2010
Tom Hingley And The Lovers
Tom Hingley
Steve Hanley
Paul Hanley
Kelly Wood
Jason Brown
Tom Hingley And The Lovers - 24 July 2010 - The Horn, St. Albans * Support Act(s): Almost Midnight, Nick Stevenson
Tom Hingley And The Lovers - 01 October 2010 - The Platform, Morecambe
DJ Clint Boon - 02 December 2010 - The Longfield Suite, Manchester * Supporting: DJ Mani, Janice Graham Band, The 66, Richard Dutton And The So And So's
2011
Tom Hingley And The Lovers - 28 January 2011 - Baileys, Grimsby * Supprt Act(s): Chris Helme
Notes: Chris former singer with The Seahorses.
February 2011 - Tom Hingley is no longer part of the band
Notes: The reasons are still unconfirmed. Band members indicated that Hingley had left of his own accord. Clint Boon said Tom wanted the band to split up, where as the other members did not want to. Tom later claimed that he had been fired by the band at a meeting.
“With tears streaming down my face, I said that I already knew that. I stuck the letter in my pocket and said that I wouldn’t be an a*** about it. I left the room and took my walk of shame back to the car, and drove away.”
From 28 August 2012 10:27 Sarah Walters write a Manchester Evening News website article: Tom's newly-published autobiography reveals a rather different story – that he was left in tears after being sacked by his bandmates in a hotel in Ashton-under-Lyne...Tom writes: “With tears streaming down my face, I said that I already knew that. I stuck the letter in my pocket and said that I wouldn't be an a*** about it. I left the room and took my walk of shame back to the car, and drove away.” The next day the band announced their reunion and tour with Stephen. Tom says now that he was powerless to do anything about it – but feels they aren't the real Inspiral Carpets without him. He says: "Inspiral Carpets were a gang with Craig (Gill), Martyn (Walsh), Graham (Lambert), Clint (Boon) and me - that gang no longer exists. This is a new band - it's not that band that appeared on Top Of The Pops or played Reading Festival.
"It's entirely up to them what they want to do; I legally couldn't stop them doing it and I had other things I wanted to do. There are two sides to every story and they told people through Twitter and Facebook that Steve (Holt) was singing for them again, but the vast majority of people who bought tickets for their tour in March or the shows they did with the Happy Mondays had no idea I wasn't singing in the band. "I'm not trying to make some issue out of that; they're totally free to do whatever they wanted. But they didn't tell the fans I wasn't in the band. It doesn't upset me, I just don't think it's very clever."
From 02 September 2011 - John Robb Louder Than War interview: So why did Tom leave? Graham: It was the availability of the whole bands for gigs we had been asked to, like festivals last summer. Because we are all involved in other projects we have a situation where three of us could do a festival but two could not and it was not getting anywhere. If you were free for gigs like Tom it was frustrating but equally if you were tied up it was understandable as well. This went on for a bit and it got the better of Tom. We couldn’t be free was frustrating but that’s the way it is. Obviously there is far more to it than that like we always liked to play fast, punky, garagey stuff. The four of us were in shape to do it but Tom didn’t want to play 2 gigs back to back. It was getting the better of Tom, would you agree?’ Clint: We were going with it but in February Tom pretty much pulled out. I think he was in a phase of life out, gigging solo and playing with lots of different people and he didn’t think there was anything wrong with using session men. We didn’t want to go into that world though. The core of this band has been together for 25 years- so few bands have got that. I’m not knocking Tom so when he left we decided to carry on. None of us are teenagers, life is short and we got the opportunity to work with Steve and celebrate the garage stuff. It was a result of Tom leaving and not a reaction to it. It was not spiteful, Tom had gone 'fuck it’ and we said 'lets get Steve back in!’.
South Wales Echo, David Owens interview with Tom Hingley: ‘I issued a tweet saying the band had split up, good luck with your solo careers,’ he explains, taking up the reins of the story. ‘Then Clint tweeted that the band hadn’t split up, it appears one member has left. However, the band hadn’t really been going for years. The band ended in 1995, but we got back together in 2003 for three or four tours. The fact is though I’m a full-time musician. I did 140 gigs last year and I wrote this book.
‘However, the other members of The Inspiral Carpets all work in other jobs and I think it was those day jobs that were getting in the way and the band as an entity was disappearing over the horizon. ‘It got to the point where the band had been over for a long time and it was like trying to reheat a souffle. If people can’t make themselves available for gigs then it just makes it impossible. ‘We got offered some festival dates and one of the band couldn’t do them because they were on holiday that week. You’re talking about a really high profile festival and I think things just get too comfy. To me a band is going to annoy your wife, your kids and your friends. But you have to play where your band is going to get the best billing and it can’t be fitted around people’s day jobs. It has to come first. So it was a creative frustration.’
31 August 2012 - Tom speaks to Tim Fletcher of Burton Mail : ...Clint Boon, organist and songwriter, responded to Hingley’s comments on his departure by Tweeting ‘Inspiral Carpets have not split up — it appears that one member has chosen to leave’, but Hingley tells a different tale.
“Graham (Lambert, guitarist) sacked me,” he says. “He forced me out of the band through years of bullying and he also tried to bully Martyn (Walsh, bassist) out of the band. “There are various versions of what happened, some which stick to the truth more than others, but I don’t talk to them at all.” At this point, Hingley, unprompted, insists on reading out one of the 60 or so text messages and emails he claims to have received over the previous weekend from his fans, following the Inspirals’ performance, with his replacement and the band’s original frontman, Stephen Holt, on vocals, at this year’s V Festival.
The sender of the message apparently pleads with Hingley to return to the Inspirals, asserts that Holt ‘cannot sing a note’ and is ‘killing the reputation of the band’, but does Hingley share this view? “It’s not for me to say,” he replies, enigmatically. “Does it matter what I think about it? What matters is the people who have followed the band for 30 years. “The music doesn’t belong to me or Clint or anyone else in the band. It belongs to the people who went to the gigs, bought the T-shirts and got beaten up in the toilets for having stupid haircuts.”
While he may sound it, Hingley insists that he is not resentful about the way things have turned out and his icy relations with his erstwhile bandmates. “I don’t feel bitter, because when something is over, it’s over and you have to recognise it,” he says. “The passing of something is one of the great things to recognise in life, whether it’s a parent, a season or a career. “There’s a saying that all political carers end in failure and I think you can say that about bands too, but I don’t regret it at all and I’m extremely proud of what we did. “If you’d said to me at the age of 23 I could set out and do all this again, I would.”
2011 - Cassius Boon is born.
Notes: The youngest of five Boon babies.
30 June - 30 August 2011 - 'AAA Shaun Ryder & Friends’ at Manchester Photographic Gallery, Karin Albinsson.
Notes: The gallery hosted several photos, artwork pieces, poster and more. Including Shaun Ryder photos, Tony Wilson, Badly Drawn Boy, Mani/Ian Brown/The Stone Roses posters, James, Morrissey, Johnny Marr, The Charlatans with Paul Weller (Manchester Versus Cancer), Noel Gallagher, David Bowie and loads more. Clint Boon recorded a video introduction to the exhibithion.
Below info taken from official vdocuments pdf:
7. Video projection, the film and the editor.
Karin Albinsson: Video projection, 3rd floor, An introduction of the Exhibition by Clint Boon. & 2nd screen, 'Tell me a joke Shaun' a documentary filmed while I was on tour with Shaun.
8. Cost of material, prints, mounts, frames and retoucher.
Karin Albinsson: Cost of, A1 Lambda prints 50 each, small metal frames with mounts 42, large metal frames 90 each, 100 small Ikea frames 300, retoucher 300. 300 of launch night AAA passes 1 each = 300, negative scans 100. Total cost £4,500.
9. Images for sale, cost/commission by the gallery. Karin Albinsson: Images priced by the gallery. Gallery commission 50%. Example: Noel Gallagher - Manchester Versus Cancer, MEN Arena, 2007. Limited to 1 of 10 signed £1495, unsigned £795.
Tom Hingley And The Lovers - 15-17 July 2011 - The Shed Festival, The Plough, Peterborough
Notes: Line up included Sex Pistols Experience and The Cockney Rejects.
Tom Hingley And The Lovers - 16 July 2011 - Bomfest 2011, Worsbrough Mill Museum and Country Park, Barnsley * Supporting: Senser
Notes: Line up included Senser, Circue de Manc, Chris X, Mickey Bimble.
31 August 2011 - Inspiral Carpets meeting at Village Hotel, Ashton-under-Lyne
Notes: The band 'legally' sack Tom from the band and diminish his responsibility within the company.
From August 2017 - MOJO Magazine interview with Tom Hingley: HELLO GOODBYE - THIS MONTH:TOM HINGLEY AND INSPIRAL CARPETS. They began playing garage in a lock-up; later came the fateful gathering in a hotel meeting room.
HELLO MARCH 1989 I'd been in a band called Too Much Texas and I'd met Paula Greenwood, who ran the Playtime label in Manchester. She took us under her wing and let us support the Inspirals at two Or three gigs. They were a powerful band when Stephen Holt sang for them in those early days. Stephen had left, and they were auditioning for a new singer. Clint (Boon, organ) had a go, and so did (then-roadie) Noel Gallagher and John Matthews [later of The High). They weren't right. So I went to a rehearsal room called the Mill in Guide Bridge near Ashton. It was Clint's lock-up; he used to make furniture and it was quite industrial, with lots Of heavy machinery. They used to spray paint these bedspreads, so there were all these particles in the air. They'd insulated this little room and I remember leaning against this wall which had
sacking sewn into it. I would have sung the stuff they'd done with Stephen: Butterfly, Keep The Circle Around, Joe. They were all there, Craig [Gill, drums), Clint, Graham (Lambert, guitarl and Martyn (Walsh, bass). They were into The Seeds. The 13th Floor Elevators and The Chocolate Watch Band, and Craig was equally into hip-hop and pop music. There's always a pecking order in bands, and probably it was really Graham's band. They were very northern and more working-class than me. I'm a southerner and a bit more posh. But I'd been in bands for years So I knee.' what I was doing, plus I had a car. They didn't tell me I was in, but we were rehearsing and gigs were booked very quickly because the band hadn't been able to play for three, four months. We committed to spending £500 to record a single, too: when I started doing a vocal, Graham and Clint came in and said, "What's that? You've got a lisp." I said, "It's too late, I'm in the band now." I got the piss taken out of me for the first six months for drinking mineral water, until they started putting weight on drinking fizzy drinks. But we were united by music, then.
GOODBYE AUGUST 2011
We'd taken a hiatus in 1995 and started playing again in 2003. Things culminated at the end of 2010; Graham had refused to attend any meetings for 18 months, so we hadn't done anything, and when we did meet up to discuss gigs we'd been offered, various members said they wouldn't do them. We were just arguing for three, four months.
Then I got an e-mail telling me the band have booked six gigs in six weeks' time, and I had to give them two hours' notice as to whether I could do them or not. The fact that one of them was on the daythat I was getting married might have presented a bit of a problem. There's also the reality of how, when you're a middle-aged man, you really don't want to be told what to do by other people.
On August 31.2011, they invited me to a meeting at the Village Hotel in Ashton-under-Lyne, where Clint handed me a legal letter telling me that they'd sacked me out of the company and they'd sacked me out of the band. I said to them, "Keep the channels of communications open" (the same day it was announced that original vocalist Holt had rejoined the group). Clint claims that I left, and him and Graham have said there's no problem between them and
me, which I find extremely bizarre. I think the one thing, probably, we
all have in common is that we can't stand one another.
The best years of my life were in that band, and it feels great playing this material now [with new band The Kar-Pets]. No one knows what the future will be for Inspiral Carpets but if they got back playing again. I don't know if we'd continue. I hope they do, but I don't see a way we could work together again. The unbelievably sad passing Of Craig Gill [who took his own life in November 2016] would make it extraordinarily difficult to play that music [with them] and hear what wasn't there. Craig not being around is the defining thing, not arguments we might have had.
As told to Ian Harrison. Tom Hingley & The Kar-Pets' CD/ DVD set
'May Contain Nuts' is out now. His memoir 'Carpet Burns' is published by Route.
31 August 2011 - The band announce a reunion with original singer Stephen Holt.
Notes: Their website said ''...Inspirals will be recording their first material in 15 years coupled with concerts in South America & Greece...''
01 September 2011 - Tom Goodwyn wrote for the NME: Keyboardist Clint Boon told XFM of the reunion: We’ve not actually started writing new material yet, but we are getting in the studio with the intention of doing just that. We’re also going to be re-recording some of the songs we did back in the mid to late ’80s. We’re celebrating the birth of the band and going back to the garage-y roots...When Steve left the band, very amicably, that’s when Noel Gallagher auditioned to take his place as a singer for the Inspirals. We ended up with Tom Hingley, who’s a great singer and still is. Imagine if we’d taken on Noel? That’s another chapter of the Inspirals‘ history that we should maybe one day investigate.
Clint Boon told also told XFM: "We've not actually started writing new material yet, but we are getting in the studio with the intention of doing just that.
From 02 September 2011 - John Robb Louder Than War interview: Steve, how did the initial approach to rejoin the band come? Stephen: It was weird. It came out of the blue. There was a text from Graham. I hadn’t seen the band for years, apart from bumping into Clint a year ago. It was mad, totally unexpected. In the text Graham said do you fancy doing some singing for us and I thought it was a side project that Graham was doing. I didn’t think it was Inspiral Carpets- so it was a surprise. I suppose regretted leaving the band for years. I left because of a few things, personal things going on in my life and maybe because of the way the band was moving and pressures of stuff led to it. When you are younger you make snap decisions, decisions I regretted over time but to get this second chance is brilliant.’
25 November 2015 From outlineonline.co.uk Outline Norwich Born & Bred webpage, Inspiral Carpets Interview by Lizzoutline 25/11/15: How’s it been working with your original singer Stephen again on your most recent album?
Clint: It’s been brilliant, with respect to Tom who was our singer for 20 years, it’s nice to have Stephen back. It feels like we’re back to where we started and it’s just got something of the spirit of the old garage band, which is nice. I think when you get someone new in you start doing things a bit differently and we’re enjoying it. I still see Tom and we get on very well. Stephen’s doing a great job; for the last 20 years he’s been the manager of a drug dependency unit and has very much been in the real world and now he’s back in the fairy-tale land of travelling the world and playing gigs with us lot! He’s loving it.
02 September 2011 - John Robb interviews the band for Louder Than War website, Rehearsal Room, Manchester
Saturn 5
Notes:
Published by John Robb - 02 September 2011 for Louder Than War - Exclusive interview with new Inspiral Carpets line up. So I’m sat on a settee in a rehearsal room up in some godforsaken hill town north of Manchester and the Inspiral Carpets are running through a selection of tunes with their new/old or should that be old/new singer Stephen Holt. they sound magnificent. There is the adrenalin rush of garage rock and a band with something to prove and singer returned to the fold after 20 years- a snapshot to pre baggy Manchester and a long lost garage rock band. Going to an Inspiral Carpets rehearsal is part of Mancunian folklore. A young Noel Gallagher made roughly the same trip when Stephen Holt left the first time back in the late eighties. Noel was going to audition for the new singing post but ended up becoming the roadie because his voice was too similar to Clint’s. A couple of years before a pre Stone Roses Ian Brown had been up to jam with a pre Inspirals Clint Boon but left when he heard the industrial music racket Boon was playing at the time. That’s the cool thing with the Inspirals, they are so much part of the local fabric that they cut the cloth. Holt was the original singer of the band, forming the Carpets in 1983 with guitarist Graham Lambert and has been given the recall after the band’s two decade mainstay Tom Hingley recently quit. It’s a smart move, Tom was key to the band’s success but the band have opted to go back to their roots- the garageband shuffle that made them the hippest band in town when they were signed to key local label Playtime Records, before the baggy era. The last time I interviewed this line up was in a city centre pub in 1987- weeks before Stephen left. They run though some songs and they sound fantastic, for someone like me this raw shock of garage rock is what they do the best. Clint Boon’s wheezing Farfisa is locking with Graham’s shrapnel rhythm guitar and that deceptively tough rhythm section that survives an imploding bass amp to really kick. It’s great to hear the Inspirals like this, back at their garageband peak, the band sound tough and it really works and Stephen Holt fits in perfectly, but then he would because he formed this band with Graham nearly thirty years ago and his presence was a key part of the band’s original attack. His voice sounds really good and his presence is perfect, the band sound reinvigorated 'a mixture of having something to prove and reconnecting with what made them great in the first place. They play a clutch of songs including a thrilling roughhouse version of Saturn 5, that really suits the new punky version of the band as well as a new one they have just written that has a killer chorus and a fab guitar hook that is sort of like mid period Fall with an Inspiral’s pop twist. It’s a song that Holt sings like he has sung for years and the band look and feel perfect. Between songs there is plenty of banter and the loose relaxed atmosphere of people who have lived and worked together for years, even if they didn’t really see one of them for two decades! By the end of the mini set, which is the first time anyone has heard this line up outside the band, one thing is for sure- The Inspirals have turned a potential disaster into a triumph. It’s an interesting twist in the story of the Inspiral Carpets- the third corner of the classic Manc baggy triangle. With the Roses and the Mondays they were the sound of back end of the eighties. They may not have had the perpetual cool of their fellow travellers- being the dome haired gonks to Ian Brown’s haughty, cheekbone cool or the Mondays scuzzed up chemical chic but they were oddly loveable and musically brilliant- the quintessential garage band who made good with a run of hit singles that truly stand the test of time. They were Top Of the Pops regulars with those Farfisa driven pop anthems and with a wily knack of writing a great pop tune they managed to survive through baggy and into Britpop. They remain one of those bands that people forget just how good they were. They had an innate garage band toughness that was the proper backbone to all their pop adventures. Go and listen to them on Spotify or your old CDs and you will be reminded just what a good band this really was. For older watchers like me, though, there is another story. There was another band that existed before the famous Inspirals. This was the garage band fronted by Stephen Holt. Holt split from the band just before they found fame and looked like he was to become a footnote in their history. His replacement Tom Hingley was key to the band’s success- his polished neo Julian Cope voice was perfect for the pop years of the band but there was always a lingering feeling of 'what if'. Pre fame the Inspirals were a cult band in Manchester, gig goers in mid to late eighties the city would talk in awe of this psychedelic garage band with the bubble light show and 24 minute version of the Velvets ”ËœWhat Goes On’. The true music heads in town, like a youthfully shy Noel Gallagher, Roses types and other assorted sonic heads would always gather at the Inspiral’s gigs at the Boardwalk or at long lost city centre venues with someone like the Spacemen Three in support, tripping out to this great band. When they split came it was felt that what they gained with Tom they also lost with Stephen. The news this week, though, gives us an opportunity to check these back pages. Tom has left the Inspiral Carpets to concentrate on his own solo adventures and the band, always a tightly knit family unit, did the obvious but still beautifully shocking thing and pulled Stephen back into the band. The ex vocalist had not sing in a band for two decades had rarely been in touch with his former band mates and was just getting ready to slip into middle age when he is suddenly thrust back into the limelight.
