It's just me on record, mostly. Rozi Plain has been helping me out live, a lot. When i go "full-on-easy-rocker-band" it's usually comprised of other Fence Collectees ... King Creosote (keyboard, backing vocals, accordion), Captain Geeko The Dead Aviator (drummage), OnTheFly (percussion and drum machines / electronics), Uncle Beesly (bass man) and James Yorkston (guitar, backing vocals). My pal Richard Colburn played bongos once, which was crackin'. Adem helps out from time to time too.
This is a new song called 'sequels', that someone filmed when i was in Oslo:
Hi there.
I'm the Pictish Trail. My real name is Johnny.
I run a wee DIY record label with my friend, King Creosote, called Fence Records.
THINGS YOU CAN BUY:
I've got a 7" single, on icy-clear vinyl, on Fence Records. It features two remixes of the song Winter Home Disco. One of the remixes is done by HOT CHIP, and the other is done by a band called FOUND (who are also on Fence Records). You can hear clips of the remixes in the MySpace Player, above. If you'd like to buy the single, you should click on the pic below ...
The original version of Winter Home Disco can be found on my debut album, Secret Soundz Vol.1 - out NOW through Fence Records. It's available from the Fence website, and in all good independent record stores. YOU CAN BUY A COPY FROM THE FENCE RECORDS WEBSITE BY CLICKING HERE.
This is what it looks like
And here is what some nice people have said about it ...
MOJO MAGAZINE
PICTISH TRAIL - SECRET SOUNDZ VOL.1 (Fence) **** 4 STARS Johnny Lynch the one man force behind the Pictish Trail, has spent much of the last few years helping friends and fellow fence members, like Kenny Anderson's King Creosote and James Yorkston get their careers off the ground. Finally recording an album in his basement he reveals himself as a powerful songwriter in his own right. Starting with a kraftwerk like electro pulse of 'Secret Soundz 2' the album moves straight into the emotive melancholy of 'All I Own', while 'I Don't Know Where To Begin', bolstered by a rhythm section from The Earlies, combines a constant folk drone with a soaring melody and Lynch's pure high vocals. He's at his best when he starts small and builds up - the glorious 'Into The Smoke' has the quality of a rousing anthem that, with its squiggles and what sounds like a toddler in the background, holds on to a sense of intamacy. **** Will Hodgkinson
PLAN B MAGAZINE "A post-summer trove of sun-warped electro, anamorphic folk, Reg Perrin homages and lambent anthems – not least the wondrous ‘Words Fail Me Now’: never has ill-fitting Y-front falsetto sounded so thrilling. The dude is a treat." Nicola Meighan
OBSERVER MUSIC MONTHLY
Pictish Trail, Secret Soundz Vol.1 (Fence) **** 4 STARS Johnny Lynch's debut as the Pictish Trail should be compulsory listening for anyone under the impression that Fence, the label he co-runs with King Creosote, is solely devoted to lo-fi folk. Indebted to Hot Chip, the Beta Band and Paul McCartney, this is charming, fresh and quietly outré. Paul Mardles
NME "This debut, despite being so lo-fi you can hear buses drive past, is more ambitious than the homely vibe suggests. The Pictish Trail has found limited resources to be no handicap for a limitless imagination." Sam Richards
THE SCOTSMAN "Secret Soundz is a collection of lo-fi, intimate, routinely lovely introspection **** 4 STARS " Fiona Shepherd
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Oh ... also ... you might want to check out this single. It's a split 7" with the band FOUND, on pure-green vinyl. My side contains the song 'Words Fail Me Now', which you can hear in the MySpace player, above.
Whooopi! Welcome!! Come to Berlin asap, please. It's kinda lame stalking you via Internet... ;-) (Yes, we did. But don't be afraid: We are just nice and harmless rabbits who can't pay a flight to Scotland)
Eat Your Own Ears presents JAMES YORKSTON AND THE BIG EYES FAMILY PLAYERS ALASDAIR ROBERTS MARRY WATERSON & OLIVER KNIGHT MARY HAMPTON DAVID A JAYCOCK Plus guests
2's UP, it's ma fuckin birthday... Free Limited Edition Print (1/50) and an 80min mix cd (1/150) to the earliest arrivals...
NOTE THAT WE ARE STARTING AT 9 THIS MONTH, TO MAKE ROOM FOR THE TREMOLO BEER GUT (all the way from Denmark) AND BIG NED (all the way from the black lodge).
