Inspiral Carpets

Never mind all the Manchester stuff.

And he was cutting all that stuff, whether it be Echo and the Bunnymen or the Inspiral Carpets or whatever, against the big soccer stories of the time.

And very wittily.

And that was the kind of thing that I always had at the back of my head.

You know, Bonad was driving our van up and down the country, you know, taking gear to Top of the Pops or whatever, so...

They were all close to the business of the Inspiral Carpets.

They saw firsthand what was going on behind the scenes.

We took Noel to a lot of record company meetings and he'd be with us in the rehearsal room most days or in the office with us, helping us sort merchandise out.

And to honour Clint's presence on the episode, we've called this one Boone or Moon.

And here's why.

Clint's band, The Inspiral Carpets, had a massive hit with Saturn V.

So what we want you to tell us is whether the following people with a celestial body in their name are footballers or imposters.

They're really good.

They sang like Stone Roses, Spiral Carpets, all that type of stuff.

The place was pumping, absolutely pumping.

Everyone loved it.

Thank you for joining us.

I'm a little bit throaty tonight because I went to see Inspiral Carpets at the Barrows last night, one of my favourite bands, and I did a lot of singing and shouting and shouting out of Clint Boone's solo songs to try and get a reaction.

And I wrecked my voice by the third song.

So there you go.

And they're interested to see if they had, whether they would have gone further.

or whatever I'm not really sure if it is exactly that I think that's what it was but and then of course Inspiral Carpets what's really interesting is we was looking at like how it's a generational thing with Smith and the Carpets Clint Boone's only like two years younger than Smith it's sort of crazy yeah so it's like they were it wasn't it was just that Smith started late and the Inspirals Smith started early and the Inspirals started a bit later right took him a while to get started but Great

stuff.

Nice.

He didn't.

He never did.

Like, Carpenter and the Inspiral Carpets is one thing.

Jumping on a Kylie Minogue track, which would have been on Vogue in 1997 still, probably.

Mm.

But he's, uh, from, in Spiral Carpets.

[laughs]

He's been helping us behind the scenes with this for months.

Like I said, I asked to work it, so I wasn't going to abandon that gig for a trip to Lisbon that I cannae afford anyway.

But it was the Wonderstuff 40th anniversary tour with Inspiral Carpets supporting and...

The promoter, Dave McGeachin, has been a fan of Wonderstuff longer than me and saw them in 1989 at the Barrowland.

And he hadn't had the opportunity to promote the band for that whole time since then.

i did i um and the tour manager paul had put in their like tour group chat he put the letter in that i sent you and as i was saying cheerio to clint last night and i'm like i can't believe i'm actually saying cheerio to clint boone this is absolutely surreal to me and bear in mind that i got it in spiral carpets because of um well i used to listen to the charts religiously but i remember like seeing their video on the itv chart show on a saturday morning and just hearing i think i heard like either this is how it feels or she comes in the fall and i was completely enamored by them and then i said to him last night he was just like he was like i saw the letter from debbie and like obviously it's his ex and

yeah honestly i could see i

could see he was a bit emotional like And I thought, well, the importance of that to him, you know, and seeing that someone had written a letter out of nowhere from Scotland asking to join an Inspiral Carpets fan club that didn't exist.

So he gave me a big hug and he was like, oh, I hope you're doing our next show.

...

Charlatans, Happy Mondays, Spiral Carpets, Primal Scream, all of that.

And then also, I started getting into the dance music, so I have a load of XL white label records on vinyl, and just all of the attic-

You got a record player?