Inspiral Carpets - The Interview

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No	Title	Artist	Duration
1	Interview With Inspiral Carpets	Inspiral Carpets
2	So, Who Was To Blame For Starting The Inspiral Carpets, Then?	Inspiral Carpets	0:48
3	How Old Were You Then. Craig?	Inspiral Carpets	0:16
4	Still In School, Then?	Inspiral Carpets	0:40
5	So You Joined Soon After Craig, Then?	Inspiral Carpets	1:10
6	What Was The Main Reason For Starting? Had You Just Seen Other Bands Around Manchester Or Had You Always Wanted To Be In A Band? Had You Been In Other Bands Before?	Inspiral Carpets	0:59
7	So What Was The Line Up Then? There Was Clint, Craig, Graham...	Inspiral Carpets	0:34
8	How Long Was It Until You Settled Down To The Band Line Up That You've Got Now?	Inspiral Carpets	1:09
9	So Was There A Point Then, That You Suddenly Realised That You Were Taking Things Quite Seriously?	Inspiral Carpets	0:21
10	Where Were You YTS-ing?	Inspiral Carpets	0:22
11	What Were The First Gigs Like Then?	Inspiral Carpets	0:28
12	But It Must Have Been Quite A Nightmare. Certainly You Must Have Thought, 'Is This Worth The Aggro?' When You're Living Out Of The Back Of A Transit Van.	Inspiral Carpets	1:02
13	Your Early Days Weren't Without Problems As Well, Were They, Coz You Had Sort Of Difficulty With Labels And Stuff Like That. Was There Any Point When You Thought, 'Have We Made The Wrong Decision Here?'	Inspiral Carpets	0:30
14	What Exactly Were The Details Of That, Or What Roughly?	Inspiral Carpets	1:25
15	So When You Started Your Own Label, Things Started To Change Quite Dramatically Then?	Inspiral Carpets	1:18
16	And It Really Took Off As Well, Didn't It, After That. What Sort Of Venues Had You Then Started Playing And What Was The Reaction From Outside?	Inspiral Carpets	0:47
17	I Remember Seeing You Supporting Jesus Jones At The Cricketeers To, You Know, Headlining The Marquee In A Very Short Space Of Time, Really/	Inspiral Carpets	0:12
18	Yeah, That's What I Mean, Yeah.	Inspiral Carpets	0:16
19	Moving On To "Find Out Why". I Remember That Was The First Time I Ever Saw You On The Chart Show And You'd Had A Video Done And It Showed Sings That There Was Genuine, You Weren't Just Going To Be A Popular Indie Band, That There Was A Lot More To You Than That.	Inspiral Carpets	1:24
20	When Did You Start Making The T-shirts, Then?	Inspiral Carpets	1:21
21	Is It True That Story About Them Putting It On Milk Bottles?	Inspiral Carpets	1:47
22	There Was A Lot Going On As Well Around You At The Time. How Did You Feel About The Fact That You, Unwillingly Or Not, Were Part Of A Group Movement Or Were Being Written About Like That Anyway.	Inspiral Carpets	1:02
23	Because At The Time You Were Very Level Headed About It. Was It Quite Good Fun In Retrospect?	Inspiral Carpets	1:46
24	What Was It Like Being Recognised, Or Being Kinf Of Identified In The Street And Stuff Like That. Did That Freak You At First?	Inspiral Carpets	0:21
25	Did You Really Hate All The Other Bands, There Was So Much Bitchiness Associated To That Time As Well.	Inspiral Carpets	1:30
26	"She Comes In The Fall" Might Be Seen As Like The Pinnacle Of All That, In A Way, The... Or Certainly The End Of That Era. You Created Sort Of Minor History In A Way With That Record, Didn't You?	Inspiral Carpets	0:13
27	Well, Just Like The Majorettes.	Inspiral Carpets	1:11
28	That Was A Bit Of A Step To Actually, Spend. You Know, You Play Festivals To Get Money, So Then, You Know, You Don't Play Festivals So You Spend, So You Can Spend Loads Of Money To Make A Great Show. That's Not The Way It Is, But You Did It Differently.	Inspiral Carpets	1:50
