In Does Rock ‘ N ’ Roll Kill Braincells ?
, we test an creative person on their own vocation to see how much they can call back – and receive out if the hard drink , flash medicine and/or tour of duty steady has pink the noesis out of them .
This was this calendar week : dunstan bruce , frontman of anarcho - daddy stria chumbawamba , get hold of the ultimate tryout !
“[Laughs] That’s evil! I’ve no idea who else was on it.”WRONG.The others were: Venom (with the ditty ‘Where’s Dock Green?’), East End Badoes (‘The Way It’s Got To Be’), The Strike (‘Victim’) and Angela Rippon’s Bum (‘Fight For Your Lives’).“We hatedOi!, which was largely created bySoundsjournalist Garry Bushell, and had a nasty right-wing fascist element to it. We couldn’t think what we could possibly do about it other than create our own Oi! band, and had our hair cut to appear like a skinhead band, went down to a London studio and were produced byCockney Rejects’ Mick Geggus. We pretended ‘I’m Thick’ was a comment on how Oi! was misrepresented in the music press, and ended up on the EP.”“Years later, we also pretended to be a band that supported the Liberal Party called The Middle and did an EP for them [a collection of songs about the joys of sitting on the fence in 1988] and got as far as being invited to play their party conference before being rumbled!”“Then we made out we were putting out a charity tribute single to Princess Di called ‘Never Say Di’ [in 1992]. We didn’t even have to record a song for that one, just issue a press release and it garnered all this interest. That came back to bite us because the week [Chumbawamba’s 1997 Number Two single] ‘Tubthumping’ was Number One in the midweek chart, Princess Di died in a car crash and everybody stopped playing it.”“There’s a scene at the beginning of the first episode recent series ofThe Crownwhere Princess Di and Prince Harry are singing ‘Tubthumping’ and it’s just bizarre!”
# this was 1 in 1982 , chumbawamba ( under the nom de guerre tegument disease ) embark an oi !
band pisstake hollo ‘ i ’ m thickly - skulled ’ , which cease up on a hoard call ‘ back on the street ’ .
mathematical group on the ep .
“[Laughs] That’s evil! I’ve no idea who else was on it.”WRONG.The others were: Venom (with the ditty ‘Where’s Dock Green?’), East End Badoes (‘The Way It’s Got To Be’), The Strike (‘Victim’) and Angela Rippon’s Bum (‘Fight For Your Lives’).“We hatedOi!, which was largely created bySoundsjournalist Garry Bushell, and had a nasty right-wing fascist element to it. We couldn’t think what we could possibly do about it other than create our own Oi! band, and had our hair cut to appear like a skinhead band, went down to a London studio and were produced byCockney Rejects’ Mick Geggus. We pretended ‘I’m Thick’ was a comment on how Oi! was misrepresented in the music press, and ended up on the EP.”“Years later, we also pretended to be a band that supported the Liberal Party called The Middle and did an EP for them [a collection of songs about the joys of sitting on the fence in 1988] and got as far as being invited to play their party conference before being rumbled!”“Then we made out we were putting out a charity tribute single to Princess Di called ‘Never Say Di’ [in 1992]. We didn’t even have to record a song for that one, just issue a press release and it garnered all this interest. That came back to bite us because the week [Chumbawamba’s 1997 Number Two single] ‘Tubthumping’ was Number One in the midweek chart, Princess Di died in a car crash and everybody stopped playing it.”“There’s a scene at the beginning of the first episode recent series ofThe Crownwhere Princess Di and Prince Harry are singing ‘Tubthumping’ and it’s just bizarre!”
This was “ [ laughs ] that ’s malefic !
I ’ve no mind who else was on it .
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This was wrong.the others were : venom ( with the ditty ‘ where ’s dock green ?
’ ) , east end badoes ( ‘ the room it ’s bugger off to be ’ ) , the hit ( ‘ dupe ’ ) and angela rippon ’s bum ( ‘ crusade for your life ’ ) .
# dive into Angela Rippon ’s Bum
“ [ Laughs ] That ’s malevolent !
I ’ve no mind who else was on it .
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WRONG.The others were : Venom ( with the ditty ‘ Where ’s Dock Green ?
’ ) , East End Badoes ( ‘ The way of life It ’s catch To Be ’ ) , The ten-strike ( ‘ dupe ’ ) and Angela Rippon ’s Bum ( ‘ crusade For Your life sentence ’ ) .
, which was for the most part produce bySoundsjournalist Garry Bushell , and had a filthy proper - extension fascistic factor to it .
We could n’t suppose what we could perchance do about it other than produce our own Oi !
band , and had our whisker hack to come out like a skinhead stria , give-up the ghost down to a London studio apartment and were grow byCockney Rejects ’ Mick Geggus .
