"MY name is Johnny, and I make music as Pictish Trail", read the introductory email. "I’m from Scotland – currently living on the Hebridean isle of Eigg, where I run my label, Lost Map Records.

"Last year I released a Pictish Trail album called Future Echoes, and I’m heading out on the road this November and December for a special stripped-back festive tour, which I’ve seasonally entitled the Winter Rewind Acid Reflux tour. Oooh."

Oooh, indeed he is. Johnny Lynch, alias the "Scottish DIY electronic folk-tinged croft pop sonic hermit" Pictish Trail will be playing The Basement, at City Screen, York, tomorrow night (December 12) at the invitation of York promoters Please Please You.

In his own words, tonight's gig will be a self-styled intimate Yuletide Eigg-nog of Hebridean Casio folk, with twisted and blissed-out regurgitations of ol’ Pictish Trail favourites, performed by the old Casio keyboard-playing Lynch in a three-piece with multi-instrumentalists Suse Bear, from Tuff Love, and his support act John B. McKenna, from Monoganon.

For the past 12 months, Lynch has been performing Future Echoes' "big, epic-sounding beautiful songs" wearing a multi-coloured silk poncho, covering his face in glitter, and accompanied by a full band in skin-tight, soft-pink clothing. "It’s been lots of fun, and we’ve been fortunate enough to play a lot of really cool places," he says, but his winter travels take those songs elsewhere, hence the tour title.

"I was around at my friend Suse’s place, and we were mucking about with the songs, deconstructing them, making some more minimal, blissed-out, harmony-driven versions. We recorded them, and they sounded really great," he says. "It got me thinking it would be cool to do a run of shows – in more intimate, cosy spaces – where we perform these musical regurgitations. Suse is gonna be joining me, as will my pal John B. McKenna, who will also open each show, with a special Monoganon performance. We’re gonna make the show suitably festive and merry, so it would be very nice indeed to have your company."

Expect drum machine samples, effects pedals and a box that changes Lynch's voice too. "It's stripped back, with a lot of live playing, with some things going horribly, and some things going perfectly, which is part of the charm of these shows, breathing new life into some of my old songs, making me think how I will do my next record," he says. "Thinking about what's got the biggest reaction and how I might distil that on a record that I now know will have more 'space' on it."

The unusual tour title emerged after Lynch's agent suggested he should use one with a Christmas theme. "But I thought, 'that's been done so often; let's have an image of coughing up death'!" he says. "I'd been working on a song called Regurgitation, which I didn't quite finish for the tour, but I don't think you've heard the last of that 'Reflux' imagery yet."

Please Please You presents Pictish Trail, Winter Rewind Acid Reflux Tour, The Basement, City Screen, York, tomorrow (December 12), supported by Monoganon, 8pm. Box office: pleasepleaseyou.com, in person from Earworm Records, York, or Jumbo Records, Leeds, or on the door from 7.30pm.