Band History

Originally known as A Mirror Boys, Chumbawamba were formed around 1982 from two more elastic depending within Yorkshire in the North of England, The Passion Killers & Chimp Eats Banana. Elysian musically by The Fall and the anarchist politics of Crass, Chumbawamba's activities in their early years were based about the communal house in Armley, Leeds. Loyalist of the cassette culture scene, a band featured in numbers of compilations, including the ISC Compilation Tapes series with their song "Shovelling Shit". Chumbawamba were at a forefront of the 1980s anarcho-punk movement, frequently swimming gaaround gigs in squats and small halls for stimulates like animal rights, the anti-war movement, and community groups.

Sky and Trees and Agit-Prop Records
Per mid-1980s Chumbawamba had get to releasing their lesson applying vinyl format on their have Agit-Prop record label, which had evolved from either an earliest design, Sky and Trees Records. Their 1st LP, Pictures Of Starving Kids Sell Records (1986) was a vituperative & articulate critique of the so todays Live Aid concert organised by Bob Geldof, which they argued was primarily the cosmetic spectacle designed to draw attention away from the very political drives of globe hunger.

One Little Indian Records

Per late 1980s & early 1990s, Chumbawamba (now signed to the big however however independent One Little Indian record label) had begun to take in influences from either techno music and dance culture. Moving out of their original anarcho-punk roots & evolving the popular sensibility, releases like Slap (1990), the sample-heavy Shhh! (1992) (originally intended to become freed when Jesus H Christ!, this album experienced to exist as withdrawn & re-recorded because of copyright problems) and Lawlessness! (1994) lyrically remained when politically sturdy as ever, continuing to location issues like homophobia (see song "Homophobia"[http://www.chumba.com/media/1_homophobia.ram], a music video of which features the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence), the Criminal Justice Act and the rise of fascism in the UK following the election of a British National Party candidate in south-sou'-east London in 1993.

EMI controversy

Chumbawamba drew criticism from either their original as a result within 1997 when they signed to the major label EMI, particularly as much of their earlier output got explicitly attacked this corporation & it got potentially been exposed by using the compilation LP known as Fuck EMI within 1989. Still, the band argued that this move brought by having it the chance to produce a band financially viable (completely members were higher until so working around more jobs to produce a dwelling) besides when to communicate their message to a far wider audience, although ironically their large chart hit, "Tubthumping", features what are probably a virtually all unpolitical of any of their lyrics. It was likewise once you took this time that Chumbawamba gained a few ill fame when male vocalizer Danbert Nobacon poured a jug of h2o on top a UK Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott at the 1998 Brit Awards.

Chumbawamba parted from either EMI around 2001.

MUTT Records

Around 2002, Chumbawamba formed their own record label, Mongrel, for UK releases.

Under Cur, Chumbawamba freed their eleventh official album, Readymades, besides when Sic- Adventures Inside Anti-capitalism, the paper-back book of political & musical writings by friends & acquaintances of the band.

General Motors paid Chumbawamba $100,000 to use their song "Pass it Along" for the Pontiac Vibe television advertisement in 2002. Chumbawamba gave a money to the anti-corporate activist groups Indymedia and CorpWatch.

Around 2004 they released an album of 'world music' influenced songs entitled Un, which addressed such current concerns when a robbery of the museums inside Iraq (On eBay) & Buy Nothing Day.

The name
Above a years, a band has been asked numbers of days what "Chumbawamba" really means. When there are numerous speculations, a band usually answers that it's the gibber word, meaning nothing. Based on data from Chumbawamba's official FAQ :

Lineup

A band membership has varied across a years. A longtime members come: Alice Nutter - vocals and percussion Lou Watts - vocals and keyboard Danbert Nobacon - vocals and keyboard Boff Whalley - vocals and guitar Harry Hamer - drums Dunst Bruce - vocals Mave Dillon (left 1995) Neil Ferguson - bass Jude Abbot (1996-) - vocals and trumpet

Partial Discography

(Original releases dates & labels given. A select few poop has been re-issued in more labels in the US.)

