Paul Winter-Hart (born 19 September 1971) is an English musician, best known as the

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for the rock

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Kula Shaker Kula Shaker are an English psychedelic rock band. Led by frontman Crispian Mills, the band came to prominence during the Post-Britpop era of the late 1990s. The band enjoyed commercial success in the UK between 1996 and 1999, notching up a numb ...

. He grew up in East Pennard,

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, and is noted for being reserved in interviews. In between Kula Shaker splitting in 1999 and reforming in 2006, Winterhart played drums for Thirteen:13, did sessions work with Aqualung and formed blues-rock band "Zero Point Field", who prior to Kula Shaker reforming were working on their debut album. After Kula Shaker released ''

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'', Winterhart also played in the Somerset

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band Goldray, with

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guitarist Kenwyn House, and the London-based

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band Black Casino & The Ghost. Winterhart lives in Lower Clapton, Hackney, London, with his wife, Nicole, his children, Ivy and Faye, and his Newfoundland dog, Willow. Willow is so large that she was once mistakenly believed to be the "Beast of Hackney Marshes". He also briefly played in a reformed line-up of punk band

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under the name "Pauli OhAirt" in 1995.

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Living people 1971 births English rock drummers British male drummers Musicians from the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham People from Hammersmith 21st-century British drummers 21st-century British male musicians X-Ray Spex members {{UK-drummer-stub People from Mendip District