The Clint Boon Experience, also known as CBX, are an English

England

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 alternative rock

Alternative rock

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 band formed by Clint Boon

Clint Boon

Clint Boon is an English musician and DJ. Boon originally rose to notability as the keyboards player with Inspiral Carpets.-Career:...

 after Inspiral Carpets

Inspiral Carpets

Inspiral Carpets are an alternative rock band from Oldham in Greater Manchester, England formed by Graham Lambert and Stephen Holt in 1983. The band is named after a clothing shop on their Oldham estate...

 disbanded in the mid 1990s. They released two album

Album

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s: The Compact Guide to Pop Music and Space Travel

The Compact Guide to Pop Music and Space Travel

The Compact Guide to Pop Music and Space Travel is the debut album by The Clint Boon Experience, which is the band formed by Inspiral Carpets organist Clint Boon in the late nineties...

and Life in Transition

Life in Transition

Life in Transition is the second album by The Clint Boon Experience, which is the band formed by Clint Boon in the late nineties.-Track listing:#"This Is The Sound"#"Life In Transition"#"Climbing Back Inside The Dream"#"Cool Vacation"...

, under the independent record label

Independent record label

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, Artful Records.

The band

• Clint Boon - keyboards (Farfisa), lead vocals
• Matt Hayden - guitar
• Richard Stubbs - bass guitar
• Tony Thompson - drums and percussion
• Kathryn Stubbs - trumpet

Also guest appearances for:

• Alfie Boe
  Alfie Boe
  Alfred Giovanni Roncalli Boe, known professionally initially as Alf or Alfred Boe and now as Alfie Boe, , is an English tenor.-Background:...
  
   (Opera dude) - extra vocals
• Sara Cluderay (Opera chick) - extra vocals
• Fran Healy
  Francis Healy
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   - guest vocalist on "Do What You Do (The Earworm Song)"

Boe performed vocals on both albums, and a number of the singles. Cluderay toured regularly with the band, and performed extra vocals on the single version of "The Biggest Horizon".

In addition he has members of his family perform on his albums, in particular his former wife Meagan, plus a few spoken words from his daughter.

Studio albums

• 1999 The Compact Guide to Pop Music and Space Travel
  The Compact Guide to Pop Music and Space Travel
  The Compact Guide to Pop Music and Space Travel is the debut album by The Clint Boon Experience, which is the band formed by Inspiral Carpets organist Clint Boon in the late nineties...
  
  
• 2000 Life in Transition
  Life in Transition
  Life in Transition is the second album by The Clint Boon Experience, which is the band formed by Clint Boon in the late nineties.-Track listing:#"This Is The Sound"#"Life In Transition"#"Climbing Back Inside The Dream"#"Cool Vacation"...
  
  

Singles

• 1999 "Only One Way I Can Go"
• 1999 "Comet Theme No.1"
• 1999 "You Can't Keep a Good Man Down"
• 1999 "White No Sugar" UK
  UK Singles Chart
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  #61
• 2000 "Biggest Horizon" UK #70
• 2000 "Do What You Do (Earworm Song)" UK #63