You're never gonna keep them down! Eighteen years after they dominated the airwaves with the impossible-to-escape hit song "Tubthumping," Chumbawamba is staging a comeback of sorts — or getting up again, if you will — by launching a Kickstarter campaign for a documentary about the band.
Former member Dunstan Bruce hopes to raise $62,915 (or 40,000 pounds) to tell the "untold story" behind Chumbawamba and its most famous (or infamous, depending on who you ask) pop anthem.
"For you, that was probably just a one-hit wonder that you vaguely remember dancing to back in the '90s," he says in a video for the campaign. "But for me, that was the very small tip of a very, very large iceberg. And it's part of a hilarious and fascinating story that spanned over 30 years. And that's the story I want to share with you."
Joining Bruce in his quest is fellow former member Alice Nutter. As she tells it, there was much more to the band than "pissing the night away." In fact, she claims they're indirectly responsible for "moving politics forward" in the UK.
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"Stuff we did with the money had invisible repercussions that nobody would ever connect to Chumbawamba," she shares.
Bruce and Nutter plan to reunite the band to "get the inside story, to get the truth — or at least different versions of the truth…about what happened when a bunch of anarchists from the north of England had a worldwide hit totally by accident."
As of Thursday afternoon, July 2, 229 backers had pledged more than $12,500, with 28 days left in the campaign. Rewards range from a sheet of "Chumbawamba manifesto stickers" to set visit or private DJ set from Bruce himself.
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