With guest lead guitar and backing vocal from Liquid Grey, who adds some real depth and darkness to the overall sound, 

"Black Rain Down gives a respectful nod to the point where post-punk and goth were at its peak, replete with 21st Century polish and drive.
Reminiscent of The Nephilim before they became The Nefilim and The Cult before they became The Rolling Stones."
- DJ Cruel Britannia

"A song that's got the gothic sound down to a tee, from the intro of hushed vocal before it bursts into an impressive little rock number. An excellent song! Overall, these are two very good songs and if you like HIM, The Mission or the afore mentioned Sisters Of Mercy you will like Carnival Star"
- Mark Sharpley - Fourculture Magazine

Artwork by Natassa D. from her "Slaughterhouse" collection.

Black Rain Down

Velveteen (Rose of Avalanche Cover) - Vocals ProducerMark - Written by Paul J. Berry / Glenn Schultz / Philip Morris

The "Era Sessions EP" was recorded in various countries around the world with various musicians taking part during a five month period. 

Scotland, England, Italy, Norway & USA to be exact. 

The original concept behind recording these covers was simply for entertainment and to take a break from the recording and writing of the original album material for future release. 

However, it soon became clear that the fun was producing some interesting results and that these tracks should go out for free as a tribute to the bands that many of us in Carnival Star regard as influences and inspirations to all of our music. 

Staying true to the arrangements of the originals, our aim was to simply take the tracks and produce an EP that we enjoyed making and performing.
credits
released 11 May 2014 
Recorded in Scotland, England, Italy, Norway & USA 

Union City Blue (Blondie Cover) - Vocals Allegra Lusini - Written by Nigel Harrison / Debbie Harry 
Velveteen (Rose of Avalanche Cover) - Vocals ProducerMark - Written by Paul J. Berry / Glenn Schultz / Philip Morris 
Walk Away (Sisters of Mercy Cover) - Vocals Liquid Grey - Written by Andrew Eldritch / Wayne Hussey 
The Drowning Man (The Cure Cover) - Vocals Zach Wiser (The Secret Post) - Written by Laurence Tolhurst / Robert Smith / Simon Gallup 
What Difference Does It Make (The Smiths Cover) - Vocals Captain T (The Sovran) - Written by Johnny Marr / Morrissey 

Bonus Track - UCB Cruel Brit Mix - Vocals Allegra Lusini - Written by Nigel Harrison / Debbie Harry - Re-mixed by Cruel Britannia 

Music recorded and performed by ProducerMark 
Co-produced by Liquid Grey 
Remote Engineered by Cruel Britannia 
Vocals recorded on location by the performers 

Additional Guitars Liquid Grey 
Bass Guitar Cruel Britannia 

Artwork - A Self Portrait - original art by Natassa Dialisma /Greece 

Special thanks to all those who took part and also to those who didn't but played a vital part : Daniel Dante (Madness of the Night) - Paul B Blues (OnAir Tunes) - Ann Marie Papanagnostou (Fourculture) - Marc Joy (Ear to Ear Records) - Vru Patel (Solarein) - Shauna McLarnon (Ummagma)

Velveteen (Rose of Avalanche Cover) - ftr. ProducerMark

Walk Away (Sisters of Mercy Cover) - Vocals Liquid Grey - Written by Andrew Eldritch / Wayne Hussey

The "Era Sessions EP" was recorded in various countries around the world with various musicians taking part during a five month period. 

Scotland, England, Italy, Norway & USA to be exact. 

The original concept behind recording these covers was simply for entertainment and to take a break from the recording and writing of the original album material for future release. 

However, it soon became clear that the fun was producing some interesting results and that these tracks should go out for free as a tribute to the bands that many of us in Carnival Star regard as influences and inspirations to all of our music. 

