Sounds From The Junkshop #42 - The Clint Boon Experience
"Election beats electrocution/This is the new revolution!" - The Clint Boon Experience - White No Sugar Unquestionably one of the most entertaining live bands in the post-Britpop era, I must've seen the Clint Boon Experience live countless times around 1997-2000 or so. I know I say this about a lot of bands who crop up in Sounds From The Junkshop but they really should have been megastars. Clint had, of course, made his name as keyboard player with Madchester (well, Oldham) perennials the Inspiral Carpets. Hand on heart, the Carpets were one of those bands I kind of liked but wasn't a mega-fan of at the time although I've come to appreciate them more since. At the beginning, they seemed well poised to become the scene's figureheads but first saw the Stone Roses then the Happy Mondays then the Charlatans all go storming past them leaving them as a sort of competent mid-table act. They had a clutch of good singles ( She Comes In The Fall , Biggest Mountain ...