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The Carnival Dogs
The Carnival Dogs is a rock band from Central Scotland. The idea for the band formed early 2007 and their line-up consists of vocalist & guitarist Iain McMurtrie and bassist Gavin Hynes. In July 2011, The Carnival Dogs released their self titled debut album, The Carnival Dogs.

History
The original idea for the band came around in early 2007 and was a home recording project by guitarist Iain. With several song ideas and all the recording equipment necessary the idea came about to start writing and recording his own songs. The idea to properly write and record a full album was originally kick-started with Iain registering in 2009 and taking part in The RPM Challenge.

Debut Album
The RPM Challenge sets the challenge to musicians/bands to write and record an album of songs within 28 days. It was realised early on that there was no-way any of the songs would be complete within the 28 day time-frame however continuing on with what was started resulted in twelve basic demo songs being written in this short space of time. Off the twelve demo songs written eight would eventually appear on the debut album.

After the eight songs had been chosen Iain asked bassist Gavin Hynes to play bass on the recordings.

Much of 2010 was spent recording and later on mixing the album with it finally being complete in early 2011. Artwork was created and the finished album was released July 1st, 2011.

2012
The majority of 2012 will be spent writing the follow up album.