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Carnival

Just after finishing recording second single!!!

About Me

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Member Since: 12/12/2005
Band Members: Barry Nolan: strings

Mark Bulfin: fatter strings

Chaz Keegan: trash cans

Karen O Neill: microphones

Influences: cocteau twins, the replacements, Leadbelly, whipping boy, Dinosaur Jr, The Vaselines, Cheap Trick. Robert Johnson, My Bloody Valentine, Daniel Johnston. Husker Du, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Velvet Underground, Wilco, Iggy Pop, The Beatles, Neil Young, Tori Amos, The Smiths, The Cure, Bob Dylan, Arcade Fire, The Smashing Pumpkins, Spinto Band, Serge Gainsbourg, The Flaming Lips, Sonic Youth, The Clash, Lambchop, The Pixies, Sparklehorse, Grandaddy, Bright eyes, Tom Waits, Television, Yo La Tengo, Mazzy Star, Neko Case, The Sonics, David Bowie, Babes in Toyland, Mercury Rev, Can, Pink Floyd, The Strokes, Liam Clancy, Sigur Ros, Low, Mogwai, Mudhoney, Melvins.
Sounds Like: Carnival describe themselves as sounding like :"'The Carpenters' and 'Peter, Paul and Mary' in a drunken brawl with 'The Clash' and 'Dinosaur Jr'".
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Our Debut Single Andy’s 15 Tunnels

Debut single Andy's 15/ Tunnels was in the national charts for two weeks first at number 44, then at number 43. It was number one in the downloads on downloadmusic.ie for the first week of it's releas...
Posted by Carnival on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 01:59:00 PST

Kramer is producing our debut single

A producer who has worked with some of our favourite artists has approached us and wants to work with us.Who is Kramer?"Kramer's productions sound absolutely nothing like any other producer's work. Pe...
Posted by Carnival on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 02:17:00 PST

Frequency Ireland & Lostmusic review

Come join the Carnival...Carnival have finally uploaded two demo recordings to their myspace. They describe their sound as "a return to chord based folk, country and pop music of the 60s and 70s" but ...
Posted by Carnival on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 11:14:00 PST

Mikhail Bakhtin

Mikhail Bakhtin was a Russian theorist in the 1930s and is an often cited scholar in contemporary thought. Bakhtins immediate point of departure is Franois Rabelais, a French writer during the Renaiss...
Posted by Carnival on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 07:15:00 PST