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Lost Map: How to build a DIY label on love, woolly hats and sheep dung
![Lost Map label boss Johnny Lynch performing as part of new collective Weird Wave at the Eigg Community Hall during Howlin’ Fling 2023](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/1578_Music_Lost_Map_Presents_Weird_wave_1.jpg?w=768)
Lost Map: How to build a DIY label on love, woolly hats and sheep dung
A decade on, how has record label Lost Map not only survived, but thrived on the tiny Scottish Isle of Eigg? Malcolm Jack – who's been there since the start – explains.
Sincerity or cynicism? The captivating slipperiness of Ben Folds
![Ben Folds sitting on a piano](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Ben-Folds_credit-Alysse-Gafkjen.jpg?w=768)
Sincerity or cynicism? The captivating slipperiness of Ben Folds
‘Pavement is as viable today as we were in the mid-90s’
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‘Pavement is as viable today as we were in the mid-90s’
Sparks: People think we're weird. We’ve never felt that