips of Golden Mountain, Here I Come
5. Savage Mansion - ’Jesus Is Pale’
6. Alexia Avina - ‘Human'

SOME USEFUL LINKS:

PostMap Club: http://lostmap.com/club

Howlin’ Fling presents Pictish Trail’s ISLAND FAMILY GATHERING: https://www.howlinfling.com

Pictish Trail + James Acaster, It Came Back music vid: https://youtu.be/78ew8MhEjaY

Pictish Trail + Savage Mansion UK tour, March/April 2022: https://pictishtrail.co.uk/gigz

Savage Mansion - Golden Mountain, Here I Come album: https://www.lostmap.com/products/savage-mansion-golden-mountain

You can find Pictish Trail over on Twitter, @pictishtrail; you can find Laura @dohoodle.

Lost Map Podcast is presented by Pictish Trail. Additional production and editing by Joe Cormack.

S4 01: February 2022 - Bas Jan, Maranta + More

February 1, 2022 Pictish Trail

Your favourite podcast about a Hebridean record label is back with a brand new series, and an all new format (that is actually totally the same as the last series, but with a co-host, and maybe 30% more swearing).

Isle of Eigg-dwelling / Buckfast-swilling maestro and label boss, PICTISH TRAIL is accompanied by his good pal, Scottish internet Z-List celebrity LAURA ‘Dohoodle’ DOHERTY, for a brand new, slightly revamped series of the Lost Map Podcast.

In our feature piece, all four members of BAS JAN tell us about the making of their critically acclaimed brand new album, Baby U Know. And Callum and Gloria from Edinburgh synth-poppers MARANTA join us for our regular segment, FIRST GIG WORST GIG. This segment contains a description of sexual assault. [39:00 - 46:00]

As always, we’ve got a selection of tracks from this month’s POSTMAP CLUB mail-out, including clips of new music by ALABASTER dePLUME and JENNY MOORE’S MYSTIC BUSINESS, as well as tracks from forthcoming LP releases by SAVAGE MANSION and Pictish himself.

To support Lost Map, and to help us release more music in 2022, join 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. Gift memberships are also available. Visit lostmap.com/club for details on how to join.

EPISODE TRACKLISTING:

1. Savage Mansion - ’The Crucible’

2. Jenny Moore’s Mystic Business - ’Take It Down’ (clip)

3. Alabaster dePlume - ‘Don’t Forget You’re Precious’ (clip)

4. Bas Jan - clips of Baby U Know

5. Bas Jan - ’Too Good To Be True’

6. Maranta - ‘My Man’ (clip)

7. Pictish Trail - ‘It Came Back’

SOME USEFUL LINKS:

PostMap Club: http://lostmap.com/club

Bas Jan live dates: https://bit.ly/bas-jan-tour

Bas Jan - Baby U Know album: https://www.lostmap.com/products/bas-jan-baby-u-know

Alabaster dePlume - Gold pre-order: https://www.lostmap.com/products/alabaster-gold

Maranta Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maranta.band/

Jenny Moore’s Mystic Business Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jennymooresmysticbusiness/

Pictish Trail + Savage Mansion UK tour, March/April 2022: https://pictishtrail.co.uk/gigz

You can find Pictish Trail over on Twitter, @pictishtrail; you can find Laura @dohoodle.

Lost Map Podcast is presented by Pictish Trail. Additional production and editing by Joe Cormack.

S3 15: January 2022 - The Other Side Of Season 3

January 1, 2022 Pictish Trail

PICTISH TRAIL resists the urge to do a nine hour docu-series about the making of the Lost Map Podcast, and instead dives into tracks you might have missed, some deep-cuts and hidden gems from records released over the past series. There’s also a selection of tracks from this month’s PostMap Club mail-out, including tasters of forthcoming albums from BAS JAN and SAVAGE MANSION.

EPISODE TRACKLISTING:

1. Clémentine March - ‘Songs of Resilience’

2. Savage Mansion - ‘Football Weather’

3. Kinbote - ‘Passing Through A North Facing Window’

4. A.R. Pinewood - ‘Moonfire’ (reprise)

5. Koppies - ‘Come Back’

6. Callum Easter - ‘Oka’

7. Bas Jan - ‘Sex Cult’

8. Jenny Moore’s Mystic Business - ‘Wild Mix’

9. Herbert Powell - ‘Human Pillar’

10. Pictish Trail - ‘Island Family’ (uh Remix)

11. Sulka - ‘Windup’

12. Molly Linen - ‘Awake At Night’

SOME USEFUL LINKS:

PostMap Club: http://lostmap.com/club

uh’s bandcamp page: https://uhuhuh.bandcamp.com

Molly Linen bandcamp page: https://mollylinen.bandcamp.com

Molly Linen + Clementine March UK tour, March 2022: https://www.instagram.com/p/CUevCkrqqKT

Herbert Powell bandcamp page: https://bertrecords.bandcamp.com

Pictish Trail + Savage Mansion UK tour, March/April 2022: https://pictishtrail.co.uk/gigz

To support Lost Map, and to help us release more music in 2022, join 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. Gift memberships are also available. 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 14: December 2021 - PostMap Podcast, w/ Callum Easter, Gordon McIntyre + more

December 1, 2021 Pictish Trail

Our last podcast of 2021 is filled with all the festive trimmings you might expect from a trolley dash around your local branch of Iceland at 7.45pm on Christmas Eve. Which is to say, not very festive at all. Still there’s some discount Eigg-nog on offer, and new music from Lost Map playing over the tannoy.