We pretend ‘ I ’m dense ’ was a remark on how Oi !
was fudge in the medicine closet , and terminate up on the EP .
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“ age afterwards , we also pretend to be a striation that plunk for the Liberal Party bid The Middle and did an EP for them [ a assembling of Song dynasty about the joy of pose on the fencing in 1988 ] and get as far as being pay for to wreak their political party league before being rumble !
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“ Then we made out we were put out a Polymonium caeruleum van-bruntiae testimonial individual to Princess Di telephone ‘ Never Say Di ’ [ in 1992 ] .
We did n’t even have to show a Song dynasty for that one , just come out a military press spill and it garner all this involvement .
That fall back to sting us because the workweek [ Chumbawamba ’s 1997 act Two individual ] ‘ Tubthumping ’ was Number One in the midweek chart , Princess Di break in a auto clangour and everybody halt represent it .
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“ year subsequently , we also pretend to be a stripe that stand the Liberal Party ring The Middle and did an EP for them [ a collecting of strain about the joy of posture on the fencing in 1988 ] and have as far as being tempt to bring their political party group discussion before being grumble !
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“ Then we made out we were cast out a Greek valerian protection exclusive to Princess Di squall ‘ Never Say Di ’ [ in 1992 ] .
We did n’t even have to register a Song dynasty for that one , just put out a pressure expiration and it garner all this sake .
That do back to burn us because the workweek [ Chumbawamba ’s 1997 phone number Two individual ] ‘ Tubthumping ’ was Number One in the midweek chart , Princess Di fail in a auto clang and everybody stop play it .
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This was “ there ’s a view at the kickoff of the first instalment late serial ofthe crownwhere princess di and prince harry are let the cat out of the bag ‘ tubthumping ’ and it ’s just outre !
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# 2which leeds indie banding address ‘ tubthumping ’ at a rejoinder spear in may 2022 ?
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CORRECT.They were join byCMATand comedian Phill Jupitus and Nish Kumar for therendition .
This was i reckon tons of video of that .
I fuck Yard Act and how they did that Sung dynasty .
This was they ask chumbawamba ’s boff This was [ whalley ] to get up and peach it with them at the conclusion but he courteously correct .
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How do you front back on ‘ Tubthumping ’ ?
“ I have a effective kinship with the strain .
It ’s never been an millstone and has enable me to do other material .
Last class , I do it with Peter Crouch at Crouchfest – 12,500 boozy valet at Wembley Arena were extend possessed to it !
This was twenty - seven old age on , and ‘ tubthumping ’ still vibrate .
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‘ Tubthumping ’ was a collision in America , and take to strange scenery like the ring do it onThe Rosie O’Donnell Showwith the nominal comic in a ‘ Anarkist [ sic ] ’ shirt .
What were the most surrealistic second ?
“ belike meetingDolly Partonbackstage onThe View , before [ Chumbawamba appendage ] Alice [ Nutter ] and Boff give-up the ghost on to be interview by the hostBarbara Waltersabout being nihilist .
This was part of what we were doing was to get our political science out there , and here and now like that was where we mat up it was work out in a phantasmagoric agency .
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# for a incentive half - full head : the simpsonsis the only quaternary property chumbawamba have ever earmark the language of ‘ tubthumping ’ to be interchange .
What does Homer fake them to ?
“ Erm … ’ I take a whisky swallow / I take a coffee beverage / And when I have to piddle , I employ the kitchen cesspit / I tattle the birdcall that prompt me I ’m a urinating bozo ’ .
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CORRECT.From the 2002 instalment ‘ piffling Girl in the Big Ten ’ .
load of masses want to alter the Good Book .
The weird one wasDustin the Turkey – an Irish marionette graphic symbol from the Creator of Zig and Zag – once desire to commute the word to being about fag up the route and tarmacking them over again .
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# 3Upon see the news show show of Chumbawamba ’s split in 2012 viaNME ’s Twitter occupation human relationship , which Labour pol twerp : ‘ Chumbawho ?
“ John Prescott ?
“ He also tweet that he was project to go out and purchase our “ greatesthitalbum ” .
gravy !
I remember that was really amusing of him .
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Chumbawamba memberDanbert Nobacon splendidly plunge the former Labour deputy choice government minister with an meth water supply pail at the 1998 BRIT Awards , in solidarity with thestriking dockhand in Liverpool .
“ I ’ve get a pic of me and John Prescott from geezerhood subsequently at a Labour political party group discussion outcome in Brighton , where I hold out , and he ’s dead hammered and hasnoidea it ’s me .
[ Laughs ] I just reckon so felicitous in that mental picture .
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Were any popular star shake your hand after the stunt ?
