KEEP THE CIRCLE B SIDES COLLECTION
The album comprises the flip sides of their 13 Top 40 singles and various rarities featuring, amongst others, a previously unreleased version of Saturn 5 (featuring Mark E Smith of The Fall) and the first ever Inspiral Carpets recording Garage Full Of Flowers (previously only available on a limited release flexi disc in 1988)
2007 will also see the release on DVD of their legendary 1990 G-Mex show where the band performed to 14,000 fans following the release of the timeless debut album Life which had just peaked at number 2 in the album chart.
One of Britain’s great singles bands, Inspirals Carpets are the boys that famously gave Noel Gallagher his rock n roll schooling (as their roadie) but more importantly, introduced the mainstream to Madchester with a bevy of pop anthems (including the hits, Joe, Caravan, I Want You, Saturn 5 and This Is How It Feels)
BIOGRAPHY
The Inspiral Carpets are one of those great English singles bands.
Up there with Madness or the Kinks or The Buzzcocks those effortless purveyors of a machine gun rush of fine three minute statements.
In the late eighties and early nineties The Inspiral Carpets hit the chart far more consistently than their fellow Madchester travellers the Happy Mondays and The Stone Roses.
Playing their psychedelic punk pop in the mid eighties way before anyone was putting the ’Mad’ into Manchester.
They had the trippy light show, the short snappy songs and the frazzled fringes of prime time garage gonzoids.
Maybe that was because The Inspirals were always a punk rock band at heart and cranked the energy level accordingly.
Too many British pop bands burn out before they get their pay day, and if the band that taught their ex roadie Noel Gallagher the ins and outs of rock n roll can get deserved recognition for their angular pop, then it would be a mighty justice indeed.
JOHN ROBB