For a time in the halcyon 1990s, Chumbawamba founding member and guitarist Boff Whalley was both an anarcho-punk firebrand and a worldwide pop star … and lived to tell the tale. That tale, and a ...

After a successful career with the band Chumbawamba, guitarist Boff Whalley turned to playwriting 15 years ago. He tells Catherine Jones about working with companies Red Ladder and Cardboard Citizens ...

ALLAN Mark “Boff” Whalley is an English musician and writer who was formerly the lead guitarist for the anarcho-punk and folk band Chumbawamba. Anarchist punk band Chumbawamba was formed in 1982, but ...

It is difficult to put a finger on Chumbawamba, the anarcho-punk outfit who were just as much about ideas and activism as they were about music. They made a name for themselves with the infectious ...

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Elvi Piper’s fine revival of Boff Whalley’s 2014 musical comedy about three sisters on a pit village frontline in 1984 is full of humour, drama and lived experience Boff Whalley’s “musical comedy” was ...

THE story of a young mill-hand, fired up by the injustices meted out to the suffragettes, inspired East Lancashire class warrior Boff Whalley. When Mr Whalley, former guitarist and writer with ...

Forty years on from the battle to save Britain’s pits, a revival of Boff Whalley’s drama We’re Not Going Back honours women’s contribution Ten years ago, Boff Whalley created a play for Red Ladder ...

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