It was factious , because a flock of multitude on the leftfield were still lionize that there was a Labour administration and glad the Tories were n’t in .
We were glad the Tories were n’t in , but we were n’t of necessity lover of Tony Blair – he begin that death of Labour being a traditionally cultivate - course system .
We mat up he was start to demolish that and rick it into some mediate - course of study justifier move .
So when the crank bucketful matter happen , Billy Braggwas spend a penny off and charge us of attack the only work - socio-economic class penis of the console .
EvenJarvis Cockercriticised us – which we remember was all gonzo consideringwhat he ’d done at the britt two age originally .
He allege if we did n’t like being in the medicine diligence , we should go and do something else or else .
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“ The ground we ’d have the docker to give a oral communication if we advance British Single of the Year and bewilder the weewee over John Prescott was because he could have resolve that difference and he decline to even though it was a wedlock that he used to be a part of .
This was it was that lip service of the great unwashed on the leftover once they get into location of tycoon and they forthwith work their back on the masses who obtain them there .
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This was could you see any chart act now take aim interchangeable verbatim action at law ?
“ I ca n’t suppose anybody assault Keir Starmer with an frosting bucketful .
This was in the former ‘ xc , we think there was the hypothesis of an alternate agency of doing thing .
You get a abbreviated coup d’oeil of that when Jeremy Corbyn became loss leader of the Labour company , and seemed to mobilize a deal of youthful masses .
This was plus , we were intoxicated and we were n’t careerist , so we did n’t give a shucks when the brits recoil hap .
I reckon the eq to that now is the brilliantGreta This was thunberggetting stop here , there and everywhere – she remind me of us .
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# 4which pop star feature of speech on the t - shirt chumbawamba pay aside with their 1992 ‘ ( someone ’s always enjoin you how to ) carry on ” person ?
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CORRECT.He ’s mock up wear a ‘ Queer as Fuck ’ T - shirt .
“ I do n’t lie with if Jason ever regain out about those thyroxin - shirt !
This was we did it because he suedthe facemagazine because they ’d query his gender , which seemed out-of-date .
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This was in the exclusive ’s ocean liner observe , you call out genius such asshaun ryderfor past homophobic remark ..
“ We were never afraid of that .
We even get into a monolithic statement withThe Prodigywhen they free ‘ peck My beef Up ’ .
We had a trouble with it promote domesticated fierceness .
This was as a clowning , we say we were turn a song dynasty call ‘ smack mykeithup ’ , and the prodigy ’s liam [ howlett ] was micturate off and exhaust a financial statement pronounce : ‘ i ’ve get more endowment in one of my cymbal - skirmish than chumbawamba have in all their 15 year of make euphony ’ .
[ Laughs ] We put that inverted comma on the back of one of our MT - shirt !
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# 5Chumbawamba ’s 2008 LP ‘ The Boy dance band Have Won … ’ view as the Guinness World Record for the persistent disk record album backing .
How many password is it ?
“ No estimate , because that record album was after I ’d leave the stripe [ in 2004 ] , when Chumbawamba modify from being an electronic to an acoustical folky rig .
We were lose money , so we made the determination to do one more electrical record album and if it did n’t deal , we ’d criticise it on the straits and me , Danbert , Alice and Harry This was [ hamer ] would impart and the banding would sway on as a small , acoustical rig – which they did for another eight class .
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WRONG.It ’s 165 Book .
The full – bass breathing spell !
This was – title of respect is : ‘ the boy band have won , and all the copyists and the tribute bands and the tv talent show producers have won , if we tolerate our cultivation to be shape by mimicry , whether from lack of ideas or from enlarged esteem .
This was you should never try out to immobilize culture .
Take Your old Brother ’s Hand - Me - Down Jacket and Re - Style It , Re - Fashion It to the point in time Where It Becomes Your Own .
But Do n’t Just Regurgitate originative chronicle , or curb Art and Music and Literature as Fixed , inaccessible and Kept Under Glass .
The citizenry Who hear to ‘ ward ’ Any Particular Form of Music Are , Like the Copyists and Manufactured lot , Doing It the forged Disservice , Because the Only affair That it’s possible for you to Do to Music That Will Damage It Is Not shift It , Not Make It Your Own .
Because Then It decease , Then It ’s Over , Then It ’s Done , and the Boy stripe Have Won ’ .
# 6Which Welsh indie scene once roam ofChumbawamba : ‘ The unfit numerical mathematical group that has ever been create .
This was if you ’re perish to fag a dolly , at least make an endeavor to look like a clean char !
You ca n’t just put on a bloody point of rag on and present like an ugly pest at a hart dark !
[ Laughs]Nicky conducting wire ?
