The band released two albums of demos in the 1980s, Waiting for Ours and Songs of Shallow Intensity, including songs that would later be re-recorded. The 1988 Planecrash EP on the Playtime label received much airplay from Radio 1 DJ John Peel, who asked the band to record a session for his show. Manchester drummer Chris Goodwin and bassist Tony Welsh helped record a demo and play live in and around the Oldham area. 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.

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Graham Lambert and Stephen Holt, friends from their school days, formed Inspiral Carpets in 1983, originally as a garage rock- and punk-inspired band. Soon after his death, Gill's friends began a social-media campaign to make the band's 1994 hit "Saturn 5" the Christmas number-one song for 2016.Those who have followed Stephen Holt, Graham Lambert and Clint Boon’s careers since the 80s are proudly wearing the band’s retro cow t-shirts. The most special moment of the night occurred during the encore, when footage of Craig was played in tribute. The band also announced that longtime bassist Martyn Walsh would not be joining them on their forthcoming tour. Today, while the reformed Stone Roses drew 60,000 people to Heaton Park, the Carpets’s appeal is considerably more selective.

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Gill also formed a new band, Hustler, who eventually changed their name to Proud Mary after a song by Creedence Clearwater Revival. Looking around the room, decades worth of Inspiral Carpets merchandise adorns members of their loyal fan base. In support of the single, the band toured the UK in March 2012 for the first time with Holt in 24 years.from keep the circle around, through the chart hits this is how it feels, two world's collide, saturn 5, i want you featuring mark e smith to the last single let you down featuring john cooper clarke. Keyboard player Clint Boon remarks ‘This is beautiful, you beautiful people’ before gesturing to the large VIP section, where he had friends from Argentina who had travelled to Manchester for the special gig tonight.