Staying true to the arrangements of the originals, our aim was to simply take the tracks and produce an EP that we enjoyed making and performing.
credits
released 11 May 2014 
Recorded in Scotland, England, Italy, Norway & USA 

Union City Blue (Blondie Cover) - Vocals Allegra Lusini - Written by Nigel Harrison / Debbie Harry 
Velveteen (Rose of Avalanche Cover) - Vocals ProducerMark - Written by Paul J. Berry / Glenn Schultz / Philip Morris 
Walk Away (Sisters of Mercy Cover) - Vocals Liquid Grey - Written by Andrew Eldritch / Wayne Hussey 
The Drowning Man (The Cure Cover) - Vocals Zach Wiser (The Secret Post) - Written by Laurence Tolhurst / Robert Smith / Simon Gallup 
What Difference Does It Make (The Smiths Cover) - Vocals Captain T (The Sovran) - Written by Johnny Marr / Morrissey 

Bonus Track - UCB Cruel Brit Mix - Vocals Allegra Lusini - Written by Nigel Harrison / Debbie Harry - Re-mixed by Cruel Britannia 

Music recorded and performed by ProducerMark 
Co-produced by Liquid Grey 
Remote Engineered by Cruel Britannia 
Vocals recorded on location by the performers 

Additional Guitars Liquid Grey 
Bass Guitar Cruel Britannia 

Artwork - A Self Portrait - original art by Natassa Dialisma /Greece 

Special thanks to all those who took part and also to those who didn't but played a vital part : Daniel Dante (Madness of the Night) - Paul B Blues (OnAir Tunes) - Ann Marie Papanagnostou (Fourculture) - Marc Joy (Ear to Ear Records) - Vru Patel (Solarein) - Shauna McLarnon (Ummagma)

Walk Away (Sisters of Mercy Cover) - ftr. Liquid Grey

The Drowning Man (The Cure Cover) - Vocals Zach Wiser (The Secret Post) - Written by Laurence Tolhurst / Robert Smith / Simon Gallup 

The "Era Sessions EP" was recorded in various countries around the world with various musicians taking part during a five month period. 

Scotland, England, Italy, Norway & USA to be exact. 

The original concept behind recording these covers was simply for entertainment and to take a break from the recording and writing of the original album material for future release. 

However, it soon became clear that the fun was producing some interesting results and that these tracks should go out for free as a tribute to the bands that many of us in Carnival Star regard as influences and inspirations to all of our music. 

Staying true to the arrangements of the originals, our aim was to simply take the tracks and produce an EP that we enjoyed making and performing.
credits
released 11 May 2014 
Recorded in Scotland, England, Italy, Norway & USA 

Union City Blue (Blondie Cover) - Vocals Allegra Lusini - Written by Nigel Harrison / Debbie Harry 
Velveteen (Rose of Avalanche Cover) - Vocals ProducerMark - Written by Paul J. Berry / Glenn Schultz / Philip Morris 
Walk Away (Sisters of Mercy Cover) - Vocals Liquid Grey - Written by Andrew Eldritch / Wayne Hussey 
The Drowning Man (The Cure Cover) - Vocals Zach Wiser (The Secret Post) - Written by Laurence Tolhurst / Robert Smith / Simon Gallup 
What Difference Does It Make (The Smiths Cover) - Vocals Captain T (The Sovran) - Written by Johnny Marr / Morrissey 

Bonus Track - UCB Cruel Brit Mix - Vocals Allegra Lusini - Written by Nigel Harrison / Debbie Harry - Re-mixed by Cruel Britannia 

Music recorded and performed by ProducerMark 
Co-produced by Liquid Grey 
Remote Engineered by Cruel Britannia 
Vocals recorded on location by the performers 

Additional Guitars Liquid Grey 
Bass Guitar Cruel Britannia 

Artwork - A Self Portrait - original art by Natassa Dialisma /Greece 

Special thanks to all those who took part and also to those who didn't but played a vital part : Daniel Dante (Madness of the Night) - Paul B Blues (OnAir Tunes) - Ann Marie Papanagnostou (Fourculture) - Marc Joy (Ear to Ear Records) - Vru Patel (Solarein) - Shauna McLarnon (Ummagma)

The Drowning Man (The Cure Cover) - ftr. Zach Wiser (The Secret Post)

What Difference Does It Make (The Smiths Cover) - Vocals Captain T (The Sovran) - Written by Johnny Marr / Morrissey 

The "Era Sessions EP" was recorded in various countries around the world with various musicians taking part during a five month period. 