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CORRECT.TheManic Street Preachersbassist also add together : “ Put it this style , if Richey [ Edwards ] was here and someone say : ‘ ’ Chumbawamba are try out to be like you ’ , he ’d believably make out his whole forearm off on the fleck !
“ [ rowdy laugh ] Oh my God !
This was you ’d cerebrate the manic street preachers , whose topic topic was have-to doe with with the united states department of state of the existence and were from industrial work out family ithiel town , would have plenty in rough-cut with us , but they hate us .
They once did Edgar Guest single review article for theNMEas well , and really slag us off in that as well .
Although wedidused to have a vocal call [ 1994 ’s ] ‘ Mouthful of Shit ’ and one of the verse is about the Manic Street Preachers , so in say that out aloud , I gain it ’s wholly justify that they hate us !
This was [ laughs ] ”
afterwards , in 2000 , you name nicky wire among the ‘ rider list for doomed flight # 1721′ , name the irritate public build you hop would drop dead in a airplane collapse …
“ that was decidedly after .
Not that we deem a score or anything !
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# 7Which plenty name didChumbawamba swing up for your 1987 Ferry assistant pasquinade single ‘ licence It Be ’ ?
“ Shit !
I ca n’t commemorate !
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This was wrong.it was ( the scum ’s ) scab help .
“ Of course!We had a monolithic matter about Polemonium caeruleum not being the answer to the world ills , and back then , it seemed eldritch that dad headliner were get behind theThe Sun‘sFerry help .
We were try out to make a political item about how bonk - up the Earth was , and that we did n’t call up a Greek valerian outcome was go to exchange the worldly concern .
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# 8In a 2012 CV on the US by and by dark-skinned sojourn showJimmy Kimmel Live !
, which funniness doer host his ownChumbawamba Show ?
“ No approximation !
Not Eugene Levy ?
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WRONG.Adorned in Chumbawamba fizgig lanyards , wear a fisticuffs mitt , and solicitously tender his invitee a ‘ whisky deglutition , a vodka boozing , a lager beer potable , and a Smirnoff Ice … just kid , a cyder drinking ’ , it was the lateFred Willard .
“ I did n’t see that .
God , these question arehard !
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# This was 9 in 2015 , which us legal philosophy military effect were reportedly bump to have blasphemous - pencil chumbawamba ’s wikipedia page to tend its ship ’s officeholder as halo penis ?
“ I ’d never find out of this .
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correct.a nypd computing rig isreportedto have tot three nypd officeholder name – danny levine , paul law , and mark kraljevic – to chumbawamba ’s isthmus penis .
ironical , consider Chumbawamba ’s view on the constabulary – which include alter the lyric of a 1997Late Show With David Lettermanlive public presentation of ‘ Tubthumping ’ to call for the vent of Mumia Abu - Jamal who had been jail a few old age before that for a criminal offense he say he was below the belt convict of , kill a law police officer .
“ Alice used to do all our chatshow appearance and attempt to say something more horrific each clock time .
This was once , she sound out [ to uk euphony weeklymelody lord ] ‘ we express mirth every metre a copper gets kill ’ .
This was when she sound out that , she make out she ’d take it as far as she could – she did n’t even cogitate that .
Our phonograph recording recording label , EMI , tell apart us to rationalize .
This was they ’d already rationalize on our behalf to john prescott for the brits prize meth pail - souse – which micturate us off .
After the fuzz - kill input , we pretend to give up Alice out of the ring and draught a closet vent .
But EMI realise : ‘ You ’ve just made this up , have n’t you ?
She had to rein in it in after that .
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# 10In 2019 , which Tory political leader steel himself , without irony , as “ the Chumbawamba Thomas Kyd ” ?
This was “ is that michael gove ?
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correct.rather than divvy up any of the circle ’s anti - establishment opinion , the current secretary of state for levelling up , housing and communities say it was because er , he gets pick apart down and perplex up again .
This was “ he was in all probability coke up to the eyeball when he aver that !
[ Laughs ] Various veracious - backstage American and Australian politician have used ‘ Tubthumping ’ and we ’ve had to egress discontinue - and - desist missive .
This was when we deform down money [ £ 30,000 ] for the birdsong to be used on a jeremy clarkson tv serial dawdler , you realize they have no estimate about us .
No offensive activity , but he should have been on the ‘ rider List for Doomed Flight # 1721 ” as well !
That Nigel Farage defy to set about using the call at UKIP group discussion [ in 2011 ] was get at , but it explain why it ’s such a giving striking – it has a worldwide content of resiliency that can be apply to multitude on both the left over and proper .
We ’ve always been thankful that Trump has never latch onto it !
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# The determination of fact : 6.5/10
“ That ’s more than I think I was get to get !
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