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.
Proud Mary(Full Band) @ ABC2, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow. Thursday 27th Aug 2009. The band Noel Gallagher signed to his Sour Mass label in 2001 are back with a new album and a full band tour. Greg's recent acoustic shows sold out at King Tuts and ABC2 last year so get your tickets quick! www.tickets-scotland.com 0141 204 5151 www.ticketmaster.co.uk In person from ABC Box Office
Support comes from John Rush + Majestic Dandelion + The Scuffers.
They will also be doing a special show on Friday, 28th August. Keep watching www.kmrpromotions.com updates
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.
Hello, Thanks John. I think a National Park Track will be the next on my stereo. By the way, I saw you were playing in Music and Movement too. Great band. I found (after weeks of search on webstores) one copy of "this is" :) Cheers! Vincent
The Green Door Analogue Recording Studio cordially invites you to their 1st birthday party, on Saturday December 20th at the Captain's Rest in Glasgow, featuring live sets from Remember Remember, Tut Vuvu, Alasdair Roberts and Punch and the Apostles. Free Entry! Free CD! 8pm-1am
