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This Saturday it’s Rootsville – don’t forget that it’s free until 6pm, and that should include; Steve Gibbons, Chrissy Van Dyke, Soweto Kinch and loads of other stuff. It’s still pretty cheap for after that and there’s The Destroyers, Misty’s and the Inspiral Carpets. And I reproduce here a stop press (how quaint) from their myspace page – so I dont’ have to transpose it all out of capitals. STOP PRESS – IN EVENT OF BAD WEATHER-(SURELY NOT AFTER 3 SOLID WEEKS OF BLOODY RAIN!! AND WITH OSIBISA BOKKED TO PERFORM THEIR SMASH HIT SUNSHINE DAY), ANYWAY IN THE EVENT OF RAIN, WE WILL BE PLACING MASSIVE MARQUEES OVER PERFORMANCE AREAS. THEY DON’T GET THAT AT GLASTONBURY. I’m certainly going, if only to see Osibisa ‘bokked’…

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The Inspiral Carpets are heading to Brum as part of the Rootsville Festival – always ones to jump at the chance to hob-nob with royalty from England’s second city, hem hem I spoke to lead singer Tom Hingley… The Inspiral Carpets’ Life LP was one of my first ‘grown up’ record purchases, I’m not counting the hormone-fueled obsession with Wendy James and Transvision Vamp or Ed Stewart’s Pop Party. Drawing me to them rather than the rest of the Madchester scene was, at first, the full Farsifa organ reminding me of The Stranglers (who I had a bizarre pre-teen obsession with), but it was more the ‘proper’ songs, the real-life lyrics that kept me actually listening. It was the songs again that meant I stayed huddled against an ice-cream van in the rain watching the re-formed Inspirals at Glastonbury three years ago, instead of slinking away to a tent, any tent. They stood out at Glastonbury that year as a band that actually had songs and could play them, despite the fashion to denigrate ‘band’ bands in favour of the more trendy ‘world’ stuff – a groove is all well and good, but it’s not going to keep you...

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