Lost Map 10 - Stroud Takeover - Amy May Ellis & Firestations
Delifinger, The Prince Albert and Lost Map Records present the Lost Map 10 Stroud Takeover - A celebration to mark the hebridean record label's 10th birthday.
The Prince Albert will be hosting part 2 of the event, a double headliner featuring Lost Map acts, Amy May Ellis and Firestations, with support from Bit Cloudy.
Raised in a remote dale in the middle of the North York Moors, Amy May Ellis invites you on a journey through the history and mysticism of this wide-open landscape. Now based in Bristol, Amy’s warm and delicate folk-leaning songs are steeped in the culture, scenery, folklore and wildlife of the countryside that surrounded and shaped her as a child. Brought up singing around the house with her mother, Amy May Ellis was first inspired to start writing songs aged 15 on a ukulele bought for her by her grandad. She began making her mark as a musician through support slots for touring artists including Michael Chapman, Alessi’s Ark, Hiss Golden Messenger, Tiny Ruins, Ryley Walker and Willy Mason at her local music venue The Band Room in Farndale. Since 2018, with the support of a growing band of friends, collaborators and fans, Amy has released a series of four acclaimed EPs, each exploring an element. Inspired by centuries of human habitation on the ancient North York Moors, her debut album Over Ling and Bell was written in a secluded farmhouse there, mostly alone but sometimes with friends. It represents the fullest, finest, and most complete manifestation yet of Amy's nourishing nature songs. “ELEMENTAL FOLK ROOTED IN THE YORKSHIRE MOORS” 8/10 – UNCUT
Firestations are Michael Cranny, Laura Copsey, Martin Thompson, Tom Hargreaves and Neil Walsh. Together they make music spanning genres from shoegazey indie to synth pop and harmony-driven psychedelia. Their second album 'The Year Dot' was released in 2018 and was hailed by The List magazine for “pursuing ambitious social commentaries while playfully teasing its own sonic glitches”.
'Thick Terrain' is being released on limited-edition 12” vinyl and digital platforms, with accompanying zine, on July 14, 2023. A clear-eyed and bold statement, it deftly combines big ideas with pop sensibilities in a captivating way, making it the band’s most ambitious and accomplished work to date. It follows Firestations’ expansive and explorative 2021 EP trilogy 'Automatic Tendencies', which garnered extensive radio and press support, with Marc Riley (BBC 6 Music) hailing the track ‘Small Island’ as “a perfect pop song”.
Martin Thompson aka Bit Cloudy, is a leftfield electronic producer from East London, and guitarist in Firestations.
"Bit Cloudy makes fuzzy synth paeans influenced by the output of the Border Community and Ghostly labels,
offbeat dance acts Caribou and Four Tet, and classic hip hop... Fragile beauty and an enjoyable smudginess throughout..." Ben Murphy, MixMag
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