Chumbawamba

thumb|320px|right|Enough Is Enough (ft Credit To The Nation) - #1 in the [[1993 Festive Fifty]]

Chumbawamba is a British musical group who have, over a career spanning nearly three decades, played punk rock, pop-influenced music, world music, and folk music. Their vocal anarchist politics exhibit an irreverent attitude toward authority, and the band have been forthright in their anti-racist, socialist, anti-war, and feminist social stances … (read more at Wikipedia)

Links to Peel
The band reached #1 on the 1993 Festive Fifty with 'Enough Is Enough' (featuring Credit To The Nation). Their three entries in 1993 came eight years after their only previous appearance in the Peel show's annual listeners' chart, a record gap at the time.

Chumbawamba's first session featured covers of 70s hits and aroused some controversy among listeners. When it was repeated, Peel commented:

"'People wrote in and said that they perceived the session and the tunes that Chumawumba chose to do as being some kind of comment on the nature of these programmes. And that may be so frankly, but I thought it was quite an amusing idea and continue to think it was quite an amusing idea, so I shall press along with that and not get sulky or anything. It doesn’t matter to me whether it was or not. I enjoyed it.'"

Festive Fifty Entries

 * 1985 Festive Fifty: Revolution #6


 * 1993 Festive Fifty (& Credit To The Nation): Enough Is Enough #1
 * 1993 Festive Fifty (& Credit To The Nation): Hear No Bullshit #12
 * 1993 Festive Fifty: Timebomb #28

Sessions
1. Recorded: 1992-08-02. First broadcast: 21 August 1992. Repeated: 02 October 1992
 * Two sessions. No known commercial release.
 * Agadoo / The Birdie Song / Knock Three Times / Y Viva Espanai

2. Recorded: 1993-10-21. First broadcast: 13 November 1993. Repeated:
 * Timebomb / Love Me I'm A Liberal / Give The Anarchist A Cigarette / The Rain It Raineth

Live


 * 08 July 1994 (recorded: Glastonbury Festival, 1994-06-26)


 * 1) Anarchist
 * 2) Time Bomb
 * 3) Bad Dog
 * 4) Money
 * 5) Love Me
 * 6) Rappaport
 * 7) Enough Is Enough

(Please correct mistakes and add any missing info)

Other Shows Played

 * 1985


 * 20 November 1985: Revolution (7") Agitprop (JP – “Unimpeachable sentiments and a brilliant record”)
 * 25 December 1985: Revolution FF#6


 * 1997


 * 07 January 1987: More Whitewashing (album - Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records: Starvation, Charity and Rock & Roll - Lies & Traditions) Agit Prop
 * 30 June 1987: Always Tell The Voter (LP-Never Mind The Ballots) Agit Prop
 * August 1987 (Rockradio): Knit Your Own Balaclava (Compilation album - Mindless Slaughter) Anhrefn
 * 07 September 1987: Knit Your Own Balaclava (LP - Mindless Slaughter) Anhrefn


 * 1992


 * 19 January 1992: I Never Gave Up (single) Agit Prop
 * 08 February 1992: Revolutions (7") Agit Prop
 * 08 February 1992: I Never Gave Up (12") Agit Prop
 * 05 June 1992: Behave! (LP-Shhh) Agit Prop
 * 06 June 1992: Look! No Strings! (LP-Shhh) Southern
 * 12 June 1992: Nothing That's New (LP - Shhh) Agit Prop
 * 14 June 1992 (BFBS): Look, No Strings (LP - Shhh) Agit Prop
 * 04 July 1992: Sometimes Plunder (album - Shhh) Agit Prop
 * 06 July 1992 (Ö3): (Someone's Always Telling You How To) Behave (12") Agit Prop
 * 10 July 1992: Pop Star Kidnap (LP – Shhh) Agit Prop
 * 17 July 1992: Look! No Strings! (LP-Shhh) Agit Prop
 * 08 November 1992 (BFBS): (Someone's Always Telling You How To) Behave (12") Agit Prop
 * 15 November 1992 (BFBS): (Someone's Always Telling You How To) Behave (12") Agit Prop


 * 1993


 * 27 August 1993 (BFBS) (& Credit To The Nation): Enough Is Enough (12") One Little Indian
 * 27 August 1993 (& Credit To Nation): Hear No Bullshit (12 inch – Enough Is Enough) One Little Indian
 * 28 August 1993 (& Credit To The Nation): Hear No Bullshit (12" - Enough Is Enough) One Little Indian
 * 06 September 1993 (Ö3) (& Credit To The Nation): Hear No Bullshit (12" - Enough Is Enough) One Little Indian
 * 12 November 1993: Timebomb (CD Single) One Little Indian
 * 27 November 1993 (BFBS): Timebomb (12") One Little Indian
 * 25 December 1993: Timebomb (7 inch) One Little Indian FF#28
 * 25 December 1993 (& Credit To The Nation): Hear No Bullshit-On Fire Mix (CD single) One Little Indian FF#12
 * 25 December 1993 (& Credit To The Nation): Enough Is Enough (CD single) One Little Indian FF#1 (JP: “Frankly, it's hard to imagine a more appropriate number one to the Festive Fifty in this depraved year. If only pop songs made some difference....”)


 * 1994


 * 30 May 1994 (Ö3): Give The Anarchist A Cigarette (CD-Anarchy) London


 * 1995


 * 24 February 1995: Give The Anarchist A Cigarette (LP-Showbusiness!) One Little Indian


 * 1997


 * 21 August 1997: Timebomb One Little Indian Records


 * 1999


 * 31 August 1999 (& Credit To The Nation): Enough Is Enough


 * 2000


 * 19 December 2000: Revolution


 * Other


 * Best Of 1992 Vol 2: Nothing That's New
 * Peel Out In The States (& Credit To The Nation): Enough Is Enough