30 years since they last visited the country, influential Madchester outfit Inspiral Carpets have announced their return to Australia. The veteran English group will celebrate their 40th anniversary ...

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 ...

Manchester vets Inspiral Carpets will release new compilation The Complete Singles on March 17 via Mute/BMG. It’s the first time that all of the band’s singles — including such UK hits “This is How it ...

Craig Gill, drummer for long-running Manchester band Inspiral Carpets, has died at age 44. The band broke the news via their Facebook this morning: It’s with heavy hearts that we announce the death of ...

Have a look at the clip for Spitfire, and let us know if this is how it feels to be happy your baggy heroes have returned Is it really a quarter of a century since you could get arrested for wearing ...

Inspiral Carpets are reuniting with their original singer more than 20 years after he left the group. Stephen Holt has rejoined the Manchester band following the departure of long-time frontman Tom ...

Having formally reissued their 1987 demo tape Dung 4 earlier in the year, the Inspiral Carpets, on their new self-titled album, almost seem to have found a sequel to that release just sitting around ...

Fellow musicians have been paying tribute to the member of the 'Madchester' band CRAIG Gill, the drummer of ‘Madchester’ band Inspiral Carpets, has died at the age of 44. In a statement released this ...

The nostalgia train pulled into Academy 1 on Friday night, as the Inspiral Carpets brought their latest greatest hits tour to their home turf. The Carpets were welcomed to the stage by a harmonious ...

His widow Rose Marie Gill discovered him hanging at their home in Greenfield, Greater Manchester, after returning with their children from a day out INSPIRAL Carpets drummer Craig Gill killed himself ...

Inspiral Carpets have announced that they are to play an 8-date UK tour in March. The band, made up of the definitive line-up, Tom Hingley, Clint Boon, Craig ‘Noddy’ Gill, Martyn Walsh and Graham ...

Oldham’s Inspiral Carpets had a more convincing claim than most to be outsiders in the baggy scene of the early ’90s. Powered by psychedelic organ, their tunes owed more to obscure ’60s garage than ...