Clint Boon, keyboard player and vocalist of the legendary Inspiral Carpets, takes audiences on a captivating journey through Manchester's musical golden age. The Manchester Chronicles is a highly personal storytelling experience spanning from the punk era of the mid-1970s through indie, psychedelic, acid house, and Britpop scenes of the 1980s and 1990s.
Drawing from his front-row seat in the city's extraordinary musical renaissance, Boon weaves together entertaining anecdotes from encounters with iconic bands—Joy Division, New Order, The Smiths, The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, Oasis and many others. A born raconteur, he captures both the chaos and magic of the era: from near-fatal tour bus crashes to the bittersweet experience of watching former bandmates achieve superstardom.
This is not a dry history but an intimate account of what it felt like to live through one of music's most transformative periods, told by someone who helped shape it.
