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A promised album in the summer of that year failed to materialise, therefore the momentum of the single failed to regenerate interest in the band until February 1999 where single Mystical Machine Gun was released. The song was set for number 1 until only 2 days before the official chart, where Run DMC and Irish boy band Boyzone sales for their single overtook. An EP, Summer Sun, was released in the US for the bands fans there.ДЄfter initial disagreements with management, Kula Shaker resurfaced with UK only single The Sound of Drums in summer of 1998, peaking at number 3. K itself peaked at number 11 in the Heatseekers chart and K crept into number 200 in the Billboard charts. Tattva became a minor number 10 hit in the Modern Rock Tracks Chart and Hey Dude peaked at number 25. The focus on the latter part of 1997 was on the US where they got good exposure through airplay of Tattva and Hey Dude. The song was also voted in at number 224 by Virgin Radio, who ran a poll for the 20th century's greatest songs.ДЄfter the hectic beginning to 1997, the band showed they were in no way giving up their success, with a set of live shows in the summer of that year, most notably being acclaimed by many as the best live act T in the Park had ever seen.

KULLO SKAKER MOVIE

The song also proved successful in the US, where it was used on the soundtrack to blockbuster movie ' I Know What You Did Last Summer'. However, the band resurfaced in March of that year, with their biggest hit, a cover of Deep Purple's Hush, which peaked at number 2. However, as their success reached a peak with four nominations for a Brit award, and coming away with 'best Newcomer', some remarks on Swastikas by lead singer Crispian Mills (son of Hayley and grandson of Sir John Mills) put the band in the firing line of some of the press. The band at this time had sold of 250,000 singles from their first album. Kula Shaker became the only band of their era to have consistent Top 5 and Top 10 hit singles in succession - a feat only matched at that time by Oasis. The fourth and final single from K was another Top 10 hit with a cover of Radhe Krishna Temple's, Govindam (released as Govinda), remade with swirling guitars and Indian traditional music. The band's success grew with their number 2 hit single Hey Dude, a guitar-based track which was kept off the top spot by the Spice Girls. A song which was nominated for A Brit Award for best UK Video. However, success grew further with their anthemic Sanskrit-warbling hit Tattva, which made number 4 in the UK charts. Their debut UK Top 40 single Grateful When You're Dead was a slice of Acid Hendrix-esque rock. The album went on to sell over a million copies in the UK and a further 250,000 copies in the US. Their biggest success was circa 1996- 1997 with debut album K, which became the fastest selling debut album since Oasis' Definitely Maybe. Kula Britannia? I don't think so.Kula Shaker were a psychedelic rock band who came to prominence during the Brit Pop era. The end result was a band and its music that, unless something miraculous or inexplicable occurs in the interim (stern advice from the spirits of Dublin Castle, perhaps?), will both be distant memories by the end of the millennium. Moments such as this, however, were few and far between. Occasionally, they achieved the mix - Into The Deep was a rewarding if highly formulaic blend of Deep Purple and any Hollywood soundtrack you care to mention. It was guitar-heavy and tuneless, to boot.

Most of the time Kula Shaker's combination of 1960s prog-rock and Eastern instrumentation sounded self-serving. Mills's dedication of a song to 'the spirits of Dublin Castle' even caused hoots of derisive laughter from people who had previously been seriously frugging to Hey Dude.

From the opening song (the latest hit single, Sound Of Drums), Kula Shaker came across like prissy cousins of rock'n'roll, too mannered and far too insincere for their own good. The distinct impression was that this band is already past its pulling power prime.ДЇronted by Crispian Mills (son of Hayley, grandson of Sir John), the band must be cursing the likes of Cornershop, whose authentic brand of raggamuffin Asian pop puts the Shaker's white-spirit version to shame. Kula Shaker came on to muted applause, the grounds of Dublin Castle not exactly thronging with 'the kids'. The second major gig of the Heineken Green Energy Weekend had all the trappings of a damp squib at a firework display: expectations of a big bang soon fizzled out.

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