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Counteract Magazine presents:

Tom Hingley (Inspiral Carpets) + Special Guests

Friday April 6th 2012

Doors 7.00pm / Curfew 11.00pm

Tickets available from http://bit.ly/vgcrFB | 24 hour ticketline 0121 320 2820

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Tom Hingley (born 9 July 1965, Oxford, England) is a musician best known as the lead vocalist of the English rock band Inspiral Carpets.

He moved to Oldham in 1984, studying English at Manchester Polytechnic, and formed a band called Too Much Texas, and got a job collecting glasses at The Haçienda, Manchester. He joined the Inspiral Carpets as lead vocalist in 1989 (future Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher also auditioned, but was not chosen). After six successful years, the Inspiral Carpets split in 1995 and Hingley started performing as a solo artist, releasing Keep Britain Untidy (2000) and Soulfire (2002), released on his own label Newmemorabilia Records. In 2001 Hingley formed the band The Lovers with Steve Hanley and Paul Hanley, both former members of The Fall and Jason Brown and Kelly Wood. The Lovers' first album, Abba Are The Enemy, was released in 2004. In 2002/2003 Hingley joined a reformed Inspiral Carpets for two sell-out UK tours and again in 2006/2007. His second album with the Lovers, Highlights, was released in March 2008. In August 2009 Hingley played the Rebellion Punk Festival in Blackpool. In 2009 Tom released a new solo acoustic record called 'Thames Valley Delta Blues, a kind of follow up to the earlier much acclaimed 'Keep Britain Untidy' the new record was released on Hingley's own Newmemorabilia Records on 1 October 2009. Tom's father, the Russian Academic, Ronald Hingley translator of Chekov for The Oxford University Press died on 23 January 2010 aged 89.

Tom Hingley continues to perform live, and teaches part-time at Salford University, while studying for a PhD in music performance.

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