Kula Shaker

Is your name an allusion to the Television track of the same name?

I've always found it possible to enjoy the Kula without the slightest hint of irony. Although that Grateful Dead tribute...eh...

What's Crispian up to these days?

There's a reason for that.

He has a new band called The Jeevas; Heard one records by them, which was a total rip off of "Queen Bitch", but can't remember what it was called.

Of course it was, he was just plain naive. Which made it even funnier when Mystical Machine Gun came out on Adolf Hitler's birthday.

But he was an entertaining idiot with some catchy tunes. Their poppy stuff was better than their attempts to rock out. I actually particularly liked a remix version of Govinda.

Taking sides: Julian vs. Crispian. Do we see a pattern here? Damn, if stupid posho boys had been that cute when I was young, I'd have dated more of my brother's boarding school chums! ::shudders::

My mistake.

Sod you all, I like it.

Hideously 'posh' boys wasting Mummy and Daddy's cash on guitars and recording time.

Woeful.

B-b-but Kate, my grandad was a knight too, and I'm not posh at all!

Oh and Kula Shaker? A bogey smeared down the face of Britpop. Bloody terrible, no need for them whatsoever, inspite of Crispian's (alleged) spunkrat credentials. They played my uni ball once and my gf made me watch the whole damn thing. Chucked her, obviously.

kula shaker is one such act (kinda the british wilco AFAIC). why did anyone even give this tiresome, unoriginal crap the time of day?

::sputters::

Charlie, you are possibly more posh than me, you Shoreditch twat! (But only possibly.)

Anyway, Crispian Mills' grandfather wasn't a hereditary knight, so he's barely an aristo. Just some upper-middle-class twat.

A lot of their b-sides were better than their album tracks were, oddly enough.

-- Geir Hongro (geirhon...), January 10th, 2006.

not so much.

-- Dr.C (petethane...), January 10th, 2006.

They never really worked 'cleaned up', did they? There were some great songs like Mourn My Health and Wish the Rain, and nothing was really wrong with the production, so I've never figured it out. Perhaps I always saw them as a live band, and they were fantastic live. My favourite off the Last Fourfathers is Thinking of You (Broken Pieces).

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OK, what the fuck?

The 21st of December?! That's Stalin's birthday!

YES! Thinking of You is utterly, utterly fantastic. Their best song, I reckon. ('We had it all/but we lost it baaaby...) Also those powerchords and drum rolls in the middle - beautiful stuff.
I have just stuck IFTC on the i-pod and I'm listening right now - you know it's a fucking good record. Doesn't sound TOO clean really, only in comparison to their other stuff. I like the fact that they've got some other sounds in there too as a deviation from their normal sound. There's a bit of space in the production, which is odd for them. Ha we're onto 'Be On Your Way' (track 9) - a TOTAL rip-off of The Pretty Things 'Midnight To Six Man'!! Cheeky sods! Still no-one was listening to the Pretty Things in the 80's, so who knew?

A related band who were kind of spoiled by a too-lush production were Makin' Time (led by Fay Hallam aka Mrs.Graham Day). Do you know them? They were fantastic live, but the records are a bit forced and very 80's - slammin' drums etc. I can't remember whether their album 'Rhythm and Soul' was on Stiff or Countdown, but a bit too much money was spent on it I reckon. Good band though - Fay's voice and organ playing was ace.

As for Kula Shaker, I'm just surprised they're not retitling this reunion album Triumph of the Bills.

by co-incidence a friend played me that Pretty Things track at the weekend, and it is totally like the prisoners song, as you note.

You guys should listen to Wolfmother, now there is a quality band.

At last Kula Shaker are taking to the road - today we can announce a short set of low-key, warm-up gigs as the band limber up for the decathalon to come. The dates are:

Friday April 7 - ABC, Glasgow
Monday April 10 - Academy 3, Manchester
Wednesday April 12 - London Kings College, London
Tickets for all dates are available as of tomorrow (Thursday March 9). Tickets for the Manchester and Glasgow shows will be priced at £12, tickets for the London date will set you back £15.
Tickets will be available online from seetickets.com.

bu srsly, no, the haters were right.

So I ended up with a promo copy of the reunion album and I'm listening to it...snore. But one bit of hilarity:

So there's that song on the Prodigy's Fat of the Land, "Narayan," that Mr. Mills sang and was easily the best thing he's ever done because he didn't have his band dragging him down (though he can't really improve himself). I guess he figured he needed to do it 'right' because it's on here as "Song of Love/Narayana" with an organ/horn/etc. full band arrangement. Aside from the "YEAH OUR BIG ROCK ENDING!" ending bit, it's just as eh as everything else they ever did. Good job!

I will not be buying this. Lesson learned.

Ned, I have this album and you are so OTM!

That album is actually pretty good. Provided you liked "K", and I did.

I'm wondering is "Tattva" the song that sounds like he's singing "Ginger Baker Trout Farm"?

