Episodes
Speaking from a car park outside a guesthouse in Totnes, while nursing a mid-tour hangover, join PICTISH TRAIL for a scintillating 50 minutes or so, of Lost Map goodness.
Published 10/01/22
Join PICTISH TRAIL and his good pal LAURA for an hour of music and chat about all things LOST MAP, including an interview with electronic producers MAKENESS about their trip to the Isle of Eigg...
Published 09/01/22
It’s the height of festival season, so what better way to spend an hour than in the company of three festival burn-outs, PICTISH TRAIL, LAURA and BART OWL? Join them as they purge their desires and inner-demons to recall their fantasy festival line-ups and darkest memories...
Published 08/01/22
PICTISH TRAIL has been so busy organising the 'Island Family Gathering’ event on Eigg that he's run out of time to record a conversation with LAURA this month - so you'll just have to listen to him all on his own. His voice sounds different on its own, doesn’t it?
Published 07/01/22
Now they are seasoned podcasters, Pictish Trail and Laura discover that it’s nigh-on impossible to avoid slipping into Partridge every 5 minutes. The show might as well be called Mid-Morning Mappers, at this point.
Published 06/01/22
A new month means a new pod, but Pictish Trail isn’t even sure what day of the week it is, let alone month … luckily Laura ‘LoHoDo’ is on-board to help steer us through this month’s PostMap Club releases, including the return of our residency project, VISITATIONS...
Published 05/01/22
Pictish Trail and his hairy guitarist, Joe, are sat in a budget hotel, wondering if they can actually produce a coherent podcast while on tour…
Published 04/01/22
Pictish Trail and Laura spill the details on an upcoming Isle of Eigg event, then guide you through this month’s releases on the Lost Map label; Savage Mansion talk us through their incredible new album; and comedian James Acaster reveals his First Gig Worst Gig experiences.
Published 03/01/22
Your favourite podcast about a Hebridean record label is back with a brand new series, and an all new format (that is actually totally the same as the last series, but with a co-host, and maybe 30% more swearing).
Published 02/01/22
If you’re new to the world of Lost Map, or you have severe memory problems, this 45 minute mix of deep-cuts and hidden gems is a good place to start.
Published 01/01/22
Our last podcast of 2021 is filled with all the festive trimmings you might expect from a trolley dash around your local branch of Iceland at 7.45pm on Christmas Eve. Which is to say, not very festive at all. Still there’s some discount Eigg-nog on offer, and new music from Lost Map playing over the tannoy.
Published 12/01/21
November’s edition of the Lost Map Podcast features the celebrity voices of Alan Rickman, Craig Ferguson, Anthony Fantano, and Luigi from Mario Kart, and yet none of these people actually appear. What does that mean? You must listen, my friends.
Published 11/01/21
If you’re looking for a podcast in which self-proclaimed "Scottish celebrity" Pictish Trail discusses the music he is releasing on his Lost Map label during the month of October in the year 2021, then look no further! This is that podcast.
Published 10/01/21
Predictably hungover and sounding huskier than ever, Pictish Trail has returned to Eigg having just played his first live shows in 18 months - be gentle with him, as he guides you through this month’s music on Lost Map.
Published 09/01/21
Pictish Trail has gone on a trip to the mainland, but cannot bear to leave his budget hotel room without informing you about the new tunes coming out on Lost Map Records during the month of August 2021.
Published 08/01/21
Pictish Trail plays through a selection of tunes from this month’s PostMap Club mailbag; Adam Ross unmasks A.R. Pinewood; and Rozi Plain prepares to scoff a Greggs vegan sausage roll.
Published 07/01/21
Music and chat from the Isle of Eigg in Scotland, via Johannesburg, Walthamstow and back up to Edinburgh, courtesy of Pictish Trail and Lost Map Records.
Published 06/01/21
Despite Brexit and a global pandemic, an inhabitant of the Scottish Isle of Eigg makes contact with an inhabitant of Malmo, Sweden, and merriment ensues.
Published 05/01/21
Once again, Pictish Trail brings you otherworldly sounds from Lost Map, going through the PostMap Club releases for April 2021.
Published 04/01/21
Allow Pictish Trail to expel his hot air (chat, not farts) on a balloon ride from his home on the Isle of Eigg, Scotland, across the Atlantic and over to the other side of America, where we meet ambient-folk artist Alexia Avina in Portland, Oregon; with just enough puff, we travel back over to meet Firestations in Walthamstow, London, before returning almost full circle to sunny Glasgow for some gossip with Savage Mansion.
Published 03/01/21
Featuring new music, erotic stories and some chat about Gary Jules flat-cap, his month’s episode of the podcast is as mysterious, harrowing and unexpected as an anonymous Valentines card written in a sticky brown liquid that you honest-to-god hope is dried blood.
Published 02/01/21
It’s finally 2021, and we’ve all survived. Our collective reward is a 45 minute podcast about brand new music on Lost Map Records. Hooray.
Published 01/01/21
Let’s face it, it's pretty much Xmas already, so for the next 60 minutes just surrender yourself to a good stuffing of audio enjoyment, in a suitably festive episode of the Lost Map Podcast - featuring tracks from our Xmas Card compilation, and a lot of tenuous Yuletide features.
Published 12/01/20
Lost Map Podcast gets a reboot! Join your host Pictish Trail for the first episode of a new series, centred around PostMap Club - our monthly membership programme, where we send you postcards containing downloads for new music from the label.
Published 11/01/20
For the last episode of our current series, Lost Map alumni Rozi Plain is joined in conversation by her collaborators Gerard Black and Jamie Whitby-Coles, to discuss their collective experience on the Isle of Eigg for our VISITATIONS residency project; Pictish Trail looks back across the two series, gathers his thoughts, and plans for the future…
Published 10/11/20