{"id":68141,"date":"2023-09-30T16:02:30","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T16:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celeband.com\/?p=68141"},"modified":"2023-09-30T16:02:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T16:02:30","slug":"i-was-a-huge-90s-star-with-troublemaking-chart-toppers-but-now-ive-got-a-totally-different-normal-job-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celeband.com\/tv-movies\/i-was-a-huge-90s-star-with-troublemaking-chart-toppers-but-now-ive-got-a-totally-different-normal-job-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"I was a huge 90s star with troublemaking chart-toppers but now I\u2019ve got a totally different normal job | The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

ALLAN Mark "Boff" Whalley is an English musician and writer who was formerly the lead guitarist for the anarcho-punk and folk band Chumbawamba.<\/p>\n

Anarchist punk band Chumbawamba was formed in 1982, but it was in 1997 when they hit the big time in mainstream music when they released Tubthumping.<\/p>\n


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It topped the charts in numerous countries across the world, including Australia and Italy, and landed at No2 in the UK.<\/p>\n

The band announced they were splitting after 30 years in 2012, and during their time together the group made their political views very well known.<\/p>\n

Now, Boff has a totally different job years on from his Chumbawamba days.<\/p>\n

The music star runs a Leeds-based choir, named Commoners Choir.<\/p>\n

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Boff told Mag North: \u201cAround a decade or so ago I\u2019d finished with Chumbawamba and was working in theatre<\/span> and arts projects, writing music and plays and enjoying this way of working that didn\u2019t involve tours and press releases and humping guitar amps around.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t want to start another band. But then I had an idea \u2013 or possibly half an idea. It was the thought of a punk choir. A huge choir of people who could marry four-part harmony singing with a punk attitude.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I wrote a manifesto \u2013 knowing that all the famous twentieth century art movements had a manifesto \u2013 which called on people to gather and sing in the name of change.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe manifesto declared that this choir (whatever it would be called) would keep to the ethos of the original punk movement; to challenge and to change.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The choir has produced a couple of album, their own t-shirts, mugs and beanie hats.<\/p>\n

Boff continued: \u201cWe have a broad range of characters, from GPs to food-writers, from traditional stone-carvers to gardeners.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt root we\u2019re just a big bunch of people trying to sing about the world around us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chumbawamba originally consisted of Allan "Boff" Whalley, Danbert Nobacon, Midge and Tomi, and Alice joined at the end of 1982.<\/p>\n

Their most popular songs include Tubthumping, Amnesia, Enough Is Enough and Timebomb.<\/p>\n

In 1998 they were nominated for best single at the Brits for their tune Tubthumping.<\/p>\n

Unfortunate they didn't win.<\/p>\n

But some fans will remember that drummer\u00a0Danbert Nobacon\u00a0threw water over politician John Prescott\u00a0during the ceremony.<\/p>\n

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She told the\u00a0Guardian: "If you\u2019re jumping about in your mid-40s, you look f**king stupid\u201d.<\/p>\n


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