Hurry on Sundown
Keeping the theme of old bands recapturing former glories sees Kula Shaker, who for a time were huge in the late 90s, taking to the main stage. Front man Crispin Mills looks much the same as he ever did in his tight red jeans and his blonde hair and initially it’s good to hear some of those songs again, in particular opener ‘Hey Dude’.
The problem with Kula Shaker was that they just couldn’t maintain the momentum and after the success of first album ‘K’ and the string of hit singles from it they went downhill rapidly before splitting in 1999. Their set today suffers from much the same problem; the hits are great, ‘Tatvar’, ‘Govinda’ and of course ‘Hush’ but when they move into less well known material they lose the impact and much of the crowd with it. The performance is decent with Mills in particular doing his best to keep animated but it lacks any real flair.
There is the odd song like ‘Mystical Machine Gun’ that puts in a good showing but by and large, hits aside they are just a bit boring. They go down OK but you’d have to say that the crowd reaction is more cordial than ecstatic and although they are back recording again it would be a surprise if they ever reached the heights of ‘K’.