Marc Carroll

Posted in General News on 06/06/2009

New video, New Album Reviews

A new video for 'Always' has been added to the Video section. Uncut awarded the new album a 4 star review in the latest issue which is out now, the review is in the Press section. The vinyl edition of Dust Of Rumour is now an initial run of 500 copies worldwide. It will be available in select shops around the country and also through our shopping system here. Also, in the coming weeks we will be presenting an exclusive non album track/video.

Posted in General News on 13/05/2009

Dust Of Rumour - New Album

The new album 'Dust Of Rumour' is released on July 13th 2009. This is Marc's first album in 4 years. The album was recorded with long time recording and studio partner, Adi Winman and was mixed by Graham Sutton. The album is issued by High Noon and will be available in the following formats : Digipak CD, Vinyl LP and iTunes. The LP is a special edition pressed on 180 Gram vinyl and is limited to 500 copies only. The CD and LP will be available in all good record shops (We do encourage buyers to support their local record stores) and online through our shop, as well as the usual online outlets such as Amazon.

Posted in General News on 10/05/2009

Videos & Interviews

We will be presenting some exclusive video clips, interviews and session material in the coming weeks and months but in the meantime, we have two short promotional clips on the site. This footage was filmed recently in California and are the first in an ongoing selection of videos and short films that will be made available on this site, our youtube page and other select online pages.

The new Marc Carroll MySpace page will be up and running shortly and you can also join up to the Marc Carroll Facebook page. The biography page now has a recent interview Marc did with James McNair from Mojo/The Independant.

Posted in Dust Of Rumour - reviews on 20/05/2011

DUST OF RUMOUR

The Daily Echo (UK, 4 Stars)

If that good songs and character-full singing were enough to guarantee an audience with the public at large, Marc Carroll would surely be well on his way to omnipotence by now. Sadly, they don’t so we’re left with an album that you know people would love – provided they get to hear it. Steeped in qualities like good tunes, strong melodies and a distinctive voice, Dublin boy-come-LA resident, Carroll gives it his all both on jangling, 60s-tinged sing-outs like Now or Never, the anthemic Love Will Rule Our Hearts, or the more intimate, folk-flavoured offerings like the aching Against My Will. If a blend of Roger McGuinn, Alex Chilton, and Tom Petty gets you going, then go here.

Posted in Live - reviews on 20/05/2011

A LIVE REVIEW - LOGO MAGAZINE

November 2002.

Marc Carroll - 100 Club 18 November 2002

Remember when you were young?
You probably still are but here's some free advice. Those years when you were at sixth form, when the whole world suddenly begins to come into focus and you realise that things will never be this perfect again? You realise that youth is finite? Those are the years you will always remember. You will never have it so good.

Those are the years when time stands still, waiting for 'real life' to sweep in and whirl you away forever. That's the time from when you learn to really love music; ascribing each song you hear a particular meaning in your life. That's the time when you have the freedom to go and see your musical idols play live; to go to festivals, to live life for the music you hear. It's when you define yourself, your groups of friends and the way you see the world by who it is you like to listen to. It's also the time you learn to be more eclectic, finding whatever that something is that you like about music, and realising it's not just about the mainstream or the present. There are whole decades to explore and a future that you heard somewhere at the hands of a DJ.

Marc Carroll makes you remember all those reasons you loved music. You probably wouldn't have been into him at that age, although if you had, your life would have been the richer for it. He gives you a reason to love music again, offering you something so honest and unsullied you remember what it's like to lose a moment for a song, to uncover a genre you hadn't noticed peeking out underneath your usual brand of character-defining rock. He takes you back to the time when you looked at the adult world and wondered what the hell the fuss was about. It's not about bills and houses, it's about music and freedom, oh - and love.

Marc's staunchly honest, uncompromising, polymorphic mixture of punk, country, gospel and whatever it is he calls this creates a sound that halts you in your tracks just long enough for you to remember why it was you loved music in the first place. Everyone should see him.
Julia Willis

Posted in All Wrongs Reversed - reviews on 20/05/2011

ALL WRONGS REVERSED

Torpedo pop

Besides the Brian Wilson tribute-song `Mr Wilson`, the album is also represented with the "cocky-buzz" of Be What You Are and barely two minutes of Patterns, sounding almost like it's been based around the Getting Better middle-eight. The single from his debut solo album Ten Of Swords, Crashpad Number, is a McGuinn-ish jingle-jangle supernova and though it says that the featured version is an acoustic one, it's not, the electric 12-string rings and chimes all over the place, it's just that it's accompanied only with an acoustic guitar, the "tambourine and the man himself". This one's followed, appropriately enough, with the first of the two Dylan covers, Gates Of Eden (there's also Senor (Tales of Yankee Power)), impressing Mr.Bob enough to be posted on his official web site! As the album's title implies, if the career of Marc Carroll hasn't gone the right way before this, All Wrongs Reversed could be the turning point, reversing all the wrongs towards the right way.