Crispian Mills was born in Hammersmith, West London on 18th January 1973. His father, film director Roy Boulting, left home when Crispian was two. Boulting wasn't exactly Crispians idea of the ideal father. "That's why I haven't got his name. He was married six times. I was his seventh son."

Despite being the son of Hayley Mills ('60s wastrel actress) and the grandson of a knighted actor Sir John Mills, Crispian insists that he saw few famous people during his childhood. "We weren't bohemian. We weren't like the Redgraves. We never read Marx after dinner."

The first time Crispian entered a Hare Krishna temple is an experience that has had an influence on the rest of his life. A significant chapter in the inception of the Kula Shaker masterplan, it was a further step towards the cosmic hoo-hah that currently courses around his head.
"I was with my mum when she visited this temple in Watford. I must have been about eleven. There was a powerful energy there, but there were also all these weird guys in robes and I just wanted to escape. It did affect me, because suddenly I started to see that people were into some weird shit in this world. The things I thought were weird turned out to be normal and the things I thought were normal turned out to be weird."

At the age of seventeen Crispian met up with Alonza Bevan in Richmond College, where they both were students. They played together in a band called "Objects of Desire" (which is, by the way, the original form of Kula Shaker) and ran some kind of psychedelic nightclub at the back of Richmond ice rink. After this Crispian went a bit wacko. It was a time of apprenticeship. Things happened and all of them probably weren't very nice. "I really needed to do something with my life. So I decided to go to India."