Inspiral Carpets

With fourteen top 40 singles and four top ten albums in almost forty years, the Inspiral Carpets were built to last. The reformed classic jukebox band continue their musical journey, selling out tours and underlining their undying popularity whilst creating a platform for a rumoured new album to add to their set, which is dotted with inventive big songs built around their signature Farfisa and perfect harmonies that always brings the house down.

Their hit singles underlined their electric, eclectic creativity from the punk rock rushes of Joe to the melancholic kitchen sink dramas turned into huge hits like the glorious This Is How It Feels. Then there are the soaring choruses of Saturn 5 or the thrilling pop/noise of I Want You with the late and great Mark E. Smith lending his classic snark sneer to the song. 

Far from being one trick ponies, the Inspirals brought a musical sophistication and a poetic language to much loved sixties garage rock and updated it into every decade they have existed in. Their albums gave them even more space to stretch out, starting with their debut 1990 Life, which catches the mood of that great musical year, followed up by the adventurous stretching out on 1991’s Beast Inside and 1992’s Revenge Of The Goldfish and then their final top 10 album of their first phase, 1994’s Devil Hopping which saw them somehow make sense in the