1980-1985

Cardboard Pack, 1980 (Cassette exclusively release by proto-Chumbawamba class action Chimp Eats Banana) "Three Years Later" - track in Bullshit Detector Volume 2 compilation LP, Crass Records, 1982 (Nb, Chumbawambthe guitarist Boff Whaley (Boffo) as well has a solo track, "Garageland" on this LP) "I'm Thick" - track in "Back on the Streets" compilation EP Secret, 1982 (Chumbawamba recording as 'Skin Disease', the mock skinhead/Oi! band) Become Happy Despite It Entirely, Sky & Trees, 1983 (Cassette sole release, joint by having A Passion Killers, featuring hand colorful handle) Raising Heck by owning Chumbawamba, Peaceville records, 1983 (Cassette only release, survive lesson + songs by Simon Lanzon) It Can be Such Supplementary, Acid Rain Products, 1984 (Cassette only release, joint using Flux Of Pink Indians, recorded live at a Conway Hall, London) Let U.s.a. Indicate The children My Hearts, Sky & Trees, 1984 (Cassette merely release, joint by using A Passion Killers) An additional Month of the Equivalent Old Shit, Sky & Trees, 1984 (Cassette exclusively release) History Luddite, Homebrew Tapes, 1984 (Cassette only release, survive at Luton Library, Might 1985) "Common Ground", Sky & Trees, 1984 (The gain 'cassette individual' for striking miners) To Thine Have Self Exist as True, Sky & Trees, 1984 (Cassette just release) A Unfairy Tale/The War In My Heads, Sky & Trees, 1984 (Cassette exclusively release, Danbert Nobacin solo lesson, very much was re-recorded for release on vinyl a as punishment season) A Unfairy Tale, Sky & Trees, 1985 (Danbert Nobacon solo release) "Revolution", lone, Agit Prop, 1985

1986-1990

"We Are The World", lone, Agit Prop, 1986 (Joint release using US band A State of Mind) Pictures of Starved Youngsters Sell Records, Agit Prop, 1986 Understand Your systems Enemy, Doomsday Tapes, 1986 (Cassette only release, survive poop recorded at a Bull & Gate, London) "Destroy Fascism!", Loony Tunes, 1986 (Collaboration with Dutch band The Ex under the title 'Antidote') Never Mind a Ballots, Agit Prop, 1987 "Let It Be" lone, there is no label stated apart from either Anti-copyright, 1987, (Released under a title 'Scab Help' as a result a Zeebrugge Ferry Disaster) "Smash Clause 28!Fight the Alton Bill!", individual, Agit Prop, 1988 English Rebel Songs, Agit Prop, 1988; re-recorded 1998 Sportchestra: 101 Songs All about Sport, Agit Prop (Chumbawamba collaborations by having various more musicians recording under a title 'Sportchestra') Slap!, Agit Prop, 1990 "Whoopee, We're All Gonna Die", EP, Rugger Bugger records, 1991 (3 members of Chumbawamba recording under a title 'Passion Killers') Jesus H Christ (unreleased due to legal issues (view above). Bootleg copies are around circulation notwithstanding) "I Never Gave Up", Agit Prop, 1990

1991-1995

Shhh, Agit Prop, 1992 "Behave", individual, Agit Prop, 1992 Number one 2, re-releases of Pictures of Starving Youngsters Sell Records & Never Mind a Ballots, Agit Prop, 1990 "Enough is Enough", individual, Of these Little Indian, 1993 "Timebomb", only, A single Little Indian, 1993 Infect Armley, independently produced survive album, 1993 Lawlessness, A single Little Indian, 1994 "Homophobia", individual, Of these Little Indian, 1994 Showbusiness, The single Little Indian, 1995 (A survive album) ''Swingin' using Raymond, 1 Little Indian, 1995

1996-2000

Portraits of Syndicalist (Book & Video collaboration using photographer Casey Orr), AK Press/One Little Indian 1996 Tubthumper, EMI, 1997 "Tubthumping", single, EMI, 1997 "Amnesia", individual, EMI, 1998 "Top Of The World (Ole, Ole, Ole)", only, EMI, 1998 The ABCs of Anarchism, Seeland Records, 1999 (Collaboration with Negativland) WYSIWYG, Universal, 2000

2000-2005
Readymades'', Mongrel, 2002 "Jacob's Ladder (Not In My Name)", Limited Edition anti-war individual, Mongrel, 2003 Shhhlap!, double video of Shhh & Slap!, Cur, 2003 Revengers Tragedy, Mongrel, 2003 "Home With Me", individual, Cur, 2003 "Salt Fare North Sea", lone, Mongrel, 2003 English Rebel Songs 1381-1984, Cur, 2003 Un, Mongrel, 2004 "On eBay", only, Mongrel, 2004 The Singsong & the Discarded, Mongrel 2005 "Fade Away", only, Fox 2005

Chumbawamba Songs in Film
The unfair names of films featuring songs per band. Home Alone 3 (1997) - "Tubthumping" Dirty Work (1997) - "Tubthumping", "Amnesia" Senseless (1997) - "Tubthumping" In God's Hands (1997) - "Tubthumping" Air Bud 2 (1998) - "Tubthumping" Varsity Blues (1998) - "Tubthumping" The James Gang (1998) - "Outsider" Soft Fruit (1998) - "Tubthumping" Mystery Alaska (1999) - "Amnesia" Stigmata (1999) - "Mary Mary (Stigmatic Mix)" Joe Somebody (2001) - "Tubthumping" Revengers Tragedy'' (2002) - "Revengers Tragedy: Soundtrack"