Respect.

I AM 64 AND LOVE THIS MUSIC *BUT ALSO STILL PUNK AND NEW WAVE

I was 26 yrs old in 1990 and considered James and these fellows and pop will eat themselves etc to be the ‘ New Bands ‘ -when compared to the Psychedelic Furs or PiL or The Smiths etc. To now see all them early 90s acts as over 30 years back in time is fucking terrifying. But it makes me more determined to die Off my face 👍🏴😇Wilverley Enclosure Witches

PS as for “ the football “ , - being an AFC Bournemouth fan in 1990 wasn’t exactly heaven and it got much much worse for the preceding 20 years....🙄

Yes

I get exactly what you mean. However Stephen was a fantastic front man too..Depending on when you discovered the carpets plays a big part. They were both unique and both fantastic

100%

Yeah Hingley, the sound of the Carpets. What a singer. The band must see that now aswell. Awesome. Check out Skidoo (caravan bside iirc) my fave. Proper🐮

Case closed ...m' Lord

Went to reading this year, first e I had, still fine times. Pixies and inspirals on the e. Memories man! God bless xx

Oh Noel the roadie hey? I bet he just faded into obscurity. Sounds a wicked night, certainly looks it on here.

Wonder if Clint ever got those chickens he was after?...

Seen the inspirals well into double figures up there with the best I’ve seen live, Glasgow barrowlands would be hard to beat but, ‘the beast inside’ tour at SECC was immense ‘further away’ blew my mind could’ve had something to do with the Mitsubishi’s and couple of black dragons I had took Driving home that night obviously not me we ran out of petrol on motorway and a guy stopped to give us a lift to petrol station ‘Peter sutcliffes doppelgänger we all freaked out in car, actually thought it was him and got him to drop us off ten miles away from where we actually where meant to be, great night 😄

That roadie was Noel Gallagher.

Yes 18 year old me is there too. I wanted a Cool as F t shirt but my parents would not have allowed it!

Some of them young Drummer girls will Grandmas now 😂

Lol me to. I had a pair of white Adidas trainers on. They were knackered at the end lol!!!

Same mate

@@mancunianace8428 yep trainers and flares fucked 🤣

Mine too, 15 years old. Whole load of us went. Absolutely buzzing.

Yer spot on. He could belt it oot! Really held a note.

Yes, he's great.

Tom on Further Away. Fucking awesome

Happy Times.I was 14 in 1990 I went to see them the year later.We went straight from watching city at maine road that day to the concert at the Manchester academy. Spent all our money so couldn't even afford the bus back home to burnage that night.😆

Genuine question - how come they aren't as well known these days as The Smiths, Stone Roses, Charlatans etc.?

@@merrymonarch It's a huge shame. The Inspirals had, I think, 12 Top 30 UK hits and they always pulled in a decent sized crowd at their shows... but quite early on they fell out of fashion with the deeply fickle UK music press and struggled, for the main part, to get radio airplay. Personally, I'd take them over The Happy Mondays and The Stone Roses anyday and I maintain that 'The Beast Inside' is the best album of the whole Madchester era... oops, controversial! ;o)

@@eugeneshadwell6596 see what you mean. Having read that and a Wikipedia article it seems that they just needed a big hit single to push them to another level. To the point where the music press would have had to write about them in order to appear relevant and with it, despite the objections of writers. Seems like they could turn against the ICs without consequence for their sales. Conversely, I read once that a lot of writers were against Oasis back in the mid 90s and wanted to write about electronic and other genres. But because Oasis guaranteed sales the editors were basically enforcing a pro-Oasis policy. Success breeds success!

@@merrymonarch I think in more recent times the line up change has really impacted on their legacy. Nostalgia is big business these days. And after the Inspirals sacked singer Tom Hingley( not the original singer but the man who sang all their hit studio albums and hit singles and in this performance in their heyday) for original singer pre success Inspirals Steve Holt their legacy has been badly tarnished. His vocals are atrocious and I saw people walk out in disgust at live shows and people say they won't watch them ever again. Now they're playing smaller venues and are selling themselves short as a support act to.other bands. Their is more to Inspiral Carpets than Clint Boon's farfisa. The Roses with no Ian Brown, The Modays with no Shaun Ryder The Smitha with no Morrissey The Charlatans with no Burgess. Unimaginable. I think Inspiral Carpets scored a massive own goal sacking thier most known and most successful frontman for a cardboard cutout useless singer like they did

I heard he went went onto some other band, never heard what happened after that

"Technician"

Yeh he was a roadie for them for a good while,best comment Noel Gallagher made was in Brighton ballrooms & RIDE were touring with Oasis & Noel commented “it’s a good job we’re good”!!as RIDE was playing their farewell tour & they were on fire 🔥 just my opinion but RIDE were the best indie band of them all 👌

Was 💊 out of my head at this gig 😁👌

@@Mr130271 possibly but the inspiral s were one of the most underrated bands of the 90's

I saw them in Hollywood at The Palace, was a bit too well "sorted" , sat in a balcony chair; frozen. After seeing this film, I realized I Blew it. Should of been up and front, jumping Up & Down. MOO!

😂

Something was missing yeah. Tom Hingley on vocals

@@newrybhoy74 & handful of E’s 8th Moroccan Black 😵

Well said. Tom was and always will be the true voice of Inspiral Carpets

What u on about