If you’ve had a night out in a Manchester indie club in the last few decades, chances are you’ve danced along to an Inspiral Carpets track.
‘This Is How It Feels’, released in 1990, is the jewel in the Manchester band’s crown and the ultimate club night closer. Those first few seconds are the starting pistol for groups of revellers to throw their arms around each other ready for that anthemic chorus.
Tonight was no different, as a sold-out Albert Hall sang back the words ‘This is how it feels to be lonely, this is how it feels to be small’, as if their lives depended on it.
