Pictish Trail (Full Band) + Faith Eliott - INVERNESS
Fri 30 May
|An Seòmar, Inverness
The wonder and mystery that is Pictish Trail is leaving his island and coming to Inverness! This will be a full band show with Johnny Lynch bringing his unique blend of music to An Seòmar. Supporting Pictish Trail will be songwriter and visual artist Faith Eliott.
Time & Location
30 May 2025, 19:30 – 22:30
An Seòmar, Inverness, 11-19 Church St, Inverness IV1 1DZ, UK
About the Event
Pictish Trail
Throughout his career Pictish Trail has resolutely furrowed his own path, steadily creating a unique catalogue of recordings & performances, while eschewing the blueprint of the predictable singer-songwriter in favour of something untidily intriguing.
Island Family is the fifth album from Isle-of-Eigg dwelling electro-acoustic psych-pop artist Johnny Lynch aka Pictish Trail, and released by Fire Records & Lost Map in 2022. A strange, unpredictable, sardonic and yet deeply personal record inspired by all from Fever Ray to The Flaming Lips, Liars, Mercury Rev and Beck, Island Family is Pictish Trail’s contrarian view of arcadia; a search for the euphoric in the bucolic.
When not putting out his own music as Pictish Trail, Johnny Lynch is a fulcrum of the British independent music community. Through his label Lost Map, he champions a diverse and idiosyncratic array of extraordinary talent, helping to elevate the likes of Rozi Plain, Alabaster dePlume, Bas Jan, Callum Easter…