John Hogarty - Guitar and Vocals
Simon Shaw - Bass Guitar
Gerard Love - Guitar
Eilidh Rodgers - Drums
Thanks to Katrina Mitchell for drumming when Eilidh broke her collarbone.
New single also has Michael McGaughrin - Drums, Bill Wells - Piano, Sarah Martin - Flute and Mick Cooke - Horn.
Influences
Maybe some of the people we've played with will give you an idea where we're at:
Gigs with The Pastels
Appendix Out
International Airport
Movietone
The Styrenes
Acid Mothers Temple
Richard Youngs
Lucky Luke
Music and Movement
Elliot Smith
Jad Fair
Future Pilot AKA
Belle and Sebastian
Empress
Tape
Tenniscoats
Bill Wells' National Jazz Trio of Scotland
Phantom Engineer
This is a very eclectic list for a band with such a monomaniac sound.
Sounds Like
Loose, ten-minutes-long, tape hiss, folky, warm, a bit like the Velvets, lonesome, a stripped-down (musically!) Galaxie 500/ Yo La Tengo, slightly blurred, like it's raining, snowing, really sunny, somewhere between the visceral and the whistleable.
Formed by John Hogarty and Scott Walker (guitar), Simon Shaw and Michael McGaughrin joined when forced into becoming a real band after being offered a gig at the Pastels' club Illumination with Future Pilot AKA.
After nine under-achieving years and seven records, the lineup is now John, Simon, Gerard Love playing guitar and the incredible Eilidh Rodgers on drums. With John moonlighting earlier in the year for Simon's band (Lucky Luke) and lately Music and Movement, plans are afoot for some new National Park shows/ recordings.
Discography (1998) Great Western 10"
(1999) National Park vs. Future Pilot AKA 7"
(2000) Sterling, on Future Pilot AKA vs. a Galaxy of Sound
(2001) No More Rides, on Geographic Japanese compilation
(2002) No More Rides, on Geographic comp for rest of world
(2003) Secret Songs 7"
(2005) The Only Stars, on Crunk Into Up Vol. 3
(2006) The Only Stars/ La Solara 7" - out 24/7/06
(2006) National Park 7" - forthcoming
Buy new National Park 7" online now
Get the new 7" single, The Only Stars, direct from the Yield Recordings online shop, now. Secure Paypal Transaction.
Thank you very much for the Link Up & Sharing Your Music Nice to meet you through cyberlink! Keep up the Great Work! Wishes you All the Best in 2009! Enjoy your Week!
LATEST NEWS New John Miller album should be finished by Christmas. Hope to have copies available by late January/early February. I'll let you know when it's ready. Johnny M
oye oye thanks for joining the recent world of Phat Tucker, Dont forget we are down the Six Bells in Chiddingly tonight and this isn't gonna be that frequent in this neck of the woods ;-)
MONOTONIX Saturday 28th November Nice n Sleazys, Glasgow
The release of their new album tops off a whirlwind year of touring, the infamy surrounding their charged live perfomances steadily mounting. Rightly so, check out this youtube link- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmEHu-QAgNE&feature=related - and marvel at one of the typically unpredictable gigs of the band that Spin have declared the "most exciting live band in rock'n'roll."
Have a listen www.myspace.com/monotonix
Support from The Elvis Suicide
Tickets Available from www.tickets-scotland.com 0141 204 5151 www.ticketweb.co.uk 08444 77 1000
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Perhaps the rarest precious gem from MOONDOG's treasure chest of sonic delights 'Tell It Again' is released now on POPPYDISC. This 1957 lost classic album features an unlikely but wonderful collaboration with the legendary Julie Andrews. The album's reissue was supervised by Moondog fanatic Duglas T Stewart and sound reproduction has been lovingly remastered by Norman Blake. The album is available on both vinyl and c.d. formats.
Please support our Indie Pop "EP CLUB" presented by Series Two Records and Eggnog Records. It is a collaboration between an Indie Pop label in Nebraska and one in New Zealand. The indie pop EP CLUB's include artists from around the world.
If you would like to grab some free downloads or find out how to own your very own EP CLUB, read here http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=448702614&blogId=512180204
KING KHAN AND THE SHRINES Sun 4th Oct @ Stereo, Glasgow
We have just added ##THE BLACK RAT DEATH SQUAD## to the bill
Support comes from Jack of Hearts Uncle Big Bad
"Fusing the driving stomps of classic sixties soul with the muddy yet crunchy guitars and puerile words of garage rock, King Khan & The Shrines are one of those uncommon groups who seem to live in the past and still make an attention-grabbing noise. The Supreme Genius is a retrospective of their work this century from initial 45s through to the cleaner more sophisticated efforts of their last proper album, What Is?!. Soul is certainly a key ingredient in the Shrine's psychedelic stew, though purists would balk at describing the end product as one of their own ('filthy racket' being the likely response). Fans of the 'rock 'n' soul' pedigree stretching from the Kingsmen to The Make Up and The Black Lips, however, should be more accepting, as will anyone who likes their music loud and raucous" BBC Music
Tickets available from www.tickets-scotland.com www.ticketweb.co.uk 0141 204 5151
TIMES NEW VIKING ##THIS THURSDAY## @ Nice n Sleazys, Glasgow 17th Sep, Doors 7.30pm
Support comes from BANJO OR FREAKOUT + COPY HAHO + MELLIFLUOUS
Ticket available from www.tickets-scotland.com 0141 204 5151 www.ticketweb.co.uk
Times New Viking "Rambunctious to new standards of blessed impenetrability, Ohio trio Times New Viking’s simple-on-paper M.O. is to take the sweetest of super-sweet pop music, indiefied though it is, and strip it of its outer layers of glitz and gloss. The result is music that crackles and fuzzes, screams and roars; it’s an X-Factor audition in a spin-dryer, potential sing-alongs rendered riotously raw through purposeful deconstruction." Clash magazine
North Atlantic Oscillation's "Hollywood Has Ended", from the forthcoming album Grappling Hooks, is featured in this month's Police Box compilation from TenTracks. It's here:
In case you haven't heard, TenTracks is a new music delivery service where you can buy exclusive 10-track compilations for £1, i.e. a mere 10p per track.
This month NAO are in the illustrious company of the excellent Found, Orkestra Del Sol, Fence Collective luminaries James Yorkston and King Creosote and exactly 5 others. Once again, that's £1 for ALL TEN TRACKS. Not bad, really.
If you're out enjoying The Zombies tonight and fancy some more top soft pop why not pop along to the The Twisted Wheel where Australia's The Crayon Fields will be serving up their own brand of gentle, literate pop?
ARE YOU A YOUNG BAND AGE 18-25 READY TO RECORD A THREE SONG DEMO BUT LACKING THE FUNDS TO DO SO? The Green Door Studio is offering five bands five days each in the studio to develope material and record a three song demo at no cost, sponosred by the Scottish Arts Council if interested visit our myspace and send us a message to book a place on our open day Sat 9th May.
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