MELTING VINYL PRESENTS: PICTISH TRAIL

DATE: MAY 8

TIME: 7PM

TICKETS: £22 + BF

AGE: 18+

Pictish Trail, AKA Johnny Lynch, has just completed work on a brand-new album 'Life Slime', a sticky, shimmering swirl of sound and oooze (both metaphorical and literal). To celebrate, he returns to the stage in 2026 accompanied by his full live band. These shows bring the new songs to life in bold, expansive form - rhythmic, euphoric and immersive, balancing motorik pulse with warped pop melody and raw emotional release. Expect tenderness, weirdness, and a generous dollop of goo.

Based on the Isle of Eigg in the Scottish Hebrides, Pictish Trail is known for his wildly inventive electro-acoustic psych-pop. His 2022 album Island Family, his third for London’s Fire Records, drew acclaim from The Observer, The Times, Mojo, Uncut, Loud & Quiet, and BBC 6 Music. It was followed in autumn 2024 by Follow Footsteps, an EP of reworked Island Family tracks released via his own Lost Map Records, in conjunction with Fire. Recasting the euphoric-bucolic psychedelia of ‘Island Family’, ‘Melody Something’ and ‘Nuclear Sunflower Swamp’ through a softer filter - and complemented by a pair of incidental instrumentals - Lynch discovered delicately kaleidoscopic new resonance in the material.

"A favourite artist of ours, I’m always excited to hear what Pictish Trail is doing next. This is beautiful,” – Lauren Laverne, BBC 6 Music.