Kula Shaker

Kula Shaker are an English psychedelic rock band who came to prominence during the Britpop era. They split during 1999 but reformed in 2004 without Jay Darlington. They are now c

Kula Shaker are an English psychedelic rock band who came to prominence during the Britpop era. They split during 1999 but reformed in 2004 without Jay Darlington. They are now currently working on their third album which will be released later in 2007.

The first stirrings of Kula Shaker came about in 1988 when Crispian Mills (grandson of Sir John Mills and the son of '60s actress Hayley Mills and film director Roy Boulting) met Alonza Bevan at Richmond College in Surrey. The two went on to play together in a band named Objects of Desire. The Objects of Desire included Mills on guitar, Bevan on bass, Marcus French on drums and Marcus Maclaine, then Hayley Mills' boyfriend. During that time they also ran a psychedelic nightclub, called the Mantra Shack, in the back of an ice rink.