WAYPOINTS #232
22/08/25
"I’M FRIGHTENED BY THE WAYS IN WHICH WE COMPLICATE OUR LIVES"
FEATURING: PICTISH TRAIL, BLIND YEO, FLO LINES, DOMINIE HOOPER, PAINTING, DAVE BENSON PHILLIPS
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FREE DISCOUNT!
BY USING THIS MONTH'S CODE 'HOLDIT' IN THE LOST MAP WEB SHOP, POSTMAP CLUB MEMBERS (THAT MEANS YOU) GET 15% OFF ALL PURCHASES. NEW DISCOUNT CODE EVERY MONTH! 😊
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FREE SHIPPING!
SHOP FOR MORE THAN £50, PAY £0 DELIVERY! (UK ONLY) 📦
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NEW MUSIC FROM PICTISH TRAIL
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Dave Benson Phillips doesn't do lo-fi psych-pop ballads but if he did then they might sound a bit like Pictish Trail's extremely excellent 'Hold It'. A song which Pictish, AKA quite simply Johnny Lynch, says is all about "the guilt, shame, and fear that comes with time slipping through our fingers… all the slimy stuff of life.” Think being dunked in an enormous vat of filthy green slime on the popular nineteen-nineties revenge-based kids TV game show Get Your Own Back, except in the form of, y'know, a song.
The first new Pictish material since his acclaimed 2022 album Island Family is produced by Mike Lindsay (Tunng, LUMP), and released as part of Lost Map’s PostMap subscription service in August (which may we remind you is free to new subscribers until the end of the month). It's also out on streaming platforms via Fire Records. All PostMap Club members will receive an exclusive remix of ‘Hold It’, by latest signings to Lost Map, the Edinburgh synth-pop duo Both Hands. Pictish is touring the UK throughout 2025, with shows of particular note including the Lost Map promoted A Secret Evening Down In London With Pictish Trail at The Social in London on Wednesday, November 26, tickets on sale here (so clearly not that secret, then). You'll find a full list of Pictish's upcoming live movements and links to buy tickets down near the slimy bottom of this newsletter, as well as on the Pictish Trail website dot com.
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THE AUGUST LOST MAP PODCAST
1) In which Johnny + Laura talk about why WayPoints is The World's Greatest Newsletter™ 😊, plus some other things (we weren't really listening to the other content tbh).
2) Also feat. new music from Pictish Trail, Blind Yeo, Flo Lines + more.
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PRE-ORDER DOMINIE HOOPER'S ALBUM NOW
1) From nuclear holocaust to a disappointing kebab, you never know what the future may hold next.
2) Pre-order Dominie's In This Body Lives now to be sure of at least one thing: a simply amazing album delivered to your door on/around October 31, 2025.
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FAITH ELIOTT SUPPORTING JAMES YORKSTON & NINA PERSSON
1) Newcastle! Manchester! London! Watch Scots-Scandi combo Yorkston-Persson live in your city this September and get a bonus warm-up set from our Faith Eliott.
2) Tickets for all dates on sale here.
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AUGUST POSTMAP CLUB FEAT.
BLIND YEO + FLO LINES
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"The best things in life are free!" sang Luther Vandross and Janet Jackson in 1992. While they could have been emoting soulfully about anything from little pencils and measuring tapes at IKEA to the concluding fixtures of the 91-92 Football League First Division season which remained available to watch live on BBC/ITV prior to the big FA Premier League BSkyB sellout, we prefer to believe that those two warbling Americans were instead experiencing a premonition. A premonition of Lost Map's PostMap Club subscription service in August, 2025. Which, in case you haven't been paying attention, costs exactly jack sh*t for new subscribers for the remainder of this eighth month of the Year of Our Lord twenty-twenty-five 🙏 Thanks, Luther/Janet!
To celerbrate this freeness, we've sent a really special trilogy of PostMap Club thrillogy your way. Starting with south-west coast psychedelicists Blind Yeo's brand new one 'Love Not Fire'. A slice of flame-grilled euphoria all about "a feeling so intense it transcends... a deep love and connection that blazes through the dark times," says BY's Will Greenham. It makes us think of that time we ate a really excellent XL Burger King "Beef Melt Box™" meal with all the lights off so we didn't have to feel ashamed of our reflection in the bedroom mirror. Blind Yeo are raising spirits and temperatures at some remaining summer festivals and you can find a whole list of them towards the bottom of this beefy e-mail newsletter.
Then there's Flo Lines, back with more extremely chill lo-fi vibes in the form of ‘Tomorrow feels like we are getting nowhere’ b/w ‘The Garden (Spring Instrumental)’. These are bonus tracks taken from a forthcoming limited edition cassette release we’re doing for Flo’s amazing The only thing left is everything EP, which will only be available to purchase from us and from our good pals Good Vibes in Leith (as well as from Flo at live shows). They are PostMap Club exclusives, available nowhere else but on the cassette. Because you are special to us, and we want you to know it.
Also included in August's PostMap Club:
Pictish Trail – 'Hold It' (b/w Both Hands Slow Disco remix)
The first track of original material from Pictish Trail since Island Family, 'Hold It' is a tender, synth-folk song about holding on to love and memory. It’s paired with a blissed-out slow-disco remix by Edinburgh's Both Hands. Which happens to be exactly the number of hands required to eat an extra-beefy Burger King "Beef Melt™".
