Tom Hingley is a musician from Abingdon-on-Thames, United Kingdom, born in 1965. He is best known as the lead vocalist of Inspiral Carpets.

Career

Hingley moves to Oldham in 1984, where he forms a band called Too Much Texas and works as a glass collector at The Hacienda in Manchester. He joins Inspiral Carpets as lead singer in 1989. The band splits in 1995, though it continues to tour sporadically with greatest-hits sets.

Solo work and other projects

In 2000, Hingley releases Keep Britain Untidy, an acoustic album. Two years later he issues Soulfire, a more band-focused release made up of polished demos and unreleased tracks from 1996 to 2002.

In 2001, he forms The Lovers with Steve Hanley and Paul Hanley, both formerly of The Fall, along with Jason Brown and Kelly Wood. The group releases its first album, Abba Are The Enemy, in 2004 under the name Tom Hingley & The Lovers.