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Originating in 1985, The Ullulators, commonly known as a 'spin off' from the band Ozric Tentacles, embarked on an active career as a 'Space rock' band on the then thriving free festival scene in the UK. Formed by Gavin Griffiths, a founder member of Ozric Tentacles, and Joie Hinton of similar fame. The aim of the band was to explore musical territory more diverse and groundbreaking in its exploration of the fusion of world influences and rock styles than its predecessors. This led to the creation of a musical family infused with a genuinely holistic spiritual bond, in the persuite of creative evolution through music. An ideal inherent in the sponsoring energy behind the original creation of the free festival movement of that time. The band was active throughout the latter half of the 80's,playing live gigs frequently at festivals and venues across the UK and europe, producing 3 cassette releases and an album in that time. In 1991 band leader(AKA Fat controller!) Gavin was offered a year touring with Circus Archaos as a member of the group The Thunderdogs, whilst Joie embarked on a career with the now infamous Eat Static. This innevitably led to a halting of the live gigging persuites of the Ullulators, though in no way indicated its demise. There have been a number of independant releases of recorded material since that time and the band has continued to thrive in spirit. Several spin off projects have manifested, and continue to be formulated in conjuction with the busy and progressive careers that all of the original band members have embarked upon since departing the,by then ailing, festival scene at the beginning of the 90's. The latest of these projects is the creation of a duo live performing act with Gavin on guitar & Joie on synths & other wierdness called 'Vissudha Cosmique', a performing concept first realised in 1983 as a result of an astoundingly profound musical experience shared by both Gavin and Joie at that time. Watch this space for updates and info regarding this collaboration. Love & thankfull blessings to all fans for your loving support through the years.Peace. Gavin ;~)Pimp My Profile

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Member Since: 20/02/2006
Band Website: T.B.A
Band Members: Gavin Griffiths - Guitar, sampling, engineering. Joie Hinton - Synths & samples. Jane Bradfield ( aka Nana Obscury) - Vocals/ Shenai/Clarinet. Generator John - Tea & Drums. Nick Van Gelder - Cake & Drums. Kay Springer ( R.I.P. Bless you man!) - Bass & vocals. Chambers - Percussion & vocals. Andy Ull - Percussion & coolness.
Influences: Can, Holger Czukay, Kraan, Gong, Brian eno, David Burn, big youth, nectar, manfred man, caravan, dimi mint abba, srinivas, zappa, hatfield and the north, todd runtgren and many more.
Sounds Like: Nepalese monks banging bones in a temple amonst other things!!
Record Label: copyright control
Type of Label: Indie

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Update sept 2008 - Tapes/Cd’s

Hi Folks, Apologies for not being here for so long....busy summer!!We are still in the very slow process of remixing and mastering some of the really old stuff....mainly from the 1st 3 tapes, to relea...
Posted by on Fri, 26 Sep 2008 05:05:00 GMT

Update sept 2008 - Tapes/Cd’s

Well HAHAHA!!

Oh dear, it seems I haven't logged in here for about 7 months....Hmmm well, that's life for you. We are still here tho!! and the music lives...and WILL be finished remastering imminently.Hope this fin...
Posted by on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:52:00 GMT

Happy new year

Hi Folks.......Well, last year was quite a year for me....Stupidly busy.Consequently I got precious little done re Ullulator tasks, so you can all slap me on the cheeks with a wet kipper! Anyway, I ra...
Posted by on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 05:48:00 GMT

Update 12/2006

Hey everybody, Just a long overdue update on our progress!! Apologies first for being so slack with the compilation. The home move went well, took far longer than anticipated, the studio's still not ...
Posted by on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 04:03:00 GMT

Moving Khaos

Hey folks, Just a quick one to say that I'm moving house & studio, so the usual khaos has ensued! Thanx to BT (Bless them,) it looks like I'll be internetless for a couple of weeks, so sorry in adv...
Posted by on Tue, 20 Jun 2006 10:51:00 GMT

Trax now downloadable...

Hi People, Just made these trax downloadable, as originally promised. Grab 'em quick if you want them tho, I'll be changing them in a few days odd.Peace,Gavin.
Posted by on Fri, 14 Apr 2006 07:33:00 GMT

Remastered Trax added to our page....

Hi Folks, Well, despite the small hiccup of the machine I got for the old tapes packing up!!! ( being fixed as I write), Here's 4 of the trax I've got to remastering for the upcoming CD. An obscure(?...
Posted by on Fri, 07 Apr 2006 13:23:00 GMT

Update on tape remasters.

Hey People, Well, interesting times are afoot here in the world of Ullulators!! I've managed to locate a really good condition multitrack machine compatible with all the early tapes we did and I've b...
Posted by on Fri, 24 Mar 2006 14:06:00 GMT

It's getting wierd in here!!-News.

Ok, so I found some layout editors & it's all getting a bit spacey !! ( Isn't that what it's all about!) Bear with me till I find one we all like!! - comments welcome... ;~) On the news front, I'm...
Posted by on Fri, 24 Feb 2006 06:40:00 GMT