PICTISH TRAIL is about to leave the Hebrides on a boat to the mainland, to host a weekend of Lost Map showcases… but not before he’s spilled all the juice on what’s to come for the label in 2022.

Ahead of his headline peformance at the Edinburgh edition of our HUMBUG! weekender, CALLUM EASTER talks us through the making of his brand new album, System, which is out now on Moshi Moshi Records in association with Lost Map.

GORDON McINTYRE, he of ballboy fame, ingratiates himself as part of the Lost Map family with some painful gigging memories in our regular FIRST GIG WORST GIG segment. You can hear his new Xmassy song ‘Berlin’, too.

There’s also an introduction into the synth-pop world of MARANTA, as well as the first play of a new song from FIRESTATIONS.

EPISODE TRACKLISTING:
1. Maranta - ’Stop Pretending’

2. Clips of Callum Easter’s System

3. Callum Easter - ‘Lose Sometime’

4. Gordon McIntyre - ‘Berlin’

5. Firestations - ‘Reflection Spells'

To support Lost Map, and to own the music featured in the programme, 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 13: November 2021 - PostMap Podcast, w/ Herbert Powell + Martha Ffion + more

November 1, 2021 Pictish Trail

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 12: October 2021 - PostMap Podcast, w/ Jenny Moore + Clémentine March + more

October 1, 2021 Pictish Trail

PICTISH TRAIL has survived another birthday, and says he feels like a different man - but if anything he sounds just as groggy and jaded as on the previous episode. Luckily there’s plenty of new music coming out on the label this month to keep his spirits up, including an exclusive live session from EMMA KUPA (of Standard Fare / Mammoth Penguins fame).

JENNY MOORE’S MYSTIC BUSINESS have a brand new EP coming out this month, on 12” vinyl, entitled He Earns Enough. Jenny has taken some time to tell us about her life in music, and an in-depth look at each of the 5 tracks on the EP. The band are currently rehearsing for an EP launch happening at the Victoria venue in Dalston, London, on Sunday 10th October. It’s an afternoon performance, and support comes from our good pal Rachel Aggs (Trash Kit / Sacred Paws). You can check out tickets + gig info, here: https://link.dice.fm/rtPNyo19Xjb

CLÉMENTINE MARCH has recorded a brand new single, ‘Isolated’, and joins us for this month’s edition of FIRST GIG WORST GIG - telling us all about the first gig she ever attended as a punter, and her worst ever gig as a performer. She’s conveniently just announced a new tour, with fellow Lost Mapper MOLLY LINEN, which is taking place from 21st - 27th March 2022. You can see all the dates over on Clémentine’s Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/clementinemarch/

There’s also the first play of a new song from SULKA, the breezy, intimate ’Skyline’ - taken from his forthcoming Front Door EP, the follow up to his album Take Care which came out on Lost Map earlier this year.

EPISODE TRACKLISTING:

1. Emma Kupa - ’Nothing At All’ (Live Session)

2. Clips of Jenny Moore’s Mystic Business He Earns Enough EP

3. Jenny Moore’s Mystic Business - ’We Will Invent A Language'

4. Clémentine March - ‘Isolated’

5. Sulka - ’Skyline'

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. This episode is made possible with support from Creative Scotland.

S3 11: September 2021 - PostMap Podcast, w/ Pictish Trail + Molly Linen + Taylor Stewart

September 1, 2021 Pictish Trail

Predictably hungover and sounding huskier than ever, Pictish Trail has returned to Eigg having just played his first live shows in 18 months - be gentle with him, as he guides you through this month’s music on Lost Map.

PICTISH TRAIL has survived both Green Man and Jupiter Rising festivals, and is here to tell you how good he was at them … before guiding your ears through this month’s releases on Lost Map Records - including a brand new single from himself. Unbelievable.

MOLLY LINEN has frankly had enough of Glasgow (for the time being), and has made her way down to Somerset. We got in touch to ask her about the making of her new EP, Days Awake, and she didn’t swear once. It’s like she never lived in Glasgow at all!

In this month’s FIRST GIG WORST GIG section we are joined by ‘ROMEO’ TAYLOR STEWART, drummer with a brand new signing to Lost Map called HERBERT POWELL. He tells us of his first gig as a punter, and his worst gig as a performer. Taylor is still very much in Glasgow, and so listener discretion is advised.

EPISODE TRACKLISTING:

1. Pictish Trail - ’Natural Successor'

2. Clip of Molly Linen's Days Awake EP

3. Molly Linen - ’Spring'

4. Herbert Powell - ‘Once Powerful Uncle’

5. FELL - ’I’m In Love (With My Psychiatrist)'

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.