Inspiral Carpets
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Spacemen 3/Inspiral Carpets: Asylum, Manchester
Live Review by John Robb, Sounds, 12 September 1987
WOWEEE, TRIPPY BABY — the far-out scene jumped into the time machine, shed all its colour and mind-exploding drugs, and leapt into the 1980s. ...
Inspiral Carpets: Surface Tensions
Interview by Bob Stanley, Melody Maker, 20 May 1989
IF THE WEDDING PRESENT ARE SMITHS' FANS SECOND FAVOURITE GROUP, THE INSPIRALS ARE PROBABLY THIRD ON THE LIST. EARLIER THIS YEAR, THE MANCHESTER BAND LOST THEIR SINGER ...
Inspiral Carpets: Zap Club, Brighton
Live Review by Bob Stanley, Melody Maker, 9 September 1989
SPIRAL TAPS ...
The Inspiral Carpets: You Batter You Bet
Interview by Bob Stanley, Melody Maker, 16 September 1989
WITH THEIR NEW SINGLE 'FIND OUT WHY' AT NUMBER ONE IN THE INDIE CHARTS, THE INSPIRALS' BID TO RIVAL FELLOW MANCUNIANS HAPPY MONDAYS AND THE ...
Inspiral Carpets: Leeds University
Live Review by Dave Simpson, Melody Maker, 5 May 1990
MAGIC CARPETS ...
Inspiral Carpets: Larger Than Life
Interview by Bruce Dessau, i-D, July 1990
Two years ago, Oldham's Inspiral Carpets were just about filling the Cricketers pub in South London. This spring, their album Life sold over 200,000 copies ...
Inspiral Carpets: Wish you were here
Report and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, July 1990
It’s a sun-kissed "no-lose situation" for Inspiral Carpets. Surfing on the stupendous sales of their shock-the-vicar T-shirt selection, and equipped with a user-friendly record deal ...
Profile and Interview by John McCready, The Face, August 1990
ELECTRONIC. TEUTONIC. Independent. European. Regardless of the reality of its catalogue, Mute Records has a certain image. Like any record label with a desire to ...
Report by Betty Page, Vox, December 1990
THE MUTANT HERO TURTLES HAVEN'T HIT JAPAN YET, BUT FOR THE MOMENT THE LOCALS ARE OBSESSED WITH A DAFT LITTLE COW WITH SPIRALLY EYES. WE ...
Review and Interview by Mark Leviton, Village View, 14 December 1990
INSPIRAL CARPETS are not just another band from Manchester, England, the city that's become one of the most exciting music centers on earth, home of ...
Massive: Blue Lines (Wild Bunch/Circa); Inspiral Carpets: The Beast Inside (Mute)
Review by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 25 April 1991
Massive unfinished sympathy ...
Insprial Carpets and Mark E. Smith: Manchester United
Interview by Ian Gittins, Melody Maker, 26 February 1994
Inspiral Carpets team-up with Mark E. Smith! For a one-off collaboration called ‘I Want You’! Psychedelic optimism meets psychedelic miserabilism! ...
The Stone Roses and Happy Mondays: What The World Is Still Waiting For?
Retrospective and Interview by Jack Barron, Melody Maker, 13 March 1999
It was the scene that produced some of the best bands the world had ever seen. Now, with the Happy Mondays reforming end The Stone ...
Inspiral Carpets: Leeds University
Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 3 April 2003
OF THE SO-CALLED "Holy Triumvirate" that rescued British pop in the early 1990s, Inspiral Carpets always plays third fiddle to the Stone Roses and Happy ...
Gaz Coombes: The World's Strongest Fan
Interview by Jamie Atkins, Record Collector, July 2018
Ever been curious about what's pumping on Gaz Coombes' stereo? RC's Jamie Atkins was, so he headed to Oxfordshire to find out. ...
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