On this day 10 May 1990 English rock band Inspiral Carpets played Cardiff University.
Formed in Oldham in 1983, the band's most successful lineup featured frontman Tom Hingley, drummer Craig Gill, guitarist Graham Lambert, bassist Martyn Walsh and keyboardist Clint Boon.
Formed by Lambert and singer Stephen Holt, who departed the band before they signed with Mute Records, Inspiral Carpets was known for using organs and distorted guitars with influences from psychedelic rock.
In 2011, Hingley departed the band, though members disagree about the circumstances. The band continued on, reuniting with Holt.
Inspiral Carpets formed their own label, Cow Records, in March 1989. The label's first release was the Trainsurfing EP.
With half of the first album, Life, written, Holt and Swift departed and formed the Rainkings, so the band recruited Too Much Texas singer Tom Hingley and Martyn "Bungle" Walsh of The Next Step to replace them.
Martyn Walsh became the band's 13th bass player. After a handful of singles on their own label, with "Move" nearly reaching the UK top 40, the band signed a deal with Mute Records and soon experienced their first top-40 chart success in the UK with "This Is How It Feels."
The single reached No. 14 on the singles chart, and the debut album Life reached No. 2 on the albums chart in 1990.
Setlist
Real Thing
Directing Traffik
Besides Me
This Is How It Feels
Find Out Why
Sackville
Dreams Are All We Have
Caravan
Weakness
Move
Beast Inside
She Comes in the Fall
Further Away
Keep the Circle Around
Encore:
Commercial Reign
Joe