After playing me the songs the band are in a perky mood as the ever effervescent Clint Boon explains. 'We are starting here. We will play the garage stuff and see where it leads us, maybe to a great edgy guitar contemporary band like Interpol or somewhere else.’
So why did Tom leave? Graham: It was the availability of the whole bands for gigs we had been asked to, like festivals last summer. Because we are all involved in other projects we have a situation where three of us could do a festival but two could not and it was not getting anywhere. If you were free for gigs like Tom it was frustrating but equally if you were tied up it was understandable as well. This went on for a bit and it got the better of Tom. We couldn’t be free was frustrating but that’s the way it is. Obviously there is far more to it than that like we always liked to play fast, punky, garagey stuff. The four of us were in shape to do it but Tom didn’t want to play 2 gigs back to back. It was getting the better of Tom, would you agree?’ Clint: We were going with it but in February Tom pretty much pulled out. I think he was in a phase of life out, gigging solo and playing with lots of different people and he didn’t think there was anything wrong with using session men. We didn’t want to go into that world though. The core of this band has been together for 25 years- so few bands have got that. I’m not knocking Tom so when he left we decided to carry on. None of us are teenagers, life is short and we got the opportunity to work with Steve and celebrate the garage stuff. It was a result of Tom leaving and not a reaction to it. It was not spiteful, Tom had gone 'fuck it’ and we said 'lets get Steve back in!’. ‘The first 5 years of the band was Steve and Graham, Craig joined in 84 and me soon after. There is a five year part of this band that was never made public. The man in the street is not aware of it. By the time we did 'Joe’ and 'Move’ and 'Find Out Why’ and we became a successful pop group a whole period was lost. Whilst the first album still sounds like a garage band the second album has gone somewhere else with songs about concentration camps and different kind of music. On the third album, Pascal Gabriel came in and we made good garagy stuff again and he was making it sound contemporary- tightening up the beats and made us a garage pop band. By then we were diversifying, the b sides are magnificent at that time, so off the wall like 'Boomerang.’ Graham: ”The second album rebelled against the first album- Steve had been around for about half the songs on the first album. The second album was a complete contrast to the first album. The third album should have been second and second should have been third. Clint ‘The Second album should have been a free giveaway with forth one (everyone laughs).
So was this return to the garage Inspirals forced up you by the line up change? Clint: I’ve had a passionate urge to do garage music for years- to the point that I wanted to do it outside the Inspirals. Tom leaving gave me the opportunity to do that.’
Steve, how did the initial approach to rejoin the band come? Stephen: It was weird. It came out of the blue. There was a text from Graham. I hadn’t seen the band for years, apart from bumping into Clint a year ago. It was mad, totally unexpected. In the text Graham said do you fancy doing some singing for us and I thought it was a side project that Graham was doing. I didn’t think it was Inspiral Carpets- so it was a surprise. I suppose regretted leaving the band for years. I left because of a few things, personal things going on in my life and maybe because of the way the band was moving and pressures of stuff led to it. When you are younger you make snap decisions, decisions I regretted over time but to get this second chance is brilliant.’
Clint: When you left the band it was understandable we were jumping off edge of a cliff! I was a self employed company director stepping into a world of paying ourselves ten quid a week to go full time- Steve had a decent job.’ Stephen: I had the Rainkings after that and gradually turned into a smoking and drinking club! We would rehearse a couple of times a week and then end up in the Marble Arch pub. Since then with music I was watching and lsitening and working- it was pipe and slippers time for me until that text!’ Graham: What was interesting was that we had been around the music industry for years and worked with a manager and agents and had all the trials and tribulations of the music industry whilst Steve had been a music lover for those 20 years and comes in fresh and untarnished and it reminded us of that genuine love of making music. It made us think lets play music, lets get on with it. With this band now who knows what will happen, we could play a small venue like the Roadhouse or a massive one like Gmex or no gigs atall. We actually enjoy making the music. It’s like back into 1987 when Clint wheeled his keyboard uninvited into the rehearsal room and we got together and made music, we would come in from work and rehearse with a genuine love of making music. Clint: I still do my day job and the do the band. It’s a bit of a posher job now!
Clint: We are not worried about record sales and downloads. We don’t play that game any more. We are loving nothing more than creating and playing. Although it would nice to have enough success to make this a priority, if we could look on this as the main sort of gig that would be great but if all we do is rehearse and make great tunes then that’s fine.’
Stephen what was the first rehearsal after all these years like? Stephen: I met Graham once before we did a few things in Clint’s cellar but then it was bang and straight in and it gelled pretty quickly.
Not only are the band revisiting the past but they are moving forward with new songs.
Clint: We have some more new ideas to look at and some stuff to revisit from years ago. What’s great about garage music is that we can knock out songs quickly.’
Graham: Tom’s input to the band was good. But in the end you get twisted when you start thinking that you’re not Noel Gallagher or not Paul Weller and it can affect your songwriting ability. Now instead of 15 chords we have got back to three, I’m not a muso . I dread anyone coming round with that Guitar Hero game, I’m really stuck. the kids leather me on it. We were sat on deckchairs in the garden recently playing guitars and we couldn’t tune the guitar! that’s brilliant, the two us cant tune a guitar together (laughs).’
Clint: We are very punk in that way.
Graham: We started from a time when you didn’t want to be the next Beatles or U2. It was punk rock. It was from the heart. You would find a shape on the guitar and it sounded good then you would do it. Martyn started the basics of the new song, we kicked it around and changed it with Clint’s backing vocals and Farfisa on it and added other bits. If someone comes up with idea and we all work on it.’
Clint: Where we are in life with four of us having multiples of kids, all the hang ups when we were younger are not worth it. We are so relaxed about who writes stuff now and that will carry on being the case.
Graham: Here’s an interesting snippet for your piece- this line up played one gig with Stephen at the Cricketers in London in 1988. So his is the definitive Cricketers line up, Martyn had just joined the band and we played one gig with that line up with Stephen. Jesus Jones supported us at the oval cricket ground club. I remember being on the bus before played and New Order doing were ”True Faith’ on Top Of The Pops. Everyone laughs, Graham is legendary in the band for his ridiculous memory recall.I ask if there is plan of action”
Clint: There is nothing planned yet. We have one serious gig in Chile and we like the idea of that being the comeback gig. We get gigs offers all the time and can’t always do them. The excitement of the announcement of the reformation means that we have to put the infrastructure together- a manager and an agent and get some British dates sorted. Graham: Oddly you are the first person to see this line up- that Cricketer’s gig there was no-one was there. And what do your old road crew think of this…Clint: Liam Gallagher will be buzzing when he hears of the new line up, Noel as well. It’s weird to think but if Steve hadn’t left in the first place then Oasis might never have happened. We did amazing stuff with Tom and that would have carried on but he left so we sat down and told him what was going to happen and that we would carry on with Steve, who knows, we may even work with Tom again in the future.
Stephen, did you ever meet Tom? ”No, I have never seen the band after I left! I was listening to different type of stuff and mixing with different people. I was aware of what the band were doing but they did not feature on my radar that much, it was not a case of 'fuck them', don’t want anything to do with it! just different musical interests. Graham: Graham: Steve retained an individual indie ear!”. Stephen: I got two indie ears! Graham: Steve was more into JohnPeel show and bands like McCarthy and the Wolfhounds and we almost left that. We have been away from that and now Steve is talking about bands I haven’t heard of. If John peel was still alive Steve would be listening to him’ Stephen: Without a doubt!’ Clint: What about XFM!? Everyone laughs...
Tom Hingley with James - 17 September 2011 - Cavfest, Cavendish School (Playing Fields)
Johnny Yen / She’s A Star / The Beast Inside / I Want You / Hymn From A Village / Chain Mail / Say Something / She Comes In The Fall / Laid / Sit Down / Sleep well Tonight
Notes: Larry, Jim and Dave from James plus Tom Hingley joined forces to play a gig for Cavendish Primary School’s music festival.
Bootleg: Audience Recording ()
Bootleg: Source 2 - Audience Recording ()
Tom Hingley And The Lovers - 20 October 2011 -
Notes: Line up included missdavinalee, Scarlett And Viva, The Glitches Miss Davina Lee
11 November 2011 - Anfiteatro Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires * Supporting: Interpol
Notes: The You're So Good For Me promo video was shot at this show.
21 November 2011 - XFM Radio Session, Manchester
This Is How It Feels / Your'e So Good For Me / Dragging Me Down / Saturn 5
Broadcast: XFM Radio
Bootleg: Webstream -
Bootleg: 24 March 2012 HMV Ritz, Manchester (2012, Catalog Number: SOTN182) 2CD-R - CD1: Commercial Reign / Joe / She Comes In The Fall / Head For The Sun / Weakness / Your'e So Good For Me / This Is How It Feels / Butterfly / Directing Traffic / Seeds Of Doubt / Keep The Circle Around / Find Out Why / Changes / Generations / Move / I Want You / Dragging Me Down / Greek Wedding Song CD2: Theme From Cow / 96 Tears / Saturn 5 - Bonus Udder Stuff: 21 November 2011 - XFM Radio Session, Manchester: This Is How It Feels / Your'e So Good For Me / Dragging Me Down / Saturn 5 - 10 March 2012 - The Fuzz Club, Athens, Greece: Garage Full Of Flowers - 05 March 2012 - Tony Livesey 5Live Session, BBC Radio 5, Studios: Saturn 5 / Interview / Your'e So Good For Me (Video Version)
December 2011 - Manchester Musical History Tour Book Published
Notes: Empire Publications. Written by Phill Gatenby & Craig Gill. Phill also wrote and released Morrissey's Manchester" in 2002. and he put together several tours featuring other world famous Manchester bands from the Buzzcocks via Joy Division to Oasis, Elbow and Doves as well as the various scenes from beat to acid house or even lo-fi." Written and published after the success of the Manchester bus tours (see 06 June 2009).
18 February ? - Know Your History presents: Hacienda Night - Tom Hingley - South Street * Ticket Price: £5 * Support Act(s): The Sparrow Club, Dam Dam Patriots, DJ Mikey
Notes: Poster reads '...Playing solo stuff and Inspiral Carpets hits..'. Unconfirmed date.
03 March 2012 - Leadmill, Sheffield
Notes: Poster notes this an 'Extra Date Added'.
05 March 2012 - Tony Livesey 5Live Session, BBC Radio 5, Studios
Saturn 5
Notes: Tony also interviews the band during the session.
Broadcast: BBC Radio 5
Bootleg: Webstream - Saturn 5 / Interview
Bootleg: 24 March 2012 HMV Ritz, Manchester (2012, Catalog Number: SOTN182) 2CD-R - CD1: Commercial Reign / Joe / She Comes In The Fall / Head For The Sun / Weakness / Your'e So Good For Me / This Is How It Feels / Butterfly / Directing Traffic / Seeds Of Doubt / Keep The Circle Around / Find Out Why / Changes / Generations / Move / I Want You / Dragging Me Down / Greek Wedding Song CD2: Theme From Cow / 96 Tears / Saturn 5 - Bonus Udder Stuff: 21 November 2011 - XFM Radio Session, Manchester: This Is How It Feels / Your'e So Good For Me / Dragging Me Down / Saturn 5 - 10 March 2012 - The Fuzz Club, Athens, Greece: Garage Full Of Flowers - 05 March 2012 - Tony Livesey 5Live Session, BBC Radio 5, Studios: Saturn 5 / Interview / Your'e So Good For Me (Video Version)
10 March 2012 - Fuzz Live Music Club, Athens, Greece
Garage Full Of Flowers
Bootleg: Audience Recording - 24 March 2012 HMV Ritz, Manchester (2012, Catalog Number: SOTN182) 2CD-R - CD1: Commercial Reign / Joe / She Comes In The Fall / Head For The Sun / Weakness / Your'e So Good For Me / This Is How It Feels / Butterfly / Directing Traffic / Seeds Of Doubt / Keep The Circle Around / Find Out Why / Changes / Generations / Move / I Want You / Dragging Me Down / Greek Wedding Song CD2: Theme From Cow / 96 Tears / Saturn 5 - Bonus Udder Stuff: 21 November 2011 - XFM Radio Session, Manchester: This Is How It Feels / Your'e So Good For Me / Dragging Me Down / Saturn 5 - 10 March 2012 - The Fuzz Club, Athens, Greece: Garage Full Of Flowers - 05 March 2012 - Tony Livesey 5Live Session, BBC Radio 5, Studios: Saturn 5 / Interview / Your'e So Good For Me (Video Version)
15 March 2012 Thursday - Thekla, Bristol
Bootleg: Recording
16 March 2012 Friday - Koko, London * Doors Open: 19:00 * Ticket Price: £19.50 * Support Act(s): *
Notes:
17 March 2012 - Picturedrome, Holmfirth
Notes: Sold Out Show
Bootleg: Recording
March 2012 - Clint Boon's daughter Luna Bliss is born at St Mary's Hospital, Manchester.
Notes: Luna Bliss Boon, was born more than three months early and was treated in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) St Mary's Hospital, Manchester but she sadly lost her fight for life at 19:30 on 20 April 2012.
18 March 2012 Monday - Waterfront, Norwich
21 March 2012 Wednesday - Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth
22 March 2012 Thursday - The Assembly, Leamington Spa * Doors Open: 19:00 * Ticket Price: £18.50
23 March 2012 Friday - O2 ABC, Glasgow * Support Act(s): The Janice Graham Band *
Bootleg: Recording
24 March 2012 Saturday - The Ritz, Whitworth Street, Manchester
Commercial Reign / Joe / She Comes In The Fall / Head For The Sun / Weakness / Your'e So Good For Me / This Is How It Feels / Butterfly / Directing Traffic / Seeds Of Doubt / Keep The Circle Around / Find Out Why / Changes / Generations / Move / I Want You / Dragging Me Down / Greek Wedding Song
Theme From Cow / 96 Tears / Saturn 5
Notes: Sold Out Show. The show was mentioned in an interview with Stuart Maconie on BBC 6 Music, but this gig was not recorded or broadcast. I was therw ith my dad. Great gig! Holt brings a refreshing change to the band. Nice mix of old, new & classics! But my dad wasn't happy that he'd paid to see Tom and the band.
Bootleg: Audience Recording - 24 March 2012 HMV Ritz, Manchester (2012, Catalog Number: SOTN182) 2CD-R - CD1: Commercial Reign / Joe / She Comes In The Fall / Head For The Sun / Weakness / Your'e So Good For Me / This Is How It Feels / Butterfly / Directing Traffic / Seeds Of Doubt / Keep The Circle Around / Find Out Why / Changes / Generations / Move / I Want You / Dragging Me Down / Greek Wedding Song CD2: Theme From Cow / 96 Tears / Saturn 5 - Bonus Udder Stuff: 21 November 2011 - XFM Radio Session, Manchester: This Is How It Feels / Your'e So Good For Me / Dragging Me Down / Saturn 5 - 10 March 2012 - The Fuzz Club, Athens, Greece: Garage Full Of Flowers - 05 March 2012 - Tony Livesey 5Live Session, BBC Radio 5, Studios: Saturn 5 / Interview / Your'e So Good For Me (Video Version)
Bootleg: The Holt Years aka Holt! Who Goes There! (2012) 2CD-R - Disc 1 - Introduction (Barrowlands, Glasgow, Scotland, 6 October 1988) / Sun Don’t Shine (University, Manchester, England, 23 October 1987) / Keep The Circle Around (Version) (Dingwalls, Camden, London, England, 5 September 1988) / Garage Full Of Flowers (The Boardwalk, Manchester, England, 30 October 1987) / Give Me Less Time (The Boardwalk, Manchester, England, 31 January 1987) / Love Can Never Lose Its Own (The Boardwalk, Manchester, England, 31 January 1987) / Beautiful Face (Portlands, London, England, 24 March 1987) / Head For The Sun (The Boardwalk, Manchester, England, 25 May 1987) / You Can't Take The Truth (International, Manchester, England, 3 June 1988) / Joe [The Story Of] (International, Manchester, England, 3 June 1988) / Now You've Gone (Portlands, London, England, 24 March 1987) / Mary Anne (Just One More Time) (University, Sheffield, England, 16 May 1987) / Thinking Of You (The Boardwalk, Manchester, England, 25 May 1987) / Moon Over Waste Drive (The Boardwalk, Manchester, England, 31 January 1987) / Go Go (Excerpt) - Slow Suicide (The Boardwalk, Manchester, England, 30 October 1987) / Some Kind Of Respect (The Boardwalk, Manchester, England, 31 January 1987) / Causeway (Version) (The Green Room, Manchester, England, 18 December 1987) / So Far (International, Manchester, England, 24 October 1988) / Monkey (Dingwalls, Camden, London, England, 5 September 1988) / Greek Wedding Song (International, Manchester, England, 24 October 1988) / I Can’t Seem To Make You Mine (The Seeds cover) (Portlands, London, England, 24 March 1987) / You're Gonna Miss Me [Thinking Of You] (University, Sheffield, England, 16 May 1987) / Theme From A Cow (International, Manchester, England, 24 October 1988) / Seeds Of Doubt (International, Manchester, England, 24 October 1988) / Inside My Head (International, Manchester, England, 24 October 1988) / 96 Tears (The Green Room, Manchester, England, 18 December 1987) / Butterfly (Dingwalls, Camden, London, England, 5 September 1988) / Out Of Time () / 26 () / The Room (A Memory) (The Boardwalk, Manchester, England, 30 October 1987) Disc 2 - Un-Commercial Reign (The Boardwalk, Manchester, England, 31 January 1987) / You’re Gonna Miss Me (Version) (The Boardwalk, Manchester, England, 25 May 1987) / Keep The Circle Around (Version) (University, Manchester, England, 23 October 1987) / Joe (Traditional) (International, Manchester, England, 24 October 1988) / Causeway (Traditional) (Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2 October 1988) / Go Go (Full Length) (Take Two, Sheffield, England, 2 October 1987) / Whiskey (Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2 October 1988) / What Goes On (The Boardwalk, Manchester, England, 25 May 1987) / Planecrash (University, Manchester, England, 23 October 1987) / You’re So Good For Me (The Ritz, Manchester, England, 24 March 2012) / Changes (The Ritz, Manchester, England, 24 March 2012) / 2012 Deluxe Bonus (The Ritz, Manchester, England, 24 March 2012): Find Out Why / Move / This Is How It Feels / Directing Traffic / She Comes In The Fall / Dragging Me Down / Saturn 5
26 March 2012 Monday - Stuart Maconie Session, BBC 6 Music Radio, London
Notes: Interview with Stephen Holt & Clint Boon regarding The Ritz show and the bands current affairs.
