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Inspiral Carpets
Part of the late 1980s/early 1990s "Madchester" scene that saw rave culture
collide with rock'n'roll in one huge, swaggering, psychedelic, baggy party,
Inspiral Carpets stood alongside the likes of the Stone Roses, Happy Mondays and
The Charlatans as one of the cult heroes of the era. Driven by Clint Boon's
organ riffs and front man Steve Holt's vocals, the band named themselves after a
clothes shop in their home town of Oldham, but went relatively unnoticed until
their EP Planecrash (1988) was championed by Radio 1 DJ John Peel. Holt was
replaced by Tom Hingley in 1989 before th...
