photo credit: Chris Smith
Chris's e-mail duck@hellskitchen.com
HEY Dunstan rockazine finally got this interview up!-
And sooo sorry Dunstan- but the audio was sooo crappy that Christopher Poulin went to Las Vegas
to get away from me begging him to please fix it.
The adorable and affable CHUMBAWAMBA's Dunstan Bruce
chats it up with the overcaffeinated americanized poetess Sondra Faye
Sondra: You know I was at the Fleadgh Festival,
Dunstan::Oh Yeah.
Sondra: Took some photo's. Well I had these wonderful pair of black boots, and rockazine.com
we call home of commando journalism, So I um- think it was a commando journalistic day.
However when I went in to try to interview you-
I couldn't find another rockazine staff member- Leah Quinn.
So I just said I'll be back (to the publicists) I'll try to find 'em(Chumbawamba) So anyway,
I guess you're going around with the Fleadgh Festival which is pretty intense
Dunstan:: We're just actually doing the New York one,
we're doing the San Francisco one and the Chicago one.
Sondra: Oh, ok, That might be enough . It's not going to be muddy there- that's for sure.
Dunstan:: San Francisco?
Sondra: Well, no,no Chicago. Hey San Francisco- Earthquakes, Mud- You're in California.
Could be tornados if you visit the rest of America. Um. I'm not going to even discuss that song,
that Tub Thumping Song. Thought I'd make you happy for once. I guess with this one journalist.
I have kinda like some silly questions if you're into it.
(now as Dunstan's saying ok,
I'm thinking in that Monty Python what's that on the telly mode? Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam)
Dunstan:: Ok...
Sondra: One of them is, if Margeret Thatcher had been a punk rocker what would be the name of her hit single?
Dunstan:: Oh my gosh-LOL Did you know there was actually a band or a single rather called
I'm in Love with Margeret Thatcher?
Sondra: LOL- Oh really-
Dunstan:: Yeah they were a band that were from the North of England. It was basically a pisstake.
Obviously they absolutely hated her.So they did this song called I'm in love with Margeret Thatcher.
So maybe Margeret Thatcher would do a song called I'm in Love with me. She created the Me-Me- Me generation.
Sondra: Oh, a little narcissistic huh.
Sondra: I'm an American, obviously I don't have any other accent for the moment.
Do you think Prime Minister Tony Blair secretly listens to your music?
Dunstan:: LOL. (there's a telephone ringing in his Manhattan Hotel Room) I'm not sure about that,
Just a minute I've got another line. Oh- I'll let it ring, I haven't got the technological ability to-
Sondra: Do conferencing?That's alright I don't have call waiting either.
Dunstan: : What was the question; do I think Tony Blair secretly listens to Chumbawamba?
Sondra:We're going for the Anarchy angle here.
Dunstan:: I'm sure at some point some adviser has come in
with a portable CD Player and said Tony this is a band you should be aware of. Because when we did the BRIT Awards;
there was actually a small article in there- The Times- that Tony Blair wasn't going to turn up at the BRITS
because he was worried that Chumbawamba might do some stunts. His wife went.And actually Prime Minister John Prescott
went. I'm sure John Prescott said- Tony you've got to listen to this music.I don't know-
Sondra:So I guess you guys were behaved then.
Dunstan::Pardon Me?
Sondra:You guys were well behaved at that one.
Dunstan: :Not quite. LOL.
Sondra:Now I'm totally being sarcastic here.
Now, who do you think, and this is probably a biased question
because it's a "you think question" is the funniest person in Chumbawamba to have a drink with?
Who to Party with from the Chumbawamba
Dunstan:: You mean if I had to send you out with a drink with one person?
Sondra: LOL. Oh no I'm not asking for a date. I'm in enough trouble.
Dunstan:: The most dangerous person to go for a drink with is probably Boff.
Because there's many a time when I've had to put him to bed. Wash his clothes, and then put him to bed. It gets very dangerous.
And because I have to share the room with him. It get's very frightening.
Sondra: So Boff is the one.
Dunstan:: Yeah. LOL...
wondering if an American Tourist in Leeds, England would be MIA
Dunstan:: If you were an American tourist in Leed's, would you be considered missing in action?
They'd probably think you were married to somebody in Chumbawamba because there's 2 people in Chumbawamba
that are married to Americans.
Sondra: Well I'm trying very hard to stay out of that marriage pool.That is dangerous waters.
Now uh with the end of this tour, with the FLeadgh Festival thing- I mean I don't even know how rockazine
is going to cover it. Photographing your band, then photographing people in the mud. After that are you
going back to England?
Dunstan:: Yeah we do a lot of festivals in Europe... We're going back to England tonight.
Sondra: Oh, and I apologize, I'm not just a member of the press- I also do other stuff.
Dunstan:: LOL
More bathrooms Please
Sondra: And I was reading, oh- I got to do a press question-
about the stuff that was sent to me that I was
supposed to be prepared and researched about and it said something about you guys hanging around
in a house together?
Dunstan:: Oh, that was in the 80's. We all just bought this one house
Sondra: So everybody's separated.
Dunstan:: It was at the time- we were all unemployed.
And it was just like the sensible way to live.
You know band housing.We shared our money and our resources.
Sondra: So it was like communal type of living.
Dunstan:: Ye, Yeh.
Sondra: Is this suggestive or is this like something that nobody should do this ever?
Dunstan:: It felt like that sometimes. No actually it's sort of like the sensible way of doing things.
Sondra: Hopefully, or you add bathrooms.
Anarchy and the chumba and the wamba
Dunstan: : You've got to be very tolerant.
Sondra: Is everybody pretty tolerant in the band?
Dunstan:: Oh God yeh, we wouldn't have stayed together for so long, if that weren't the case.
Sondra:What do you consider anarchy? In a General Universal Tense?
Dunstan:: To me it's trying to create a society where there really are such things as true equality .
And true distribution of wealth or of
a world free of racism and sexism and homophobia poverty and homelessness.
It's a way of working with people as well as a certain collective way where everybody has reponsibility
to each other and cares for each other and shares everything. Basically getting rid of why some people are
richer than others. Not for any good reason other than people are greedy or people are more ruthless
than other people. On a level as far as Chumbawamba is concerned it's a way that we work as collective...
We all have an equal say. And we all have equal responsibility. As a band we all receive the same amount
of money for whatever our role in Chumbawumaba is.
Sondra: Which I guess is equality.
Dunstan:: Well hopefully, yeah, and everybody has a chunk in saying what we think...
Express that opinion. one person telling everybody else what we're doing.
Dunstan truly inspired my curiosity on the subject and so especially for Dunstan and you rockaziners-
Margeret Thatcher Sightings
Copenhagen, Denmark
Where does Margeret Thatcher play pool with her old school mates?
http://www.4site.dk/exposed/bars/krasnapolsky/page3-uk.htm
Thatch
http://www.zudsypetservice.com/albumpag.htm
UKPelham Puppets Company
http://www.otus.co.uk/pelham/puppets/uglysisters.htm
The Yarn
Margeret says "To Hell WIth It" and joins the freak show
http://www.theyarn.com/chapters/10_220.html
Margeret's baby
http://www.theyarn.com/chapters/11_440.html
Handwriting Analysis of the former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
http://www.handwriting.org/archives/97oct_01.html
with Pritchitt in Hawaii
http://www.pritchettcartoons.com/thatcher.htm
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then there's that chumba link-
http://www.chumba.com/
then there's more photos by Chris Smith-
http://www.hellskitchen.com/1chum01.htm
and then there's that english grammatical question-
is it chumbawumba? or is it chumbawamba?
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