Bootleg: Webcast Recording - Madchester Re-United (2012, Happy Mondays & Inspiral Carpets 05 May 2012 Saturday - M.E.N. Arena, Manchester. Audience Recording) 2 CD-R - Disc1: Introduction (Granada Reports ITV News, Late April 2012) / Bez Speech / Loose Fit / Kinky Afro / Dennis And Lois / Donovan / Gods Cop / Judge Fudge / 24 Hour Party People / Rave On / Cowboy Dave / Halelujah / Bob’s Yer Uncle / Holiday / Mad Cyril / Step On - Disc2: Jellybeans / Wrote For Luck / BBC Breakfast Show Interview Mondays - Carpets 7:46 / Stuart Maconie Show, BBC Radio 6, 26 March 2012 Carpets - Ritz Review / Stuart Maconie Show, BBC Radio 6, 26 March 2012 Carpets - Interview / Joe (fade in) / She Comes In The Fall / Directing Traffik’ / You’re So Good For Me / This Is How It Feels / Generations / I Want You / Move / Dragging Me Down / Sackville / Saturn 5
March 2012 - You’re So Good For Me U.K. Release Date
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Record Store Day 7inch Vinyl
You’re So Good For Me
Head For The Sun
Notes: The Record Store Day 7inch Vinyl was released 21 April 2012 as part of the nationwide event. Wav. files of the single appeared on the DVD disc of the deluxe edition of Inspiral Carpets album.
20 April 2012 19:30 - Luna Bliss passes away
Notes: Shocking and sad news that Charlie & Clint Boon's daughter Luna Bliss passes away after being born premature in March 2012. Luna lost her 34 day fight for survival at St Mary’s Hospital in Manchester. Her fight for life moved 5 year old brother Hector Angel Boon to raise money for other premature babies and their mums by fundraising. Hector had his first ever haircut (14 April 2012 Saturday 11:00) and raised more than £3,000 within a few months for the Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust Charity. The total for Hector's Care Chair Fund would total to £26,929.
Clint said on Twitter: “Our beautiful baby girl Luna Bliss died peacefully in our arms last night at 7.30pm. She made our world even more wonderful.”
From hector-angel-b00n justgiving fundraising page: '...Our little girl, Luna Bliss, passed away peacefully in our arms on the 20th April 2012 in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit at St Mary's Hospital in Manchester xxx''
From Manchester Evening News Artcile 23 April 2012: Clint, 52, the keyboard player in the Inspiral Carpets, and Charlie, 30, had been keeping a vigil at her side when she died. She was born more than three months early and was being treated for an underlying health condition. Born at 27 weeks, she was being cared for in the hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Clint said: “We’re not the first people to lose a baby and we won’t be the last. Our hearts go out to all parents who’ve ever had this heartbreaking experience. “Baby Luna died at 34-days-old in our arms in St Mary’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. It was an incredibly peaceful moment – just me and my wife singing gently to Luna Bliss as she drifted off. “This has been a very saddening experience for the Boon family, but we’re doing our best to see the positives. We’re having some really lovely moments in between lots of sad ones.We’re blessed that we met Luna Bliss.” Luna Bliss’s fight for life moved her big brother Hector to do his bit to help other premature babies and their mums by fundraising for the specialist unit where Luna was being treated. Clint, a DJ at Manchester radio station Xfm, and Charlie have received hundreds of messages of support from around the country. Pop star Lily Allen and Stone Roses bassist Mani are among those who have made donations. Clint said: “The response to our little boy Hector’s fundraising on behalf of St Mary’s has been incredible and quite overwhelming. No matter how big or small your donation has been, you will be helping lots of mothers of premature and poorly babies as well as the siblings of the babies who’ll be using the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit wards in the future. “Charlie and I will be meeting with the unit’s management in the next couple of days to discuss the equipment we’ll be buying. “Top of the list will be special nursing chairs for breastfeeding mums or those wanting ‘skin to skin’ time with their babies. “We’re also looking into building a little activity area where siblings can play or hang out while they visit their baby brother or sister in the unit. “Hector wants the kids to have games consoles. We want to call the play area ‘Luna Land’. We’d like some of Hector’s money to help those parents who have to travel long distances to get to St Mary’s and those who struggle with transport costs. “Thanks again for your support over the last few days.”
N - April / May 2012 - Clint raises at least £20,000 for Hector's Care Chair Fund by auctioning off canvas drawings of the iconic Inspiral Carpets cow logo.
Happy Mondays Greatest Hits Tour
03 May 2012 Thursday - Academy, Newcastle * Supporting: Happy Mondays
Notes: Sold Out Show. From South Wales Echo, David Owens interview with Tom Hingley: Since his leaving The Inspiral Carpets, the band has reformed with original singer Stephen Holt, the frontman when the band formed in 1983 as a garage punk outfit. Ask Tom about this, and he can’t disguise his contempt.
‘I don’t think it’s very clever because at the end of the day they did a tour where they supported The Happy Mondays; now remember people had been coming to see the band with me singing since they were 13. People were turning up and after 30 seconds realising I wasn’t there...
04 May 2012 Friday - Academy, Glasgow * Supporting: Happy Mondays
Notes: Sold Out Show.
Bootleg: Audience Recording
05 May 2012 - Luna Bliss Boon's funeral
Notes: Clint reads this heartfelt poem at her funeral...
Shine On Luna Bliss
Turn left at the butterflies
Pass the rabbit as you go
Where a multitude of colours
Will embrace you like a rainbow
A world of faith, a world of hope
A world of colours never seen
A world of joy, a world of Love
And eternal moonlight dreams
Shine On Luna Bliss
As I fell into your Universe eyes
And you into mine
In your final moments here
I desired only one thing
To come with you
And be by your side
For all time
As my whispers warmed your head
And my tears washed your face
I fought so hard to keep you here
And you fought hard to stay
Shine On Luna Bliss
I don't know what's out there, My little one
But I do know this
It'll be a far better place
For having you there
As this place you leave today
Is even more wonderful
For having had you here
Just for these few short moments
Which were so, so brief
Like a single beat of a butterfly's wing
Shine On Luna Bliss
To me, For all time
You will remain
A symbol for all that is pure
All that is good
And all that is loved
Untouched, Your colours will remain
Embracing this world
For our forever
So take your tiny hand now
From mine
And go gently, sweet thing
Turn left at the butterflies
Pass the rabbit as you go
Where a multitude of colours
Will embrace you like a rainbow
A world of faith, a world of hope
A world of colours never seen
A world of joy, a world of Love
And eternal moonlight dreams
And I'll be right there with you
My precious child
I'll be with you...
In a single beat of a butterfly's wing
Shine On Luna Bliss
All my love forever. Your Dad. xxx
05 May 2012 Saturday - M.E.N. Arena, Manchester * * Supporting: Happy Mondays
Joe / She Comes In The Fall / Directing Traffik’ / You're So Good For Me / This Is How It Feels / Generations / I Want You / Move / Dragging Me Down / Sackville / Saturn 5
Notes: I was at the show. Inspiral Carpets came on earlier than expected. The show was busy, not sure if it was a sell out though.
Bootleg: Madchester Re-United (2012, Happy Mondays & Inspiral Carpets 05 May 2012 Saturday - M.E.N. Arena, Manchester. Audience Recording) 2 CD-R - Disc1: Introduction (Granada Reports ITV News, Late April 2012) / Bez Speech / Loose Fit / Kinky Afro / Dennis And Lois / Donovan / Gods Cop / Judge Fudge / 24 Hour Party People / Rave On / Cowboy Dave / Halelujah / Bob’s Yer Uncle / Holiday / Mad Cyril / Step On - Disc2: Jellybeans / Wrote For Luck / BBC Breakfast Show Interview Mondays - Carpets 7:46 / Stuart Maconie Show, BBC Radio 6, 26 March 2012 Carpets - Ritz Review / Stuart Maconie Show, BBC Radio 6, 26 March 2012 Carpets - Interview / Joe (fade in) / She Comes In The Fall / Directing Traffik’ / You’re So Good For Me / This Is How It Feels / Generations / I Want You / Move / Dragging Me Down / Sackville / Saturn 5
May 2012 - BBC Breakfast Show, TV Studios, London
Notes: Interview with Happy Mondays & Inspiral Carpets
Bootleg: Madchester Re-United (2012, Happy Mondays & Inspiral Carpets 05 May 2012 Saturday - M.E.N. Arena, Manchester. Audience Recording) 2 CD-R
06 May 2012 Sunday - Academy, Sheffield * Supporting: Happy Mondays
Notes: Sold Out Show.
09 May 2012 Wednesday - Academy, Bournemouth * Supporting: Happy Mondays
10 May 2012 Thursday - Academy, Brixton, London * Supporting: Happy Mondays
Joe / She Comes In The Fall / Directing Traffik / You're So Good For Me / This Is How It Feels / Generations / I Want You / Move / Dragging Me Down / Sackville / Saturn 5
Notes:
Bootleg: Audience Recording
11 May 2012 Friday - Academy, Brixton * Supporting: Happy Mondays
Notes: Sold Out Show.
12 May 2012 Sunday - Academy, Birmingham * Supporting: Happy Mondays
Notes: Sold Out Show. The Co-headline tour continues with Inspiral Carpets on first.
15 May 2012 Wednesday - Olympia Theatre, Dublin, Ireland * Supporting: Happy Mondays
Joe / She Comes In The Fall / Directing Traffik / You're So Good For Me / This Is How It Feels / Generations / I Want You / Move / Dragging Me Down / Sackville / Saturn 5
Notes:
Bootleg: Audience Recording - Master (DAT, CD-R)
17 May 2012 Thursday - Academy, Leeds * Supporting: Happy Mondays
Notes: Sold Out Show.
18 May 2012 Friday - Rock City, Nottingham * Supporting: Happy Mondays
Notes: Sold Out Show.
19 May 2012 Saturday - Academy, Brixton * Doors Open: 19:00 * Ticket Price: £37.50 * Supporting: Happy Mondays
Notes: Additional date added due to popular demand. Final night of the Greatest Hits co-headline tour with Inspiral Carpets.
Bootleg: Recording
20 May 2012 Sunday - Waterfront, Norwich * Doors Open: 19:30 * Support Act(s): Deadbeat Echoes
Commercial Rain / Joe / She Comes In The Fall / Head For The Sun / Weakness / You’re So Good For Me / This Is How It Feels / Butterfly / Directing Traffic / Seeds Of Doubt / Find Out Why / Sackville / Generations / Move/ I Want You / Dragging Me Down / Greek Wedding Song / Theme From Cow / Tears / Saturn 5
Notes: Co-headline show with Happy Mondays. Date often noted as '29 May 2012'.
From Louder Than War review, 22 May 2012 by David Brown: ...Tonight’s show is rescheduled from March, when Clint’s daughter, Luna Bliss, was born three months premature in the middle of their UK tour and sadly died earlier this month...
Bootleg: Recording
Tom Hingley - 10 June 2012 - Platform 3, The West Riding, Dewsbury
Stand By Me (cover)
Notes: Footage was included in the documentary, available to see on YouTube.
Official: Documentary Video (Youtube) - Stand By Me
11 June ? Wednesday - Tivoli, Buckley, CH7 2EF * Doors Open: 19:00 * Ticket Price: £17.50
Notes: At least 450 people attended the show. Unconfirmed year.
2012 - Tom teaches students about the music industry.
Notes: He works at both The Manchester College and Salford University. He would launch his autobiography at Manchester University.
Tom Hingley And The Lovers - 20-22 July 2012 - A Lost Weekend Festival, Rutland Water, Oakham
Notes: Line up included Black Drummer, Charlie And The Martyrs, The Lysergic Suite, Move, Preacher & The Bear.
Tom Hingley - 27 July 2012 - John Thaw Studio Theatre (Martin Harris Centre), Manchester University
Move / Sackville / Saturn 5
Notes: Tom Hingley 'Carpet Burns - My Life with the Inspiral Carpets' book launch. Mike Joyce, former Smiths drummer, interviewed Tom at the event and there was a fan Q & A session too. From the Route TV youtube video description 'Tom and Mike discuss Tom's early life, working at the Hacienda, his time with Inspiral Carpets, the rivalries between the bands of the Madchester era and the experience of working with Mark E Smith and a young Noel Gallagher. In addition, Tom sings three classic Inspiral songs: 'Move', 'Sackville' and 'Saturn 5''
After show took place at Big Hands, 22:00 till late. Denise Richards appeared at the after show party.
Footage of the launch was also included in the documentary, available to see on YouTube.
Official: Documentary Video (Youtube) Q&A (excerpts) / Sackville
Official: Interview Video (Route TV YouTube)
Tom Hingley - August 2012 - Tom Hingley's book 'Carpet Burns' is released.
Notes: The autobiography includes a diary like story regarding Tom's career and history with the band.
28 August 2012 10:27 Sarah Walters write a Manchester Evening News website article: Tom's newly-published autobiography reveals a rather different story – that he was left in tears after being sacked by his bandmates in a hotel in Ashton-under-Lyne. Tom's tome, Carpet Burns, tells all the highs and lows of his time with the band after he was recruited in 1989, the band's 1995 split, reunion in 2003 and his work as both a solo artist and with The Lovers. But it's his revelations about being axed from the band last year – on the eve of a new tour – that will raise most eyebrows. He writes of how he was summonsed to a band meeting at the hotel and told he was being “dismissed” as a member of the band, and that the others would be doing a tour with Stephen singing – a rumour he had heard in the summer. Tom writes: “With tears streaming down my face, I said that I already knew that. I stuck the letter in my pocket and said that I wouldn't be an a*** about it. I left the room and took my walk of shame back to the car, and drove away.” The next day the band announced their reunion and tour with Stephen. Tom says now that he was powerless to do anything about it – but feels they aren't the real Inspiral Carpets without him. He says: "Inspiral Carpets were a gang with Craig (Gill), Martyn (Walsh), Graham (Lambert), Clint (Boon) and me - that gang no longer exists. This is a new band - it's not that band that appeared on Top Of The Pops or played Reading Festival. "It's entirely up to them what they want to do; I legally couldn't stop them doing it and I had other things I wanted to do. There are two sides to every story and they told people through Twitter and Facebook that Steve (Holt) was singing for them again, but the vast majority of people who bought tickets for their tour in March or the shows they did with the Happy Mondays had no idea I wasn't singing in the band. "I'm not trying to make some issue out of that; they're totally free to do whatever they wanted. But they didn't tell the fans I wasn't in the band. It doesn't upset me, I just don't think it's very clever." The Diary rather likes the autobiography's title which Tom says is down to three reasons – including his revelation that he tried to burn down his parents' house when he was 10, as well as a comment on the music industry. There are also plenty of anecdotes from his days working in the Hacienda, the wild days of Madchester and the band's most successful years. He says: "I'm telling the story of my life, but I'm also telling the story of the Inspiral Carpets in that. It's good to really talk about where you come from and what made you up as a human being. "I've got a quite eccentric, idiosyncratic background.” Carpet Burns is published by Route Publishing and is out now.
Tom Hingley - Yorkshire Post Interview by Chris Bond:
In his new book former frontman Tom Hingley talks about his life with the Inspiral Carpets and the ‘Madchester’ era. He talks to Chris Bond....Despite this the band has been pushed into the margins of the story about the Manchester scene, which is one of the reasons why former frontman Tom Hingley decided to write about his time with the band and the people and players who made it happen.
‘I felt the Inspiral Carpets were being airbrushed out of the story by lazy journalism,’ he says.
‘If you watch 24-Hour Party People there’s almost no reference to us at all. Nobody else was coming forward to tell our story, the story of one of the best and most fascinating bands I think this country has produced. So I thought if someone’s going to do it, why not me?’...Since leaving the band last year he has concentrated on writing his book and touring as a solo artist with his band The Lovers. ‘It doesn’t pay as well but I really enjoy it,’ he says.
Tom Hingley - South Wales Echo, David Owens interview with Tom Hingley
For years Tom Hingley was the frontman of The Inspiral Carpets – one of the most successful British groups of the ’80s. Now no longer with the group, he’s written a book that sets the record straight about a glorious period in British youth culture, his fall out with the band and why Oasis wouldn’t have existed without him… TOM Hingley wants to set the record straight. As the frontman of The Inspiral Carpets he was part of a triumvirate of bands that blazed a trail out of Manchester in the late ’80s turning on, tuning in and dropping out as part of a Madchester scene that swept all before it. Along with The Stone Roses and The Happy Mondays, The Inspirals’ organ-fuelled psychedelic pop spawned a series of wide-eyed hits such as This Is How It Feels, She Comes In The Fall and Dragging Me Down. Now Tom, who is no longer a member of the band having departed last year, has written a warts and all confessional about his time at the heart of the baggy icons. Carpet Burns, My Life With Inspiral Carpets, is his account of being in a band caught in the eye of a cultural storm, but it’s also about his own story, charting his unlikely journey from rural Oxfordshire to becoming a pop star.
Tom was the youngest of seven children. His father was a renowned Oxford University don who translated works by Chekhov and Solzhenitsyn, but it was music, rather than literature, that he turned to and after watching Ian Dury and the Blockheads play in 1977 he set out to become a musician.
