Chumbawamba - Daddy was a bankrobber - Live in Cologne

[davegriggs1]

"Remember to kick it over". I quite like Chumbawamba, but hypocrisy springs to mind.

[leatherpirate]

@davegriggs1 Of course, there's something to your accuses - but just look how humble they've become. The formers number 1 hit wonder became a songwriters combo with only a few of the original members left. Those who stayed seem to like it. You can't stay young forever, you know? Once in a while the days comes, when you've got to leave fighting to the younger ones and get yourself a little rest for whatever remains from your life...

[Theedgerob]

Lol... Because Joe Strummer was a part-time opera singer.

[picco8703]

BEST SONG EVER!!

[MsBabster]

Fucking hell..spend years singing about Anarchy and slating the bands that "did well" and then cover Bankrobber.....practice what you used to preach !!

[sonofsilence]

I like it I think it's a good interpretation. That's what a cover should be. What's teh point of doing a like-for-like cover.

[varesy]

bahhhh???

[brappyds]

what is this shit

[littlebitsick]

its rubbish thats what it is

[quelian]

It's called a folk tradition. Chumbawamba's point is that there's not so much difference between the issues of today and people's struggles in the past. And what's the point of covering a song if you're just going to try to sound like the original?

[wyrda222]

@quelian yeah covers are great when their different. if their different - and good! but at the end of the day, how often do u wanna listen to traditional folk music? Maybe some peeps whack it on when their cruising through Sprotbrough on their barge or something. Saying that their song about "if you want to find the general i know where he is" popped in my head the other day, but that wasn't a cover version of a classic, that was a piece of history as it was probably meant to be.

[gwts1171]

Great stuff.

[jimmyrhondy]

Fuck this is shit.

[fatpak419]

It sounds like a fucking church group, absolutely terrible. If you're going to take on a clash cover, which is respectably lofty, bring some originality at the very least.

[dons4europe]

Fucking Knobs , Sacriledge.....

[brassknuckletrash]

haha. am i the only person who likes this?

[Ojeminee94]

@brassknuckletrash yes;)

[wyrda222]

@brassknuckletrash as much as I love Chumbawamba i'm not feeling this fucking awful folky christmas carol version of bankrobber. some songs shouldn't be fiddled with. had they had too much fukin egg nog and chocolate log?

[brassknuckletrash]

@wyrda222 fair trade chocolate log and vegan egg nog.

[MsBabster]

ARGGGH! YOU FUCKING HYPOCRITES..YOU SAID TO US WHEN WE PRACTISED IN YOUR CELLAR THAT YOU HATED THE CLASH FOR THERE SELL OUT ATTITUDE..AND GUESS WHAT!!...WELL AT LEAST THE CLASH HAD A MESSAGE AND THEY HONEST ABOUT THERE INTENTIONS...WERE CHUMBA AND WE WONT SELL OUT...bollocks...DONT PRETEND TO BE WHAT YO CANT

[OdieTheNoob]

This SUCKS!! >:O

[tilpah]

Dan but no bollocks

[wellerslastloafers]

I'm no hater, but this is terrible.  My ears hurt. So much for anarchy! What a load of old sh1t!

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[jeandepaul]

and a walla walla erdispouilly coklywocker to you too

[foolintherain1990]

SHHHHH...

[woodwyrm]

truly, t'is quite horrible how artists nowadays reinterpret good old songs!

[coolconfuzer]

this is shitty......the clash fucking HATED this band

[tesshowerd]

I'm doing a project on the united kingdom and we have to find a native band a I LOVE chumbawamba so I'm going to play them at my school.lol

[notexlax]

christians?

this band is full of anarchists

[SpiiffySchwartz]

Wow, way to fuck up the song you christian fucking freaks!

[afp259]

Christians?!? - ROTFLOL......

[woodwyrm]

a capella is christian..?

[brunsk123]

Thanks for your reply. I played with the words because we have a situation with bankers right now in the UK, whereby they are rich, and the poor are paying for the mistakes that they made with increased taxes. Perhaps you haven't heard of the credit crunch. Anyway, kind of you to remind me of the actual words. Ta.

[brunsk123]

Daddy was a banker....

He never met nobody

He just loved to live that way

And he loved to steal your money

[W4rcrafter]

looool

[untitled000]

Daddy was a banker....

He never HURT nobody

He just loved to live that way

he loved to steal your money

[Th3SundanceKid]

if this song was from nowadays, the clash would've sing it that way :-)

[DannaLorena]

i love the clash joe strummer :.......

[grewuz]

sorry for this shit the clash!!!

[mju141]

saw them perform this at glastonbury 2007 had as all singing along, heartwarming moment made all the hairs on my neck stand on end, then they sang it again chopping and changing the words making it about tony blair haha

[veetar1]

yes their first album was "pictures of starving children sell millions...". And after listening to that, how could anybody believe in the "goodness" of Live Aid and "Sir" Boomtown's pseudo-altruistic message. Of course no-one listened apart from John Peel and one moved 20something in the early eighties. But before that they had a brilliant EP which was a great fuck off to HMV. Man they had punch!

