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Part of the late 1980s/early 1990s "Madchester" scene that saw rave culture collide with rock'n'roll in one huge, swaggering, psychedelic, baggy party, Inspiral Carpets stood alongside the likes of the Stone Roses, Happy Mondays and The Charlatans as one of the cult heroes of the era. Driven by Clint Boon's organ riffs and front man Steve Holt's vocals, the band named themselves after a clothes shop in their home town of Oldham, but went relatively unnoticed until their EP Planecrash (1988) was championed by Radio 1 DJ John Peel. Holt was replaced by Tom Hingley in 1989 before th...