He moved to Manchester in the ’80s to study English at the former polytechnic and got a job working at the Hacienda. By this time he had formed a band, Too Much Texas, and in 1989, he joined the Inspiral Carpets.
His book charts the band’s rise and offers a vivid glimpse into the music business at the time and what happens when the hits start to dry up and the arguments kick in.
‘Music journalists and music journalism in general has been quite lazy about that period of time,’ he tells me, explaining his reasons for writing the book. ‘They had forgotten that we were one of the three biggest bands between 1989 and 1992.
‘They kind of think we’re famous purely because Noel Gallagher worked for us (Gallagher was the band’s roadie before finding fame with Oasis); the truth is Noel Gallagher would never have been heard of and had no career whatsoever if he had not worked for us. ‘No-one forced him to stand at the side of the stage for 250 gigs and watch me sing, no one made him be in the studio where we wrote songs and told someone how to play them. When we did interviews abroad and we were tired Noel would sit in and pretend to be me or Clint (Boon – The Inspiral Carpets’ keyboard player). It was a rock school for him.
‘He met Alan McGee working for us, Paul Weller working for us, he met The La’s working for us. People don’t get that because Oasis were a million times more successful, but I’m sorry the chronology of it was that he couldn’t have worked for The Stone Roses because their egos were too big to accommodate him, he couldn’t have worked for The Happy Mondays because at least a couple of them were really serious Class A drug users, so he would not have gone anywhere if he had not worked for us. ‘He owes an enormous debt to the band and that’s fine because he went off and did something much better and much more successful than we did,’ he adds, letting out a huge roar of laughter.
Tom says he also sat down to write this candid tome because he wanted to redress the balance. ‘The book was also to say that I was a big part of what communally was the success of The Inspiral Carpets. Over the years in any group there’s always people who want to push their views too much. There were certainly those tensions in the The Inspiral Carpets, so it comes to a point where you have to say, no I did that.’
It’s plain that Tom’s severing of ties from the band still rankles, as he talks passionately, at length and with a fair portion of frustration about the circumstances surrounding his departure.
‘I issued a tweet saying the band had split up, good luck with your solo careers,’ he explains, taking up the reins of the story. ‘Then Clint tweeted that the band hadn’t split up, it appears one member has left. However, the band hadn’t really been going for years. The band ended in 1995, but we got back together in 2003 for three or four tours. The fact is though I’m a full-time musician. I did 140 gigs last year and I wrote this book.
‘However, the other members of The Inspiral Carpets all work in other jobs and I think it was those day jobs that were getting in the way and the band as an entity was disappearing over the horizon.
‘It got to the point where the band had been over for a long time and it was like trying to reheat a souffle. If people can’t make themselves available for gigs then it just makes it impossible.
‘We got offered some festival dates and one of the band couldn’t do them because they were on holiday that week. You’re talking about a really high profile festival and I think things just get too comfy. To me a band is going to annoy your wife, your kids and your friends. But you have to play where your band is going to get the best billing and it can’t be fitted around people’s day jobs. It has to come first. So it was a creative frustration.’
Since his leaving The Inspiral Carpets, the band has reformed with original singer Stephen Holt, the frontman when the band formed in 1983 as a garage punk outfit. Ask Tom about this, and he can’t disguise his contempt.
‘I don’t think it’s very clever because at the end of the day they did a tour where they supported The Happy Mondays; now remember people had been coming to see the band with me singing since they were 13. People were turning up and after 30 seconds realising I wasn’t there. ‘Apparently they told people on Facebook, twitter and on (music journalist) John Robb’s website (Louder Than War) that I wasn’t in the band anymore, but to be honest nobody who paid £35 for those tickets had any idea that I wasn’t going to be there. ‘They had also said they were going to be this garage band like they were when the original singer was in the band, then they came out and did the 17 songs that got into the top 20 that I sang on. ‘The fact of the matter is you can say what you want about it, you can be deluded about it, you can be in denial about it, but over the V Festival weekend (where The Inspiral Carpets were on the bill) I must have had 50 tweets, texts and emails from people saying ‘oh god man you need to sing in that band.’ ‘Frankly, they should just call it something else, because it’s not The Inspiral Carpets.’
Tom Hingley - Chester Literature Festival, Laugh Inn, Chester
I Don’t Want To Be A Fighter Anymore
Notes: Footage from the show was included in the 'Carpet Burns' documentary, available to see on YouTube. Additional videos were available to view officially on YouTube too.
Official: Documentary Video (Youtube) - Reading from Julius Caesar: Act 3 Scene 2 / Niagara / This Is How It Feels
Tom Hingley - Deer Shed Festival, Baldersby Park, Topcliffe
Q&A With Dave Simpson / Leaving It All Behind
Notes: Footage from the show was included in the 'Carpet Burns' documentary, available to see on YouTube.
Official: Documentary Video (Youtube) - Q&A With Dave Simpson / Leaving It All Behind
Tom Hingley - Morley Literature Festival, St Peter’s Church, Morley
Intro Jenny Harris / Good / Q&A With Chris Bond
Notes: Footage from the show was included in the 'Carpet Burns' documentary, available to see on YouTube.
Official: Documentary Video (Youtube) - Intro Jenny Harris / ‘Good’ / Q&A With Chris Bond
Tom Hingley - Cadence Cafe, Tyldesley
Soul High
Notes: Footage from the show was included in the 'Carpet Burns' documentary, available to see on YouTube.
Official: Documentary Video (Youtube) - Soul High
Tom Hingley - Rochdale Literature and Ideas Festival, Flying Horse, Rochdale
Q&A With Steve Cooke / Prodigal Son
Notes: Footage from the show was included in the 'Carpet Burns' documentary, available to see on YouTube.
Official: Documentary Video (Youtube) - Q&A With Steve Cooke / Prodigal Son
Tom Hingley - 11 August 2012 - B-Fest, Tenbury Wells * Stage Times: Tom: 14:00 * Ticket Price: Free Entry
Notes: Camping was available nearby for £3 per night. Tom Hingley onstage at 14:00.
19 August 2012 - V Festival 2012, Weston Park, Staffordshire
Ben Howard / Inspiral Carpets / Labrinth / Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds / Reverend & The Makers / Rizzle Kicks / The Charlatans / The Stone Roses / The Ting Tings / The Twang / Wretch 32
Notes: South Wales Echo, David Owens interview with Tom Hingley: ‘Apparently they told people on Facebook, twitter and on (music journalist) John Robb’s website (Louder Than War) that I wasn’t in the band anymore, but to be honest nobody who paid £35 for those tickets had any idea that I wasn’t going to be there. ‘They had also said they were going to be this garage band like they were when the original singer was in the band, then they came out and did the 17 songs that got into the top 20 that I sang on. ‘The fact of the matter is you can say what you want about it, you can be deluded about it, you can be in denial about it, but over the V Festival weekend (where The Inspiral Carpets were on the bill) I must have had 50 tweets, texts and emails from people saying ‘oh god man you need to sing in that band.’ ‘Frankly, they should just call it something else, because it’s not The Inspiral Carpets...
Tom Hingley - Rock The Castle, Hertford Castle, Hertfordshire
Notes:
2012 - Tom talks to The Hertfordshire Mercury: He told the Mercury: ‘I’ve been playing in bands for 36 years. Inspiral Carpets was happy and successful but it’s not representative of what I’ve done.
‘Most of the times I’ve been playing with other bands or playing solo. Inspiral Carpets was eight years of that.’ Tom split with the band last year after an argument and records their whole journey, with its highs and lows, in his memoir, Carpet Burns....What the musician does have an issue with are the singing talent shows such as The X Factor and The Voice that aim to guarantee the winner immediate fame and success. ‘It’s telling people that if you’ve got talent, you will be successful,’ said Tom. ‘But there’s far more talent than requirement. You’ve got to be talented and you’ve got to have luck and you have to be in the right place and you have to work very hard. ‘I don’t think these programmes reflect that you’ve got to work hard. You’ve got to put the hours in. ‘The X Factor appears to pluck a person out of obscurity and make them a star but it’s not like that. ‘An important part of it is being nice so people want to work with you. You won’t survive if you’re a diva.’.
Tom Hingley - 30 or 31 August 2012 - Bath Moles Club, Bath
Notes:
31 August 2012 - Tom speaks to Tim Fletcher of Burton Mail : ... “People like (Mancunian scenester) John Robb said that we casually benefitted from that scene but in fact we contributed a lot to it,” he says.
“We wouldn’t have had a career without the Roses’ first album, but there were other factors like (late lamented Manc venue) The Hacienda and New Order choosing to stay in the north.
“It was the biggest movement since punk and was very anti-London. I prophesise that there could soon be a similar movement because we have a Tory Government again and the whole country is being run by the south east.”
...Hingley claims Gallagher was kicked out of the band’s entourage after smashing up their tourbus, and says he was deliberately kept in the dark about the fact the future Oasis mainman had auditioned for the job.
“The rest of the band didn’t tell me,” he says. “Why? Maybe some of them were a bit manipulative and maybe they thought Noel was a good person to have around.
“Maybe they thought they could draft him in at some point to replace me. Bands are quite Machiavellian things — they’re not the Chelsea flower show — but in any event Noel learned to be a pop star working for us.”
The band’s 1990 debut album Life reached number two in the UK charts while its successor, The Beast Inside failed to achieve reach those heights. However it’s the latter album Hingley has chosen to play in its entirety on his current tour with his band, The Lovers. “It’s often the case that the second album doesn’t do as well as the first but we’ve carried this cultural cringe around about this album for the last 21 years, it’s never been revisited and it’s greatly loved and missed,” he says. “We were a great singles band but that was our only great, coherent album.”
So how did Hingley arrive at this point, from being the frontman of one of the leading indie bands in the country to ploughing his own furrow while his former bandmates capitalise on a resurgence of interest in Madchester following the reformation of the Stone Roses and Happy Mondays?
After the band split in 1995, Hingley worked for a while ‘selling incontinence pants for ladies’ while holding down a job with a catalogue company. “I was 30, redundant and didn’t have any skills,” he says. “It was incredibly hard — I couldn’t go and work in McDonald’s because I’d just have been laughed at.”
After resuming his musical career with The Lovers, Hingley eventually rejoined the Inspirals for a series of well-received reunion shows during the last decade, but parted company in acrimonious circumstances in February last year.
Clint Boon, organist and songwriter, responded to Hingley’s comments on his departure by Tweeting ‘Inspiral Carpets have not split up — it appears that one member has chosen to leave’, but Hingley tells a different tale.
“Graham (Lambert, guitarist) sacked me,” he says. “He forced me out of the band through years of bullying and he also tried to bully Martyn (Walsh, bassist) out of the band. “There are various versions of what happened, some which stick to the truth more than others, but I don’t talk to them at all.” At this point, Hingley, unprompted, insists on reading out one of the 60 or so text messages and emails he claims to have received over the previous weekend from his fans, following the Inspirals’ performance, with his replacement and the band’s original frontman, Stephen Holt, on vocals, at this year’s V Festival.
The sender of the message apparently pleads with Hingley to return to the Inspirals, asserts that Holt ‘cannot sing a note’ and is ‘killing the reputation of the band’, but does Hingley share this view? “It’s not for me to say,” he replies, enigmatically. “Does it matter what I think about it? What matters is the people who have followed the band for 30 years. “The music doesn’t belong to me or Clint or anyone else in the band. It belongs to the people who went to the gigs, bought the T-shirts and got beaten up in the toilets for having stupid haircuts.”
While he may sound it, Hingley insists that he is not resentful about the way things have turned out and his icy relations with his erstwhile bandmates. “I don’t feel bitter, because when something is over, it’s over and you have to recognise it,” he says. “The passing of something is one of the great things to recognise in life, whether it’s a parent, a season or a career. “There’s a saying that all political carers end in failure and I think you can say that about bands too, but I don’t regret it at all and I’m extremely proud of what we did. “If you’d said to me at the age of 23 I could set out and do all this again, I would.”
Tom Hingley and The Lovers
The Lovers:
Steve Hanley - Bass,
Paul Hanley - Drums,
Kelly Wood - Keyboards
Andrew Tarling - Guitar
The Beast Inside UK Tour
06 September 2012 Thursday - Academy, Newcastle * Support Act(s): Rory McKee, The Brightsparks
Notes: The promo posters noted for each date of the tour 'Tom Hingley will be reading excerpts from his book 'carpet burns' and Inspiral Carpets biography and signing copies immediatley after the show'.
Apparently the support act The Brightsparks did not play/show up.
Rolling script from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar was projected as the introduction to the stage:
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answer’d it.
Review by Helen Todner posted on withguitars.com: The lights dimmed, and the rolling script from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar filled the room just as Cicero was explaining why it was a good thing he had helped butcher his emperor the light exploded into life and the band took to the stage. Tom was on top form, engaging with the crowd like the pro he is, and men who had probably never danced for at least 10 years threw shapes on the dance floor last seen somewhere during the early part of the 1990’s (yes Steve that really does include you). And for just those few precious moments in time you were taken back to the heyday of British music, before Brit pop, before Oasis, back to when it was really ok to use keyboards, and the best sounds all had that distinctive Manchester flavour that oozed coolness and hedonism. And we lapped it up from old to young everyone was bopping along and a few even went up close and personal for a hug from Tom whilst he performed. This was without a doubt one of the most memorable gigs of the season for all the right reasons. 9/10
Tom Hingley and The Lovers - The Beast Inside UK Tour - 07 September 2012 Friday - ABC2, Glasgow, Scotland * Support Act(s): Rory McKee, The Brightsparks
Tom Hingley and The Lovers - The Beast Inside UK Tour - 08 September 2012 Saturday - Academy, Liverpool * Support Act(s): Rory McKee, The Brightsparks
Notes: From Yorkshire Post Interview by Chris Bond: Tom Said: ‘It doesn’t pay as well but I really enjoy it,’...
Tom Hingley and The Lovers - The Beast Inside UK Tour - 09 September 2012 Sunday - Academy, Birmingham * Support Act(s): Rory McKee, The Brightsparks
Tom Hingley and The Lovers - The Beast Inside UK Tour - 10 September 2012 Monday - Academy, Bristol * Support Act(s): Rory McKee, The Brightsparks
10 September 2012 - England vs South Africa T20, L.C.C., Old Trafford, Manchester
Notes: I was there. The band played just under an hour. The small stage was set up near the fence, Kelloggs side aka Tram side, where the Hilton Hotel is now. A cover versions band supported all the bands for the T20 season. Someone thought it was a good idea to have indie rock music for the Cricketing events. The shows were good, for me, but some fans left a trail of destruction and it was too much trouble for the club to book another season of 'rock bands'. Reverend & The Makers played another T20 show, there was several brawls throughout that show, and the police were on sight by the end of the night.
Tom Hingley and The Lovers - The Beast Inside UK Tour - 11 September 2012 Tuesday - Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff * Support Act(s): Rory McKee, The Brightsparks
12 September 2012 - Welly, Hull
Commercial Reign / Joe / She Comes In The Fall / Head For The Sun / Your’e So Good For Me / This Is How It Feels / Butterfly / Directing Traffic / Generations / Find Out Why / Changes / I Want You / Move / Dragging Me Down /
Sackville / Theme From Cow / 96 Tears / Saturn 5
Bootleg: Audience Recording
Tom Hingley and The Lovers - The Beast Inside UK Tour - 13 September 2012 Thursday - Academy 2, Islington, Londfon * Support Act(s): Rory McKee, The Brightsparks
13 September 2012 - Duchess, York
Commercial Reign / Joe / She Comes In The Fall / Head For The Sun / Your’e So Good For Me / This Is How It Feels / Butterfly / Directing Traffic / Generations / Find Out Why / Changes / I Want You / Move / Dragging Me Down /
Sackville / Theme From Cow / 96 Tears / Saturn 5
Bootleg: Audience Recording
14 September 2012 Friday - Ramsbottom Festival 2012
In Fear Of Olive / Rocket / Seth Lakeman / Magic Arm / I Am Kloot / Inspiral Carpets / The Leisure Society / Thea Gilmore / Admiral Fallow / Rachel Sermanni / Liz Green / Jenny Mccormick / Roddy Woomble / Roddy Frame / Kan / Marc O'Reilly / Janice Graham Band / Session A9 / Louis Barabbas & The Bedlam Six / Danny Mahon / Air Cav / Harp and a Monkey / Molly Bloom / Cheap Cuts / John Herring / The Lazy Maybees / Biederbeck / Man Made Sole Ramsbottom Cricket Club Ramsbottom
Notes: I was there.
Tom Hingley and The Lovers - The Beast Inside UK Tour - 21 September 2012 Friday - Ruby Lounge, Manchester * Support Act(s): Rory McKee, The Brightsparks
Reading from Julius Caesar: Act 3 Scene 2 / Niagara / This Is How It Feels
Notes: Footage from the show was included in the 'Carpet Burns' documentary, available to see on YouTube. Additional videos were also officially released to view on YouTube too.
Official: Documentary Video (Youtube) - When Tom published his memoir Carpet Burns: Life With Inspiral Carpets in 2012, he toured the book with a series of live concerts and Q&A’s to literature festivals and special events. This is a feature length document these events with a mixture of words and music. In this film:
Stand By Me (10 June 2012 - Platform 3, The West Riding, Dewsbury)
27 July 2012 - Book Launch, Martin Harris Centre, Manchester University - Q&A With Mike Joyce / ‘Sackville’ / Q&A (cont)
Chester Literature Festival, Laugh Inn, Chester - ‘I Don’t Want To Be A Fighter Anymore’
Deer Shed Festival, Baldersby Park, Topcliffe - Q&A With Dave Simpson / ‘Leaving It All Behind’
Morley Literature Festival, St Peter’s Church, Morley - Intro Jenny Harris / ‘Good’ / Q&A With Chris Bond
Cadence Cafe, Tyldesley - ‘Soul High’
Rochdale Literature and Ideas Festival, Flying Horse, Rochdale - Q&A With Steve Cooke / ‘Prodigal Son’
Tom Hingley & The Lovers - 21 September 2012 Friday - Ruby Lounge, Manchester - Reading from Julius Caesar: Act 3 Scene 2 / ‘Niagara’ / ‘This Is How It Feels’
Tom Hingley - 08 November 2012 - Waterstones, Leeds
Notes: Signing and acoustic performance.