Scotland, England, Italy, Norway & USA to be exact. 

The original concept behind recording these covers was simply for entertainment and to take a break from the recording and writing of the original album material for future release. 

However, it soon became clear that the fun was producing some interesting results and that these tracks should go out for free as a tribute to the bands that many of us in Carnival Star regard as influences and inspirations to all of our music. 

Staying true to the arrangements of the originals, our aim was to simply take the tracks and produce an EP that we enjoyed making and performing.
credits
released 11 May 2014 
Recorded in Scotland, England, Italy, Norway & USA 

Union City Blue (Blondie Cover) - Vocals Allegra Lusini - Written by Nigel Harrison / Debbie Harry 
Velveteen (Rose of Avalanche Cover) - Vocals ProducerMark - Written by Paul J. Berry / Glenn Schultz / Philip Morris 
Walk Away (Sisters of Mercy Cover) - Vocals Liquid Grey - Written by Andrew Eldritch / Wayne Hussey 
The Drowning Man (The Cure Cover) - Vocals Zach Wiser (The Secret Post) - Written by Laurence Tolhurst / Robert Smith / Simon Gallup 
What Difference Does It Make (The Smiths Cover) - Vocals Captain T (The Sovran) - Written by Johnny Marr / Morrissey 

Bonus Track - UCB Cruel Brit Mix - Vocals Allegra Lusini - Written by Nigel Harrison / Debbie Harry - Re-mixed by Cruel Britannia 

Music recorded and performed by ProducerMark 
Co-produced by Liquid Grey 
Remote Engineered by Cruel Britannia 
Vocals recorded on location by the performers 

Additional Guitars Liquid Grey 
Bass Guitar Cruel Britannia 

Artwork - A Self Portrait - original art by Natassa Dialisma /Greece 

Special thanks to all those who took part and also to those who didn't but played a vital part : Daniel Dante (Madness of the Night) - Paul B Blues (OnAir Tunes) - Ann Marie Papanagnostou (Fourculture) - Marc Joy (Ear to Ear Records) - Vru Patel (Solarein) - Shauna McLarnon (Ummagma)

What Difference Does It Make (The Smiths Cover) - ftr. Cpt. T (The Sovran)

Bonus Track - UCB Cruel Brit Mix - Vocals Allegra Lusini - Written by Nigel Harrison / Debbie Harry - Re-mixed by Cruel Britannia 

The "Era Sessions EP" was recorded in various countries around the world with various musicians taking part during a five month period. 

Scotland, England, Italy, Norway & USA to be exact. 

The original concept behind recording these covers was simply for entertainment and to take a break from the recording and writing of the original album material for future release. 

However, it soon became clear that the fun was producing some interesting results and that these tracks should go out for free as a tribute to the bands that many of us in Carnival Star regard as influences and inspirations to all of our music. 

