Lost Map Podcast

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.

Hullo, Pictish Trail, here. Please join me for approximately 52 mins of music and chat about all things Lost Map!

Every month we release music through our membership service, PostMap Club. This month we have previously unreleased tunes and a video montage of live sessions from John B McKenna, aka MONOGANON - who joins us from his home in Malmo for a hearty chat about squeaky chairs, Alan Moore’s Jerusalem, Brian Butterfield, Yung Lean, Busta Rhymes, Knightrider. Oh, and we also talk a wee bit about John’s music.

Check out the amazing sounds he has been creating through his Foundation Of The Teacherock label, over here: https://foundationoftheteacherock.bandcamp.com/music

In addition to this, there’s a brand new single from our good friend EMMA KUPA (Standard Fare / Mammoth Penguins), who also shares distant memories of live shows, in our regular First Gig Worst Gig segment.

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EPISODE TRACKLISTING:

1. Emma Kupa - ‘Happy Birthday'

2. Monoganon - ‘UFO’

+ a selection of clips from Monoganon’s album’s F A M I L Y, Killmens and Killmens II, plus Undermedvetenheten.

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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.

Molly Linen joins us for some chat about her start in music, and the making of her new single ‘A Lot To Give’; we’ve got a guest postcard release from RKB Vitesse, who talks us through the mysterious world of remixes; and in First Gig / Worst Gig, Kate from Kid Canaveral joins us for possibly the most harrowing set of experiences yet. It might make you never want to go to a gig ever again.

And THIS OR THAT sadly returns with a very, very special A-list celebrity. Or maybe it’s an April Fool On The Hill?

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EPISODE TRACKLISTING:

1. Kinbote - Clip of ’In The Rushes’ (live session)

2. RKB Vitesse - Clip of ‘Pledge Psychodrama’

3. Molly Linen - Clips of Outside

4. Molly Linen - ‘A Lot To Give’

5. Kid Canaveral - ’Skeletons’ (Synaesthete remix)

6. RKB Vitesse - Clips of Pledge Psychodrama EP

7. Pictish Trail - ‘Dream Wall’ (Good Dog remix)

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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.

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

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

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

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

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EPISODE TRACKLISTING:

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

2. Savage Mansion - Clip of ‘Wig Wise’

3. Alexia Avina - Clips of Unearth + live session

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

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

6. Savage Mansion - ‘Prizes’

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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.

Your host Pictish Trail rummages though the PostMap Club mail-bag, and plays some brand new music from the Lost Map label - including tracks from Firestations, Jenny Moore’s Mystic Business, and a remix by Callum Easter. There’s also an exclusive first play (in full) of an unreleased Pictish track, entitled ‘Dream Wall’.

This month’s episode also features a one-on-one interview with multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter Lukas Clasen, aka SULKA - whose brand new album, Take Care, just came out on CD and cassette.

Rose Canaveral gets us in the Valentines mood with an erotic ghost story, that will definitely give you the willies.

In First Gig / Worst Gig, Suse Bear (aka Good Dog) unveils her pop-past, and shares two memories of terrible gigs that’ll make you thankful we’re still in lockdown.

And in this month’s edition of THIS OR THAT we are joined by a live studio audience for a special Mr & Ms. gameshow format, in which we have two members of Lost Map staff as contestants. Our social media manager Bart is pitted against our admin guru Laura. There’s a cash prize, but rest assured the chances of this lot winning anything are slim…

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EPISODE TRACKLISTING:

1. Firestations - ’The Circular’

2. Jenny Moore’s Mystic Business - ‘Woman Is A Word’

3. Pictish Trail - ’Slow Memories’ (Callum Easter remix)

4. Sulka - Clips of Take Care, + ‘Fell Out Of A Sky’

5. Good Dog - ‘Jury Duty’

6. Pictish Trail - ‘Dream Wall’

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To support Lost Map, and to listen to some of the 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.