A radio podcast (24:30) was made available. Including an interview with Tom, by Alan Raw about Carpet Burns. Tom read a short passage from the book and played two songs live in the studio. Recorded in November 2012.
2013 - Back To Life UK Tour
Back To Life - 14 March 2013 - Edinburgh
Real Thing / Song For A Family / This Is How It Feels / Directing Traffik / Besides Me / Many Happy Returns / Memories Of You / She Comes In The Fall / Monkey On My Back / Sun Don't Shine / Inside My Head / Move / Sackville / Joe / Caravan / Two Worlds Collide / You're So Good For Me / Fix Your Smile / Uniform / So Far / I Want You / Dragging Me Down / Saturn 5
Bootleg: Audience Recording
Back To Life - 15 March 2013 - King Tuts, Glasgow
Bootleg: Audience Recording
2013 - You’re So Good For Me (Remix) U.K. Release Date
1 Track Free MP3 Download
Your So Good (Reeder Remix) 4:46
Notes: Free download was available via the official Inspiral Carpets website
Back To Life Tour - 23 March 2013 - The Leadmill, Sheffield
The Real Thing / Song For A Family / This Is How It Feels / Directing Traffic / Besides Me / Many Happy Returns / Memories Of You / She Comes In The Fall / Monkey On My Back / Sun Don't Shine / Move / Sackville
Joe / Caravan / You're So Good To Me / Two Worlds Collide / Uniform / Fix Your Smile / So Far / I Want You / Dragging Me Down
Seeds Of Doubt / Out Of Time / Butterfly / Changes / Saturn 5
Notes: Set taken from setlist
Back To Life - 28 March 2013 - Central Station, 15-17 Hill Street, Wrexham, LL111SN * Doors Open: 19:30 * Ticket Price: £18
Back To Life - 29 March 2013 - Ritz, Manchester
(John Robb Introduction) / Real Thing / Song For A Family / This Is How It Feels / Directing Traffik / Besides Me / Many Happy Returns / Memories Of You / She Comes In The Fall / Monkey On My Back / Sun Don't Shine / Inside My Head / Move / Sackville / Joe / Caravan / You’re So Good For Me / Two Worlds Collide / Uniform / Something I Gotta Do / So Far / I Want You / Dragging Me Down
Butterfly / Saturn 5
Notes: Back To Life UK Tour Performing Debut Album ‘Life’ And The Hits
Bootleg: Audience Recording - Back To Life (2013) 2CD-R - CD1 (John Robb Introduction) / Real Thing / Song For A Family / This Is How It Feels / Directing Traffik / Besides Me / Many Happy Returns / Memories Of You / She Comes In The Fall / Monkey On My Back / Sun Don't Shine / Inside My Head / Move / Sackville / Joe / CD2 Caravan / You’re So Good For Me / Two Worlds Collide / Uniform / Something I Gotta Do / So Far / I Want You / Dragging Me Down / Butterfly / Saturn 5 - Bonus Holt Recordings: Theme From A Cow (13 September 2012 The Duchess, York) / Head For The Sun (13 September 2012 The Duchess, York) / Seeds Of Doubt (24 March 2012 The Ritz, Manchester) / Keep The Circle (24 March 2012 The Ritz, Manchester) / Find Out Why (12 September 2012 The Welly, Hull) / Garage Full Of Flowers (10 March 2012 The Fuzz Club, Athens, Greece) / Changes (13 September 2012 The Duchess, York) / Weakness (24 March 2012 The Ritz, Manchester) / Generations (05 May 2012 M.E.N. Arena, Manchester) / Greek Wedding Song (24 March 2012 The Ritz, Manchester) / 96 Tears (12 September 2012 The Welly, Hull) / Commercial Reign (12 September 2012 The Welly, Hull)
April 2013 - Life (Deluxe) U.K. Release Date
CD1
Real Thing / Song For A Family / This Is How It Feels (LP Version) / Directing Traffik / Besides Me / Many Happy Returns / Memories Of You / She Comes In The Fall (LP Version) / Monkey On My Back / Sun Don't Shine / Inside My Head / Move / Sackville (LP Version)
Bonus
Keep The Circle Around / Theme From Cow / Seeds Of Doubt / Garage Full Of Flowers / 96 Tears /
Butterfly / Causeway / You Can’t Take The Truth / Greek Wedding Song /
So Far (17 July 1988 - John Peel Session) / Monkey (17 July 1988 - John Peel Session) / Greek Wedding Song (17 July 1988 - John Peel Session) / Whiskey (17 July 1988 - John Peel Session)
DVD
Notes: Stephen Holt was singing with the band at the time of the release. The band were playing Life in full at the time and the releases includes the bands first two E.P's with Stephen on vocals too. The CD includes the previously unreleased Peel Session recording, available officially for the first time. The DVD includes the complete G-Mex show too.
Tom Hingley and The Lovers - 16 April 2013 - David White Session, BBC Radio Cornwall
Notes: MP3 (17:08)
Tom Hingley And The Lovers - 29 June 2013 - The Lord Clyde, Newcastle upon Tyne * Support Act(s): The Velcro Teddy Bears
Tom Hingley And The Lovers - 12 July 2013 - The Spa Hotel, Saltburn-by-the-Sea * Support Act(s): The Southmartins
TH - Tom Hingley - Paper U.K. Release Date
21 December 2013 - Academy, Leeds * Supporting: Shed Seven
Tom Hingley and The Lovers - 04 February 2014 Saturday - 100 Club, London * Support Act(s): The DSM IV, Kingsley Beat
Notes: Was this the final Lovers show?
Inspiral Carpets - April 2014 - Dung4 is re-released for Record Store Day.
Notes: See 1987 - Dung4. This vinyl release included a bonus 7inch featuring the bands 'Cow Demo'. The release would later be pressed on CD by Cherry Red.
Jun 12, 2014 –
Jun 15, 2014 Isle of Wight Festival 2014 Seaclose Park Newport (Isle of Wight),
Jun 12, 2014 –
Jun 15, 2014 Isle of Wight Festival 2014
Red Hot Chili Peppers / Calvin Harris / Kings Of Leon / Fall Out Boy / Clean Bandit / Passenger / The 1975 / Rudimental / John Newman / Tom Odell / Cher Lloyd / Biffy Clyro / The Vamps / Duke Dumont / Travis / The Pretty Reckless / Ella Eyre / Katy B / The Specials / Gorgon City / The Horrors / Suede / Starsailor / Amber Run / The Waterboys / The Hoosiers / Peace / nina nesbitt / Alison Moyet / Lawson / The Polyphonic Spree / Dappy / Anna Calvi / The Struts / Swim Deep / Inspiral Carpets / Sleaford Mods / neon jungle / Boy George / The Selecter / The Strypes / Deap Vally / Cyril Hahn / July Talk / The Move / Chloe Howl / . / The Doors Alive / from the jam / Tankus the Henge / Kassassin Street / Juliette Ashby / PYLO / Hero Fisher / Bleech / Grasshopper / Wildflowers / Lloyd Yates / Curxes / Beasts / Frankie Davies / Crystal Seagulls / The Boy I Used to Be / Bird to Beast / Hot Vestry / The B of the Bang / BigTopp / Deep Valley / The Recks / The Ohmz / Rickyfitts / Ba•Dow / Telling Stories / The Passeneger / Luke Bainbridge Seaclose Park Newport (Isle of Wight), UK
Jun 12, 2014 –
Jun 15, 2014 Isle of Wight Festival 2014
Red Hot Chili Peppers / Calvin Harris / Kings of Leon / Fall Out Boy / Passenger / Clean Bandit / The 1975 / Rudimental / John Newman / Biffy Clyro / Cher Lloyd / Tom Odell / Travis / Duke Dumont / The Pretty Reckless / The Vamps / Katy B / The Specials / The Horrors / Gorgon City / Ella Eyre / Suede / Starsailor / The Hoosiers / The Waterboys / Peace / Amber Run / The Polyphonic Spree / Alison Moyet / Lawson / Anna Calvi / Dappy / Swim Deep / Nina Nesbitt / The Struts / Inspiral Carpets / Neon Jungle / Boy George / The Selecter / The Strypes / Sleaford Mods / Deap Vally / Cyril Hahn / July Talk / The Move / Chloe Howl / . / The Doors Alive / From The Jam / Kassassin Street / Tankus the Henge / Bleech / PYLO / Hero Fisher / Juliette Ashby / Wildflowers / Grasshopper / Lloyd Yates / Curxes / Beasts / Crystal Seagulls / Bird to Beast / The Boy I Used to Be / The B of the Bang / Frankie Davies / Hot Vestry / Bigtopp / Deep Valley / The Recks / The Ohmz / Rickyfitts / Telling Stories / Ba•Dow / The Passeneger / Luke Bainbridge Seaclose Park Newport (Isle of Wight),
06 June 2014 - Band On The Wall, Manchester
Bootleg: Audience Recording
Official: 2014 - Inspiral Carpets (Deluxe Edition) DVD
28 July 14 - Google Offices, Manchester
Inspiral Carpets - 29 September 2014 - Inspiral Carpets U.K. Release Date
Cherry Red Records
Notes:
October 2014 - Spitfire Release Date
Notes: Wav. files of the single appeared on the DVD disc of the deluxe edition of Inspiral Carpets album.
October 2014 - Inspiral Carpets
Cherry Red Records.
CD
Deluxe Edition CD with DVD
Notes: The bands first album for twenty years.
Clint Boon said to Record Collector: "Diverse. A couple have an R.E.M. flavour, one nod to the 50s, two to Joy Division, several the Doors, one Northern soul, two the Beach Boys."
28 July 2014 - Google Offices, Manchester
Bootleg: Recording
13 December 2014 - O2 Academy, 55 Cookridge Street, Leeds * Doors Open: 18:00 * Ticket Price: £18.50 * Support Act(s): Blossoms *
Monochrome / Joe / You're So Good For Me / Two Worlds Collide / She Comes In The Fall / A To Z Of My Heart / This Is How It Feels / Spitfire / Move / Sackville / Find Out Why / Calling Out To You / I Want You / Let You Down /
encore: Human Shield / Dragging Me Down / Saturn 5
Notes: Stephen Holt on vocals. Tracklist taken from 'Phase 5 Dec 2014' setlist.
19 December 2014 - Ritz, Manchester * Support Act(s): Blossoms *
20 December 2014 - Roadmender, 1 Lady's Lane, Northampton, NN1 3AH * Doors Open: 19:00 * Ticket Price: £18
23 May 2015 Saturday - Gigantic Indie All Dayer, Academy 1,2 & 3, Manchester * Supporting: Echo and the Bunnymen, Pop Will Eat Itself, Gang Of Four, The Primitives, The High, Hurricane#1, Eat, Echobelly (acoustic), The Milltown Brothers, BOB, Mark Morriss (The Bluetones acoustic), The Woodentops (acoustic), Diesel Park West.
Notes: Inspiral Carpets were second to headliners. '3 Stages, 14 Great Bands, 18 Hours Of Music, A Big Big Love...'. Most of the worthwhile bands clashed, it was also very difficult moving from venue to venue with the amount of people and security checks going on. Also quite a few of the big band names played stripped down acoustic sets, which left many fans truly disapointed.
Tom Hingley - 08 June 2015 - Belfast Book Festival, The Black Box, Belfast, Ireland
Notes: Tom promotes 'Carpet Burns - My Life with the Inspiral Carpets'. Tom read from the book and performed an acoustic set. D. Twain attended the show and wrote a short review for the media too.
26 June 2015 Friday - Picturedrome, Holmfirth * Doors Open: 19:30 * Ticket Price: £20
2015 - Somerset
25 November 2015 From outlineonline.co.uk Outline Norwich Born & Bred webpage, Inspiral Carpets Interview by Lizzoutline 25/11/15 - Clint: We did a gig in Somerset recently and there were 9,000 people mooing. I had to explain to some people that they’re not booing, they’re mooing!
Tom Hingley Band
Tom Hingley - Voice and guitar
Ste Pearce - Bass
Malc Law - Drums
"The Tom Hingley Band are a three piece dirty electric Blues Rock band, think of Bowies Tin Machine, (but with songs), think of The Jimi Hendrix Experience, played by Frank Spencer! and you get the idea."
Tom Hingley Band - 09 October 2015 - St Moritz Club, London * Support Act(s): Blow Up DJs, Los Ladrones Del Amor
Tom Hingley Band - 31 October 2015 - The Lincoln Imp, Scunthorpe
06-09 November 2015 - Shiine On Weekender, Minehead Arena, Butlins, Minehead * Ticket Price: Three nights with accommodation: £149 (Advance) *
Happy Mondays, Inspiral Carpets, The Wonderstuff, Stereo Mc's, The Farm, The Wedding Present, The Orb, 808 State, The Primitives, The Frank & Walters, Lo Fidelity Allstars,
Notes: Tickets went on sale in January 2015.
25 November 2015 From outlineonline.co.uk Outline Norwich Born & Bred webpage, Inspiral Carpets Interview by Lizzoutline 25/11/15
The Inspiral Carpets need no introduction. You already know all their organ led anthems..Saturn 5, I Want You, Dragging Me Down, Indian Rope..the list goes on and on. I had a super chat with legendary dude and keyboard player Clint Boon, also known for being a DJ on Radio X, about where the Inspirals’ cow design came from, how John Peel helped the band and why he always shaves before his radio show. This is how it feels to be in a perennially successful and well loved band for nearly 30 years. Newbies, take note.
How did you come to learn keyboards?
It was a proper accident really. As a kid I wanted to be in a band and be a popstar, but I never studied instruments at school, I just wanted to be a rock ‘n’ roll singer. I was born in 1959 so I grew up through the 60’s and 70’s and as a teenager 1950’s rock n roll music was my first love, people like Elvis were a real inspiration. When the punk rock thing happened in 1976 I was 16 or 17 and that was the moment I realised I could actually do this. A lot of the punk rockers I was watching like The Buzzcocks and The Fall and The Clash weren’t amazing musicians, they were working class people like me so I realised that I might have a chance at doing it too. Seeing The Sex Pistols in December 1976 made me get off my arse and start doing it. I tried a few instruments and I just built my own set of really lo fi recording equipment at home through the 80’s, collecting microphones and tape recorders, guitars, and then I stumbled across the Farfisa Compact Duo keyboard which is what I still use now. That sound is now what I’m known for, and what people associate with the Inspirals.
Who has inspired you as a keyboard player?
The obvious ones are people like Ray Manzarek from The Doors, Dave Greenfield from The Stranglers and Phillip Glass. I couldn’t play alongside any of them! They’re the best in the world and I’m still a punk rocker, I’m not a great keyboard player, I’m a well known keyboard player.
When the Inspiral Carpets started out, what was the aim, and who were your initial inspirations?
When anyone starts a band, you don’t assume you’re going to make any money, you just want to make a record, and that’s usually just a single. Back in the day when the format was vinyl that was a real achievement. You’d find the money to record, if you couldn’t find a label to release it you’d do the pressing yourself, so by the time you got your vinyl in your hand that was a massive achievement. So our aim was just to make a record and to make music that sounded like our heroes; we were emulating the Velvet Underground, Jefferson Airplane, the Seeds. Because of John Peel, it happened really quickly for us. He got on board really early and gave us a momentum that propelled us through the next 10 years of our career. We didn’t have much time to sit around after that.
How did you become a Radio DJ?
We did the Inspirals full time for 10 years from 85 to 95 and because we worked at such a high level internationally we were always in front of a microphone being interviewed or performing.
The first person to ask me to do some radio was Janice Long. She was setting up a little station in Liverpool, and she asked me to get involved. Because I wasn’t nervous being in front of a microphone I said I’d do it. It started from there, doing loads of stand-in jobs for people.
In 2003 when the Inspirals got back together I did an interview with Tom Robinson at 6Music and at the end he said you sound really good on the radio, I’m going away in August, do you want to do my show for two weeks? So that was my first serious radio job. Because of that, people in the North started offering me jobs so I was suddenly in demand as a stand in DJ. XFM wanted to start a Manchester station so they came to me and asked me to help build it and present a show. I never set out to be a radio presenter as I didn’t think my voice would work on radio.
What gives you more pleasure, performing with the Inspirals or being a DJ?
There’s nothing like being onstage and performing songs that you’ve written to thousands of people you’ve never met and getting their reaction. That’s quite a unique thing. But you spend weeks and weeks writing the songs, weeks and weeks rehearsing, weeks and weeks recording it and marketing it, and then you eventually get to do the gig a year after you’ve written the song. That‘s when you get the excitement of looking into people’s eyes and seeing them reacting. So it’s a long process before you get the final kick, whereas with radio or club DJing you put the tune on and you see the reaction immediately. I couldn’t say which is most exciting out of being a radio DJ, a club DJ or being in the band to be honest with you. I suppose being on the radio you don’t have to worry about what you’re going to wear, although I religiously have a shave and wear smart clothes when I turn up for the radio which is weird isn’t it? You just never know who you’re going to bump into on the way in, you know! I always get smartened up. I’m still a bit of Mod I suppose!
My favourite Inspirals tracks is I Want You feat Mark E Smith which I own on 7”, one of my most treasured records. You also worked with John Cooper Clarke on Let You Down on the new album. They’re both very charismatic Manchester men. What influence has the city of Manchester had on your music over the years would you say?
Oh, massive. A massive influence, not just because that’s where we live and that’s what we’re stuck with, but some of the things we’ve written about over the years are very much Manchester pictures really. Wherever you live is going to influence your songwriting. Manchester is probably the most important music city in the world in my opinion for bands like Joy Division, Buzzcocks, the Stone Roses and more recent stuff have inspired us over the years. It’s been a massive bonus being born and operating in this city.
Which Manchester acts would you recommend we check out at present?
Blossoms are from Manchester, they’re doing really well and I think they’ll do well internationally. Catfish and the Bottlemen again are going to go far. There’s a band called Nude, they’re really unusual. I’m doing two weeks on BBC Introducing which is giving me a chance to hear some of the cutting edge stuff happening in Manchester at the moment. It seems to be as productive as it’s ever been which is nice. We might not be at the centre of the music industry at the moment but surely the spotlight will come back on us sooner or later. There’ll be another Madchester one day! It just spews out these incredible world class acts like Elbow, Oasis and Take That.
