After 30 years of writing and touring together, British punk band Chumbawumba have announced they are splitting up. The band are probably best known for karaoke anthem Tubthumping (I Get Knocked Down).
In a statement on their website today, the band said of the split: 'We felt we’d got to a point where what we did as a band – and specifically the writing, recording, touring cycle – wasn’t doing justice to what Chumbawamba set out to do in the first place... Being up-to-date meant giving plenty of time and energy to the band, constantly, for those thirty years; a constancy we plainly couldn’t keep up with in the end.'
However, the band would like to remind everyone that they will still be playing a few more gigs this year before they all go their separate ways. They also added that fans may not have heard the last of them, saying: 'We do, of course, reserve the right to re-emerge as Chumbawamba doing something else entirely (certainly not touring and putting out albums every two or three years). But frankly, that’s not very likely. Thirty years of being snotty, eclectic, funny, contrary and just plain weird. What a privilege, and what a good time we’ve had.'
You can check the band's final tour dates on their website as well as reading their official open letter regarding the split.
In a statement on their website today, the band said of the split: 'We felt we’d got to a point where what we did as a band – and specifically the writing, recording, touring cycle – wasn’t doing justice to what Chumbawamba set out to do in the first place... Being up-to-date meant giving plenty of time and energy to the band, constantly, for those thirty years; a constancy we plainly couldn’t keep up with in the end.'
However, the band would like to remind everyone that they will still be playing a few more gigs this year before they all go their separate ways. They also added that fans may not have heard the last of them, saying: 'We do, of course, reserve the right to re-emerge as Chumbawamba doing something else entirely (certainly not touring and putting out albums every two or three years). But frankly, that’s not very likely. Thirty years of being snotty, eclectic, funny, contrary and just plain weird. What a privilege, and what a good time we’ve had.'
You can check the band's final tour dates on their website as well as reading their official open letter regarding the split.
