Dunstan Bruce
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Birth name | Duncan "Dunstan" Bruce |
Born | (1960-12-31) 31 December 1960 (age 63) Billingham, England |
Genres | Anarcho-punk, post-punk |
Occupation(s) | Vocalist, musician, filmmaker, lecturer |
Years active | 1982–present |
Dunstan Bruce (born 31 December 1960) is a British musician and filmmaker who is perhaps best known for his work with Leeds-based anarcho-punk band Chumbawamba, of which he was a founding member. He grew up in the northern industrial town of Billingham.
Career
Musician
Prior to Chumbawamba, Bruce sang for the Billingham-based band Men in a Suitcase. At the beginning of 1982, Bruce joined Chumbawamba and was the lead singer of the band's biggest hit single, "Tubthumping". Bruce left Chumbawamba at the end of 2004 after struggles and a rivalry with Boff Whalley, and the band eventually split up in 2012.
Bruce is the lead singer of Interrobang?!, an agitprop post-punk band he formed in 2012 with ex-Chumbawamba drummer Harry Hamer and ex-Regular Fries guitarist Stephen Griffin. They released a critically acclaimed eponymous album in 2018.[1]
Bruce performs spoken word pieces accompanied by music as the Existential Angst of Dunstan Bruce.[2]
Filmmaker
Bruce has worked in filmmaking, producing a soundtrack for Channel 4's Whatever: A Teenage Musical[3] and several documentary films, including one about his experience in Chumbawamba called Well Done, Now Sod Off,[3] which won the audience prize at Leeds International Film Festival. In 2012, Bruce directed a movie about the punk group Sham 69's tour of China called This Band Is So Gorgeous,[3] which was nominated for the "Best Music Documentary" at IDFA in 2012. In 2014 he directed the music documentary A Curious Life about the folk-punk band Levellers.[3]
References
External links
- "A new music film documents the curious life of the Levellers - The Ask". MusicFilmWeb. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
- "A Chumbawamba FAQ". oocities.org. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
- "MFDB - The Music Documentary Database". musicfilmweb.com. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
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- Boff Whalley
- Danbert Nobacon
- Lou Watts
- Dunstan Bruce
- Alice Nutter
- Harry Hamer
- Mavis Dillon
- Paul Greco
- Jude Abbott
- Neil Ferguson
- Phil Moody
- Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records (1986)
- Never Mind the Ballots (1987)
- English Rebel Songs 1381–1914 (1988)
- Slap! (1990)
- Shhh (1992)
- Anarchy (1994)
- Swingin' with Raymond (1995)
- Tubthumper (1997)
- WYSIWYG (2000)
- Readymades (2002)
- English Rebel Songs 1381–1984 (2003)
- Un (2004)
- A Singsong and a Scrap (2005)
- The Boy Bands Have Won (2008)
- ABCDEFG (2010)
- Portraits of Anarchists (1996)
- The ABCs of Anarchism with Negativland (1999)
- In Memoriam: Margaret Thatcher (2013)
- Showbusiness! (live) (1995)
- Uneasy Listening (compilation) (1998)
- Revengers Tragedy (soundtrack) (2003)
- Get On with It (live) (2006)
- Going, Going (live DVD) (2013)
- "Revolution" (1985)
- "Smash Clause 28! Fight the Alton Bill!" (1988)
- "(Someone's Always Telling You How To) Behave" (1992)
- "Enough Is Enough" with Credit to the Nation (1993)
- "Timebomb" (1993)
- "Homophobia" (1994)
- "Ugh! Your Ugly Houses!" (1995)
- "Tubthumping" (1997)
- "Amnesia" (1998)
- "Drip Drip Drip" (1998)
- "Top of the World (Olé, Olé, Olé)" (1998)
- "Tony Blair" (1999)
- "She's Got All the Friends That Money Can Buy" (2000)
- "Her Majesty" (2002)
- "Jacob's Ladder (Not in My Name)" (2002)