22/02/2010

It's Chumbawamba week! Day 1

We kick of our week with Chumbawamba as our guest editors with a great interview with Jude and Boff. Each day this week will see a new article from the band on all aspects of their career and outlook, and it's good stuff!

Here's a taster of the interview:

ABCDEFG is your 17th album and its theme is music, or more specifically the ideas and feelings that music engenders. Across the range of musical scenarios that you explore, what are the most significant ones for you?

Well the main thing about these songs and about how we think about music is that this is an incredibly intense and loving relationship we have, ie us and music. A relationship not without its quarrels and fights, but essentially full of passion and love. We didn’t start playing music to have a career, we started because we loved to play and sing. And from the very beginning we knew that this ‘music’ was much bigger than chords and notes and melodies, it was also about context and history and politics and ideas. When we started to put this band together our soundtrack was Elvis Costello, Crass, Dick Gaughan, Robert Wyatt, The Fall, The Slits, John Peel every night for two hours playing Misty in Roots and Viv Stanshall – all this incredible British culture which was so varied and inspiring and so full of ideas. So I’m hard-pressed to say what’s a ‘most significant’ musical scenario; we love the whole kit and kaboodle of it, the why and wherefore of it, the ups and downs and bloody out-of-tunes of it.

Read the whole interview

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