On This Day 10/05/1990 Inspiral Carpets

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