Staying true to the arrangements of the originals, our aim was to simply take the tracks and produce an EP that we enjoyed making and performing.
credits
released 11 May 2014 
Recorded in Scotland, England, Italy, Norway & USA 

Union City Blue (Blondie Cover) - Vocals Allegra Lusini - Written by Nigel Harrison / Debbie Harry 
Velveteen (Rose of Avalanche Cover) - Vocals ProducerMark - Written by Paul J. Berry / Glenn Schultz / Philip Morris 
Walk Away (Sisters of Mercy Cover) - Vocals Liquid Grey - Written by Andrew Eldritch / Wayne Hussey 
The Drowning Man (The Cure Cover) - Vocals Zach Wiser (The Secret Post) - Written by Laurence Tolhurst / Robert Smith / Simon Gallup 
What Difference Does It Make (The Smiths Cover) - Vocals Captain T (The Sovran) - Written by Johnny Marr / Morrissey 

Bonus Track - UCB Cruel Brit Mix - Vocals Allegra Lusini - Written by Nigel Harrison / Debbie Harry - Re-mixed by Cruel Britannia 

Music recorded and performed by ProducerMark 
Co-produced by Liquid Grey 
Remote Engineered by Cruel Britannia 
Vocals recorded on location by the performers 

Additional Guitars Liquid Grey 
Bass Guitar Cruel Britannia 

Artwork - A Self Portrait - original art by Natassa Dialisma /Greece 

Special thanks to all those who took part and also to those who didn't but played a vital part : Daniel Dante (Madness of the Night) - Paul B Blues (OnAir Tunes) - Ann Marie Papanagnostou (Fourculture) - Marc Joy (Ear to Ear Records) - Vru Patel (Solarein) - Shauna McLarnon (Ummagma)

Bonus Track - UCB Cruel Brit Mix - ftr. Allegra Lusini

Union City Blue (Blondie Cover) - Vocals Allegra Lusini - Written by Nigel Harrison / Debbie Harry

The "Era Sessions EP" was recorded in various countries around the world with various musicians taking part during a five month period.

Scotland, England, Italy, Norway & USA to be exact.

The original concept behind recording these covers was simply for entertainment and to take a break from the recording and writing of the original album material for future release.

However, it soon became clear that the fun was producing some interesting results and that these tracks should go out for free as a tribute to the bands that many of us in Carnival Star regard as influences and inspirations to all of our music.

Staying true to the arrangements of the originals, our aim was to simply take the tracks and produce an EP that we enjoyed making and performing.
credits
released 11 May 2014 
Recorded in Scotland, England, Italy, Norway & USA

Union City Blue (Blondie Cover) - Vocals Allegra Lusini - Written by Nigel Harrison / Debbie Harry 
Velveteen (Rose of Avalanche Cover) - Vocals ProducerMark - Written by Paul J. Berry / Glenn Schultz / Philip Morris 
Walk Away (Sisters of Mercy Cover) - Vocals Liquid Grey - Written by Andrew Eldritch / Wayne Hussey 
The Drowning Man (The Cure Cover) - Vocals Zach Wiser (The Secret Post) - Written by Laurence Tolhurst / Robert Smith / Simon Gallup 
What Difference Does It Make (The Smiths Cover) - Vocals Captain T (The Sovran) - Written by Johnny Marr / Morrissey

Bonus Track - UCB Cruel Brit Mix - Vocals Allegra Lusini - Written by Nigel Harrison / Debbie Harry - Re-mixed by Cruel Britannia

Music recorded and performed by ProducerMark 
Co-produced by Liquid Grey 
Remote Engineered by Cruel Britannia 
Vocals recorded on location by the performers

Additional Guitars Liquid Grey 
Bass Guitar Cruel Britannia

Artwork - A Self Portrait - original art by Natassa Dialisma /Greece

Special thanks to all those who took part and also to those who didn't but played a vital part : Daniel Dante (Madness of the Night) - Paul B Blues (OnAir Tunes) - Ann Marie Papanagnostou (Fourculture) - Marc Joy (Ear to Ear Records) - Vru Patel (Solarein) - Shauna McLarnon (Ummagma)

Union City Blue (Blondie Cover) - ftr. Allegra Lusini

The Cult vs Carnival Star

The Cult's Wild Flower gets mashed up with some Black Rain Down from Carnival Star for no other reason than fun - and music should be fun (sometimes).

