Inspiral Carpets

Brushing up on The Carpets

An early start for the recently reformed Inspiral Carpets saw the heavens not so much open as take a quick leak on the crowd.

Not that this stopped the organ-driven sounds of the band from whipping the nostalgia-hungry crowd into a polite frenzy. The Inspirals were always the ideal ‘get-up-and-go’ band, their stabbingly frenzied psychedelic garage tunes and occasional woozy wistfulness being an obvious prototype for their rather more successful roadie.

The band themselves may be older and looser, but the music has remained as tight as it ever was and it was a joy to see vast chunks of the crowd waving in time to This Is How It Feels; proving beyond measure that actually they don’t know how it feels to be lonely. Not at Glastonbury, anyway.

What more can one say; it’s a quiet pleasure to have them back. Now wouldn't it have been perfectly wonderful if the cow floating above a stall to stage left of the Pyramid Stage had had a giant 'cigarette' in its mouth. That would have been as cool as f**k.

Adam Horovitz

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