luckily, it's not about them

Come 1985 and Chumbawamba released our first single and got our first proper live reviews in the music press. And who was there singing our praises, sticking up for this weird northern punk/cabaret hybrid? Seething Wells. From that time on he stuck his neck out for us. In a world where the NME editor increasingly dictated copy according to what the advertisers/record companies wanted to see, Swells was the thorn in the side who refused to kow-tow to the bland norm. Through the miners strike he was alone in championing the idea that music could be used for something important, that there were bigger issues here than whatever gold lame was being worn by Haircut 100 or ABC on Top Of The Pops. Swells stuck by Chumbawamba when we were ridiculed and lambasted by the journo hipsters who celebrated the return of bland, everyday and utterly non-political ‘indie’ music which dominated the next decade. Politics was unfashionable (especially if you had a job writing record reviews for a music mag). Bands like us disappeared from the popular cultural radar, despite growing live audiences. When ‘Tubthumping’ was a worldwide hit in 1997, all the old magazines and writers suddenly had a change of heart and wanted to get back in touch with us again. Ha! How funny. Get lost.

We agreed to an interview with the NME only if Seething Wells was to do it. They agreed (bloody prostitutes). Through all this time, our dialogues with Swells were peppered with anarchist v Marxist arguments, disagreements on the merits of the Third International and debating the difference between Redskins and Conflict. Him and us, we ranted and barked like wary dogs, snapped and snarled and probably dribbled at the mouth a bit, too. But always, Chumbawamba recognised what this Swells bloke was doing, how much he meant in a world where the same old groups made the same old charts and the same old magazine covers time after time after time.

And my goodness the rest of the journalists hated us. It seemed like Swells was the only one who ‘got’ our sense of humour and our way of laughing at ourselves while doing something utterly serious. In 1998 we made a documentary of the band. We contacted all the major journalists who’d gone on record slagging us off and asked if they’d like to be in a documentary “about pop and politics”. They all said yes. Each of them turned up (not suspecting they were being interviewed by that their most hated band) and, with little prompting, slated us. They signed cleverly-worded release forms and bob’s your uncle, we stuck them all in our film, slagging us off. The exception, of course, was Swells. We interviewed him straight. Sat him in a pub and asked what he thought of this rag-tag bunch of situationist clever-arses called Chumbawamba. He did his usual thing on-camera – told stories, embellished, sexed-up, ranted etc – but essentially came up with how Chumbawamba elongated its stay in the pop world: “It’s alright walking around with hair like a gonk. But it doesn’t half alienate you from ordinary decent working class people like their parents. That’s the reason why they changed.”

Sorry for butting in, but I have a surprise for you – Mr. Wells has a different opinion about this band (you can read full tribute from one of the its members here: web.archive.org/web/20100130...)

Colored piece, drawing of a woman in modern clothes, jean shorts,t shirt, barefoot, with a crown of thorns on her head, wielding magic, giant flowers with an eye at their center in the dark background

Color piece, drawing of a witch floating in the night sky, surrounded by glowing purple/pink swords she just summoned, a real giant rapier hovering next to her, her long curly hair almost wrapped around its blade She has roses and thorns tattooed on her right upper arm, glowing magical patterns on the left one, a white tank top, skirt, tight with floral patterns, no shoes, and a fierce expression on her face Pink moon and purple clouds in the background

color piece, drawing of a young, curvy witch sitting on the floor on a glowing green pentagram or magic sygil of some sort, she's surrounded by plants and flowers and darkness, and skulls with their ribcage and spines are floating next to her, a green flame on their forehead the witch wears a pink/orange/salmon crop top, a transparent fluid skirt with plant patterns on it, glasses, necklaces and earrings her hair is tied in a loose bun she has flowers and eyes tattooed on both shoulders/arms, also more plants on her left upper thigh and hip

Drawing of me as a witch floating in the night sky, wielding necromancer magic, holding a skull, wearing a witch hat, spiderweb pattern tights, a jean jacket, fishnet top, big goth shoes

witches 🌸💜

(drawn by a trans woman, if you wanna support an other world of witches & wizards than a certain one)

Three panel comic. Panel 1: an emo kid is sitting at the table in a casual restaurant with his family, who seem chipper and normal. He is staring intensely at another table. Panel 2: an emo girl is also sitting at a different table with her family, and staring back. Panel 3: their thought bubble connects to a shared dream where they are two badass wolf people madly in love, riding a motorcycle at night.

At chili’s

you can just look for personal pages of members you can just search news about them opposing use of their hit song by right wingers like Winston Peters (from NZ First) and recently, Vox (Spanish far-right group)

Post by @why-ksusha-why 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 2 · finally i (briefly) fleshed out my Polywamba AU aka anarcho-love constellation where no one type of relationship can be considered superior to others, i.e., platonic ones are also…

well...
www.tumblr.com/why-ksusha-why/790205897013149696/finally-i-briefly-fleshed-out-my-polywamba-au

you can do this right now with archive made by some enthusiast: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_81AzBDWyqv_c2Vs6cgzTFTkrl62cv9S

As its fierce defender, I'll say...
This is the most underappreacated album even among Chumba fans

It was worth watching/listening almost whole "100 worst Britons" just for two glimpses of Chumbawamba (thank goddess they weren't in this list).

p.s. i did it just out of my curioucity.