I wanted to just ask you about the cow motif that that followed you through the years…how did that originate?
It was purely because where I used to live there was a cow field at the bottom of the garden and I used to take a lot of photos of cows! I was an amateur photographer. I had a friend who got me knocked off film from the local colour lab so I wasn’t constrained by the expense of buying film at the time. So I had all these photos of cows, and when we started the band, because I had all these colour transparencies of cows looking at the camera, we started projecting them behind the band onstage. We needed a backdrop and so we used what we had. People started mooing at gigs and they still do. We did a gig in Somerset recently and there were 9,000 people mooing. I had to explain to some people that they’re not booing, they’re mooing!
How’s it been working with your original singer Stephen again on your most recent album?
It’s been brilliant, with respect to Tom who was our singer for 20 years, it’s nice to have Stephen back. It feels like we’re back to where we started and it’s just got something of the spirit of the old garage band, which is nice. I think when you get someone new in you start doing things a bit differently and we’re enjoying it. I still see Tom and we get on very well. Stephen’s doing a great job; for the last 20 years he’s been the manager of a drug dependency unit and has very much been in the real world and now he’s back in the fairy-tale land of travelling the world and playing gigs with us lot! He’s loving it....
Tom Hingley Band - 27 November 2015 - ICA, London * Supporting: Brix & The Extricated, The Membranes
Notes:
03 December 2015 Thursday - Academy, Newcastle ** Supporting: Shed Seven
Notes: Shed Seven on tour with Inspiral Carpets.
05 December 2015 Saturday - Academy, Bristol ** Supporting: Shed Seven
Notes: Shed Seven on tour with Inspiral Carpets.
11 December 2015 Academy, Manchester ** Supporting: Shed Seven
Notes: Shed Seven on tour with Inspiral Carpets.
12 December 2015 Academy, Manchester ** Supporting: Shed Seven
Notes: Shed Seven on tour with Inspiral Carpets.
15 December 2015 - LCR, Norwich ** Supporting: Shed Seven
Notes: Shed Seven on tour with Inspiral Carpets.
25 November 2015 From outlineonline.co.uk Outline Norwich Born & Bred webpage, Inspiral Carpets Interview by Lizzoutline 25/11/15: You’re married with five children, and have a day job as a DJ. Are you looking forward to going out on tour for a rest?
Clint: Not really because these days most of us have kids so we come home when we can. On this tour we’re supporting Shed Seven so we’ll be offstage by nine o’clock so we’ll come home. None of us want to stay out for months on end and get wrecked like we would have done in the old days and I think everybody in the band thinks if they asked us to go on a six month tour of America without our wives and kids, we’d say no, sorry. The way the band now fits in perfectly with our lives; we’ve all got day jobs still.
How have you gone about working out your set for this tour with Shed Seven? You have so many songs you could choose from.
Clint: It’s going to be the big hits and a few off the new album. We’re picking songs that Shed Seven fans who may not know our stuff might like, a kind of good calling card. The Sheds are good mates of ours. Their first tour of the UK was actually supporting us back in the early 90’s and Rick Witter sang Chasing Rainbows at my wedding ceremony!
18 December 2015 O2 Academy, Birmingham ** Supporting: Shed Seven
Notes: Shed Seven on tour with Inspiral Carpets.
19 December 2015 The Roundhouse, Camden, London ** Supporting: Shed Seven
Notes: Shed Seven on tour with Inspiral Carpets.
21 December 2015 Academy, Leeds ** Supporting: Shed Seven
Notes: Shed Seven on tour with Inspiral Carpets.
The bands final show with Craig Gill.
30 November 2015 - Storytime with Boon by This Is Distorted
Notes: Official Apple Podcasts Download, 30 episodes, © This Is Distorted 2015. Clint Boon, the organ playing Mancunian legend from Inspiral Carpets brings you anecdotes from his life in music and the people he's met along the way. From the early days with Noel Gallagher as his roadie to recording music with Alfie Boe in his attic. This is a show that will take you on a musical journey, with many famous voices coming along for the ride.
It all starts here - Storytime with Clint Boon - Teaser
Clint Boon, the organ playing Mancunian legend from Inspiral Carpets new podcast. Listen to a teaser for the new show, coming January 2016!
Download: Filename: Storytime_with_Boon_-_Teaser-3MAHurxx7dYCddYuMTfebqVmYmG8Ir2t (0:54)
06 January 2016 - Alfie Boe and Clint - Storytime with Boon - Episode 1
Notes: In the first ever episode of Storytime with Boon, Clint tells stories about Shaun Ryder, Noel Gallagher and is joined on the phone by Alfie Boe. He talks about the meaning behind the Inspiral Carpets track 'Sackville' and why he's a big fan of co-sleeping. There's also unsigned music from the band The Time Sellers. For a Spotify playlist of all the music in the show and more click here - http://spoti.fi/1ZNQbD8
If you like the show, download and subscribe in iTunes with new shows every week.
Happy Mondays - Step On
Oasis - Rock 'n' Roll Star
The Clint Boon Experience - 17 & Over!
The Clint Boon Experience - Only One Way I Can Go
Inspiral Carpets - Sackville
The Time Sellers - Cold Revolt
Download: Filename: Storytime_with_Boon_-_Episode_1-k78Q5EP1kfPV6bmDdnVNSDhbwBLpEsNU
13 January 2016 - Peter Hook - Storytime with Boon - Episode 2
Notes: This week on Storytime with Boon, Clint talks about his part in the film 24 Hour Party People, his school days with Gary the angry rocker and chats to Peter Hook about the time he saw a bit too much of Hooky on his wedding day. There's also new unsigned music from former Catfish and the Bottlemen lead guitarist Billy Bibby as well as the story behind the Clint Boon Experience track, 'White No Sugar'.
For a Spotify playlist of all the music in the show and more click here - http://spoti.fi/1l5rkLF
If you like the show, download and subscribe in iTunes with new shows every week!
Happy Mondays - 24 Hour Party People
Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Monaco - What Do You Want From Me
Clint Boon Experience - White No Sugar
Billy Bibby - Waitin' For You
Download: Filename: Storytime_with_Boon_-_Episode_2-fKFeBb7UytwpH2HGgD8JwheJdt32hmBN
20 January 2016 - Fran Healy - Storytime with Boon - Episode 3
Notes: This week on Storytime with Boon, Clint talks about the time he met Calvin Harris before he was famous and getting a little cocky with a stage dive, when U2 asked the Inspirals to help support them at an anti nuclear protest and when Clint had a 1 fingered glove moment at the doctors. There's also insight into the Clint Boon Experience track 'Do What You Do' with Travis frontman Fran Healy, who also joins Clint for a chat. All that plus Clint's views on home schooling and new music from unsigned band, Cabbage!
For a Spotify playlist of all the music in the show and more click here - http://spoti.fi/1UbY026rn
Underworld - Born Slippy
Lou Reed - Satellite Of Love
The Doors - People Are Strange
Clint Boon Experience - Do What You Want (Earworm Song)
Travis - Why Does It Always Rain On Me
Alice Cooper - Schools Out
Cabbage - Kevin
Download: Filename: Storytime_with_Boon_-_Episode_3-REJkEOn49rDXc6s77i27VBp4NLWXh4rX
27 January 2016 - Prof Brian Cox - Storytime with Boon - Episode 4
Notes: This week on Storytime with Boon, a Top of the Pops slapping contest with Mark E Smith, the press turns on the Inspirals, how Clint taught Ray Davies from The Kinks how to play Subbuteo and Brian Cox chats to Clint about his love of Saturn 5. There's also news on the Boon families budding band and new unsigned music from Ryan Jarvis.
For a Spotify playlist of all the music in the show and more click here - http://spoti.fi/20sc6QD
Also, this week listen to the show and find out how to register to join Clint in conversation with Bez from the Happy Mondays next week at Red's True Barbecue in Manchester. Be quick though as it's first come first served!
Inspiral Carpets feat. Mark E Smith - I Want You
Erasure - Respect
The Kinks - Tired Of Waiting
Inspiral Carpets - Saturn 5
David Bowie - Life On Mars
The Beatles - Taxman
Ryan Jarvis - Moving Far Too Fast
Download: Filename: Storytime_with_Boon_-_Episode_4-f47585R5EIEc2Z7B9uqy8vVujpEful3r
03 February 2016 - Bez (Happy Mondays) - Storytime with Boon Live - Episode 5
Feb. 3, 2016
Notes: Why hello there Boonarmy! This weeks show is a very special one, recorded live at Reds True Barbecue in Manchester with the one and only Bez from the Happy Mondays. Hear Clint chat to the maraca magician with stories from bee keeping to big brother interventions. Bez truly is one of a kind!
This week's unsigned band is Larkins with Let Your Hair Down!
Download: Filename: Storytime_with_Boon_-_Episode_5_V3-eDeLop9lu6knPFLI3d12IWB9zB1efRhf
10 February 2016 - Bonehead (Oasis) - Storytime with Boon - Episode 6
Notes: Oh, didn't see you there! Well, seeing as you're reading this, boy have we got a show for you this week from the archives of Mr Boon's mind. Sean Hughes uses an Inspirals t-shirt not as advertised, the mis-pronunciation of one of The Smiths, Oasis stories and a chat with Bonehead as well as Clint spending the day trying to sell the Big Issue. This week we've got new unsigned music from Nude as well.
The Spotify playlist this week resides here - http://spoti.fi/20Vkx7j
Download and subscribe for your listening pleasure and ease!
The Undertones - Teenage Kicks
The Smiths - This Charming Man
Oasis - Some Might Say
Oasis - Columbia
Inspiral Carpets - Joe
Crystal Waters - Gypsy Woman
Nude - Oh My Lady
Download: Filename: Storytime_with_Boon_-_Episode_6-WqbKy3a9zAvfTqZbLW9o1wmhYRndXknN
17 February 2016 - Viola Beach - Storytime with Boon - Episode 7
Notes: Hello, hello! It's that time of the week again when we delve into the mind of Clint Boon. This week a touching tribute to Viola Beach after the terribly sad news of their accident in Sweden. There's also stories from Clint's meeting with The Killers, who officially owns the longest hallway in Rock N Roll, what happened when Noel Gallagher met John Craven and did you know Clint wrote the theme tune for the kids TV show Engie Benjy. New music this week comes in the form of Hey Bulldog with Under My Spell.
As always, a Spotify playlist to accompany the episode can be played here - http://spoti.fi/1QkNfNz
See you next week story lovers!
The Killers - Mr Brightside
The Who - I Can See For Miles
Oasis - Cigarettes and Alcohol
Clint Boon - Engie Benjy
Viola Beach - Swings and Waterslides
Hey Bulldog - Under My Spell
Download: Filename: Storytime_with_Boon_-_Episode_7-4NOkjpQSw7XmRxL92G8yuHo1XIlkMaZh
24 February 2016 - Anthony H Wilson - Storytime with Boon - Episode 8
Notes: A special episode this week to celebrate the life of Anthony H Wilson on what would have been his 66th birthday recently. Clint plays out an interview he did with the great man from 2005. Also, stories of Clint teaching Peter Hook how to DJ, a trip with Sean Ryder to the Theatre and the story behind the Inspirals track Directing Traffic. This week, new unsigned music from band Lyerr as well.
This week’s Spotify playlist lives here - http://spoti.fi/1LG0xg0
Joy Division - She’s Lost Control
Happy Mondays - Wrote For Luck
Inspiral Carpets - Directing Traffic
Joy Division - Atmosphere
St Anthony - An Ode to Anthony H Wilson
Lyerr - Miss Bright Ideas
Download: Filename: Storytime_with_Boon_-_Episode_8-5mPCj65YOfDb8YM9pAAT7b8DWL6PqKbs
02 March 2016 - Craig Gill (Inspirals) - Storytime with Boon - Episode 9
Notes: Another week, another show, another great selection of stories from Clint. This week's show includes Inspirals wine tasting, a little known fella by the name of Ed Sheeran, a bizarre meeting with REM and Craig Gill is on the phone. This week's unsigned music is from Amber Lane-McIvor.
There's also info on how to get your place for our 2nd live show next week (March 9th) with special guest Terry Christian. Go to www.boon.eventbrite.co.uk but you need to listen to the show to get the password.
Your Spotify playlist can be found here - http://spoti.fi/1LwVzaQ
Happy listening!
Tony Tribe - Red Red Wine
Ed Sheehan - The A Team
REM - Man On The Moon
Ian Brown - FEAR
Inspiral Carpets - Two Worlds Collide
The Who - The Kids Are Alright
Amber Lane-McIvor - Tree Of Life
Download: Filename: Storytime_with_Boon_-_Episode_9-PLp1bz9xIzcbFk8oeMMIbMVLR7eAjaLw
10 March 2016 - Terry Christian - Storytime with Boon Live - Episode 10
Notes: Hello podcast lovers. This week we've got a special treat for you in the form of Terry Christian chatting to Clint about his life in broadcasting. This weeks episode was recorded live at Reds True Barbecue in Manchester as part of Clint's monthly live shows there. There's also new unsigned music from Mica and Kardanski.
As always, you can find a Spotify playlist to accompany the show right here - http://spoti.fi/1Wc1iDC
Mica and Kardanski - Trouble
Download: Filename: Storytime_with_Boon_-_Episode_10-OxIrk34VK9vYTMWFav7hXhMEDkRQOiRP
16 March 2016 - Mooooo - Storytime with Boon - Episode 11
Notes: Ahoy! What a treat we've got for you this week. Clint ventures north of the boarder for T in the Park, Flea from the Chillies kicks off and why the Inspirals have an obsession with cows. This weeks unsigned band are Beach with Moon Smoke.
Get the Spotify playlist here - http://spoti.fi/1Uzkoo9rnrnMoooooooooo!
Catfish and the Bottlemen - Cocoon
The Matterhorn Project - The Muh! Song
Inspiral Carpets - Theme from Cow
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge
Beach - Moon Smoke
Download: Filename: Storytime_with_Boon_-_Episode_11-F4AUrSYk0YgoOAnskOKjGaGeeYqAjCOj
23 March 2016 - Episode 12 The Beatles - Storytime with Boon - Episode 12
Notes: Greetings pod lovers. Another week, another Storytime with Boon. On this weeks stellar episode Clint becomes PA for the manager of The Beatles, an awkward appearance on T4 for Clint and Ian Brown and how the Clint Boon Experience track 'Comet Theme Number One' came to be plus new unsigned music from Moon Looks On.
As always, get your Spotify fix right here - http://spoti.fi/1T6hFD2
The Beatles - Hello, Goodbye
Billy and the Buttons - Where Can I Park My Car
Ian Brown - Stellify
The Clint Boon Experience - Comet Theme Number One
Elvis Presley - If I Can Dream
Moon Looks On - Friend Of Mine
Download: Filename: Storytime_with_Boon_-_Episode_12-rBCF2wg7B7FfjirtkiFCe2Poe8T7JS14
30 March Cabbage - Storytime with Boon - Episode 13
Notes: Another week, another episode, this time it's lucky number 13! On this weeks show we've got anecdotes about Iggy Pop, faulty 'Bells' on New Years Eve and a success story about an unsigned band from a previous Storytime with Boon called Cabbage. There's also a never before heard track from Clint called "The Little 'What If?' Song" and new unsigned music from Dantevilles.
Get your Spotify fix here with all the tracks from this weeks show in full and many more - http://spoti.fi/1SmpvU5
Daft Punk - Aerodynamic
Iggy Pop - The Passenger
Cabbage - Kevin
Cabbage - Dinner Lady
Clint Boon - The Little 'What If?' Song
Elton John - Rocket Man
Dantevilles - Colour
Download: Filename: Storytime_with_Boon_-_Episode_13-de5JvSAtQHRavtSi6dOI8VIxi1N8oBKw
04 April 2016 - Set2Go Podcasts - Introduction - Clint Boon's Set2Go
Notes: Clint Boon features on the podcast. Clint Boon's Set2Go - New Unsigned Music By This Is Distorted. "ABOUT THIS PODCAST Join Clint Boon, the organ playing Mancunian legend from Inspiral Carpets as he champions new music and unsigned bands in this monthly podcast aimed at musical discovery and helping the next generation of musical superstars get heard. Are you an unsigned band? Send us a link to your music clintset2go@gmail.com"
"April 4, 2016 Join Clint Boon, the organ playing Mancunian legend from Inspiral Carpets as he champions new music and unsigned bands in this monthly podcast aimed at musical discovery and helping the next generation of musical superstars get heard. Are you an unsigned band? Send us a link to your music clintset2go@gmail.com "
Official Free Download: Filename:
Set2Go_-_Intro-tI0bJ7SWD3gxUzKYtYkn2kLsT1drW7TP
06 April 2016 - Noel Gallagher - Storytime with Boon - Episode 14
Notes: Like a poorly timed April Fool, this weeks show is out and full of cracking stories! This time round Clint tells us about the time he was upstaged by Geoff Hurst, the history of Strawberry Studios and the great bands that have been through its’ doors as well as Clint telling Noel that Oasis was a shit name for a band. Oops! There’s also new unsigned music from Red Light Effect and more.
As per usual, get your streaming fix from Spotify here with all the full tracks from this weeks episode - http://spoti.fi/23d5cjN
New Order - World in Motion
Inspiral Carpets - Dreams Are All We Have
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar
Oasis - Champagne Supernova
Inspiral Carpets - Song For A Family
The Jam - Going Underground
Red Light Effect - Sunflower State
Download: Filename: Storytime_with_Boon_-_Episode_14-AZH1xHQdr9FCBkWdXD9ZefsDT0vRQLj7
08 April 2016 - Episode 1 - Clint Boon's Set2Go - New Unsigned Music By This Is Distorted
The first episode of Clint Boon's set2go features: The Time Sellers- Cold Revolt / Billy Bibby - Waitin' For You / Cabbage - Kevin / Ryan Jarvis - Moving Far Too Fast / Larkins - Let Your Hair Down / Nude - Oh My Lady / Hey Bulldog - Under My Spell / Lyerr - Miss Bright Ideas / Ambiere -Tree Of Life / Mica and Kardanski - Trouble / Beach - Moon Smoke / Moon Looks On - Friend of Mine.
