INSPIRAL CARPETS – The Complete Singles, out 17 March on Mute / BMG – UK tour starts spring 2023

Martin Bone - Editor-In Chief 25 January 2023

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INSPIRAL CARPETS – THE COMPLETE SINGLES

OUT 17 MARCH 2023 ON MUTE / BMG

UK TOUR STARTS SPRING 2023

INSPIRAL CARPETS have announced The Complete Singles, a brand new album compiling all of the Manchester band’s 24 singles to date. The album will be available on double vinyl, and as a 3CD set with an exclusive remix bonus disc via Mute / BMG on 17 March 2023.

The Complete Singles coincides with the start of a major UK tour. Kicking off in Northampton in March, the tour includes festivals and performances at Manchester’s Albert Hall and London’s Shepherds Bush Empire – full details below.

The Complete Singles sees all of the band’s singles remastered and available on one album for the first time. From 1988’s ‘Keep The Circle Around’ to their latest single, 2015’s ‘Let You Down’ featuring the unmistakable tones of John Cooper Clarke, the album will be available on double heavyweight ‘midnight licorice’ black vinyl and as a 3CD set with an exclusive remix bonus disc that collates classic, rare and unreleased remixes from across their career alongside two new unreleased mixes, from The Go! Team and Martyn Walsh & Simon Lyon.

Inspiral Carpets introduced the mainstream to Madchester with some of the greatest pop anthems of the time and their unparalleled run of joyous singles saw them take their place in a Holy Triumvirate of Manchester bands (alongside the Stone Roses and Happy Mondays). This incredible run of singles spans decades and takes in ‘Joe’ ‘This Is How It Feels’, ‘Two World’s Collide’, ‘Move’, Saturn 5’, ‘I Want You’ (featuring Mark E Smith) and more recent singles ‘Spitfire’ and ‘Let You Down’.

THE COMPLETE SINGLES – VINYL TRACKLISTINGKeep The Circle Around
Butterfly
Joe
Find Out Why
Move
This Is How It Feels
She Comes In The Fall
Biggest Mountain
Weakness
Caravan
Please Be Cruel
Dragging Me Down
Two Worlds Collide
Generations
Bitches Brew
How It Should Be
Saturn 5
I Want You ft Mark E Smith
Uniform
Come Back Tomorrow
You’re So Good For Me
Fix Your Smile
Spitfire
Let You Down – Edit – ft John Cooper Clarke

THE COMPLETE SINGLES – CD TRACKLISTING

CD1

Keep The Circle Around
Butterfly
Joe
Find Out Why
Move
This Is How It Feels
She Comes In The Fall
Biggest Mountain
Weakness
Caravan
Please Be Cruel
Dragging Me Down

CD2
Two Worlds Collide
Generations
Bitches Brew
How It Should Be
Saturn 5
I Want You ft Mark E Smith
Uniform
Come Back Tomorrow
You’re So Good For Me
Fix Your Smile
Spitfire
Let You Down – Edit – ft John Cooper Clarke

CD3
Dragging Me Down – Jon Dasilva Remix
This Is How It Feels – The Go! Team Remix*
Caravan – No Windscreen Mix (Justin Robertson)
Generations – Denmark 2 Germany 0 mix (Fortran 5)
Commercial Reign – Rub-A-Dub Mix (Forgemasters)
You’re So Good For Me – Like A Tonic Remix (Mark Reeder & Micha Adam)
Dubville – (Chris Nagle)
Two Worlds Collide – The Twelve Inch Mix (Mike Pickering & Paul Heard / M People)
Saturn 5 – High Energy Mix (Paul Van Dyk)
This Is How It Feels – Robbery Mix (PK & Dashboard)
Skidoo – Possession Mix (Justin Robertson)
Bitches Brew – Horse (Fortran 5)
Changes – Martyn Walsh & Simon Lyon Remix*
Uniform – Scripka Mix (featuring The Balanescu Quartet)

* new unreleased remix