Even if ILX had given me nothing else, these years here would be worth it solely for "Ginger Baker Baker Trout Farm." It's like Ginger Baker's Air Force, but better.

Oh no:

Slate: In the book, you write about your dramatic training as a teen, and about how you were dying to play Hamlet. Would you still want to pursue something more serious, like a Shakespeare adaptation?
Pegg: I don't distinguish particularly between comedic and straight acting at this point. With Paul I think we were being slightly more clowny. But certainly in Shaun of the Dead, we tried to play it as straight as possible to the point where it becomes tragedy. It was more about trying to make it realistic. The next film I'm doing is kind of a semicomedy, but it's much more of an acting job than just telling gags. It's called A Fantastic Fear of Everything. It's about a writer who is paranoid, basically he's going insane. He's writing plays about murderers but he's becoming obsessed with murder and murdering. And he gets a meeting with an agent, but in order to go, he has to visit the Laundromat because his clothes are dirty and he's frightened of Laundromats. So it's this really odd but brilliant script. It's directed by Crispian Mills who is the grandson of John Mills and the son of Hayley Mills, so he's from a great acting dynasty. It's just a little low-budget British film but I'm very excited about it.*

I don't know, I feel like Pegg has pretty decent taste in the projects he takes on (for the most part), so I'm going to hold off until I start to see trailers. Then it can be open season.

It's Crispian Mills. I fully expect this to suck.

Acintya Bheda Bheda Tattva......

You can take it off now, it's been 8 years (apparently)

And here was me thinking that ILM's retro-90s obsession had gone too far and someone was going to do a Kula Shaker poll?

Would totally watch a Crispy-ian film. That boy is batshit, would be likely to be highly amusing.

I was shifting some boxes of singles in the loft the other day, and came across a gnarled-up copy of Melody maker with the offending interview. The 'flaming swaz' wasn't the all of it, there was loads of "women shouldn't work they should look after the family" bol, all seemingly taken from some ancient screed, and the interviewer was rightly taking them to the rack about it.

I'm paraphrasing, I know, still...

Damn, this remains one of the funniest little threads on ILM.

Um, yeah. But the thing is, that whole schtick was totally the ultimate logical conclusion of post-Oasis Britpop as retro revivalism. The "Let's go back to the 60s! The 1860s!!!!!" because the 60s they were reviving was the parlour psych end of psychedelia which was *already* nostalgic (though with somewhat less rose coloured glasses) for the supposed "good old days" of the British Empire when women and brown people knew their place, etc. It's sick and wrong, but still oddly fascinating, for them seeming to have the naivete (I do think it's that, rather than guts, sheltered public school boys who have never been in an environment where those attitudes are challenged) to actually state out loud that negativity inherent in late Britpop.

I still kind of continue to find him fascinating long after I've lost interest in his music. But I would.

Oh, I'm sure even those who viewed them negatively has them down as naïve.

It's funny in a way, I remember reading someone who knew Crisps when he was a kid, being a noisy brat with his model of Darth Vader.

Yes, we were all kids once, but that 'moved from that into an 'appreciation' of eastern culture' made me laff a bit.

of course, he's older now and no doubt not as naïve either.

Did you ever see that Brian jones film by the way?

Nah, I've still not seen it. Should really remedy that but everytime I look at it, my heart just sinks, like, I know it's gonna irritate me now (mainly due to Jones being such a prat) that I could have ignored or been fascinated by when I was 25.

Thing is, Crispy-ian's naivete seemed more born of privilege rather than youth, and I don't know that that's the kind of naivete that someone ever really grows out of.

My highlight is during once scene where he's on the phone in his mansion, things scattered around the place, and right there beside him is a totally cool stereo portable record player with fold-down turntable, which is the EXACT SAME MODEL AS MINE!!! (except mine actually works, and I reckon that one is just there to look cool)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y161/MarkGrout/rplayer.jpg

This one.

(blimey, don't the kids look little there!)

hey dude just popped up on the phone. that's alright is that.

I can never find that photo of my wooden stereo boom box, always end up coming here..

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2149370/Beast-Hackney-Marshes-revealed-huge-Newfoundland-dog-owned-drummer-90s-band-Kula-Shaker.html

Great URL. "Welcome to my...collection, Mister Winter-Hart. Arf! Arf!"

So this cock has a vanity movie with all the usual suspects involved, god help us all

his wikipedia page is always, always worth a read

the british greta van fleet

the stone roses' second coming is the british greta van fleet

Screenplay by Crispian Mills and Henry Fitzherbert.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K1Tb5mlERw

tt: "still working through his public school trauma"

"also it looks better than most simon pegg films"

kind of agree? lol it IS a low bar though

I only saw a TV trailer, and I wasn't paying much attention, but it ticked an impressive number of my gtfo boxes

If the trailer contains the funniest lines then I think the investors are in trouble.

Good call on the Stone Roses btw