What Chumbawamba Taught Me About Philanthropy Since 2013 I have directed an animal advocacy philanthropy program. Under this program, the company has contributed more than…

also they once supported sex workers' org during their US tour in 1998
source: medium.com/@ryan_26357/what-chumbawamba-taught-me-about-philanthropy-74faf985f1cb

ALICE NUTTER OF CHUMBAWAMBA Renowned iconoclast and ace-face on the West Yorkshire scene, reviewed porn movies for now-defunct Northern Star, now for essential club-culture fanzine Herb Garden. Inaccurately reputed to have largest porn collection in Britain. What kind of porn do you like? "I use queer pom as erotica. Magazines from America like Frightening The Horses and Diseased Pariah News-which is porn for people who are HIV-positive. The best film I ever saw is called Girls From The Hood. It's hilarious." What disappoints you about porn? "Most porn tells you lies. It's humiliating. All the men have Kevin Keegan perms and moustaches and a semi-hard-on. And the climax is seeing him come." If you made a porn film what would it be like? "I'd have all sexes mixed up - we all swing different ways. And not all perfect bodies. I'd make it completely safe. Women fucking each other-no sexual act belongs to any one group. I'd want to make an honest film about sex. And I wouldn't mind if people laughed." Have you ever been disturbed by porn? "I've never seen kiddie porn, I don't want to. Snuff porn... If I saw it I'd say, Get that shit off. Once I saw a German porn film and the girl was going. No no no, and he still did it. That no-means-yes stuff-you can't play around with it. But, if I'm completely honest, I was turned on by it." What of the 'porn leads to rape' argument? "In a decent society, being turned on doesn't mean you're going to go out and rape someone. Someone might get turned on by my white knickers - it doesn't mean I'm not going to do my washing." How do you reconcile feminism and porn? "Feminism has fallen into the trap of reacting to what men do. I act for myself. I'm not going to spend my life educating men-they can buck up their own ideas or fuck off."

i want to assure that this line you talk about was from song of 1987 (Here's the Rest of Your Life) and as fan of this group i have something you would like: selectmagazinescans.monkeon.co.uk?p=8588 (there's one of members' opinion on porn)

подвожу итог: чипсы с красной икрой мне понравились больше чипсов с чёрной.

when i listened it in first time i LOVED it despite this song in vid being quiet

суши-сэндвич с угрем ВКУСНЯТИНА, хотя обычно предпочитаю с лососем (потому что лосось – моя любовь, и ничего с этим не могу поделать)

Content Warning: RPF

AU where Chumbawamba members form polycule is most unhingedly brilliant idea i ever had.

i mean... why no one thought of this before??? you wouldn't imagine how much potential for fanfiction and shipping they have despite not being together as band anymore💕

is it real or is it cake?! 🍰

Pretty Pretty Please I Don’t Want to be a Magical Girl!

Chumbawamba - Top Of The World ( Ole Ole Ole ) | Full HD | 1080p YouTube video by Karan Thakur

i'm not even into football/soccer but i liked it even more than their main hit (It's good tho)

Chumbawamba - She's got all the friends that money can buy (with lyrics) YouTube video by hrobenaruzickova

actually i crushed on Lou since i saw this (through a digitised 37-minute snippet of Russian MTV broadcasting), wondering who that charming woman with the delightful voice was (don't judge me, i was dumb)

and by the way, i re-listened this song recently and still I can't get it out of my head.

Chumbawamba Timebomb YouTube video by Daniel Obručník

listened it again (actually it was excuse for looking at my beloved Lou in this clip)... and Alice's voice (from 2:14 to 2:32) unironically made me feel hot (i'm so sorry for that but i can't hold my thoughts back)

также интересуюсь Winx, My Little Pony (4G), Steven Universe, Futurama, South Park, Sailor Moon, Shugo Chara, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru, Mahou Shoujo Site (тот ещё эджи мрак, я знаю), Aikatsu, Love Live!, K-on!, Lacey's Flash Games, и много чем ещё...

this one was also iconic of me i think #mlp #sciset

мои нынешние интересы – Chumbawamba (послушаны пять синглов, на которых есть клипы, и первый студийный альбом), MahoAko (пять серий; две главы манги), "Yesterday Live" (посмотрено первые три сезона), "Званый ужин" (сейчас смотрю 366 неделю) и "Прокурорская Проверка" (выбираю серии случайно)

мне сняли гипс с левой руки (вы даже не представляете, насколько сильно я тогда орала), и как же трудно ею двигать, не делая себе хуже.

I had the cast off my left arm (you have no idea how much I yelled), and how hard it is to move it without making myself worse.

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я здесь не частая гостья, но почему бы и не завести там страничку? тем более, что надо как-то избавляться от страха публично делиться своей жизнью...
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