Wild Flower - © 1987 The Cult
Black Rain Down - © 2013 Carnival Star

Wild Flower vs Black Rain Down - MashUp

Before covering The Rose of Avalanche track "Velveteen" for the Era Sessions Tribute EP - "LA Rain" was originally chosen as one of the many ROA tracks to do, but later dropped in Feb '14 in favour of what was considered to be a far stronger song in Velveteen.

Many have asked if Carnival Star had covered any other tracks in the past or for the EP - and with our version of The Cure's "The Drowning Man" (featuring Zach Wiser of The Secret Post on vocals) reaching #21 in the Scottish New Music Chart for July '14 - then putting this unfinished - un-mixed - um-mastered recording here out of interest seems to be a nice way of celebrating a little bit of success for the EP.

So here is one of the "dumped demos" that hit the cutting room floor and never got finished.

The original Rose of Avalanche track can be found on YouTube and we recommend you check out www.roseofavalanche.com for everything related to such a fantastic band.


LA Rain Dumped Demo (ROA Cover)

In memory of a dear and very special friend Corina Roberston  who loved to sing.

1993 The Sea & The Sky was a charity record that was released on vinyl.
The only copy available now is the vinyl pressings as no master was kept.
Unfortunately this is a very poor recording taken from one of those pressings and is posted here to remember a friend.


1993 The Sea & The Sky - In Memory of Corina Robertson

Remastered for 2015 by Dark Creation Mastering.

Fist released on Halloween 2013

With guest lead guitar and backing vocal from Liquid Grey, who adds some real depth and darkness to the overall sound,

"Black Rain Down gives a respectful nod to the point where post-punk and goth were at its peak, replete with 21st Century polish and drive.
Reminiscent of The Nephilim before they became The Nefilim and The Cult before they became The Rolling Stones."
- DJ Cruel Britannia

"A song that's got the gothic sound down to a tee, from the intro of hushed vocal before it bursts into an impressive little rock number. An excellent song! Overall, these are two very good songs and if you like HIM, The Mission or the afore mentioned Sisters Of Mercy you will like Carnival Star"
- Mark Sharpley - Fourculture Magazine

Black Rain Down - 2015 Remastered

A musical collective of alternative, goth, rock & indie musicians from around the world brought together to breathe life into the work of Carnival Star.

Carnival Star, it could be said, started life in the late 80's when founder and heart of the project first started playing live, producing, recording and working in the live circuit behind the mixer of other bands.

Various line-ups, attempts and demos were recorded - some very rough and others with some time spent on them, but in '93 it was all over and the studio, equipment and instruments were packed away and it was over.

But music was never far away and 2013 sees the launch and start of an entirely new project - and a project is the best way to describe Carnival Star.

It may be the music of one man - but "no man is an island" and the calling of dark friends from countries as far apart as Norway, Germany, Greece, Sweden, USA, Canada and England will bring together talent from various sources to breathe life and soul into the music of Carnival Star.

Bringing vocalists, co-producers, visual artists as well as business & media promoters and old school sound techs and engineers the debut releases for Carnival Star are going to be very very interesting.


"Carnival Stars version of Velveteen evoked an epoch of good memories that I had almost forgotten... The song was born from one of my simple chord sequence that was meant to go round and round and hypnotise the listener. Live it grew to become a real corker! Cheers Carnival Star for the trip!"
Paul James Berry - Founder/Guitarist The Rose Of Avalanche

“Black Rain Down’ gives a respectful nod to the point where Post-punk and Goth were at its peak, replete with 21st Century polish and drive.”
Cruel Britannia – Pheonix Radio | Nightbreed Radio

“Both songs grove with the time and in my experience, this makes Carnival Star’s music more long-living and timeless.“
DJ Valhalla – OnAir Tunes | GothTune

“Overall, these are two very good songs and if you like HIM, The Mission or The Sisters of Mercy you will like Carnival Star.”
Mark Sharpley – Fourculture Magazine


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