MADCHESTER, the Mondays and indie music mayhem are perhaps some of the ways to describe the creativity of the early 90s.

Happy Mondays, the Stone Roses and the Inspiral Carpets all brought psychedelic indie-guitar Madchester-style kicking and screaming into the mainstream.

The scene was exciting and fresh, and a welcome release from the manufactured Rick Astley and Jason Donovan types who had started to dominate the late 80s music charts.

The Stone Roses may have split as soon as they began and the Mondays may be no more, but the good news is that The Inspiral Carpets are reforming for a tour - and who knows what will happen after that.

Who can forget the trade mark psychedelic keyboard of the Inspirals, played by Clint Boon?

Well, since the Inspiral's demise at the beginning of 1995, Clint has been keeping himself busy with his band The Clint Boon Experience, as well as club DJ-ing, radio presenting and owning his own record label.

Although the Inspirals are reforming for a major headline UK tour during March and April, Clint says the band will see how things go.

"I'm looking forward to doing the tour. It's a perfect time to do it all."

"We are getting on really well. No-one wants to be in an environment where people don't get on well.

"If we get on well on this tour, by summer time we might be talking about doing a new tour."

Clint says the band "knocked it on the head," after being together for 10 years.

"We did four albums," he says.

"We felt it was no longer a challenge but we left it open ended. We didn't say we'd be splitting up for ever."

Clint says he formed the Clint Boon Experience to be "more cabaret" and portray "an entertaining show."

"We released two albums and did a lot of gigs," he says.

"I've also done music for a television programme, Engie Benjy, and presented Century FM radio when Terry Christian was away."

Clint, who owns a record label called 1C, says his club DJ-ing keeps him busy, as he performs four or five times a week all over the country.

"I DJ in Manchester, Norwich, Liverpool and abroad," he says.

"I have been DJ-ing for the last few years and have been to Europe, DJ-ing in Barcelona, France, Sweden, Norway and Greece."

Clint, who says some of his current favourite bands are The Doves, The Music and The Coral, says the Inspirals were all Manchester-based and were psychedelic-inspired.

"The story behind the name for the band was that the name was picked from a dictionary.

"The early Inspirals used to rehearse in a studio.

"I had an electric organ which I bought for £100. It had a psychedelic sound like the Velvet Underground."

After that, things took off. The Inspirals achieved huge success, earning 13 Top 40 singles and four Top Five albums between 1990 and 1994.

Aside from Clint, the definitive line-up now is Tom Hingley on vocals, Craig 'Noddy' Gill on drums, Martyn Walsh on bass and Graham Lambert on guitars.

Tom says the band did not promote the Greatest Hits album because they were never around to do it at the time.

"This is the chance to play our songs again, songs that the fans haven't heard for years," he says.

Martyn says the band have "some unfinished business to attend to."

"We were good and we'll prove that nothing's changed," he says.

"I know there'll be a new generation of followers as well as the hardcore fan base that served us well.

"There will be an edge."

Clint says the Inspirals will play 18 or 19 songs from the past.

"Most of all they are blinding pop songs," says Clint.

"A lot of people are saying The Coral sound remind them of the Inspirals."

Catch the Inspirals at Birmingham Academy, Dale End, on Sunday, March 30.

For details, contact the box office on 0870 771 2000.