The wife of Inspiral Carpets drummer Craig Gill has told his inquest he suffered from "unbearable" tinnitus in the weeks before he took his own life. Rosie Marie Gill found the year-old hanging at their home in Greenfield, Oldham, in November as she came back from a trip with their children.
She told the inquest in Heywood he had no history of depression, but his hearing had been deteriorating.
She said she was sorry she could not give his family an explanation about what had happened, but that while it was clear he had taken his own life, she could not be certain he had intended to kill himself.
She added Gill had been "one of the most influential and inspirational musicians of his generation" and "thought so highly of by everybody". Gill left was the "beating heart of the Inspirals in more ways than one", keyboardist Clint Boon said. No details of his death have been released. Image source, Twitter. Who was Craig Gill? Fellow Mancunian musicians also tweeted their shock.
The Madchester scene. Madchester was born out of Manchester's clubs and venues - such as The Hacienda, The Boardwalk and The International - in the late s It was a movement that mixed rock with dance music A number of the scene's bands achieved global success, including Happy Mondays, Stone Roses, Inspiral Carpets, James, The Charlatans and State Releases were predominantly on independent labels such as Factory Records and Mute The scene was a heady mix of bright psychedelic colours, music and fashion, with people wearing flared jeans, tie-dyed T-shirts and beanie hats Madchester peaked between the summer of - known colloquially as the "Second Summer of Love" - and Who were the Inspiral Carpets?
Image source, Getty Images. Related Topics. Published 12 August Inspiral Carpets. It also enabled them to tinker with their sound once the Madchester fad had passed, and the group continued to score hits right up to their mid-'90s breakup.
Inspiral Carpets were formed in the Greater Manchester town of Oldham by guitarist Graham Lambert -- who'd been playing around the area since -- and vocalist Stephen Holt , who soon both recruited drummer, Craig Gill.
The group began to settle on a permanent lineup in when Farfisa organist Clint Boon joined up, before bassist Dave Swift came into the fold the following year. Their first national release came in with the Plane Crash EP on Playtime Records, but when that label's distributor went out of business later that year, the band set up their own imprint, Cow Records, which was financed mostly by T-shirt sales.
The first release on Cow was the EP Trainsurfing , which got the band even more national attention. At this point, Holt and Swift -- not keen on professional careers involving lots of time and travel -- decided to leave, and were replaced by vocalist Tom Hingley ex- Too Much Texas and bassist Martyn Walsh.
With their arrival, the band's Madchester-compatible style began to crystallize, as evidenced on the new lineup's first release, the swirling, organ-driven psychedelic tune "Joe" May The single caused a stir in the indie underground that only intensified with the follow-ups "Find Out Why" and "Move," and after being courted by several major labels, the band wound up signing with the large London-based indie Mute.
Inspiral Carpets ' debut album, Life , was released in the spring of After releasing the Island Head EP late in the year, the band completed its next full-length, the darker The Beast Inside , which appeared in the spring of For the supporting tour, the band hired future Oasis mastermind Noel Gallagher as a roadie. Inspiral Carpets scored their biggest chart hit in the spring of with "Dragging Me Down," which appeared on their third album, Revenge of the Goldfish , released later that fall.
Although it produced three more Top 40 singles and got the band a bigger overseas audience, the album was issued when the Manchester scene's moment was perceived to have passed.
Smith , who did not appear on the album version returning them to the Top
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