Sunday 17 June 2012

This was the 3rd 3 punk rock question interview, the first was oi polloi and the 2nd was some other blogger called 'Nuzz prowlin' wolf' or something like that. they are lost in cyberspace and the oldest one off Myspazz i can find is this one. I think they come off as miserable fuckers really, but at least they did reply!.


CHUMBAWAMBA INTERVIEW


1: Your song homophobia clearly states that homophobia is the worst disease, well what about ebola, Creutzfeld-Jakob disease, Hanta virus, Necrotizing Fasciitis (y'know that flesh eating one), they're all some pretty nasty diseases too y'know??!!

We had this reaction from NME journalists in the nineties. The lyric was a reaction to the sudden promotion of AIDS as a disease that was specific to gay men and women. We looked at statistics and realised how many people were dying from violence against gays and lesbians, and that's why we wrote the song.
(erm, that was meant to be a jokey sorta question! and theres no way anyone from NME could hobble together such a sarcasticly worded question!, never mind....)

2: Last November i was on your website, i had just put 4 cds and a book into the shopping cart, £50 odd quids worth, then i realised that it was actually 'buy nothing day' so i cancled the order, do you find it heartening that your lyrics can have such an inspiring effect on someone? (Chumbawamba have a song called 'buy nothing day')

Yes, excellent! Do it more! Don't buy anything, ever, again! Especially our stuff. It's all shit anyway.

3: You have shhh....it (anti chumbawamba song by oi polloi) on your websites downloads bit which shows a good sense of humour, do you still get grief for sighning to EMI or is your audience now, with the acapella stuff, completely different to what it was back then and unaware of your anti-emi past?


I 'm sure most people are aware of our past. we don't hide any of it. I love all the Shhh...itstuff. It's all part of a big debate, a big discussion. Criticism is part of us all working stuff out. I just hope that people don't take it so seriously that they care more about whether Chumbas eat Mr Kipling's Cakes than they do about George W Bush refusing to sign up to the Kyoto Agreement.There you have it, thanks to chumbawamba for taking the time to reply, check 'em out at:

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