29	What Was The Next Step? When You Did "Biggest Mountain" And "Weakness", They're The Only, Well, Two Of A Few Tracks That Haven't Appeared On Album Before. What Was The Idea Behind That?	Inspiral Carpets	0:33
30	"Beast Inside", If You Look Back At The Cuttings And Stuff, They All Say, "The Dark Side Of The Inspirals" And That You'd Gone All Mournful And It Was The Post-Manchester Come Down And All That. Was There Any Truth In All Of That?	Inspiral Carpets	0:25
31	Not Exposing Yourself To Each Other, Either!	Inspiral Carpets	0:44
32	Was It The First Chance You'd Actually Had Of Making An Album As Such, Coz "Life" Was More A Collection Of Singles As Much As Anything Else, Wasn't It?	Inspiral Carpets	0:22
33	Who Was Doing Most Of The Song Writing Work, Then, Around That Time?	Inspiral Carpets	0:32
34	Why's That?	Inspiral Carpets	0:53
35	You Seem To Be Able To Take The Mick Out Of Each Other And Get On Together And Not Really Have What A Lot Of Other Bands Have, Which Is What They Put Down To Creative Friction In Inverted Commas, Which Usually Means That They Hate Each Other But Somehow It Works.	Inspiral Carpets	0:21
36	Did You Ever Fight Much?	Inspiral Carpets	0:23
37	So "Please Be Cruel", Is There Anything Not, Sort Of Special About That Record?	Inspiral Carpets	0:48
38	"Dragging Me Down", Was, 'The Inspirals Are Back With A Vengeance'. Or At Least That's What The Impression Was	Inspiral Carpets	0:22
39	"Dragging Me Down"	Inspiral Carpets	0:54
40	Is There A Point Where Bands Have To Be Told, "Stop Messing About" Because You're A Band That Spent Most Of Your Time Making Your Own Decisions. You've Never Relied On Other People.	Inspiral Carpets	1:35
41	"Two Worlds Collide" Was Quite You Know, Lyrically Strong As Well.	Inspiral Carpets	0:12
42	Yeah, It Was A Real Big Record. Do You Think People Always Kind Of Underestimate The Inspirals To A Degree That... Should've Been Mancunians With Nice Little Pop Tunes?	Inspiral Carpets	0:36
43	Just People Underestimating The Inspirals.	Inspiral Carpets	0:42
44	Right. Let's Move On To "Generations" And "Bitches Brew". Are There Anything Outstanding About Those Tracks That You Felt?	Inspiral Carpets	0:54
45	At This Point You Were Sort Of Travelling The World As It Were And You Know, You Were Less Kind Of In The Public Eye In Britain, Perhaps. What Were You Doing At That Time?	Inspiral Carpets	0:58
46	What Had You Done, Then?	Inspiral Carpets	0:55
47	So Let's Go Through The Last Four.	Inspiral Carpets	1:08
48	What Was The B Side?	Inspiral Carpets	1:11
49	"Saturn 5", You Said Earlier, Was One Of The Cherished Moments, I Think, Of Inspirals History.	Inspiral Carpets	1:11
50	"I Want You" Was A Real Shock To The System. Everybody Was Very Much Taken Aback By It And It Worked Quite Well In Your Favour Really.	Inspiral Carpets	0:49
51	Much Has Been Made About That, You Know, Mark Smith Was A Great Sort Of... Not Necessarily A Hero, But Somebody That You... That You'd Admired.	Inspiral Carpets	1:32
52	But It Worked. That Was The Thing.	Inspiral Carpets	2:02
53	So What About "Uniform", Then?	Inspiral Carpets	0:31
54	Is There A Proudest Moment That You Can, Out Of Everything From Playing Reading To G-Mex To God Knows?	Inspiral Carpets	0:40
55	Is There A Lowest Point At All?	Inspiral Carpets	1:10
56	And Is There Anything That You Would Change Particularly?	Inspiral Carpets	1:29
57	And What You've Given Musically, What You've Given To People.	Inspiral Carpets	1:38
58	Was It A Difficult Decision, Deciding To Make A Greatest Hits? I Mean Why Do It?	Inspiral Carpets	1:30
59	Tom's Really Different To The Rest Of You, Isn't He?	Inspiral Carpets	0:41

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