[paintedbird]

This is a nice cover but The Clash do it best.

[Arturic0]

Chumbawamba is great, but I don't like this song.

The Clash? Well.

[i]What we need is break from the old routine[/i]

[lethcaro]

give me a break asswipe!

[RonaldVaughan]

Does anybody have Chumbawumba doing "TUBTHUMPING" live from the Brit Awards

(telecast in the USA in 1994)? That's when

I first saw & heard this band.

[Arturic0]

Tubthumping was in 1997...

[fistofonan]

Or, er,..., was it "pictures of starving children...", the first album.? I don't know. The late eighties/early nineties are a blur. Speed & cider - what a classy combination.

[fistofonan]

A really great band. Started on a high note with "Never mind the ballots" and pretty much kept the standard up throughout. Intelligent, thought provoking lyrics, great musicians, great live shows.

Wage peace!

[NyeTunes]

I've loved Chumba since "Tubthumper" took the US by storm in 1997... but having heard the early demos and stuff, I think I actually prefer the new mellow Nobacon-less version.

[andoibass]

much respect to this guys!punk rock!

[kamal2004pa]

this guys is gr8 i love them

[doityourself0]

the clash

[baldo1211]

i like the clash version,but they did good one also.respect to this guys!

[du2vye]

I miss chumbawamba. I wish they'd come to the states. I think the culture across the atlantic has grown (wised up) quite a bit.

[leatherpirate]

Very odd - I stumbled over you Chumbeez ten years ago, when my now-ex boss handed me over the Tubthumper-CD we finished just for EMI and I immediately fell in love to this music. Nowadays I still like to listen to Tubtumper, but I feel it's a very mediocre album compared to the rest of your works. I really LOVE the stuff on "Readymades" and "Un" - will always be a part of my life!

If-It-Is-To-Be-It-Is-Up-To... YOU! ;-)

[skoookum]

I've been listening to Chumbawamba since my teen years in Seattle in the 80's. When Tubthumper came out, most of the fans I knew were aghast. It's their only album I really don't much like, perhaps because I grew up on the good stuff. It took me a couple of years, but I think I understand their motivation for doing it and I think they made the right decision in making Tubthumper. Not a week's gone by in 20 years that I've not listened to them. Great vid, thanks.

[scarlet216]

The harmony's still amazing. Chumbawamba never ceases to impress me. Great cover of a great song.

[moosey62]

Great stuff. Was listening to WYSIWYG this morning, so in a Chumbly mood. I love everything by this band.

[cally19620]

EMI-Building would that be the same EMI that they slagged the blaggers I.T.A off for joining only to join later.

[leatherpirate]

Don't know which event you're referring to (blaggers ITA?) - EMI is the record company (the german dependance, nowadays "EMI Music Germany GmbH & Co. KG / Capitol Music") which held them under contract, when the Chumbeez hat their "major mainstream output" (Tubtumpher, Timebomb etc.).

[cally19620]

Chumba slagged of The Group Blaggers ITA for joining EMI and in 1989 they was involved with the fuck EMI album

[stanshall]

Of course I don't mind if you just don't like Chumbawamba and whatever crap it is that we do, (that's fine) but it's not right to say we slagged off Blaggers ITA. That's absolutely the opposite of the truth.

(more to follow)

[stanshall]

(Continued) When Blaggers signed to EMI (and we knew them then, played gigs with them, talked to them) we publicly said, OK, we wouldn't do it, but we aren't going to slag off Blaggers for that 'cos there are good reasons to do it, good luck to 'em. We were aware that they had no money, no record company etc, and in that situation we just thought, "do what you think to make a go of it."

[stanshall]

They spent a ton of their advance from EMI on an advert in the NME supporting Anti-Fascist Action. Respect to them for that. We never had any problem with Blaggers then, or since.

[stanshall]

Years (and years) later, we signed to EMI Germany. There was no longer any connection to all the shit arms-manufacturing companies that EMI was involved in during the '70's and '80's. We researched it really well. There was no part of EMI that had any connection whatsoever to anything dodgy... other than (of course) being capitalist wanker conglomerate corporate swine.

[leatherpirate]

...just am minute - "WE?" -??? HTF are you? ;-)

[stanshall]

The comments are mine, Boff, from the band. I don't speak for us all, obviously. We have to have a meeting for that! (Half-serious). I don't wanna read stuff about us or Blaggers or whatever that is just hearsay.

[leatherpirate]

Hey - wow! You're welcome! "Boff" You've been my favorite dude from the band, since I had to finish the PrePressProduction for "Tubthumper" on behalf of EMI Germany (the "building", you played in front of on the upper video ;-).

