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About Me

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.

More tracks can be heard at: nationalparksite.com
and you can see National Park videos on http://www.youtube.com/yieldrecordings .

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

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 15/10/2005
Band Website: http://www.nationalparksite.com
Band Members: 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.
Record Label: Various
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

National Park live with Calvin Johnson Sat 9th Aug

Saturday 9th August Tracer Trails presentCALVIN JOHNSONNATIONAL PARK& WITHERED HANDat Lansdowne Parish Church (Great Western Road, opp. Kelvinbridge station)from 8pmentry 'by donation' (min. £5 pl...
Posted by on Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:13:00 GMT

National Park Videos on youtube

There's some National park videos up on youtube now at: http://www.youtube.com/yieldrecordings
Posted by on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 05:19:00 GMT

National Park, live with Tenniscoats, Tape, Ass at Mono

Monorail Music is proud to present, in conjunction with our esteemed partners, Mono, an incredible night of music which we feel reflects everything that our shop stands for. TAPE / TENNISCOATS / NATI...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Oct 2006 08:18:00 GMT

Get well soon, Eilidh!!

I think someone (probably Ian?) on the Lucky Luke site, expressed it very well when he said: "Get well soon, Eilidh!! As some of you might know, Eilidh our drummer, who is usually a superhuman whirli...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 09:37:00 GMT

Buy The Only Stars 7" online

So, you can now buy the new 7", The Only Stars, online at: yieldrecordings.com shop This week, been listening to: Arthur Russell - First thought, best thoughtJack Kerouac reads On The RoadThe Real Kid...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Jul 2006 19:49:00 GMT

The Only Stars 7"

The new National Park 7", The Only Stars, will be released on 24th July (2006). It's on Yield Recordings, and the press release for it is here: yieldrecordings.com The basic gist: National Park emer...
Posted by on Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:57:00 GMT