Kula Shaker/The Mystery Lights/Dinowalrus @ Irving Plaza, New York, NY 9/22/25

 


Bill: Kula Shaker/The Mystery Lights/Dinowalrus

Venue: Irving Plaza, 17 Irving Pl., New York, NY

Date: 9/22/25

Tickets: $47.50 (got free from DoNYC)

9:50pm Kula Shaker



Active: 1993 (London, UK)

Latest Release:  Natural Magick (Strange F.O.L.K., 2024)

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8:40pm The Mystery Lights



Active: 2008 (Brooklyn, NY via Salinas, CA)

Latest Release: Before You Realize It b/w Cerebral Crack (Wick, 2025) Purgatory (Wick, 2024)

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7:50pm Dinowalrus



Active: 2007 (Brooklyn, NY)

Affiliated: Titus Andronicus

Latest Release: "A Day Of Doing Nothing" (Dinowalrus, 2025), Complexion (Personal, 2014)

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Kula Shaker has been a bucket list band to see since I got their first CD on my old friends' recommendation.  I probably haven't heard it since 1996 but songs like "Hey Dude" and "Tattva" jarred my synapses.  I never knew now there is a category called "Britpop Revival" which merely means Britpop bands from the 90's or at least popular then.  I guess that is what the current Oasis craze has wrought.  Now those bands are all parading through NYC.

Somehow, I didn't realize that the Deep Purple via Joe South cover "Hush" was the bands' biggest song but that was because it was in the movie I Know What You Did Last Summer which I never saw back in 1997 and still haven't seen it as of this writing.  Also covered were Hawkwind's "Hurry On Sundown" from their debut.  There was a snipped of Black Sabbath's "War Pigs" before "Mystical Machine Gun" from 2022's Peasants, Pigs & Astronauts.

The local openers were both well established with over 15 years each.  The Mystery Lights are on Daptone or at least distributed by them on their Wick label.  They are cranking music out and people have been talking about them locally for sometime.  Dinowalrus haven't put out a full length since 2014 that I can tell, but they are working in a keyboardist and releasing tracks on Bandcamp. The vocalist/guitarist Pete Feigenbaum came from the slightly more known (at least by me) naughty aughties band Titus Andronicus.

















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