WATCH: This Is How It Feels in Glasgow as the axed lead singer of the Inspiral Carpets

Tom Hingley, between 1989 and 2011 was part of the “glory years” of a band who became an integral part of the 'baggy' culture, with cow-emblazoned T-shirts, a mooing audience, a headlining apperance at the 1990 Reading Festival and a series of singalong hits including This is How It Feels and Saturn Five.

In Glasgow, Hingley is showing off his latest project, a tribute band to the band he fronted, called The Kar-Pets, whose sole aim is to revisit the Inspirals back-catalogue but with himself centre stage.

Tom Hingley and the Kar-Pets perform the Inspirals classic This Is How It Feels at the Hug n Pint in Glasgow

The promos for their Hug n Pint show even pastiche famous promotional pictures of the band during their heyday.

It comes five years afer the Inspiral Carpets reformed in 2011 without their most famous singer, with the band's unhappy marriage exposed in interviews and books.

Raw from the split, Hingley's autobiography Carpet Burns, is a warts and all tale of the highs and lows with the band covering when he was recruited in 1989, the band's 1995 split, reunion in 2003 and his work as both a solo artist and with The Lovers.

It reveals how he was left in tears after being sacked and being told that they would be doing a tour with pre-fame singer Stephen Holt.

Four years later Hingley, at least publicly, is philisophical about the split, even if privately it still hurts.

"All is fair in love and music and you just have to get on with it and not complain about it too much," he said.

"What we are doing is just an affectionate nod to the past. It's not a Peter Gabriel album trying to save the world.

"I don't want to be attacking or slagging anyone. I'm proud of what we did with the Inspiral Carpets.

"I am having a bit of fun. I don't think I am having fun at anyone's particular expense. I'm doing this now...I might not be doing it forever.

"I think they [the Inspiral Carpets] are playing next year, so we won't be doing this when they are playing. It's someone's living, isn't it. It's probably not very good taste. They are so much bigger. It's a bit like an elephant and a firefly, us being the firefly."

On stage in what he calls a 'postage stamp' venue, he and his wig-wearing recruited band members, power through a heady set of the Inspirals greatest hits with Hingley throwing every shape imaginable, including using a wine bottle and a beer can as a drum.  There is an even an invitation for the ladies in the front to pat band members' bottoms.

While he could not legally stop the Inspirals' split, this looks like his way of showing his former band, what they are missing.

"It's just me fronting a band playing the most famous songs I ever sang. I think it's okay to call ourselves a tribute band, because it's like a post-modernist statement, I think, in a way.

"I don't think it's underselling it, really. I don't worry about the selling of it, I just do it.

"I don't know [what his former band mates think] because I don't speak to any of them. I am not really on speaking terms. I did see Clint [Boon, the Inspirals keyboard player] last year which was really nice."

Talking of the pastiche promotional material, he says: "It's affectionate, I think the thing with our band, is it's not supposed to be the most serious thing that has ever happened in the world. If you remember the 60s TV show Batman, it was very camp and not the most serious thing. So I think there are elements of camp humour in it.

"But in the Inspirals, we had our moments of being fairly amusing. So I think it is fitting to be in my own tribute band.

"If we are living in a world that can elect Donald Trump, whether you wear a wig, or not, is beyond judgement. We're in 2016 and the world has just gone bonkers, hasn't it."

Back up front as the singer in his tribute band, Hingley is joined by Philip McKinytre on guitar, Ste Pearce on bass, Malcolm Law on drums, and Dickon Kyme-Wright in place of Clint Boon on Farfisa organ.

Any tour is a long way from the globetrotting during the golden age of the Inspirals. The venues are small and there will be future returns to Scotland at Cumbernauld and Kilmarnock.

But the songs remain huge and those crushed into the Hug n Pint after the Welsh victory in Euro 2016, are treated to triumphant and faithful renditions.

"We were a very big band, and culturally a very big band and are held with a lot of affection among some people," he said.

"We were successful for a couple of years but then left a big wake behind us of people who had great affection and love for those times and us as people and the stuff we did, which is unaffected by whether we currently talk to one another or get on or not. That's in some museum of the soul where people still love what we did and that's got to be respected."

Mending fences with the other Inspirals, for an 'original' line up reunion may not be immediately on the cards.

"The Inspirals are having their reunion without me so I am having my reunion without them," he said.

"The fans don't give a t*ss about any of this, they just like the band. They aren't interested in schisms. It's that place they escaped to and become 18 again, or whatever.

"Any disagreements we had, wasn't about my ego. I always thought Clint was a star, and always will do.

"Right now there's the best of both worlds. You have one band with me singing, and the other with Clint and the other lot. We're working. There's a bit of love for all of us.

"There's two lights now, maybe one's brighter but that's okay. Good times.

"And look at it this way, the world gone f*cking crazy, hasn't it, so our problems are a flea's a*se compared to the stupidity of countries and their decisions. "The Inspirals stuck together for 22 years. The thing that's surprising isn't that we fell out, the surprising thing is that it took so long."