In August 2026 The classic line up from the first two albums featuring Neil Thompson on guitar, George Maddison on Bass and Tim Wilder on Drums are getting together to play the Rebellion festival in Blackpool.
In mid 2011, The Carpettes toured the US for the first time supported by Houston-based band The Shadow, led by Henrik Poulsen. They covered 4000 miles and did 12 shows in Houston, Austin, San Antonio, El Paso, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego and Phoenix.
In 2009, Maddison and Devlin collaborated to record three new Carpettes songs, “When I`m Gone”, “The Only Way to Be” and a cover of the Tom Waits song “Hold On” which were made available online.
The band reunited in 1996 to perform at the first Holidays in the Sun festival, with Thompson and Maddison joined by Thompson’s brother Paul. This led to a permanent reunion and the release of a new album in 2002, Fair Play to ‘Em . In 2005 Neil Thompson left the…
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The band was formed in 1977 by Neil Thompson (vocals, guitar), George Maddison (bass), and Kevin Heard (drums) (all three had played together since 1974 in Brown Sugar), The band’s first release, the Radio Wunderbar EP , released on the Walthamstow -based indie label Small Wonder . The band named…
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