![]() ![]() Our humbled narrator here was never going to be sharing a cosy fireside chat with the audience tales of Top Of The Pops encounters and backstage bants. But the mind behind them never lost its despair, its anger, even as the band ceased to be a viable mainstream media concern beyond Virgin Radio Anthems. When he shouted his slogans down the mic, people listened. He’s fifty-nine and he used to be somebody, striding the biggest stages pop had to offer with daft hair. No, the angst Dunstan is wracked with is an existential one feeling increasingly invisible, impotent and apoplectic. And of course there were about twenty members of the band, but no doubt they all got a nice drink out of it as well. Money the band were admirably known for redistributing to agit-causes and concerns, staving off accusations of bedding down with the establishment enemy in EMI. But Dunstan Bruce, erstwhile shouter in “Tubthumping hitmakers Chumbawamba”, isn’t pleading penury in his one-man show, ‘Am I Invisible Yet?’, which played two sold-out nights at the Rialto Theatre.Ĭhumbawamba sold a few million records worldwide off the back of that single, riding that last late-20th century wave of people actually paying money for CDs. Needs must, bum-touch invitations are more problematic these days. ![]() What does a notorious pop star do when the phone stops ringing and the bleach grows out grey? The Cheeky Girls sell mid-range saloons out of a Hyundai showroom in York now. ![]()
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