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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. ...

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 ...

Staying Mute

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 ...

Inspiral Carpets: Cowabunga!

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 ...

Inspiral Carpets: Life

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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