You are about to read the story of an ever changing and ever evolving musical group known simply as 'Lagoons'. Now due to the fact that the whole history has never been properly documented we are simply going to go on memory.
This whole thing started in the mind of one David Lindquist when he was living in his Pembroke street apartment with his girlfriend sometime in 2003. David had been out of the pop music loop for some years mainly because he produced electronic music under the name Laroquxe. One of his best friends, Rolla Olak, who was also an electronic music producer had seemed to lose all interest in the beats and formed a rock band called Grace Nocturnal -- This inspired David to pick up the guitar again and throw away the TB-303.
What is now known as ‘Lagoons’ started under the name ‘Protect This One’ and was essentially just solo surf pop project done alone in David’s bedroom. David released all the PTO recordings on the www.newmusiccanada.com website and received a promising response from the people who listened, even getting some air time on CBC Radio 3 (Which is David’s favorite radio show) – Time went on and David started having the hunger to play live which, in turn forced the young Lindquist to find other members to play with…
The search was on; David looked high and low for the future members of Protect This One. E-mails were written, People were smooshed (sp?) and David found Michael Collinge. Mike originally started as the drummer and PTO was to be a duo, but a few jams later a younger brother who was a better drummer than Mike was introduced, so mike went to the bass guitar and the three piece was born.
The trio seemed to be a fun musical time, but something was lacking so more E-mails were written and Ryan McCullagh was found. The guys played and played – But the impending doom was near…
Fast forward to the summer of 2004 and David had big plans to record the pseudo-record that would be known in some social circles as 'Summer Days / Summer Nights' – The heat was on, Not only because Mr. Lindquist put a lot of pressure on himself to make a great recording, But it was also a very, very hot summer.
One morning David woke up beside his girlfriend and she informed him of a dream she had in which Dave played in a band called Lagoons – This dream was more significant than she probably knew.
Chaos, Pure chaos – for one reason or another, The all three of the other members of PTO were unable to work on the recording of the debut album, leaving Dave to do this all on his own – To add salt to the wounds, David and his girlfriend decided to call it quits.
David suffered out the rest of the summer of 2004 in the apartment that bared the stink of relationships of all kinds lost and produced a minimalist version of what he imagined his songs would be. That being said David was pretty happy with the finished product, But not entirely happy. Due to the fact that there was so much change surrounding the time, Dave decided to change his project’s name to 'Lagoons'.
After David caught his breath and settled into the fall, there seemed to be a calm after the storm. David moved into a musical house with a fellow named Etienne Alexandre. Etienne and David seemed to be on the same wave length not only with music, but also with life, Mr. Alexandre also played the drums a bit. Naturally David asked Etienne to be in Lagoons – Dave was now going after a more stripped down almost melodic rock vibe with the project and the decision to find a bass player was inevitable, Again E-mails were written and David met a fellow by the name of Mark Vondrasek, A very nice lad indeed. So the line up was set… Again.
Lagoons played a handful of shows and after Dave had a life changing epiphany he ventured into the mountains alone to get a grasp on what was going on in his personal life. It seemed the end of Lagoons, but the trick is, there is no end.
A year has passed and David called up the man whom he was in his first band with at the age of 15 to play drums, this man is named Daniel Thompson and quickly after that David recruited another one of his best friends, Simon Vreeswijk to play the bass – They began jamming and things went really well really fast.
The version of Lagoons that involved Dan Thompson and Simon Vreeswijk lasted a good year and then some and by far was the best sounding and most enjoyable version of Lagoons -- But David felt the urge to move himself and his music to the beautiful city of Montreal and this is where he finds himself now.. Starting fresh in a new city, A gorgeous city.