Inspiral Carpets - Sydney - August 4 2023

Inspiral Carpets returned to Australia for the first time in 30 years with their Greats Hits Tour. As I hadn’t seen them before, discussions around the merits of the band’s two lead singers were somewhat irrelevant to me. Besides, I was much keener to hear live those wonderful keyboard melodies. ‘Original’ versus ‘authentic’ members all becomes rather meaningless when you are confronted with the here and now. The line up for this tour was Graham Lambert (guitars), Stephen Holt (lead vocals), Clint Boon (keyboards and backing vocals), Kev Clark (drums) and Oscar Boon (bass). There was no shortage of hits. I videoed six songs from the back of the venue where I hoped better sound quality would make up for the lack of close ups.
Generations (00:18)
Butterfly (03:04)
Two Worlds Collide (05:29)
Let You Down (10:35)
Dragging Me Down (15:58)
Saturn 5 (21:03)
Metropolis Touring were thanked several times during the night, to which I’d like to add my thanks. The promoters continue to tour a terrific range of international bands which we might otherwise not be seeing. And unlike most of the other agencies, the ticket prices are always very affordable.

[@Peter_LiveMusic]

Inspiral Carpets website - music, merch and gigs: inspiralcarpets.com Facebook: facebook.com/OfficialInspirals/ Instagram: instagram.com/inspiral_carpets/?hl=en

[@justinfinch8201]

Great work Peter. Super choice of songs :)

[@Peter_LiveMusic]

It would have been good to have been a little closer but spots with a clear view were limited. There certainly were a lot of great songs to choose from. I stuck to my favourites. Glad you liked them. Thanks for commenting.

[@Cordel10]

No disrespect to SH he has his own sound but jesus bring back tom for the post 1990 inspiral carpets fans.

[@angelaheaney6571]

Have you seen them live lately with SH?

[@Cordel10]

@@angelaheaney6571 yes when he first came back singing you're so good for me that is very good and obvious made around his voice.

[@Womblesnoses121]

Bring back Tom ,these are not the carpets

[@angelaheaney6571]

Do you actually know why Tom is not in IC anymore?

[@angelaheaney6571]

They are actually "the carpets" Stephen is the original vocal and frontman

[@Cordel10]

@@angelaheaney6571 yes but he's not the voice you hear on there hits or there brilliant first 4 albums

[@mana3735]

@@Cordel10 He's the vocals on the IC records I first bought back in the late 80s. The original Keep the Circle Round with Stephen is one of the best Manc tunes ever.

[@ken3866]

Jesus get Tom back, this guy is terrible 😟