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.

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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'

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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.

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.

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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’

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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.

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.

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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’

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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)'

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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.

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.

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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'

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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.

Hi there pals, PICTISH TRAIL is here to guide your ears through this month’s releases on Lost Map Records - including some exclusive tracks from CALLUM EASTER, and a brand new single from MOLLY LINEN.

In today’s episode, we’re joined by Randolph’s Leap frontman ADAM ROSS, who talks us through his A.R. PINEWOOD project. Following the release of 2020’s No Life LP, Adam has recorded a new mini-album of vocoder ballads called Moonfire, 8 songs of heartbreak and interstellar exploration - with PostMap Club members getting first dibs.

FIRST GIG WORST GIG returns with ROZI PLAIN in the hot seat, accompanied by her pal Kate Stables, aka THIS IS THE KIT. They chat through their gigging memories, whilst waiting for their Greggs pasties at a services near Hellingly (just off the Hailsham Bypass, next to the Boship Roundabout).

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EPISODE TRACKLISTING:

1. Clip of Callum Easter - ’System’ (Alt Version)

2. Clip of Molly Linen - ’The Day Starts'

3. Clips of A.R Pinewood - No Life LP and Moonfire EP

4. A.R. Pinewood - ‘Grandeur’

5. Rozi Plain - ‘Friend City’ (Delifinger remix)

6. Molly Linen - ’The Day Starts'

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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.

Hullo, PICTISH TRAIL, here - with a round-up of all the music we are releasing through Lost Map’s PostMap Club this month. I’ve also got a bit of spooky chat / advice about a recent demo submission…

In today’s episode, we get to meet KOPPIES - a brand new collaborative project from singer songwriters Victoria Hume, Chris Letcher and Matthew van der Want, based in Johannesburg. They talk us through their debut EP, a co-release between Lost Map and South Africa’s legendary Shifty Records imprint. Follow them online, here: https://koppies.co.uk/

We’ve resurrected our THIS OR THAT gameshow, in which we ask YOU (the public) to pose the most taxing of questions to our roster of hot musical talent. Our contestants this month are Matt + Owen, aka KINBOTE + KISZES - a new electronic-pop collaboration from Edinburgh/East Lothian.

Finally we’ve got some news on a festival that Lost Map is helping to curate - JUPITER RISING. Taking place over 27th & 28th August 2021, just outside Edinburgh, there’s going to be performances from Pictish Trail, Alabaster dePlume, Rachel Aggs, Free Love, Romeo Taylor, Callum Easter and more. You can find out more by going to http://jupiterrising.art.

We close today’s show with ‘What You Think?’, the first single from Callum Easter’s forthcoming album, System. PostMap Club members will have received a code, for a discount on the limited edition LP, in bottle-green vinyl.

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EPISODE TRACKLISTING:

1. Clip of Firestations - ’Sun In Your Eyes'

2. Clips of Koppies EP

3. Koppies - ‘Hospital Song’

4. Kinbote + Kiszes - ‘GPA’

5. Callum Easter - ‘What You Think?'

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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.