Editing Chumbawamba (section)

===Break-up and post-breakup activities (2012–present)===
[[File:Lou Watts TFF.JPG|thumb|Founder member Lou Watts performing in 2012]]

On 8 July 2012, Chumbawamba announced that they would be disbanding at the end of the year. On their website they opened the statement with "That's it then, it's the end. With neither a whimper, a bang or a reunion." They stated they would continue with individual efforts, and ended their official statement:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chumba.com/end.php |title=Chumbawamba |website=Chumba.com |access-date=17 April 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140228052417/http://www.chumba.com/end.php |archive-date=28 February 2014  }}</ref>
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We do, of course, reserve the right to re-emerge as Chumbawamba doing something else entirely (certainly not touring and putting out albums every 2 or 3 years). But frankly, that's not very likely. Thirty years of being snotty, eclectic, funny, contrary and just plain weird. What a privilege, and what a good time we've had.
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In December 2012, the final UK show, filmed at the [[Leeds City Varieties]] on Halloween night, was released as Chumbawamba's only live DVD, entitled ''[[Going, Going – Live at Leeds City Varieties]]''.

A mail-order EP, ''[[In Memoriam: Margaret Thatcher]]'', was released on 8 April 2013. The CD had been recorded around 2005 and made available for pre-order at gigs and on the group's website, to be issued upon the death of [[Margaret Thatcher]].<ref name="Streaming version">{{cite news|title=In Memorium|url=http://www.factmag.com/2013/04/10/stream-chumbawambas-in-memoriam-an-ep-recorded-in-2005-and-made-available-upon-margaret-thatchers-death/|newspaper=Fact Magazine|date=10 April 2013 |access-date=10 April 2013|author1=Fact }}</ref>

==== Post-breakup band member activities ====

[[File:Dunstan Bruce from Chumbawamba, the Opera North chorus and Hope & Social on stage at the Awakening. LEEDS 2023.jpg|thumb|Dunstan Bruce performing "Tubthumping" with [[Opera North]] and [[Hope & Social]] for the launch of the [[Leeds 2023]] year of culture]]

After leaving Chumbawamba, vocalist Dunstan Bruce founded Dandy Films, an independent film and video company whose projects have included a "video blog" of [[Levellers (band)|the Levellers]]' UK tour during 2010 and [[Sham 69]]'s tour of China.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://magazine.brighton.co.uk/Home/Editorial/A%20Weapon%20Called%20The%20Word:%20Levellers%20Go%20Grassroots%20With%20Debut%20Reissue/21_38_3166 |title=Brighton Magazine – A Weapon Called The Word: Levellers Go Grassroots With Debut Reissue |website=Magazine.brighton.co.uk |access-date=10 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930051249/http://magazine.brighton.co.uk/Home/Editorial/A%20Weapon%20Called%20The%20Word:%20Levellers%20Go%20Grassroots%20With%20Debut%20Reissue/21_38_3166 |archive-date=30 September 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 2012 former Chumbawamba members Dunstan Bruce and Harry Hamer formed a new band, Interrobang?!, with guitarist Stephen Griffin of London-based [[Regular Fries]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.interrobangband.co.uk/|title=Interrobang?!|website=Interrobang?!|access-date=16 September 2018}}</ref>

In August 2017, Dunstan Bruce, Boff Whalley and Jude Abbott were interviewed on [[BBC]]'s ''[[The One Show]]'' from the Leeds City Varieties and near their former home celebrating 20 years since the release of "[[Tubthumping]]".

Chumbawamba is a member of the Canadian charity Artists Against Racism and participated in a 2018 Radio PSA for them.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://artistsagainstracism.org/radio-2/|title=Radio – Artists Against Racism|website=Artistsagainstracism.org|access-date=16 September 2018|archive-date=7 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201007213912/http://artistsagainstracism.org/radio-2/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Former member Alice Nutter has had a number of plays performed at the [[Leeds Playhouse]], where she took a writing course in 2006.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-04-15|title=Leeds Playhouse marks 50 years with dramas rolling back the decades|url=http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/apr/15/leeds-playhouse-maxine-peake-simon-armitage-alice-nutter-50-years|access-date=2021-07-03|website=The Guardian|language=en}}</ref> A neon sculpture on the side of the theatre features the lyric "I get knocked down but I get up again" from the band's single "[[Tubthumping]]".<ref>{{Cite web|title=Lockdown 'knocked down' Leeds Playhouse but it 'got back up again' for Leeds communities|url=https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/lockdown-knocked-down-leeds-playhouse-but-it-got-back-up-again-for-leeds-communities-3188625|access-date=2021-07-03|website=Yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk|date=11 April 2021 |language=en}}</ref>

==== Documentary ====
On 1 July 2015 Dunstan Bruce started a [[Kickstarter]] to fund a documentary titled ''I Get Knocked Down (The Untold Story of Chumbawamba)'' that told the band's entire history from different members' perspective. He surpassed his £40,000 goal.<ref>{{cite web|title=I Get Knocked Down (The Untold Story of Chumbawamba)|url=https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dunstanbruce/i-get-knocked-down-the-untold-story-of-chumbawamba/|author=Dunstan Bruce|publisher=[[Kickstarter]]|date=1 July 2015|access-date=27 July 2015}}</ref> That same year, Chumbawamba was the featured subject on two [[podcast]]s produced by [[Gimlet Media]]: ''StartUp'' #16 "The Secret Formula"<ref name="StartUp #16">{{cite web |last1=Blumberg |first1=Alex |title=StartUp #16 The Secret Formula |url=https://gimletmedia.com/shows/startup/brhob6/gimlet-16-the-secret-formula |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222092554/https://gimletmedia.com/episode/16-the-secret-formula/ |archive-date=22 December 2015 |access-date=21 December 2015 |publisher=Gimlet Media}}</ref> and ''Surprisingly Awesome'' #4 "Tubthumping".<ref name="Surprisingly Awesome">{{cite web |last1=McKay |first1=Adam |date=2015-12-01 |title=Surprisingly Awesome #4 Tubthumping |url=https://gimletmedia.com/shows/surprisingly-awesome/z3hz9j/4-tubthumping |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222115524/https://gimletmedia.com/episode/tubthumping/ |archive-date=22 December 2015 |access-date=21 December 2015 |website=Gimlet Media}}</ref>