When New Zealand’s populist Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters strode out to address a political convention in the city of Palmerston North in March, the sound of British punk band Chumbawamba’s ...

Admit it, you just sang those lines to yourself, didn’t you? It’s OK. I did, too, when I jotted them down. Such is the power of “Tubthumping,” the 1997 smash by British one-hit wonder Chumbawamba that ...

British band Chumbawamba have called on a populist New Zealand politician to stop playing their hit song Tubthumping at his rallies. New Zealand First leader Winston Peters, who is deputy prime ...

New Zealand's deputy prime minister Winston Peters says he "does not care" about the row over using Chumbawamba hit Tubthumping at a political rally. The UK band had accused him of "hijacking" the ...

What he really wanted was to spend Thanksgiving with his family. What he got was three days with the turkey.

Chumbawamba, the British anarchist punk band best-known for its 1997 hit "Tubthumping"—a parody of a party song that most people think is an actual party song—called it quits this week after 30 years.

Near the end of this final UK performance, frontman Boff Whalley bemoaned the fact that he was always the one to be phoned up for interviews when Billy Bragg was unavailable for comment, because “we ...

It’s one thing to grapple with having been a one-hit wonder, and another when that singular smash may have given the world a wrong impression of what you were all about … or just represented a moment ...

Alice Nutter spent years living in a Leeds squat as part of the anarchist band Chumbawamba. Now a successful playwright, she talks to Sarah Freeman about her change of career. Alice Nutter’s new play ...

Leeds’s finest issued an eloquent statement on their website back in July, confessing that “the rest of our lives got in the way and we couldn’t commit the time and enthusiasm that the band demanded… ...