Lost Map Podcast

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.

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.

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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'

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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

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… 

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. 

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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'

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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

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

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

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.

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. 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’

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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.

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.

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. 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'

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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.

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.