**NEW NEWS! KULA BACK IN STUDIO**

Recording has begun on Kula Shaker's 4th album! The working title 'Pilgrim's Progress' may indicate sojourns into the world of prog rock, although a band spokesperson claims that this is not the case, and that any rumours of this nature have almost certainly been fabricated by none other than Pauli W.H, band drummer and resident pot stirrer.

The chaps have been in Oxford, reuniting with Sam Williams (who mixed & recorded many tracks on Strangefolk), to begin the next chapter and possibly finest chapter in their strange tale. Work is likely to continue for the months to come.

Word on the 'streets' of Jericho, Oxford are that it's going to be one mother of a record, and that they do have a deadline... though we're not sure exactly when that may be.

Kula Shaker- Super CB Operator (demo)

Have a peek at Kula Shaker goofing in the studio with Tchad Blake, to the sounds of the original 'Super CB Operator' demo...

*Kula Shaker- road movie 2006*

Kula Shaker - road movie 2006   

Watch part 1  |  Watch Part 2

Spring 2006, saw a recently re-u-knighted Kula Shaker tour the highways & byways of Britain, making their way up to play at Scotland's 'T-in-the-park' festival. A communal camera is passed around, not much gigging is captured, but many surreal snippets of sleep and terrifying tales of tea...

Forthcoming festival fun...

Kula Shaker will be performing a number of European festival dates..more dates to be announced in due course:

June 20th, Murcia Sound (Lorqui, Spain)

June 29th, Parkpop, (The Hague, Netherlands)

July 5th, Guilfest (Stoke Park, Guildford, UK)

August 15th, Ola Festival (El Ajido, Almeria, Spain)

Best Video Nomination!!

Kula Shaker's 'Drink Tea (for the love of God)', has just been nominated for best music video at France's prestigious Annecy animation festival. Annecy is the Oscars of the animation world, so Sean & Jason, the video's creators at Model Robot, are chinking fat cups of tea as we speak.

Anyone interested in attending should check out the link below.

Back in the saddle

Hello folks. Apologies - its been a little while since our last transmission. After making their noises in the far east, England, Scotland and mainland Europe everyone needed a rest, so Crispian went to India, Alonza went to Belgium, Pauli went to the beach and Harry went to his osteopath. When he was able to walk upright again he got straight back in his audiovisual laboratory and put together this little collection of memories from the Euro leg.  All the boys are back and refreshed now so stay tuned!

Truth be told...

Truth be told, the whole Turin experience rattled us a bit more than Lonz let on. Needle Park wasn't the Italy we know and love; it was the dark side. A bit real, if you know what I mean. The desolation of the junky wasteland wasn't helped by the relentless fog, and later, a hotel in the middle of a vast and ancient Fiat factory that seemed completely empty except for us. Ghosts were everywhere. Don't get me wrong; the gig was, as usual, a riot. Italian crowds never fail to disappoint – But it was with a small sigh of relief that we got back on the bus and headed to Milan to mime on a big TV show on Rai Uno. A Football program with dancing girls... That's more like it - reality Italian TV style. 

We were met by the stylish and rather beautiful Vanessa – her accent somewhere between Italy and Kent (an English mother she later told us) who sashayed her way across the studio floor like a Burmese cat through a building site, to lead us to the dressing rooms, -Or the un-dressing rooms, judging by the amount of olive skinned flesh there was limbering up and powderimg down.

"I've fallen in love 20 times already" Tour manager, Mozza splutters. 

The set looked good - they had the Second Sight video playing behind us and a nice 60's style circular podium. One run through and we were back in the flesh pit. Between the bouncing dancers and the sultry Vanessa, Mozza was at boiling point. We'd better go on soon or something's going to give. 

Showtime. We opened the door of our dressing room and squeezed past another tight pair of scantily clad buttocks towards the studio.

"What's the cue? Who do we need to look at?" asks Crispian

"Oh... there'll be clapping.... it will be obvious... you'll hear the playback..."

Hmm. Ok. We're on our own boys. It turns out that we're opening the show, and as the guitars are readied, a blonde, pneumatic woman strides purposefully towards us. She shakes each of our hands and informs us that she is Simona, the host of the show, and she is very much looking forward to working with us. With that she disappears as fast as she arrived, and the opening credits roll. We are momentarily transfixed by the montage of Simona's cleavage that follows on the monitors until a guy with a faux-hawk at the back of the studio audience starts the applause and someone lets fly with a whole lot of Italian ending in the words Kula Shaker. Nothing happens. Dodge shoots a look of pure comedy back at me as I'm wondering what's going on when suddenly the playback is hurriedly turned up - halfway through the intro, Alonza's mic falls off its stand and we spring into action. Like clockwork. No-one will ever know we were miming. As soon as the song finishes a dude jumps on stage and sticks a Star Trek style ear piece in Dodges ear and Simona re-appears and unleashes a torrent of Italian at him. Dodge later describes the translation as 'laconic' and blames it on the fact that he spent the whole interview talking at her breasts, managing to slip in a Dolly Parton reference and even something about his mother. Soon enough we're off to the un-dressing rooms again and Crispian turns round to me -

"Surreal enough for you?" Yes thank you. More of that please. 

Love to all of Italy. Looking forward to coming back soon. 

H x 

Tour Update/A look back at Japan..with Harry

The boys are currently traversing the highways and byways of this fine country in an attempt to convert the nation back to the soothing, medicinal qualities of a good old cup of tea (especially when taken in conjunction with a brisk blast of psychedelic rock). See what Harry makes of it all....and remember, you can leave your thoughts and comments on Harry's latest pictures as well.

Hello all

Ahh England! Vans break down, barriers are late arriving, toilets break new ground in smell creation (not helped by seriously ill sound engineers) and those helpful people at health and safety stop us and our tea ladies from providing our audiences with a nice, refreshing cup of tea. Makes me pine for Japan again... I don't know whether they have similarly ludicrous health and safety laws concerning the 'high risk' distribution of 'dangerously hot' cups of tea, but even if they do they'd probably just supply us with some kind of protective device so we could actually go ahead. Like a tea cosy. Solutions, not problems. Ahh England...

From my hotel room. The city lights are so bright they reflected my image onto the window.




Slide film in Tokyo. I really should have taken more photos.






It's not all fun and games - while the Hero and the Japanese crew sort things out for us in Japan...




...we have a production meeting for the boring logistics of the UK tour...




...and lonze takes a nap.


Out in the Bush tonight, Birmingham tomorrow. Careful with your kettles now - did you know, boiling water can be painful if you pour it on yourself? If you still have questions, why not phone health and safety? It is difficult to understand I know.

Hx