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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Meanwhile, other tributes to Gill continue to pop up around Manchester, as support continues to build for the campaign to get Inspiral Carpets’ ‘Saturn 5’ to Christmas No.1 in his honour. “He lived a ...

He joined the band in 1983 when he was just 14-years-old Get all the very latest news in Ireland straight to your email every single day They were one of the biggest alternative rock bands of the ...

Madchester favourites Inspiral Carpets are to play a series of UK dates next March. Following up their highly successful comeback shows in 2003 – which included three sold-out Manchester shows as well ...

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 ...

Cherry Red Records, the London label home to The Fall and many, many others, have announced Inspiral Carpets as a new signing for 2014. With this comes the news that the band will firstly be reissuing ...

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 ...

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 ...