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Carnival Of Souls

Our album 'Unit 13' is available on i-Tunes

About Me

We collect things. Little bits and bobs; riffs and sounds and styles we've enjoyed; words and ideas. Then we meet up in a rehearsal room and blast it all against the walls, scoop up the bits we like, mull it all over thoroughly and completely change it. After much more mulling, arguing and personal insults, it becomes a song. This is what you are hearing today. "Mulled whine."
It wasn't always this way. The whole thing started in Wiltshire, with George, a violinist called Andy, and me, playing "ghost-goth". We headed into London, via Reading where we found Gus. He was fresh back from three months in the White Sands desert where he'd developed an addiction to dub music; rather than try to cure him of this we hooked him up with Alex, a drummer with a penchant for liqueous rock, and left them jamming while we looked for a bassist. By the time we found John though, George and Andy had disappeared, taking the folk element of the music with them. Pretty soon we were playing "psychedelic gothic dub".
It was around this time that we met Kicks Joy Darkness, a lovely bunch of post-punksters from the London live circuit. We started renting a basement rehearsal room in Kentish Town which we called The Oubliette on account of its total lack of natural light. That one lasted about two months; we left it covered in KJD's weird marker-pen cartoons and some red paint footprints courtesy of myself. We soon found another place though: Unit 13 on Hackey Marsh, a vast industrial unit with no hot water, no shower and no neighbours, apart from the butchers who turned up at dawn on weeekdays to chuck raw meat about. We decided to take the experiment a step further and actually live there.
Strange times we had. Away put your weapon. By the time we stumbled out of that place, sanity damaged but intact, we had lost Alex, who had moved to New York which was as far as his money would take him from us. Step up Hugo, the newest member of the Souls family, whose intense, tight drums have set our musical compass towards what you are hopefully still listening to.
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Member Since: 11/10/2005
Band Website: (coming very soon)
Band Members: GRONK: vox, keys
GUS: guitar
JOHN: bass
HUGO: drums
Influences: The Cure, Mogwai, Anathema, Radiohead, Fantomas, Baby Bird, Nick Cave, Bruce Springsteen, The Edge, The Cramps, My Dying Bride, Jesus Lizard, Isis, Mr Bungle, The Doors, The Clash, Tom Waits
Sounds Like: "Anthemic psych-rock ... dark yet lively" London Lite

"Surprisingly danceable gothic rock" The Guardian

"Makes me want to dance and cry ... reminds me of what is important" Christian Smith-Pancorvo, French Car/ex-Razorlight, NME
Record Label: Unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

CoS in The Sun Bizarre Podcast

Carnival of Souls appeared in Saturday's Bizarre section of TheSun... Please visit the following link to download the podcast:http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2006180011-200721 0912,00.htmlWe've just...
Posted by Carnival Of Souls on Mon, 14 May 2007 08:01:00 PST

"UNIT 13" AVAILABLE ON i-TUNES

That's right folks - you can now purchase our debut album on i-Tunes for only £7.99 or 79p a track! Hear tracks from the album here on myspace or on trepanrecords.com...
Posted by Carnival Of Souls on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 04:49:00 PST

CoS SWAT CAMDEN BARFLY

The London music scene is a sorry sight, standing much like Ozymandias' shattered visage, a mere vestige of its glory days. Once-upon-a-time the city could proudly boast itself the conception place of...
Posted by Carnival Of Souls on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 09:05:00 PST