Craig Gill, drummer of Manchester band Inspiral Carpets, who enjoyed success in the ’90s with hits such as ‘This Is How It Feels’ and ‘Dragging Me Down’, has sadly died at the age of 44. He was a damn ...

There’s no marching band in 2023 but the song is still delivered with raucous punch that has the sold-out Concorde 2 loudly matching singer Stephen Holt on the choruses. The audience, mostly male, are ...

INSPIRAL Carpets are going back to the future for their new tour. Stephen Holt, who founded the band with guitarist Graham Lambert in 1983 but moved on to pastures new five years later, has reclaimed ...

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

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

I have fond memories of the band and my halcyon days on Piccadilly Radio in Manchester, when it seemed everyone I knew were either in a band or involved in some way with the music business. The whole ...

Inspiral Carpets are delighted to announce their first live shows since 2015. These shows will be “a celebration of the music we created, which has brought so much joy to people over the last 34 years ...

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

Since their moment at the start of the 1990s, Inspiral Carpets have reformed once or twice - but this is their first new album since 1994. However the band have not been collecting dust over the last ...

Inspiral Carpets were a huge part of the booming Madchester scene of the late-80s and early-90s, bringing a psychedelic edge to their brand of alternative rock. The band, whose peers included the ...