Celebrating 30 years since the release of their debut album, Kula Shaker return to Albert Hall in Manchester
Named after a 9th-century Indian saint and poet-king, Kula Shaker seemed to have always existed in an alternate reality. Emerging in the midst of Britpop’s lad-culture swagger and retrograde cool, Kula Shaker appeared like a luminous anomaly — flooded with Sanskrit and sitar-drenched feedback. Fronted by the spiritually restless Crispian Mills, the band carved out their own mystical counter-narrative, fusing British psychedelia and eastern mysticism that felt less like a gimmick and more like an invocation.
Kula Shaker remain rare: a rock band that never abandoned wonder. never lost the thread, and apologised for believing that music can be more than just sound – it can be spirit.
