KEEP THE CIRCLE...RELEASED TODAY...plus...GIG UPDATES!
KEEP THE CIRCLE b sides and udder stuff, is available from today Feb 26th.Get your fingers on those mouses and start downloading!Don’t forget if you download the whole album, you will receive our momentous 55 minute PODCAST“Probably the first digital spine message in the world.. ever!†for FREE!!!
We have news on some of the gigs on the forthcoming KEEP THE CIRCLE tour.BIRMINGHAM, GLASGOW and MANCHESTER are all SOLD OUT, with tickets for the remaining shows, listed below selling FAST!!Fri 2 Birmingham Academy SOLD OUTwww.gigsandtours.com 0871 22 00 260Support from THE REBOUNDSSat 3 Glasgow ABC SOLD OUTwww.gigsinscotland.com 08701 690 100Support from THE HUSSEY’SAFTERSHOW PARTY - BARFLYSun 4 Lincoln Engine Shedwww.ticketline.co.uk 0871 42 44 555Support from THE FAKERSMon 5 Norwich Waterfrontwww.ueaticketbookings.co.uk 01603 508 050Support from LOT55 and TAPE INVADERSWed 7 Brighton Concorde 2www.gigsandtours.com 0871 22 00 260Support from THE LANES and ACTRESS HANDSAFTERSHOW - CONCORDE 2Thurs 8 Leeds Universitywww.gigsandtours.com 0871 22 00 260Support from RICK WITTER AND THE DUKESAFTERSHOW - MIXING TINFri 9 Manchester Academy SOLD OUTwww.gigsandtours.com 0871 22 00 260Support from THE CHILDRENAFTERSHOW - JABEZ CLEGGSat 10 London Shepherds Bush Empirewww.gigsandtours.com 0871 22 00 260Support from THE RIPS and ALTERKICKSAFTERSHOW - JAMMTo keep the LONDON party going till dawn we can announce another Official Aftershow Party.This time at JAMM, 261 Brixton Road, SW9 6LH LONDON on Saturday 10th, following our Shepherds Bush Empire gig.More details about tickets etc as soon as we get them!Before Tom Hingley joined Inspiral Carpets in Spring 1989 he was in Manchester band called Too Much Texas. TMT released one single on uglyman records later home of Black I Am Kloot and Elbow, and an EP on Playtime called Smart with Lee Severin on vocals. TMT supported the likes of New Order, House Of love, Faith No More, EMF and The Beloved. TMT released a retrospective record callled juvenilia on newmemorabilia records on april 1st check info at www.toomuchtexas.co.uk
and www.myspace.com/toomuchtexas , buy it on line from www.townsend-records.co.uk or AmazonUKMUSICSEARCH Review of Juvenilia
Inspiral Carpets where always one of the most underrated bands of the whole Manchester baggy scene in the early nineties, never quite getting the respect and critical acclaim of acts like The Happy Mondays, Stone Roses and The Charlatans. With songs like "Joe" and "This Is How It Feels To Be Lonely", they made sizeable dents in the charts and had a large following, but history it seems hasn't been kind to them - looked on as a footnote in the baggy explosion.
Comprising lead singer Tom Hingley's early recordings when he fronted the band Too Much Texas, JUVENILIA is a collection of songs that lay down the blueprint for what he went on to achieve with the Inspirals. Sure, these songs may be missing that iconic Clint Boon organ sound - but make no mistake, there are songs on display here every bit as accomplished as anything The Inspiral Carpets ever managed.
A surprisingly polished and complete set of songs, it appears that Too Much Texas were a cut above the usual first forays into music that so many of these unearthed retrospectives uncover. From the bouncy pop jangle of opener HURRY ON DOWN, it's clear that this was a band who quite possibly could have cut it on their own terms. It's Tom Hingley's unmistakable vocals that shine through the brightest, singing in that classic Manchester twang that suggests down to earth man on the street whilst at the same time aiming for the stars.
JAYNE is another slice of bouncy upbeat pop, reminiscent of the Inspirals Saturn Nine while the baggy guitar shuffle of the Happy Mondays like ANCHOR lets you know in no uncertain terms what period of time these recordings came from. A Byrdsian guitar jangle shimmers its way through VOLCANO whilst HARP is a woozy precursor to This Is How It Feels To Be Lonely and YOU BLISTER MY PAINT a chirpy pop tune with a cheeky spring in its step.
Perhaps the closest to sounding like an Inspiral Carpets hit, GAME OF LOVE, centres itself around an infectious sounding pop chorus and pre-baggy drum patterns - all thats missing is a Clint Boon organ run and voila. The hazy bass driven ROGUE proves another highlight - Hingley crooning trance-like over shimmering guitar lines and hypnotic bass lines.
JUVENILIA is a fine collection of songs, one for the Inspiral fans foremost but also working as a telling snapshot of the pre baggy Manchester sound...
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.........................................When a band might be described as 'lost', there is usually a reason why they are lost, and it is usually the reason that they are rubbish. You know, the old rubbishness chestnut. But this is not true of Too Much Texas, where Tom 'Inspiral Carpets bloke' Hingley cut his vocal teeth in the late eighties. Equal parts C86 jangle and agit-pop spikes and angles, they gain added oomph from Hingley's robust vocals and guitars that veer closer to Pixies than they do to Pastels. The likes of the galloping, barrelling Anchor, the fantastically-titled-and-vaguely-funky You Blister My Paint, the loopy white disco of the even-better-titled Patrick Mower and the incredible Fixed Link, which is practically abstract rap (Inspiral Rap Sect, anagram fans?) sound plenty timely now, which maybe explains why they were lost back then. Fascinating AND good to dance to - who'dathunkit?
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