The Karma Effect

About Event The Karma Effect … Tour reschedules and tour opportunities.  Hi guys, we still can’t quite believe that we have just had our first UK #1 Rock album and our second UK Top 40 in just two years and we are so, so, grateful. Thank you to each and everyone of you that has supported us to date. It’s really appreciated.

As you would hope, that success is starting to get out there and we are receiving more and more interest in the band. Which is, of course, awesome. However, these growth pains can come with some difficult choices.

Unfortunately, due to logistical challenges we have had to put our Oct/Nov UK headline tour back to Feb/Mar 2027. We are really sorry for those of you who have made plans to come and see us on those dates but with the support of the venues and promoters ALL dates are rescheduled and ALL tickets remain valid, so we are hoping that with a bit of juggling you can still come and see us for what will be an awesome tour. All rescheduled dates are now public, the fantastic Juliet’s Not Dead have also been able to reschedule their plans and join us.

Obviously should the new dates not work for you, then refunds are available from your point of purchase. We thank you for your understanding but hope you can still join us. ////////////// The reason that we have ‘logistical challenges’ is that we have been invited as special guests by a well known classic rock band on to their UK tour this October The decision was not taken likely and honestly, we wanted to do both tours but it’s a LOT to promote two sets of dates in quick succession without one set impacting the other, especially as some of the shows are in the same cities. However, we hope you will agree that it gives us a chance to reach fresh fans and build our audience as we have not toured as a support act for over two years.

When it’s officially announced, we hope you will agree that it’s a great line-up and that you are as excited as we are and can join us for a show or two. Henry, Robbie, Nater, Tom & Alan The Karma Effect   When The Karma Effect was quietly born in the pandemic, vocalist Henry Gottelier could hear in his head how he wanted the project to sound. From the organic rootsy debut, followed by the show-stopping Promised Land, they now truly arrive with their third record.

This is the album he dreamed of making: the most complete, crystal-clear realisation of their ambitions yet. It’s leaner, louder, heavier, blazing with determination, and joyously larger-than-life. Although some line-up changes occurred in the background (which sees Nathan Keevil join them on bass, Alan Taylor on drums, and Tom Pitt on keys), a turn of events that could have left them on shaky ground has instead been spun into a silver lining.

Brimming with energy and fresh perspectives, the newly assembled line-up convened at The Hive Rooms, in the locale of Gatwick Airport, to nail down what would become ‘Cruel Intentions’ in July 2025. “We holed up in there, locked the doors and didn’t come out for a month,” Henry jests. “I didn’t see the sun that summer at all.” He had brought his new colleagues sketches of the album’s songs, and although their backbones largely remained as he had written them, they were sculpted by the hands of everyone in the band, making it, first and foremost, a collaborative effort capturing shards of everyone’s style and personality. There are different shades to their sound on this outing. Henry’s songwriting leans towards the observational more than the personal.

This time, there’s a dark passion coursing through these songs, preoccupied with notions of love, lust and the thrumming sense of danger in both. Take the swaggering ‘Dangerous Love’ – “It’s about doing things you shouldn’t do, but you can’t stop yourself: passion overtaking your senses and your mind getting away from you.” The title track, meanwhile, is about a stalker. It’s not entirely steeped in darkness, however – sometimes, there are flashes of cheekiness. ‘Better Luck Next Time’, for example, is a tongue-in-cheek meditation on feeling the sharp end of sod’s law, following someone’s day as it spirals into the stuff of farce. “We don’t take ourselves too seriously,” Henry reasons. “We know what we are in terms of the kind of music we play.” Henry terms the band’s modus operandi “modern vintage”, a desire to polish up the retro sounds they were raised on into a gleaming, modern product instead of trying to rehash or recycle them, and certainly without falling into the trap of pastiche.

Regardless, their sights are set higher, and in possession of what they believe are their strongest songs yet, they’re hungrier to chase their goals than ever. “We want to be a stadium rock band,” he asserts. “The way I’ve always written music and performed is with the objective of: ‘How can we take what we do to this club full of people and make them feel like they’re watching something in a giant stadium in New Jersey, or something like that. I want them to feel like the band that they’re seeing is not just putting on a gig. They’re putting on a massive show.” Website
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