Lost Map Podcast

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...

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, G...

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 &a...

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 fro...

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 TRACKLISTI...

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 as...

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 inter...

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 ne...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 J...

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 TH...

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...

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-instrume...

It’s the New Year, and Pictish Trail has celebrated by hiding from his children, locking himself inside his garden shed, and recording this very podcast with only a bottle of Babycham for company. This month’s episode includes an in-depth interview with singer-songwriter Clémentine March, who tells us about her life in music, and the making of her new album Songs Of Resilience - which she recorded...

Ho ho ho, Pictish Trail’s stuck up the chimney, his sack literally bulging with postcards. In this month’s episode of the Lost Map Podcast, we unveil a very special Xmas Card containing a compilation of NINE (count ‘em!) tracks from various acts on the Lost Map roster. In order to validate their Xmas credentials, we’ve asked a few band members to list their Top Five Best Things That Are Christmass...

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

In January 2020, Rozi Plain travelled over to the Isle of Eigg to work with two of her closest companions; GERARD BLACK, a Glasgow-based musician and songwriter, frontman with electronic synth upstarts Babe, and frequent performer with Charlotte Gainsbourg and François & The Atlas Mountains; and JAMIE WHITBY-COLES, a fellow acolyte of the Bristol scene, who plays alongside Rozi with This Is Th...

ROZI PLAIN 's gently hypnotic, slightly askew songs have steadily made their way from her home-town of Winchester, reverberated through the bustling Bristol DIY scene, and currently emanate from London’s creative epicentre. One of Lost Map’s most successful alumni, now signed to Memphis Industries, Rozi’s music has acquired a worldliness that’s reflected in her international touring schedule; each...

Lost Map loves sending out postcards. The label’s very first release was a printed postcard containing a download code for a compilation of tracks from across the roster, launched at Green Man Festival in Wales in 2013. Since then, there’s been almost 100 different postcard releases - featuring a plethora of exclusive tracks, b-sides, remixes, live sessions and audio experiments from the Lost Map...

Arriving on the island during the final week of August 2019, armed with her guitar, violin, laptop and a drum machine, she set about creating a diary of songs and instrumental pieces. These intimate solo recordings showcase her distinctive guitar and vocal style, mixed a with lo-fi pop sensibility, capturing a snapshot of isolation inside and outside of the bothy; where field recordings of the sea...

RACHEL AGGS is an exceptionally prolific virtuoso of euphoric post-punk queercore music, achieving international acclaim with her collaborative projects Trash Kit, Shopping and Sacred Paws; galvanising the DIY scene in London, and her current home of Glasgow in the process. No mean feat! We’ve been fans of Rachel’s music for years, and were thrilled when she said she was up for taking part in our...

In our previous episode, we met Grandaddy front-man Jason Lytle, and were introduced to the world of ARTHUR KING - a collective of musicians and film-makers associated with the Dangerbird Records label, in Los Angeles. The ferry from Mallaig had just arrived on the Isle of Eigg, and the ARTHUR KING gang were about to disembark, and begin their week long stay as part of our VISITATIONS artist resid...