Dunstan Bruce

Dunstan Bruce
Birth name	Duncan "Dunstan" Bruce
Born	31 December 1960 (age 53) Billingham, England
Genres	Anarcho-punk, pop
Occupation(s)	Vocalist, musician
Years active	1984–2004
Associated acts	Chumbawamba

Dunstan Bruce (born 31 December 1960) is an English musician and filmmaker who is perhaps best known for his work with Leeds-based anarcho-pop band Chumbawamba, of which he was a founding member.

Career

Bruce was born on 31 December 1960, in Billingham, England. Before Chumbawamba, Bruce sang for a band called Men in a Suitcase. At the end of 1982, Bruce joined Chumbawamba and later was the lead singer of the band's biggest hit single, Tubthumping.

After Chumbawamba

Bruce left Chumbawamba at the end of 2004, and the band eventually split up in 2012. After he left, Bruce took up a career in filmmaking, producing a soundtrack for Channel 4's Whatever: A Teenage Musical^[1] and several documentary films, including one about his experience in Chumbawamba called Well Done, Now Sod Off,^[1] 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,^[1] which was nominated for the "Best Music Documentary" at IDFA in 2012. In 2014 he directed the music documentary A Curious Life.^[1] about the folk-punk band Levellers. He formed Interrobang?! an agit-prop post-punk band with Harry Hamer, formerly of Chumbawamba and ex-Regular Fries guitarist Stephen Griffin. The are currently recording their debut album. Bruce is currently making a film about Chumbawamba with the working title "I Get Knocked Down" about his experience in the band.

References

1 2 3 4 "Welcome". moonfruit.com. Retrieved 8 November 2015.

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.

Chumbawamba

Boff Whalley Danbert Nobacon Lou Watts Dunstan Bruce Alice Nutter Harry Hamer Dave Dillon Paul Greco Jude Abbott Neil Ferguson Phil Moody

Albums	Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records (1986) Never Mind the Ballots (1987) English Rebel Songs 1381–1984 (1988) Slap! (1990) Shhh (1992) Anarchy (1994) Swingin' with Raymond (1995) Tubthumper (1997) WYSIWYG (2000) Readymades (2002) Un (2004) A Singsong and a Scrap (2005) The Boy Bands Have Won (2008) ABCDEFG (2010)

Compilations and soundtracks	Uneasy Listening (1998) Shhhlap! (2003) Revengers Tragedy (2003)

Live albums	Showbusiness! (1995) Get On with It (2006)

Singles and EPs	"Revolution" (1985) "Smash Clause 28! Fight the Alton Bill!" (1988) "(Someone's Always Telling You How To) Behave (1992)" "Enough is Enough" (1993) "Timebomb" (1993) "Homophobia" (1994) "Ugh! Your Ugly Houses!" (1995) "i - Portraits of Anarchists" (1996) "Just Look at Me Now" (1996) "Tubthumping" (1997) "Amnesia" (1998) "Top of the World (Olé, Olé, Olé)" (1998) The ABCs of Anarchism (1999) "Tony Blair" (1999) "She's Got All the Friends That Money Can Buy" (2000) "Enough Is Enough (Kick It Over)" (2000) "Her Majesty" (2002) "Jacob's Ladder (Not in My Name)" (2002)

Related	Discography Agit-Prop Records One Little Indian Records No Masters Records Credit to the Nation The Ex Oysterband Coope, Boyes & Simpson Noam Chomsky Negativland

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