Chumbawamba – Un (2004)
“No, no, no; you’re wrong.”
(John Lennon, 1966)… Continue reading Chumbawamba – Un (2004)
Chumbawamba – Revengers Tragedy (2003)
The film REVENGERS TRAGEDY is based on a play first performed in 1606 or thereabouts. Put this way it sounds just about as tedious as can be, doesn’t it?… Continue reading Chumbawamba – Revengers Tragedy (2003)
Chumbawamba – Readymades (2002)
HELL NO! IT’S TIME TO TALK BACK NOW! HISTORY SAYS IT’S TIME!
Langston Hughes… Continue reading Chumbawamba – Readymades (2002)
Chumbawamba – WYSIWYG (2000)
A splendid time is guaranteed for all who can afford it.… Continue reading Chumbawamba – WYSIWYG (2000)
Chumbawamba – Uneasy Listening (1998)
“All good clean fun and ultimately harmless.”
Umpteen years of one-legged men at arse-kicking parties.… Continue reading Chumbawamba – Uneasy Listening (1998)
Chumbawamba – Tubthumper (1997)
“Tubthumping” is Shouting to Change The World (then having a drink to celebrate). It’s stumbling home from your local bar, when the world is ready to be PUT RIGHT…… Continue reading Chumbawamba – Tubthumper (1997)
Chumbawamba – Swingin’ With Raymond (1995)
So. For a few years we’ve been mixing up all the ragtag dog-ends of everything we listen to, calling it “influences” and cramming it all into every song. Stealing by any other name (just being modest, y’know). This time we go for the straight split-down-the-middle Cooing and Barking thing. No Lou’s voice on the hate stuff, no loud guitars or shouting on the love stuff. Hearts laid open (as usual) diving headlong into the boiling pool which is popular culture. This record is another installment in our plan to prove that there’s room for contrary bastards in rock n roll.… Continue reading Chumbawamba – Swingin’ With Raymond (1995)
Chumbawamba – Showbusiness! (1994)
“Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity.” – Mussorgsky
“No-one is completely worthless – they can always serve as a bad example”… Continue reading Chumbawamba – Showbusiness! (1994)
Chumbawamba – Anarchy (1994)
“When the artist paints what the public demands, it is not art, but business.” (Charles T. Sprading)… Continue reading Chumbawamba – Anarchy (1994)
Chumbawamba – Shhh (1992)
Basically the message is: steal it! Culture, music, art, the odd book and slab of cheese… The new will be built from the ruins of the old.… Continue reading Chumbawamba – Shhh (1992)
Chumbawamba – Slap! (1990)
Wou sometimes wonder and you sometimes wonder. You can make a living “sometimes wondering”… Continue reading Chumbawamba – Slap! (1990)
Chumbawamba – English Rebel Songs 1381-1914 (1988)
Throughout England’s history, whilst peasants and workers were marching, striking and fighting, there have been radical ballads and songs. Written to publicise and to inspire. Written so that some particular piece of history can be passed on from generation to generation. The Folk music of struggle, written by and for the common “folk”.… Continue reading Chumbawamba – English Rebel Songs 1381-1914 (1988)
Chumbawamba – Never Mind The Ballots (1987)
There are moments in all of our lives, tiny sparks still deep inside;
When a new-born baby cries, When you’re watching clouds in a summer sky, The first time you walked out on strike, Love and sex and holding tight, Things that can’t be bought by promises and votes.… Continue reading Chumbawamba – Never Mind The Ballots (1987)
Chumbawamba – Pictures Of Starving Children Sell Records (1986)
Poverty and hunger are not ‘inevitable fads of life’. They are the result of an unjust system. That system needs to be changed; and we can start to overthrow it by changing our part within it. Inevitably, the people who are responsible for this genocide in Africa, South America, Asia etc are also running the countries we live in. If we really want to help the poor, we must begin to actively oppose the way our governments and companies operate. Supporting strikes, taking action, boycotting products: taking a stand. The massed stars of pop music, for all their sincerity and wealth, cannot feed the world. Together, we can.… Continue reading Chumbawamba – Pictures Of Starving Children Sell Records (1986)
Chumbawamba – Revolution (1985)
If our music makes you happy, but content, it has failed. If our music entertains, but doesn’t inspire, it has failed. The music’s not a threat. Action that music inspires can be a threat.
The time has come to make a choice:
STOP TAKING ORDERS FROM HIS MASTER’S VOICE!… Continue reading Chumbawamba – Revolution (1985)
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