Run For Cover - Kula Shaker Return!
Then buzz it up
January 13th, 2006 at 11:30 by 586 MEDIA
Kula Shaker - everyone’s favourite Nazi-loving, guitar-playing, hippy-looking, famous actor’s, um, grandson-ing, britpop rockers are back for more Nazi-loving, hippy… look, you get the idea.
Presumably Kula Shaker lead muppet Crispin Mills woke up one day, rifled through his NME and decided that there just aren’t enough guitar bands around these days - not like it was in the 90s. In an attempt to remedy the situation, it looks like Crispy may have rang round his old band (but that’s a whole other story, imagine a more overprivileged, foppish version of The Blues Brothers), explained his predicament, and set up a secret gig just before Christmas.
But, music-lovers, the secret gig was all just a pre-cursor to the official
triumphant return of Kula Shaker (CDs), due to be announced any second now, as hinted by this tantalising, if disappointingly un-pretend Hindi, statement:
"It’s official. Kula Shaker has arisen from the bottomless pit. How and why will all be revealed in good time."
And we here at
hecklerspray suggest that you, like us, get your Kula Shaker tickets early, as no
doubt they will literally sell out in months. Months.
But, now that Take That, East 17, All Saints, Boyzone - and now Kula Shaker - are lining up reunions, we ask: where will this 1990s madness end? Now that Kula Shaker are back, all kinds of mid-90s guitar bands everywhere are going to see this as their cue to reform. Imagine the scenes of devastation! We already have - and here’s
a brief rundown of some of the terrifying visions of what life would be like if the mid-90s returned. Like a butterfly-effect type thing. But with indie bands.
- Chris Evans, shaking off the shackles and memory of Ms. Piper, will
make a triumphant return to our screens, hosting the Brit Awards. (Hang
on…)
- Shaun Ryder of The Happy Mondays will make a comeback, releasing a chart-topping single with Blur. (Wait a second….)
- Every second song released will be from a guitar band from some
regional part of England, all sounding exactly the same and singing
about exactly the same things. (This seems awfully familiar….)
- Oasis will release another crap record…
But… the… NOOOOO!! It’s happening now! We are in the midst of the Kula Shaker legacy! The 90s will never end!
Read more:
Kula Shaker-maker return - Drowned In Sound
[story by Darren Hurley]
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January 14th, 2006 at 12:10 pm
what’s this nazi BS al about??!!??
They just make good music!!!
Fuck that nazi BS you WANKERS!!!!!!
bring on the tunes BUGGER!
January 18th, 2006 at 10:11 pm
I for one am really looking forward to their return.
I’m sure it’s all very clever to indie bash these days, but if they were so awful and so unpopular, how did they become so famous and well liked?
Dont answer that, no doubt it’ll have some juvenile claim about crispian in it.
Oh yeah, and I find the fact that you throw around the word “Nazi” so lightly highly offensive.
January 19th, 2006 at 2:43 pm
Darren, you should apply for a job at NME, you’d fit right in. If you have a spare few minutes i’d love for you to let us know which wonderful music/bands you like and are listening to, cause obviously Kula Shaker, Oasis, Blur and Happy Mondays just don’t do it for you…hang on a moment, I recognise your name…Darren Hurley…I saw it come up on a music video request for Crazy Frog last week
January 19th, 2006 at 2:59 pm
I remember Kula Shaker. Their music was shit and they were all cunts. Now, let be an end to it, you Ben Sherman-wearing dipshits.
January 19th, 2006 at 3:43 pm
yay at last some real great music They were brilliant live cant wait to hear some new stuff.
January 19th, 2006 at 4:06 pm
Didn’t they want to perform with swastikas on stage and Crispy said ‘cant a guy just play surrounded by swastikas like?’
January 20th, 2006 at 3:12 pm
Before the Nazis hijacked the Swastika for their own use (and reversed the shape), it was an Indian symbol for good luck. So in essence he likes a backward swastika, and you lazy fuckers are too stupid to know the difference. Perhaps he could have been a bit more media-savvy, but to ruin a guy’s cred calling him a Nazi lover is so so lame.
January 20th, 2006 at 4:32 pm
Hey Tom, he wanted the swastikas BURNING, you do know that?
A burning swastika? What on earth was he thinking??? It showed how out of touch he was with reality and history.
And he said Hitler got support from all his supporters because of the symbol.
He ruined his own cred by his retort in which he couldn’t explain himself properly.
“Good luck”?
A simple four-leaf clover would have been a better solution really instead of a burning swastika
January 21st, 2006 at 11:03 am
Superb! The Shaker are back at last. What is all this nonsense about Crispian being a Nazi? Are you really that stupid? Did the Indian music or references have any bearing on your conclusions? They were THE band of the nineties, and shall be again. They are not Nazis you TWAT!
January 22nd, 2006 at 11:08 pm
kula shaker owns you so STFU and stop talkint trash
January 23rd, 2006 at 4:28 pm
working for the PR team eh? good job, subtle.
January 24th, 2006 at 5:21 pm
Only people who are Rock-shasas dislike Kulashaker. And they’re lucky we still consider the people…but not for much longer. Ki Jaya, baby. Rock on!
January 25th, 2006 at 6:49 pm
Darren, you’re full of shit!
Kula Shaker was a great band. And will be again.
People like you love to criticise what they can’t understand.
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January 29th, 2006 at 1:16 am
Kula Shaker are not Nazis you moron. Crispy made a reference to a swastika in an interview, an Indian swastika. Not the perverted swastika used by Hitler and the Nazis. You should make a public apology to the band you idiot. And by the way, Rock on King Kula Shaker!!!
March 1st, 2006 at 6:26 pm
So a 90’s revival is to be dreaded? As I recall the music, fashion and entertainment was the best and freshest it had been for over a decade!
Of course if endless 80’s pap, over-produced “R&B” and celeb based shite is your thing then I truly hope you get better soon. In the meanwhile we shall rock
Oh, Crispian Mills is half Jewish so I very much doubt he is indeed, as you heard in the play ground, a Nazi.