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A round-up of the three PostMap Club membership tiers and their respective prices and benefits is as follows below.
REGULAR BREW
£3 per month (digital only for new members as of December 2024)
- Music! 2-3 and sometimes more exclusive PostMap Club releases each month, containing brand new music from singles and rarities to whole EPs, live sessions and more.
- Monthly newsletter! Containing hot goss / farmyard sh*te.
- Discounts! On other Lost Map releases, merchandise, gigs.
- Access to our Portal! Containing live video sessions + mixes.
- Feelgood glow! Help support an independent record label.
GOLD BLEND
£5 + postage, per month
- All of the above except with physical postcards and printed newsletter delivered direct to your door. Plus an annual member's badge!
- New exclusive CD compilation every January, featuring some of our favourite tracks from the previous year, including PostMap Club exclusives. This CD won’t be available for sale elsewhere!
CLUB BISCUIT
£10 + postage, per month
- Same as Gold Blend except with a bigger badge.
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THE LOST MAP GIGS'N'TOURS MEGAMIX
BLIND YEO LIVE:
FRI, AUG 22 @ SHAMBALA FESTIVAL, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE
SAT, AUG 23 @ PALAIS DE PHONIX, SOLFEST, CUMBRIA
THU, AUG 28 @ SMUGGLER’S FESTIVAL, KENT
FRI, AUG 29 @ BRIGHTON PSYCH FEST, VARIOUS VENUES, BRIGHTON
SAT, AUG 30 @ MANCHESTER PSYCH FEST, VARIOUS VENUES, MANCHESTER
SUN, AUG 31 @ EDINBURGH PSYCH FEST, VARIOUS VENUES, EDINBURGH
FRI 21, NOV @ JAM JAR, BRISTOL (w/ PICTISH TRAIL) [TICKETS]
DOMINIE HOOPER LIVE:
AUG 21-24 @ SHAMBALA FESTIVAL, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE (FULL BAND)
AUG 28-31 @ SMUGGLERS FESTIVAL, DEAL, KENT (FULL BAND)
SAT, SEP 13 @ JAMINAROUND, DORSET (FULL BAND)
OCT 24-26 @ BOIA FESTIVAL, PEMBROKESHIRE (SOLO)
THU, NOV 27 @ IN THIS BODY LIVES ALBUM LAUNCH, MOTH CLUB,
LONDON (FULL BAND) [TICKETS]
WED, JAN 21 @ ROUGH TRADE BRISTOL, BRISTOL
FAITH ELIOTT LIVE:
WED, SEP 17 @ THE COMMON ROOM, NEWCASTLE *
FRI, SEP 19 @ HALLÉ ST PETER'S, MANCHESTER *
SAT, SEP 20 @ ST MARTIN IN THE FIELDS, LONDON *
SUN, OCT 19 @ THE GLAD CAFE, GLASGOW (DRYAS ALBUM LAUNCH w/ INSTRUCTION MANUAL + SULKA) [TICKETS]
* = supporting James Yorkston & Nina Persson
PAINTING LIVE:
AUG 28-31 @ SMUGGLERS FESTIVAL, DEAL, KENT [TICKETS]
FRI, OCT 24 @ SHACKLEWELL ARMS, LONDON [FREE, TICKETED]
PICTISH TRAIL LIVE:
FRI 29, AUG @ ROSE HILL, BRIGHTON [TICKETS]
SUN 31, AUG @ SMUGGLERS FESTIVAL, KENT [TICKETS]
FRI 24, OCT @ ROCKFIELD CENTRE, OBAN [TICKETS]
SAT 25, OCT @ COMMUNITY HALL, KNOYDART [TICKETS]
SUN 26, OCT @ LAS PORTREE, ISLE OF SKYE [TICKETS]
MON 27, OCT @ BOWLING CLUB, PITLOCHRY [ON SALE SOON]
TUE 28, OCT @ TOLBOOTH, STIRLING [TICKETS]
WED 29, OCT @ HUG & PINT, GLASGOW [TICKETS]
THU 30, OCT @ PLAYHOUSE, MONTROSE [TICKETS]
SUN 2, NOV @ WAITING ROOM, STOCKTON ON TEES [TICKETS]
THU 13, NOV @ THE ENGINE ROOM, NORTH SHIELDS [TICKETS]
SAT 15, NOV @ PARISH TEMP, HUDDERSFIELD [TICKETS]
SUN 16, NOV @ THE CASTLE, MANCHESTER [TICKETS]
MON 17, NOV @ BLUE BIRD, YORK [TICKETS]
TUE 18, NOV @ FUTURE YARD, BIRKENHEAD [TICKETS]
WED 19, NOV @ WILTSHIRE M.C., BRADFORD-UPON-AVON * [TICKETS]
THU 20, NOV @ HARE & HOUNDS, BIRMINGHAM * [TICKETS]
FRI 21, NOV @ JAM JAR, BRISTOL (w/ BLIND YEO) [TICKETS]
SAT 22, NOV @ ISLINGTON A.M., LONDON * [TICKETS]
WED 26, NOV @ THE SOCIAL, LONDON [TICKETS]
* = supporting Tunng
SULKA LIVE:
SUN, OCT 19 @ THE GLAD CAFE, GLASGOW (SUPPORTING FAITH ELIOTT @ DRYAS ALBUM LAUNCH w/ INSTRUCTION MANUAL) [TICKETS]
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