Official Free Download: Filename:
Set2go_Podcast_1_mixdown-UWLP36mP6iz426JGlV4s6PdCetapqDC7
13 April 2016 - Shaun Ryder - Storytime with Boon - Episode 15
Notes: This week on Storytime hear Clint tell stories on holidays away with Shaun Ryder, auditions with Noel Gallagher and the offer of getting taken for a spin in a Helicopter by a well known face. There’s also new unsigned music from Park Avenue.
Get your Spotify hit right here for all this weeks tracks in full - http://spoti.fi/25Xa66J
The La’s - Timeless Melody
Oasis - Live Forever
EMF - Unbelievable
The Clint Boon Experience - Somewhere In Time
Doves - Catch The Sun
Park Avenue - Devil
Download: Filename: Storytime_with_Boon_-_Episode_15-gWZ90wKB7FQLjU4EQfbTs27muFBLpN4K
TH - 16 April 2016 Saturday - Tom Hingley Band release Beggar’s Hand for Record Store Day 2016
Tom Hingley Band are Ste Pearce (Dirty Saint), Malcolm Law (Silent Partners) and Tom.
Promo video directed by Paul Mortlock.
7inch Vinyl
Beggar’s Hand / Toy
Notes: Silent Partners supported Tom & The Lovers in 2006, including the Middleton gig. Silent Partners was Dermo's (ex-Northside) band.
Proceeds from record sales in Liverpool and Manchester go to Liverpool community initiative, Hope Fest, and the Manchester-based Lifeshare. Both are concerned with homelessness, providing much-needed support, signposting, food and emergency items for rough sleepers.
From its beginnings in 2007, Record Store Day has grown into an international celebration of music culture, with the great and good of indie, rock, pop, electronica and much more.
From 15 March 2016 - XS Noize Interview with Tom Hingley:
“We're really proud to be part of record store day. I had a career with the Inspiral Carpets selling vinyl and CDs. With the advent of downloading and streaming it's nice to be a butterfly once again, and fly the vinyl format for one day, transforming from a grub into the beautiful Red Admiral of a physical artefact,”
Anna Grace Henney, Founding Director of Hope Fest: “Hope Fest is honoured to be working alongside the Tom Hingley Band to raise funds and awareness for the homeless. We run an annual music festival where the ticket fees are either food or clothing, which goes directly to the homeless, with funds allocated to help towards running training programmes for people who have experienced homelessness,”
Lifeshare Team Leader, Judith Vickers said: “The training programmes offer work experience at the festival and the transferable skills attendees gain can help toward finding employment and shelter, as well as breaking the cycle of homelessness. We also have a street team in operation in Liverpool, providing hot drinks, soup and warm clothing as well as advice to those in need.”
“Lifeshare works to meet the needs of homeless and vulnerable people in Manchester and Salford offering support, advice and practical help including food parcels, weekend breakfasts, clothes and toiletries as well as an open-house Christmas project. Tom has already supported the charity by playing at our Christmas Project last year. We are over the moon that he is releasing a single for Record Store Day and donating profits to us which will enable Lifeshare to continue working towards preventing the cycle of homelessness, promoting health and reducing harm,”
20 April 2016 - Set2Go - Storytime with Boon
Notes: "This week Clint is having a breather from all those amazing stories but instead of the usual show we're going to let you listen to his first ever 'Set2Go' podcast, championing new unsigned music. Full service will be resumed next week but for now, sit back and listen to an hour of new music chosen by Clint." See 08 April 2016 for more show details.
TH - Tom Hingley Band - 21 April 2016 - Ruby Lounge, Manchester
27 April 2016 - The Stone Roses - Storytime with Boon - Episode 16
Notes: Free Download. Interesting podcast with an early The Mill recording featuring Mani & includes an unreleased Clint Boon TV Theme Tune I'm Crazy About A Robot.
After a breather last week Clint's back with some absolute corkers this week from stories about the Stone Roses, Ian McCulloch and Clint's own failed children’s theme tune career, with examples. Clint also talks Rabbits, yes you read that correctly, Rabbits and there's new unsigned music from Twisted Revolution.
The Spotify playlist for this week’s episode can be found here - http://spoti.fi/1Uh72xN
The Mill - Mind Train
Stone Roses - Made of Stone
Echo and the Bunnymen - Nothing Lasts Forever
Clint Boon - I'm Crazy 'bout A Robot
Chas and Dave - Rabbit
Twisted Revolutions - Sunshines On Speculation
Official: MP3 Podcast
Download: Filename: Storytime_with_Boon_-_Episode_16_Gap_Week_(Set2Go)-UMtSt5zXv3j2DSRyskHuCUAOitZKmE4j
29 April 2016 - Episode 2 - Clint Boon's Set2Go - New Unsigned Music By This Is Distorted
Notes: In this month's new music extravaganza hear some cracking new music from the likes of these guys...
Dantevilles - Colour
Red Light Effect - Sunflower State
Park Avenue - Devil
Plastic House - Hold On
Ist Ist - White Swan
The Blinders - 84
Maruja Maruja - So Smile
Twisted Revolution - Sunshines on Speculation
Carnations - Time Waster
Move - NEVA
Official Free Download: Filename:
Episode_2_mixdown-brN9ujhoAVq8Xytqb19B9urEph4dwBti
04 May 2016 - Episode 17 Inspirals in the US - Storytime with Boon - Episode 17
Notes: In this weeks jam packed Storytime with Boon hear tales from the Inspirals US road trip, the latest on Rabbit-gate and how Clint wrote the Inspirals track 'Sleep Well Tonight'. Also, this week get your tickets for our next live show at Red's True Barbecue in Manchester where Clint will be chatting to Shed Seven front man Rick Witter. Get your tickets at www.boon.eventbrite.co.uk right now.
All the tracks to accompany this weeks episode can be played right here - http://spoti.fi/1TlBS2Y
The KLF - Wichita Lineman
The KLF - Elvis On The Radio
The KLF - Madrugada Eterna
Al Wilson - The Snake
Inspiral Carpets - Sleep Well Tonight
Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
Seaker - After I’m Gone
Download: Filename: Storytime_with_Boon_-_Episode_17-YyrVdKX599W7uQEeIJWq6TrjdUQx1Cdt
11 May 2016 - Rick Witter - Storytime with Boon Live - Episode 18
Notes: This week we're back for another live show at Red's True Barbecue in Manchester and the live guest is Yorkshire legend Rick Witter from Shed Seven. Hear stories from run in's with Oasis to recording Top Of The Pops. As always we've got new music at the end of the show as well, this week from Maruja with So Smile.
This episodes Spotify playlist - http://spoti.fi/1X0vZOv
Oasis - Don't Look Back In Anger
Shed Seven - High Hopes
Inspiral Carpets - Keep The Circle Around
Maruja - So Smile
Download: Filename: Storytime_with_Boon_-_Episode_18-d1tl8zHbzTfidpFhwkOxznwlBJWJexXv
10 June 2016 - Episode 3 - Clint Boon's Set2Go - New Unsigned Music By This Is Distorted
Send Clint your unsigned music clintset2go@gmail.com or tweet @CBset2go
No Hot Ashes - Cool Cat
Liam McClair - Hunted
Tourist Attraction - Faded Away
Jordan Allen - Too Much Too Soon
Prose - Further
Ryan Jarvis - Think About It
Jess Kemp - Camden
Mind Of Matter - Silence
The Tapestry - Connectives
MoonLooksOn - Let It Out, Let It In
Official Free Download: Filename:
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06 July 2016 - Episode 19 Caroline Aherne - Storytime with Boon - Episode 19
Notes: Clint is back with a bang after his break as he regales us with tales of Caroline Aherne, international jet setting and how he wrote the Clint Boon Experience track 'Climbing Back Inside the Dream'. As usual there's new unsigned music this week from Liam McClair.
For a Spotify playlist of all the music in this weeks episode, get it here - http://spoti.fi/29tIgtD
The Boxtops - The Letter
Oasis - The Shock Of The Lightning
The Travelling Band - Waterfall
Clint Boon Experience - Climbing Back Inside The Dream
Primal Scream - Goodbye Johnny
Oasis - Half The World Away
Liam McClair - Hunted
Download: Filename: Storytime_with_Boon_-_Episode_19-8TpRxCAgyU4C4ag5diCeHbNuSAydPdsH
20 July 2016 - The Specials (Horace Panter) - Storytime with Boon - Episode 20
Notes: A special edition this week as Clint catches up with Horace Panter from The Specials for an in depth interview looking into what made The Specials so successful as well as the group dynamics and some of his favourite songs. There is new unsigned music this week from The G.O.D
The Spotify playlist for this weeks show can be found here - http://spoti.fi/29T1nj0
The Specials - Gangster
The Specials - Ghost Town
The Specials - Too Much Too Young
Sleaford Mods - Jobseeker
The Specials - Message to You Rudy
The G.O.D - Drive Away The Rain
Download: Filename: Storytime_with_Boon_-_Episode_20-aeM5CSkwWp7P9fYIBwPg7vZv7twWoa65
04 August 2016 - Oscar Boon - Storytime with Boon - Episode 21
Notes: On this weeks instalment of Storytime, Clint tells you about his near death experience at the hands of an ‘It Girl’, his friendship with Arthur Baker, stomach upsets whilst touring and we get to hear the up and coming talents of Oscar Boon as he gets on his guitar. There’s new unsigned music from a band called Foxtales and as usual make sure you listen to the Spotify playlist which goes with this episode. Happy listening!
Spotify link - http://spoti.fi/29T1nj0
Betty Boo - Doin' The Do
Arthur Baker - Life in Transition
The Stranglers - No More Hereos
Inspiral Carpets - Generations
Muse - Hysteria
Foxtales - Spider
Download: Filename: Storytime_with_Boon_-_Episode_21-VOMJRwMyH6YNKK5nxzXvv9Y1lsNaDTd1
17 August 2016 - Elbow - Storytime with Boon - Episode 22
Notes: In this week's Storytime, we discover Clint's connection to Elbow and their recordings, the love of Philip Glass including a very special rendition with Mike Garry, how Clint wrote the Inspirals track 'Uniform' and new unsigned music from Siamese.
This week's Spotify playlist can be found here - http://spoti.fi/2aZ3iND
Elbow - Newborn
Philip Glass feat. Linda Ronstadt - Freezing
Mike Garry & Philip Glass - Live Forever
Spencer Davis Group - Keep On Running
Inspiral Carpets - Uniform
Isaac Castle - Sister In Law
Siamese - White Jacket
Download: Filename: Storytime_with_Boon_-_Episode_22-xKSb6PwAeVpVQL37AIWyv8TIpQCPaMAv
Tom Hingley (Solo Acoustic) - 17 August 2016 Wednesday - Brudenell Social Club, 33 Queens Road, Leeds * Ticket Price: £7.00 * Doors Open: 19:30 * Supporting: CUD
Notes: Billed as Carefree Sud [CUD] Acoustic - stripped down set. ''Cud's Carl and Mike resurrect their alter ego two-piece outfit 'Carefree Sud', playing stripped down versions of all your favourite Cud band songs''. Suzy Blu was first on stage followed by Tom.
31 August 2016 - Supergrass - Storytime with Boon - Episode 23
Notes: Hello you lovely lot, this week on Storytime with Boon there's more stories than the Burj Khalifa. When Clint met teenagers Gaz and Danny who would later form a little band called Supergrass, a trip to Germany that got slightly raucous and another infamous theme tune from Clint.
This week there's new music from Newcastle band The Kustom Built.
Get the Spotify playlist for this episode right here - http://spoti.fi/2bUY7kR
Super grass - Alright
Justice vs. Simian - We Are Your Friends
Camper Van Beethoven - Take The Skinheads Bowling
Stone Roses - Fools Gold
Clint Boon - Trucks Are Good
Edwyn Starr - Contact
Supertramp - It's Raining Again
The Kustom Built - Push The Pull
Download: Filename: Storytime_with_Boon_-_Episode_23-RUU0hdUtYSx4R2UWOB1zRirHLpljaucg
14 September 2016 - Richard Ashcroft - Storytime with Boon - Episode 24
Notes: In this week's show Clint tells stories about Richard Ashcroft, Adele, Depeche Mode and how he wrote the track 'Butterfly'. Also, hear Clint's take on Pokemon GO and new music from 'Sky Between Leave'
This week's Spotify playlist can be found here - http://spoti.fi/2cr40X1
The Verve - Lucky Man
Adele - Chasing Pavements
Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence
Inspiral Carpets - Butterfly
Moby - Go
Sky Between Leaves - O.B.E
Download: Filename: Storytime_with_Boon_-_Episode_24-1473339719295759375-MjI5NzEtNDc3Mjk0OTg=
16 September 2016 - Episode 4 - Clint Boon's Set2Go - New Unsigned Music By This Is Distorted
Notes: Join Clint Boon, the organ playing Mancunian legend from Inspiral Carpets as he champions new music and unsigned bands in this monthly podcast aimed at musical discovery and helping the next generation of musical superstars get heard. Are you an unsigned band? Send us a link to your music clintset2go@gmail.com
Hello and welcome to another episode of Clint Boon's Set2go. On this episode you will hear:
Sky Between Leaves - Klein Blues
G.O.D - Dry Away The Rain
Sonic Bliss Machine - Mind Body & Soul
Ryan Young and The Electric Sunrise - Shark Bite
Siamese- White Jacket
Delphina King - Midnight
The Jade Assembly - Got My Star
Lunar - Gunna Get You Down
Stemz - Halo
Foxtales -Spider
Official Free Download: Filename:
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28 September 2016 - Manic Street Preachers - Storytime with Boon - Episode 25
Notes: In this week's show Clint tells us stories from days gone by about the filming of the Inspirals track 'Caravan', Noel Gallaghers first ever recorded vocals, the Manic Street Preachers as well as the potential theft of various animals. This week there's unsigned music from Dysehaus!
Get the Spotify playlist right here - http://spoti.fi/2d3ZkHs
Inspiral Carpets - Caravan
Inspiral Carpets - Niagara
Manic Street Preachers Motorcycle Emptiness
The Southlanders - I Am A Mole & I Live In A Hole
Inspiral Carpets - Dreams Are All We Have
The Cure - Love Cats
Dysehaus - Terrified
Download: Filename: Storytime_with_Boon_-_Episode_25-1475067021684006007-MjMwNDQtNjYxODMzNTI=
12 October 2016 - Peter Hook Live - Storytime with Boon - Episode 26
Notes: This week's show is a very special one indeed, recorded live in Manchester, Clint chats to Joy Division and New Order legend Peter Hook. This one is not to be missed!
There's also new unsigned music from Sauce and this week's Spotify playlist can be found here - http://spoti.fi/2d3ZkHs
New Order - Truth
New Order - Crystal
Chemical Brothers - Hey Boy, Hey Girl
Peter Hook & The Light - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Dillinger - Cocaine
Monaco - What Do You Want From Me
Joy Division - Disorder
Sauce - Gas Pipes Blown
Download: Filename: Storytime_with_Boon_-_Episode_26-1476281636358308489-MjMwOTUtMTEyNTg1NjAy
27 October 2016 - Cars, Bikes & Bunnies - Storytime with Boon - Episode 27
Notes: ABOUT THIS EPISODE This week the 'AWARD WINNING' Storytime with Boon get's mechanical as Clint tells stories about some of the cars, motorbikes & mopeds Clint has owned or borrowed. There's an update on 'Project Rabbits' and of course brand spanking new music this week from Nihilists.
Get your Spotify fix here for all the music in this weeks episode - http://spoti.fi/2d3ZkHs
Chris Spedding - Motor Bikin'
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
Madness - I’ve Been Drivin’ In My Car
Clint Boon - GO! MO! GO!
Benny Hill Theme Tune
Nihilists - Over Is So Over
Download: Filename: Storytime_with_Boon_-_Episode_27_V2-1477581934404380710-MjMxNDMtODExNDYwMDQ=
Tom Hingley - 08 November 2016 - Chapel FM, Leeds
Notes: A full acoustic set was available to hear at carpetburns.wordpress.com
09 November 2016 - Radio Fails - Storytime with Boon - Episode 28
Notes: This week on Storytime with Boon, Clint talks gas guzzlers and radio fails including a collection of some mighty fine f**k ups when he was live on-air. There's also new music from D.R.O.H.N.E
Get your Spotify playlist for this weeks episode here - http://spoti.fi/2fz0mh6
Morrissey - I Have Forgiven Jesus
Guru Josh - Infinity
Super Furry Animals - Man Don't Give A Fuck
Elvis Costello - Radio, Radio
D.R.O.H.N.E - I.C.U
Download: Filename: Storytime_with_Boon_-_Episode_28-1478611002176564952-MjMxODktNTMwNzExNTY=
18 November 2016 Sunday - Craig, his wife Rose Marie Gill & family travel to a recording of a children's Christmas TV Show at Media City, Salford
From 05 May 2017 Friday 17:14 - The Guardian article: Earlier, Gill had told the inquest how the whole family had set off early in the morning on Sunday 18 November last year and travelled to Media City, in Salford, to watch the recording of a children’s TV Christmas special. She said that after they arrived at the studios, her husband said it was not something he really wanted to do and they decided he would go home. She said she thought this was perfectly normal behaviour as most men would not want to spend a day watching a children’s show in Christmas jumpers.
20 November 2016 Tuesday - Craig Gill passes away.
Notes: Craig aged 44 ends his life. His suicide was said to be the result of tinnitus that had caused 20 years of insomnia and anxiety.
Graham Lambert, Stephen Holt, and Clint Boon, make a statement outside the Phoenix Centre in Heywood. Memorial services were attended by music-industry friends including Inspiral Carpets members, Oasis singer Liam Gallagher, Stone Roses bassist Mani and Happy Mondays singer Rowetta.
Gill's friends began a social-media campaign to make the band's 1994 hit "Saturn 5" the Christmas number-one song for 2016, but the song peaked at number 48.
