My doppelganger had always liked ‘Amnesia’, the second single from the Chumbawumba album “Tubthumper”, and finally thought of looking into the group last winter. We always knew them here in Canada as a one-hit wonder, but she discovered that they were actually an anarcho-punk-folk group that had been around since 1982, squatting in abandoned tenements and writing songs about heroes like Derry firebrand Bernadette Devlin, who slapped one of her English counterparts in the face during the inquiry after “Bloody Sunday” after he claimed that 1 Para members shot in self-defense. Needless to say, she fell in love, and I caught the bug from her this past spring.
They also did this charming homage to Paul Kelleher, a man who is best known for decapitating the statue of Margaret Thatcher in Guildhall.