Kula Shaker powers into 2026 with new single “Lucky Number” providing the final preview before their January 30th album ‘Wormslayer’ drops alongside a hectic year of live activity starting with their imminent record store tour. The commanding opener features swirling psych-rock stomp played with confidence and intensity, mixing heavyweight hallucinatory riffs with driving glam-rock-tinged rhythms, technicolor Hammond organ flourishes from Jay Darlington and enigmatic lyricism from spiritually restless frontman Crispian Mills. The song made its first impression when debuted live on the Chris Evans Breakfast Show on Virgin Radio, with Mills explaining it’s dedicated to all the beautiful car number plate readers who appreciate nature’s miraculous patterns and certain numbers following them around, noting the universe is speaking and nobody’s going crazy.
The accompanying video captures electrifying live footage from last year’s Inner Circle Shows in the UK where the band played their most intimate performances ever, including a set at Liverpool’s world famous Cavern Club that earned them a brick in the Cavern Wall of Fame. Together with recent singles “Be Merciful,” “Good Money,” “Charge of the Light Brigade” and “Broke as Folk,” the track proves ‘Wormslayer’ stands as Kula Shaker’s most vital album since their hit-packed debut ‘K’ made them chart-topping double-Platinum sensations, with the eclectic nature showing an album that never stays in one lane, detouring beyond its electrifying psychedelic heartbeat into gothic crooning, pastoral folk and expansive mantra-metal.
UK AND EU TOUR DATES
JANUARY – IN-STORE TOUR
23rd – London, Banquet
24th – Brighton, Resident
26th – Southampton, Vinilo
27th – Oxford, Truck
28th – Bury, Wax & Beans
29th – Edinburgh, Assai
30th – Liverpool, Jacaranda
FEBRUARY
7th – Brighton, Concorde 2 (SOLD OUT)
8th – Cambridge, Junction (SOLD OUT)
9th – Holmfirth, Picturedrome (SOLD OUT)
11th – Glasgow, Old Fruitmarket
12th – Manchester, O2 Ritz
13th – London, Islington Assembly Hall (SOLD OUT)
22nd – Nijmegen, Doornroosje
23rd – Den Haag, Paard van Troje (LOW TICKETS)
25th – Cologne, Bürgerhaus Stollwerck
26th – Paris, Cafe Dé La Danse (LOW TICKETS)
28th – Hamburg, Gruenspan
MARCH
2nd – Berlin, Heimathafen Neukölln
3rd – Munich, Technikum