From 05 May 2017 Friday 17:14 - The Guardian article: Inspiral Carpets drummer killed himself after 20 years of 'unbearable' tinnitus. Wife of Manchester musician Craig Gill tells inquest her husband had long suffered from sleep deprivation and anxiety due to ear condition. The wife of the Inspiral Carpets drummer Craig Gill has said there needs to be a greater awareness of the devastating effects of tinnitus after an inquest into his death returned an open verdict. Rose Marie Gill issued a statement about the condition after an inquest into her husband’s death heard how the only concern he had in his life was the tinnitus he had had for more than 20 years. Gill told a coroner how she discovered her 44-year-old husband dead at their home in Greenfield, Greater Manchester, after returning with their children from a day out. She told the inquest in Heywood, Greater Manchester, that her husband’s death had baffled everyone who knew him and that her husband had no history of depression or suicidal thoughts. “That’s what’s shocking about it. I have no idea where this has come from,” she told the senior coroner for north Manchester, Joanne Kearsley. In a statement issued after the hearing, she said her husband’s tinnitus became “so unbearable he felt there was no cure” and urged more awareness of the problem and men’s mental health. She said in the statement: “Instead of reaching out, on that day in November, Craig made the saddest and most tragic of decisions.” Gill said: “For the past 20 years, Craig suffered from debilitating tinnitus, a condition caused by not protecting his hearing when enjoying the careers he loved the most – a successful musician, DJ and love of listening to music. “His condition affected his day-to-day wellbeing and he suffered in silence with both sleep deprivation and anxiety.” She said: “Although we struggle with the day-to-day existence of life without Craig, we are now able to discuss and promote awareness of tinnitus and men’s mental health. It takes courage for men to speak out, to talk to one another, to share their thoughts and their fears. “If you are one of those men, like Craig, we urge you to reach out to those you love and find comfort in sharing your pain.” Inspiral Carpets members Graham Lambert, Stephen Holt and Clint Boon attended the inquest. Boon read a statement from the band that said: “We will always remember Craig for his great sense of humour, his passion for music, his incredible skills as a musician and his devotion to his family. “Craig was a friend, a loyal son and brother, philosophical father and important member of our gang. We feel extremely privileged to have spent the last 30 years making music with him.”
Earlier, Gill had told the inquest how the whole family had set off early in the morning on Sunday 18 November last year and travelled to Media City, in Salford, to watch the recording of a children’s TV Christmas special. She said that after they arrived at the studios, her husband said it was not something he really wanted to do and they decided he would go home. She said she thought this was perfectly normal behaviour as most men would not want to spend a day watching a children’s show in Christmas jumpers. Gill described how she spoke to her husband on the phone during the day but he was not at the station to meet them. She said she and the children walked the short distance home, where she discovered his dead body. DI Ian Harratt said a police investigation had shown no sign of any disturbance at the house but also found no suicide note. Harratt told the coroner: “There was nothing in the information we have received that this was premeditated or preplanned. It appears to me that this is something that was completely out of the blue. It was something that took everybody who knew Mr Gill completely by surprise.” The coroner told Gill it was clear her husband was responsible for taking his own life but she could not record a conclusion of suicide because she could not be sure, to the criminal standard of proof, that he had intended to kill himself. Recording an open conclusion, Kearsley said she was sorry she could not offer the family an explanation for what happened. She said he was also described as a “pillar of the community” who was “thought of so highly by everybody”. Gill was a founding member of the Inspiral Carpets and played with the band throughout their heyday in the 1990s, returning when the band reformed 20 years later to tour and record their self-titled album in 2014.
From 20 January 2018 Clint Boon Interview for the Winsford Guardian by Stephen Topping: Clint said: “We’ve still not had the conversation believe it or not. We’ve been helping his family and that feels like the right thing to do. “There’s a chance we might never do it again, and if that’s the case then that is OK. Craig was 14 when he started with the band, and you just can’t replace that.”
Tom Hingley and The Kar-Pets or Tom Hingley Band - 16 December 2016 - The Ruby Lounge, Manchester
DJ Clint Boon - 2017 - Winnington Park Recreation Club, Northwich.
Notes: Tiny Steps fundraiser to build a sensory play areas in Cheshire.
DJ Clint Boon - 12 November 2017 Sunday - Shiiine On Weekender, Butlins, Minehead (Depart Manchester: 07:00. Arrival at venue: 13:00, 226 miles. Venue access: 13:00. Floor Package Load In: Backline. Backline load in: 13:00. Soundcheck:. Support 1 Soundcheck:. Dinner:) * Support Act: DJ Jon DaSilva
Notes: Date taken from the Greatest Hits Tour 2017 Tour Itinerary.
Happy Mondays /
Levellers / The Wedding Present / The Farm / Dreadzone / The Wonder Stuff /
A Guy Called Gerald / Dub Pistols / The Icicle Works / pop will eat itself / A Certain Ratio / Peter Hook & The Light / Freak Power / Cut La Roc / Hurricane #1 / The Woodentops / CUD / BMX Bandits / The Real People / The Orchids / Jim Bob / The Clone Roses / Wolfgang Flür / My Drug Hell / Smaller / Deja Vega / Theatre Royal / Dave Rowntree / The Wendys / Psyence / Fay Hallam / Ian Prowse & Amsterdam / The Train Set / Independent Country / Time for Action / The Verve Experience / The G-O-D (UK) / Starsailor / Embrace / Fun Lovin' Criminals / Clint Boon Party
Tom Hingley Band - 08 December 2017 - Exchange Arts Centre, Keighley * Support Act(s): The Sailmakers, Daniel Mark Aspinall
2018 - Clint Boon continues his Radio Show, 14:00-16:00 on XS Manchester
2018 every Saturday - DJ Clint Boon, South Nightclub.
Notes: Clint Boon begins his Boon Army residency at the South.
20 January 2018 - Clint Boon Interview for the Winsford Guardian
Notes: Stephen Topping wrote: Clint Boon on music and 'idyllic' family life ahead of Northwich set. IF one man has the whole work-life balance thing sorted, it’s Clint Boon. The 58-year-old DJ from Oldham, who made his name as the keyboardist for Inspiral Carpets, has his seven-year-old Cassius ‘sat on my back as we speak’. He is the youngest of five for Clint, following Hector, 11, and Oscar, 13, from his current marriage to Charlie, plus 20-somethings Max and Harley from an earlier marriage. “Family is a very big thing for me,” he told Weekend. “I love music, I couldn’t imagine my life without it, but family is the reason I get up and do it. “A lot of mums and dads have to get up for work and get the kids to school. They come home shattered and want to put their feet up. “But we are fortunate that we have got an idyllic family life. “I’ll go to work for a few hours, come back and then we can be a family again. It’s a nice dynamic.”
Clint’s working pattern involves his daily radio show, from 2pm to 6pm on Manchester station XS, plus ‘four or five’ DJ sets a week, including his Saturday residency at the South nightclub. His three younger children are home-schooled, and Clint is seeing the benefits – with a budding musician in Oscar, and a keen photographer in Hector, who has an ‘amazing eye for it’. Clint said: “I’ve always been someone to question the way we do things. The whole system is there for a reason, and it does work. But what we see is that people have thrived outside of that. “Children that are educated outside of that often turn out to be little geniuses that are full of confidence and with a beautiful spirit. We want them to be confident and to pursue what they love.” Home-schooling is just one part of the Boon family’s ‘world of natural ways to raise kids’, while Hector and Oscar were also home-birthed. Five became six for Clint in 2012 following the birth of daughter Luna Bliss, but she was born three months prematurely and died after a 34-day battle for life. “When you go through something like that it is profound in the way it affects you,” said Clint. “I do a lot for charity, people ask me to do something special for a good cause and I will try and do it. “But that’s just part of our world, it’s how we live.” Clint has raised at least £20,000 for charity by auctioning off canvas drawings of the iconic Inspiral Carpets cow logo. He also plays DJ sets at charity nights – including one which will be held at Winnington Park Recreation Club, in Northwich, on Friday, January 26. The event is for Tiny Steps, a charity which is raising money to build a sensory play area in Cheshire, and it is the second year running that Clint has played a set for the cause. He said: “We had an amazing night last year, and hopefully the same people will come down and we can have another fantastic time.” It would be difficult to meet someone more enthusiastic about discovering and playing music than Clint. He was into 1950s rock and roll at a young age, before falling in love with punk as a 17-year-old after watching the Sex Pistols in Manchester. “That was my Road to Damascus,” Clint said. “It was perfect for me. This was modern rock and roll. I was in the right place at the right time to embrace it. “Punk changed my life. I wasn’t into spitting at gigs or anything like that – I thought that was disgusting – but punk represented something. Here were working class kids in the city that wanted another way to do stuff.” More than a decade on, after discovering the technical side of production, Clint was about to enjoy success as the keyboardist for Inspiral Carpets. He remembers how little known the band was when he penned This is How It Feels, a song which has gone on to be sung on football terraces and still be played regularly on the radio. Clint said: “I think it’s lovely. I didn’t realise back then how big it would be. At that time we were still taking time off work to do gigs. “If I knew then that it would still be played 30 years later, that it would be sung at so many football games, and that people would really embrace it, I would have been very surprised. “It’s like a child that you have brought up, and they are now an adult doing their own thing. We created it but it is completely out of our control now.” Clint saw Noel Gallagher ‘day-in-day-out’ for four years while the future Oasis and High Flying Birds star was a roadie for Inspiral Carpets. He said: “When Stephen [Holt] left the band he wanted to be our singer, but we didn’t think his voice suited the band. So we took him on as our roadie and he was with us everyday. We would party together, we would go to the football together, we were extremely close. “It was quite obvious that one day he would do his own thing, but not even Noel could have imagined how successful he would be. “I still have to pinch myself that he is the same lad from Burnage that we had to pick up and take everywhere with us because he couldn’t drive.”
Guitar bands have enjoyed little commercial success in the charts over recent years, but Clint believes a ‘revival’ could be around the corner. “I would like to see a top 20 full of bands,” he said. “A band like Slow Readers Club would have been a household name by now 20 years ago. “They are as good as Depeche Mode, but they will get their moment.” Regardless of chart success, emerging bands are packing out venues and finding new ways online to get their music out to the masses. Manchester and the north west continues to be at the forefront of that and Clint believes the outpouring of music from the area is ‘never going to stop’. With bands like Cabbage, Stillia and Control of the Going picking up the mantle for the region, Clint is still as excited as ever about discovering new bands and playing new tunes. “I think it’s getting more intense again, that excitement, because the show I do now isn’t a specialist music show,” he said. “I used to do that on XFM, and it was brilliant but you become a bit immune to it all.” One band that might not return to the scene is Clint’s own Inspiral Carpets, following the death of drummer Craig Gill in 2016. Clint said: “We’ve still not had the conversation believe it or not. We’ve been helping his family and that feels like the right thing to do. “There’s a chance we might never do it again, and if that’s the case then that is OK. Craig was 14 when he started with the band, and you just can’t replace that.”
DJ Clint Boon - 26 January 2018 Friday - Winnington Park Recreation Club, Northwich * Ticket Price: £12.00 *
Notes: The event was for Tiny Steps, a charity which raised money to build a sensory play area in Cheshire, and it was the second year running that Clint has played a set for the cause. Clint said: “We had an amazing night last year, and hopefully the same people will come down and we can have another fantastic time.”
11 February 2018 - A Celtic State of Mind Podcast
Notes: Inspiral Carpets' Clint Boon features on the podcast with A Celtic State of Mind. "ABOUT THIS EPISODE The Celtic Star Podcast: A Celtic State of Mind presents its 34th instalment of insightful discussion around the culture of Celtic Football Club, the city of Glasgow, and fans of the reigning treble-winning Scottish champions. This week, Paul John Dykes and Kevin Graham are joined by Inspiral Carpets' Clint Boon, who wrote a classic song that will forever be associated with the club’s invincible treble-winning campaign – ‘This is How it Feels’. Crafted by Clint in the late eighties, ‘This is How it Feels’ became one of Inspiral Carpets’ biggest hits upon its release in 1990. This song became a Madchester classic, and renditions have previously rang out at the city’s Old Trafford and Main Road stadiums. Now, in homage to Brendan Rodgers’ quest to lead Celtic to ten consecutive league titles in-a-row, the tune has travelled to Glasgow for a reworking by those renowned tunesmiths, The Green Brigade. But what does Clint Boon think of Celtic’s version of his melancholic slab of genius? The Oldham-born psychedelic organ-grinder joins A Celtic State of Mind to chat about ‘This is How it Feels’, Gary ‘Mani’ Mounfield, Noel Gallagher, Lee Mavers, Morrissey, Mark E Smith and more in Episode 34 of The Celtic Star podcast. A Celtic State of Mind has gone from strength-to-strength over the last few months, and there are many more guests lined up in the weeks ahead from the world of sport, music, film, art, broadcasting, literature and politics. Connect with A Celtic State of Mind @PaulDykes, @anorthernprose and @CelticStarPod and subscribe to the podcast via iTunes or through your podcast player."
Official Free Download: Filename: clint_boon_episode_compressed
Tom Hingley - 2019 - Hymns For The Hungry U.K. Release Date
Notes: CD Hingley 34 CD. All songs written by Tom Hingley Band, guitar and vocals by Tom Hingley. Produced and engineered by Gary Madfield at Blueprint Studios autumn 2019. Photography by Tom Hingley, design by Christina Unwin.
Tom Hingley & The Kar-Pets - May Contain Nuts CD/DVD set UK Release Date
Tom Hingley & The Kar-Pets - Live
24 March 2020 - COVID-19 Lockdown
01 April 2020 - We Built This City - Manc 04: Clint Boon - The Musician With A Voice
Notes: Clint Boon features on the podcast. "ABOUT THIS EPISODE What’s life without music? Clint Boon has been keeping the spirit of Mancunian music alive for years, and the self proclaimed “creative hurricane” is showing no signs of slowing down. See Clint Boon's We Built This City Playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0YW3lVDOWrE0QZlV6XjEtF?si=Fc0V4R3WS7exqvNdEkGZkg We Built This City is a series of incredible conversations with the incredible Mancunians - born, bred or adopted – who put the heart into Modern Manchester. We recorded this episode before the Corona Virus outbreak, which has for the time-being, not only taken the swagger out of Manchester, but brought us to our knees. Not for long. We had always planned to launch in March and wondered if that was still the right thing to do now. On reflection, we decided to go ahead, because the love and the family and the community that comes out of these conversations, will hopefully provide some strength and conviction that we did build this city - and we will do it again." Your host, Lisa Morton, started PR company Roland Dransfield in 1996, one month after the fateful IRA bomb that tore apart the city centre. From that point, the business, and its team members, have been involved in helping to support the creation of Modern Manchester – across regeneration, business, charity, leisure and hospitality, sport and culture. To celebrate the 24 years that Roland Dransfield has spent creating these bonds, Lisa is gathering together some of her Mancunian ‘family’ and will be exploring how they have created their own purposeful relationships with the best city in the world.
"Clint’s life-long dream was to be in a band, playing music for his fans – ever since he first saw Elvis Presley on the TV. And whilst he achieved his goal, he knew that it couldn’t last forever. When the Inspiral Carpets went their separate ways, Clint needed to find a new way to bring that ‘buzz’ back into his life. Lisa hears how Clint’s love of entertaining manifested in many ways throughout his life – as a DJ in Manchester’s South nightclub, a radio presenter on XS Manchester, and a public speaker, inspiring our City’s future great musicians. A story of celebration and reinvention, Clint helps us to remember the importance of familial love and most importantly, staying unique."
Official Free Download: Filename: 200401_-_WBTC_-_Ep_04_-_Clint_Boon_-_APPROVED
30 June 2020 - The See Radio Differently Podcast
Notes: Clint Boon features on the podcast. "7: The See Radio Differently Podcast: Clint Boon, Bounce-back & Best Bits, June 30, 2020. This week, Beth caught up with XS Manchester’s Clint Boon, to hear all about how he has adapted to presenting his drivetime show in lockdown – and why exactly he would compare himself to Forest Gump. Elsewhere in the podcast, our own Insight Manager Kamilah Kamara tells Coral all about Radiocentre's latest research, Bounce-back & Beyond. And, Coral rounds up some of the best clips from the last fortnight, taken from our regular Keeping the Nation Smiling feature."
Official Free Download: Filename: the-see-radio-differently-podcast-clint-boon-bounce-back-best-bits
30 November 2020 - Radio Anywhere By Iain Lee: The Late Night Alternative: Clint Boon
Notes: Clint Boon features on the podcast. Radio Anywhere Podcast. "Yes! That Clint Boon! Inspiral Carpets Clint Boon!"
Official Free Download: Filename: 611e8eacaa51c10013c4ea86
2021
02 March 2021 - The Gig Stories Podcast - GSP02: Clint Boon
Notes: Clint Boon features on the podcast. Podcast by gigstoriespod. "ABOUT THIS PODCAST A celebration of gigs, venues, festivals and the live music experience - hosted by TV presenter Alex Winters and music photographer Chris Payne. ABOUT THIS EPISODE We talked to Clint about auditioning singers for the Inspiral Carpets, Noel Gallagher and the beginnings of Oasis, an early love of Showaddywaddy and a drunken meeting with R.E.M. His favourite live track was R.E.M.'s MTV-Unplugged version of "Love Is All Around"."
Official Free Download: Filename: Clint_Boon_Final9ad4q
26 September 2021 Sunday - Stone Valley Festival (North) 2021, Ushaw Historic House, Chapels & Gardens, Durham
The Selecter / The skids / The Dualers / The Scandals / The Undertones / Bad Manners / The Farm / Death Of Guitar Pop / Secret Affair / The Chords UK / Nancy & the Dolls / Block 33 / Happy Mondays / Cast / from the jam / Neville Staple / Geno Washington / The Karpets / the vapors / Basket Case
Notes: Festival took place 24-26.
19 November 2021 - Life Gold Coloured Vinyl Re-Release
BMG Europe 4050538684339
Notes: Gold Colourd Vinyl
03 December 2021 - Manchester Musical History Tour Book Re-published
Notes: 10 year anniversary, Catalog Number: 9781901746716.
CB - 03 December 2021 Friday - The Pen and Pencil, 57 Hilton Street, Northern Quarter, Manchester, M1 2EJ * Doors Open: 14:00-19:00 - Ticket Price: Free Entry. Clint Boon DJs and hosts the show. Sponsered by XS Manchester Radio. Pre-show party for the James & Happy mondays Show - AO Arena aka M.E.N. Arena, Manchester * Supporting: James.