Singer Stephen Holt has returned to Inspiral Carpets after 22 years. The Oldham band, whose had a 1990 number two album with Life, have been without a frontman since February when lead singer Tom ...

If you’ve had a night out in a Manchester indie club in the last few decades, chances are you’ve danced along to an Inspiral Carpets track. ‘This Is How It Feels’, released in 1990, is the jewel in ...

You can’t beat a bit of nostalgia – and few bands shout ‘1990’ like Inspiral Carpets. Emerging from the same Madchester scene that produced the Stone Roses, Happy Mondays and The Charlatans, their ...

There’s no marching band in 2023 but the song is still delivered with raucous punch that has the sold-out Concorde 2 loudly matching singer Stephen Holt on the choruses. The audience, mostly male, are ...

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