Chumbawamba: 1982 - present
"If I Can't Dance To It, It's Not My Revolution"
Emma Goldman
Chumbawamba are an English group who started out playing punk rock but over a 25-year career have gone on to play music in a wide range of style - including pop influenced by dance music and world music -and now play acoustic folk music. The band's collective political views are broadly anarchist.
For an extended history please go to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumbawamba
The band's own Web site can be found at
http://www.chumba.com/
Former Chumbawamba member Alice Nutter kindly brought in to the Library a large collection of the band's work which is listed below. We welcome donations of other relevant material about the band.
Books
Portraits of Anarchists, photographs by Casey Orr (published and distributed as a CD by One Little Indian, 1996)
SIC Adventures on Anti-Capitalism (published by Book Press, 2002)
CDs
| Title | Date |
Record label |
| English Rebel Songs 1381 -1914 | 1994 | One Little Indian |
| Anarchy | 1994 | One Little Indian |
| Swingin' with Raymond | 1994 | One Little Indian |
| Showbusiness! Chumbawamba live |
1994 | EMI |
| Noam Chomsky - Capital Rules/ Showbusiness Live (double CD) | 1997 | Mutual Aid Recordings/AK Press |
| Tubthumper | 1997 | EMI |
| Uneasy Listening (double CD) A Collection of Stuff From 1986-1998 |
1998 | EMI |
| The ABCs of Anarchism (with Negativland) | 1999 | Seeland |
| WYSIWYG | 2000 | EMI |
| Readymades | 2002 | Mutt Records |
Singles
| Title | Date |
Record label |
| Timebomb | 1993 | EMI |
| Ugh! Your Ugly Houses | 1995 | One Little Indian |
| Tubthumping | 1997 | EMI |
| Tony Blair | December 1999 (Not for sale) | n/a |
| Enough is enough (kick it over) | 2000 (Not for Sale) | n/a |
| She's Got All The Friends That Money Can Buy | 2000 | EMI |
| Her Majesty (anti jubilee) |
May 2002 (Not For Sale) | n/a |
Tracks on Other CDs
| Track | CD | date/label |
| Don't Try This At Home | Free Mumia Now | n/a |
| Bella Ciao | Article 14 | n/a |
| Without reason or rhyme (acoustic version) | The Prison Literature Project Benefit | n/a |
| Homophobia (live version) | Harvey Milk Institute | 1998/timmi-kat |