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the national shield

quit holding your breath...

About Me

it's the fight we believe in!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/1/2006
Band Members: having graced a stage: c.l.mclaughlin, tom tischer, jon schubert, graham christoferson, jessica wilkin, anju singh, will austin, curtis woloschuk, marc morrisette, gena perala, and many have brandished a shaker, but less is perhaps more... though not by definition.
Influences: the details
Sounds Like: "If you’ve ever driven across Northern Canada you know there’s a whole lot of nothing going on between the Rockies and Hudson’s Bay. Kind of like these guys: impressive, majestic, expansive, but apart from that really nothing but lichen, rocks and Husky truckstops with Tim Ho’s booths." -only. ************************************************************ ****"If Malkmus and Nilsson bred, it wouldn’t be pretty but it sure would be poppy." -tooth and dagger.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

celebrate!

okay, so in celebration of surpassing more than ten thousand views of the cyber badboy that is the national shield myspace page i have decided to post this. the real reason is that the album is almost...
Posted by the national shield on Sat, 03 May 2008 06:07:00 PST

come on

not the good kind, but the funny kind. guess who broke their elbow?  eh hem... yep me.  that'll teach me to drink moonshine! clm
Posted by the national shield on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:48:00 PST

a bit all over the place

so, as of yet, i've not heard anything about the afformentioned kitten, but as my friend COWO says "no news is good news".  hopefully he's right. i thought that i'd post something to say that if ...
Posted by the national shield on Sat, 17 Nov 2007 06:12:00 PST

hopefully eight lives remain

alright... so today has had, what i'd say is, a rather strange start to it.    maybe it's rememberance day, well it is, but you know what i mean. for the last few days there has be...
Posted by the national shield on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 01:34:00 PST

homecoming

so we're back, well i am, others have been for a while. met some beasts and rather major problems... we got a lot done, though not as much as i'd hoped, but with some elbow grease and baboon hearts we...
Posted by the national shield on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 02:52:00 PST

go tell it on the mountain!

so, the national shield is on the eve of heading off on a recording voyage!  off to the desert mountains. thank you for your support in the past few months at the live shows!  we appreciate ...
Posted by the national shield on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:09:00 PST

BOWLING WITH BANDS!

check out an interview i did with luke simcoe of streethawk.  it's very kind, though it does point out that i know nothing about geography! i mean... i'm an "artiste", so whatever, man. http...
Posted by the national shield on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:36:00 PST

STREETHAWK JUNE 5th, 2007

"THE NATIONAL SHIELD  June 9 @ Hoko's Sharing the bill with Ghost House, The National Shield began as Panurge guitarist CL McLaughlin's solo side project. With Panurge on a bit of a break, McLaughlin...
Posted by the national shield on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 02:28:00 PST

now! van halen style

so as i have (and some of you may have) noticed, there are a couple of show up there- with at least one more for MUSIC WASTE to be posted soon, and played on the second weekend of june.  hooray r...
Posted by the national shield on Thu, 10 May 2007 05:30:00 PST

chartattack!

so the first ever press the national shield has ever received has come down the pipe.  horray!  check it out, it's all true (to the best of my knowledge!). Vancouver Buzz: The National Shiel...
Posted by the national shield on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 04:48:00 PST