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Naughty Nigel!:
What turned schoolboy into anarchic star who soaked Deputy PM? NEW!!
Alice About The Spice Girls:
Alice writes about girl-power
Situationist Comedy:
An Article from the Tower Records magazine "PULSE!"
A
ZITS-Comic about Chumbawamba, taken from a newspaper
Chart Show:
A list of the chart success of the singles
Me And My Motor:
A short story about Alice and cars
How It Started:
Stories about people how they got into Chumbawamba's music
1997:
A review of an exciting year
How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Chumbawamba: (by Mark Swatek)
"We're not motivated by the urge to be seen as martyrs to a cause. I enjoy my work. I'm lucky. I want everybody to have a better live. I'm not to live like an ascetic till capitalism falls - and wouldn't even if it did collapse. I'm a revolutionary, not a popstar. I want a revolution to happen in this world." - Alice Nutter, Vocals.
The band normally travels with 14 people (including sound engineers and some helping hands) and that all earnings are split equally among them.
"We can switch from acapella folk to crunching guitars, from Yorkshire brass arrangements to moody white rap over jungle backbeats; The Chumbawamba 'idea' is more than postmodern. It is eclectic, it is consciously political, and it is the very opposite of the conservative nature which characterizes much of pop and dance music. A founding principle of Chumbawamba is to take stuff from all kinds of sources, to mess around with it and add our own personalities to it, but to use it to move forwards from ourselves." - Danbert Nobacon, Vocals.
Quite impressive I think.
"The Chumbas, as they are affectionately known, are refreshing and genuine pop anarchists. And no they won't go away..." (December 1984)
"Chumbawamba: They message is more important than the music" (NME)
"Now if only pop ( I mean POP ) and politics DID mix..." (Sounds, July 87)
"We haven't got a masterplan - we react to things as they come along. As Anarchists we live with the contradictions that socialism doesn't allow." (Melody Maker, December1986)
