The Interview

Tracklist

Interview With Inspiral Carpets

Q1. So, Who Was To Blame For Starting The Inspiral Carpets, Then? - 0:48

Q2. How Old Were You Then. Craig? - 0:16

Q3. Still In School, Then? - 0:40

Q4. So You Joined Soon After Craig, Then? - 1:10

Q5. 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? - 0:59

Q6. So What Was The Line Up Then? There Was Clint, Craig, Graham... - 0:34

Q7. How Long Was It Until You Settled Down To The Band Line Up That You've Got Now? - 1:09

Q8. So Was There A Point Then, That You Suddenly Realised That You Were Taking Things Quite Seriously? - 0:21

Q9. Where Were You YTS-ing? - 0:22

Q10. What Were The First Gigs Like Then? - 0:28

Q11. 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. - 1:02

Q12. 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?' - 0:30

Q13. What Exactly Were The Details Of That, Or What Roughly? - 1:25

Q14. So When You Started Your Own Label, Things Started To Change Quite Dramatically Then? - 1:18

Q15. 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? - 0:47

Q16. I Remember Seeing You Supporting Jesus Jones At The Cricketeers To, You Know, Headlining The Marquee In A Very Short Space Of Time, Really/ - 0:12

Q17. Yeah, That's What I Mean, Yeah. - 0:16

Q18. 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. - 1:24

Q19. When Did You Start Making The T-shirts, Then? - 1:21

Q20. Is It True That Story About Them Putting It On Milk Bottles? - 1:47

Q21. 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. - 1:02

Q22. Because At The Time You Were Very Level Headed About It. Was It Quite Good Fun In Retrospect? - 1:46

Q23. What Was It Like Being Recognised, Or Being Kind Of Identified In The Street And Stuff Like That. Did That Freak You At First? - 0:21

Q24. Did You Really Hate All The Other Bands, There Was So Much Bitchiness Associated To That Time As Well. - 1:30

Q25. "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? - 0:13

Q26. Well, Just Like The Majorettes. - 1:11

Q27. 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. - 1:50

Q28. 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? - 0:33

Q29. "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? - 0:25

Q30. Not Exposing Yourself To Each Other, Either! - 0:44

Q31. 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? - 0:22

Q32. Who Was Doing Most Of The Song Writing Work, Then, Around That Time? - 0:32

Q33. Why's That? - 0:53

Q34. 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. - 0:21

Q35. Did You Ever Fight Much? - 0:23

Q36. So "Please Be Cruel", Is There Anything Not, Sort Of Special About That Record? - 0:48

Q37. "Dragging Me Down", Was, 'The Inspirals Are Back With A Vengeance'. Or At Least That's What The Impression Was - 0:22

Q38. "Dragging Me Down" - 0:54

Q39. 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. - 1:35

Q40. "Two Worlds Collide" Was Quite You Know, Lyrically Strong As Well. - 0:12

Q41. 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? - 0:36

Q42. Just People Underestimating The Inspirals. - 0:42

Q43. Right. Let's Move On To "Generations" And "Bitches Brew". Are There Anything Outstanding About Those Tracks That You Felt? - 0:54

Q44. 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? - 0:58

Q45. What Had You Done, Then? - 0:55

Q46. So Let's Go Through The Last Four. - 1:08

Q47. What Was The B Side? - 1:11

Q48. "Saturn 5", You Said Earlier, Was One Of The Cherished Moments, I Think, Of Inspirals History. - 1:11

Q49. "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. - 0:49

Q50. 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. - 1:32

Q51. But It Worked. That Was The Thing. - 2:02

Q52. So What About "Uniform", Then? - 0:31

Q53. Is There A Proudest Moment That You Can, Out Of Everything From Playing Reading To G-Mex To God Knows? - 0:40

Q54. Is There A Lowest Point At All? - 1:10

Q55. And Is There Anything That You Would Change Particularly? - 1:29

Q56. And What You've Given Musically, What You've Given To People. - 1:38

Q57. Was It A Difficult Decision, Deciding To Make A Greatest Hits? I Mean Why Do It? - 1:30

Q58. Tom's Really Different To The Rest Of You, Isn't He? - 0:41