19 Facts About Crispian Mills

Active since 1988, Mills is best known as the frontman of the psychedelic indie rock band Kula Shaker.

Crispian Mills joined the band for a sold-out UK tour to celebrate the anniversary.

Crispian Mills was born on 18 January 1973 in Hammersmith, London, England.

The young Crispian Mills believed his grandfather to be a genuine knight in shining armour.

Crispian Mills would go on to cover one of those songs, "Rio Grande" with his post-Kula Shaker band The Jeevas.

Crispian Mills attended various schools, some private, some state-run, as his mother was frequently travelling for film work.

Crispian Mills's background meant family friends were people like Richard Attenborough and Sir Laurence Olivier, although Mills has often remarked that he was rarely star-struck as they were "just people" to one accustomed to the company of famous actors.

Crispian Mills became vegetarian, although concedes that this was largely due to meeting "a really attractive girl who was vegetarian".

Later, Crispian Mills started to delve deeper into psychedelic music, and spent most of his A-Level years taking LSD and listening to The Doors.

Crispian Mills was initiated in the Gaudiya Vaishnavism tradition in 1997 and has a spiritual Hare Krishna name Krishna Kantha das.

Crispian Mills briefly played in a reformed line-up of punk band X-Ray Spex under the name "Red Spectre" in 1995.

In 1997, Crispian Mills contributed vocals to the nine-minute breakbeat song "Narayan" on The Prodigy's third album The Fat of the Land.

In June 2010 Crispian Mills released his 4th album with Kula Shaker, Pilgrims Progress.

Crispian Mills announced another break for the band due to his commitments to more film projects.

Crispian Mills later issued a written apology, in which he talked about his interest in how sacred spiritual symbols get hijacked by nefarious ideologies, adding that he "opposed totalitarianism in all its forms" and stood for "love and understanding".

In 2001, shortly after his father Roy Boulting's death, Crispian Mills began writing film scripts.

Crispian Mills continued to write and develop material, eventually writing and co-directing A Fantastic Fear of Everything, starring Simon Pegg.

In 2018 Crispian Mills directed and co-wrote another movie project, Slaughterhouse Rulez, this time including both Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.

Crispian Mills has been married to the former model Josephine Crispian Mills since 1995.