[fuktheusa]

I really got into Chumba in the early 80's in the UK - saw you with Slavedance in East London & you made everyone stand up & take notice when you started with "Revolution" - I still remember it well. Bought most of your stuff for a few years after that. Are you coming to Barcelona in the future? It'd be great to see you play.

[keilan303]

Fucking bollocks!

For a more upfront honest rendition of this check out Greg MacPherson

w w w . g 7 w e lc o m i n g c o m m i t t e e . n e t / m p 3 / b a n k r o b b e r . m p 3

[leatherpirate]

keilan, if you don't like chumbawamba, watch some other yt-vids. thanks for the link to an interesting g7-site with lots of other mp3s - but please use some modest language in the future or i'll have to remove your comments.

[theonlytruepunk]

I just wish you had the whole song. One classic Clash tune.

[clashpunx]

This song is simply "BANKROBBER" and it was originally written by The Clash - it's nothing on the original (obviously!!)

[meirasanya]

(continued) The album this comes from is my joint favourite, the other being Anarchy, the first I listened to.I even have a signed Singsong CD.

Leatherpirate, I am jealous beyond belief that you got to see them.

jd920 - I like Tubthumping and the whole album, but it is one of their worst, in my opinion. It cannot beat the older stuff, nor can it beat most of their newer stuff

[leatherpirate]

> Leatherpirate, I am jealous beyond belief that you got to see them.

...and the best thing is: It was a free public concert! The City of Cologne arranged some kind of media-festival with live music and I guess they paid the Chumbies for their support. You could simply go there and watch them - no barricades, no security-gates. And the best of all: The stage was directly in front of the EMI-Building in Cologne's Media Park, where they're no longer under contract! >;-D

[leatherpirate]

> Leatherpirate, I am jealous beyond belief that you got to see them.

No need to be jealous - simply check out Chumbawamba's official website to learn when they they're touring in a location close to you next time.

[leatherpirate]

meirasanya: I remember the day of that "free concert" quite well (I've seen Chumbawamba live before on several occasions). Some business affair had taken me to visit a friend, who lived then in a building right in the media park, and when I left the house, I heared "on eeeeBay" echoing over the place. I thought "wow, they play Chumbawamba here" and went to see, what was going on. What a joyous suprise to see them standing live before me!

[meirasanya]

I have been listening to Chumbawamba for 14 years and I love how each album I have heard - Anarchy, Shhh, Swinging with Raymond, Tubthumper, WYSIWYG, Readymade and Singsong - all have a different feel to them, some rocky, some punky, some folky, some more like dance music, yet each one touches and enchants me.

[Englishwhiteboy]

The Acoustic chumba are miles better than the electric chumba...check their website for some great free downloads.

[WhiteRosepunk]

I love their version of the Clash's song!

[tyburnx]

btw, pirate, if you have the vid of them singing hanging on the old barbed wire, please put it up, that's one i'd love to see

[leatherpirate]

Me too! ;-)

[leatherpirate]

I said to me: "Wow, this stuff sounds even better!" and decided to get some of their CDs in the next days...

Today all the regular Chumba-Releases (and some of the non-regular... ;-) are part of my music collection and I frequently listen to them.

Thubthumper serves well as a gateway drug and if any other person in the world finds it's way to the more sophisticated works of Chumbawamba, that's fine! All the others - sorry for you, just keep on listening to the kinky shit you consider as music.

[leatherpirate]

Then one day, I came home very late after a nice evening of playing poker. I was tired, but not enough to avoid switching on the TV - and zapped rightly into the late late broadcast of a live concert. I really liked the music, and after a few minutes realized: "Hey, this is Chumbawamba!" Although I was tired, I watched the complete concert until the end - and they didn't play more than 1 or 2 songs from "Tubthumper".

[leatherpirate]

Let's put it this way: Of course I too came about Chumbawamba with the Tubthumper Album. I was working for a pre-print company, who had EMI as a client these days, when "Tubthumping" was released. Me chief (an asshole, btw) came along, gave me the CD after we had finished the production and said: "THIS is the real stuff, buddy!" I listened to it and I liked it. I listened to it more than 1-3 times. And I liked it more.

[tyburnx]

I agree with magpie, their other stuff is so much better than Tubthumping, I mean Timebomb is for me one of, if not their greatest song.

Besides, there's too damn much Tubthumping on this site - I looked for Chumbawamba hoping to find some of their more obscure vids, and nine out of ten is the same damned song!

[sleepymagpie]

Yes, lets listen to Tubthumping. Lets forget all that other music they've made, and lets over look the inconvientant truths about there politics and lets just let them be one hit wonders rather than desent long running artists. Sounds like a plan to me.

[jd920]

this is dumb...listen to tubthumping

[folkfemale]

Agreed!

[ttwnrancon]

Good live clip. One of the most underrated bands of the last 20 something years.

[leatherpirate]

Yup! ;-)