which is nice. We might not be at the centre of the music industry at the moment but surely the spotlight will come back on us sooner or later. Tere’ll be another Madchester one day! It just spews out these incredible world class acts like Elbow, Oasis and Take Tat. I wanted to just ask you about the cow motif that that followed you through the years…how did that originate? It was purely because where I used to live there was a cow field at the bottom of the garden and I used to take a lot of photos of cows! I was an amateur photographer. I had a friend who got me knocked off film from the local colour lab so I wasn’t constrained by the expense of buying film at the time. So I had all these photos of cows, and when we started the band, because I had all these colour transparencies of
“Seeing Te Sex Pistols in December 1967 made me get off my arse”
cows looking at the camera, we started projecting them behind the band onstage. We needed a backdrop and so we used what we had. People started mooing at gigs and they still do. We did a gig in Somerset recently and there were 9,000 people mooing. I had to explain to some people that they’re not booing, they’re mooing! How’s it been working with your original singer Stephen again on your most recent album? It’s been brilliant, with respect to Tom who was our singer for 20 years, it’s nice to have Stephen back. It feels like we’re back to where we started and it’s just got something of the spirit of the old garage band, which is nice. I think when you get someone new in you start doing things a bit differently and we’re enjoying it. I still see Tom and we get on very well. Stephen’s doing a great job; for the last 20 years he’s been the manager of a drug dependency unit and has very much been in the real world and now he’s back in the fairy-tale land of travelling the world and playing gigs with us lot! He’s loving it. You’re married with five children,
and have a day job as a DJ. Are you looking forward to going out on tour for a rest? Not really because these days most of us have kids so we come home when we can. On this tour we’re supporting Shed Seven so we’ll be offstage by nine o’clock so we’ll come home. None of us want to stay out for months on end and get wrecked like we would have done in the old days and I think everybody in the band thinks if they asked us to go on a six month tour of America without our wives and kids, we’d say no, sorry. Te way the band now fits in perfectly with our lives; we’ve all got day jobs still. How have you gone about working out your set for this tour with Shed Seven?You have so many songs you could choose from. It’s going to be the big hits and a few off the new album. We’re picking songs that Shed Seven fans who may not know our stuff might like, a kind of good calling card. Te Sheds are good mates of ours. Teir first tour of the UK was actually supporting us back in the early 90’s and Rick Witter sang Chasing Rainbows at my wedding ceremony!
Lizz Page
INFORMATION Inspiral Carpets play with Shed Seven at the LCR on 15th December. Tickets available from
uea.ticketbookings.co.uk
14 / December 2015/
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