Smash Clause 28! Fight the Alton Bill!
"Smash Clause 28! Fight the Alton Bill!" | ||||
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Single by Chumbawamba | ||||
Released | 1988 | |||
Recorded | Woodlands Studio, Castleford, March 1988. | |||
Genre | Anarcho-punk | |||
Label | Agit Prop Records | |||
Songwriter(s) | Chumbawamba | |||
Producer(s) | Chumbawamba | |||
Chumbawamba singles chronology | ||||
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"Smash Clause 28! Fight the Alton Bill!" is a 1988 single from anarcho-punk band Chumbawamba on their Agit Prop Records label. It is a benefit record for the London Lesbian and Gay Switchboard and the Women's Reproductive Rights Campaign.
Clause 28, also known as Section 28, was a controversial bill proposed in the United Kingdom to curtail the promotion or acceptance of homosexuality. The Alton Bill was a set of laws designed to significantly restrict access to abortion in the United Kingdom. As the song titles suggest, the members of Chumbawamba felt strongly that these movements were not in the best interest of the public.[1]
On the record itself the band shout "Clause 29!", which was accurate at the time of recording. Soon after, the bill was changed to Clause 28.
Track listing
- Side A - "Smash Clause 28!"
- Side B - "Fight the Alton Bill!"
Credits
- All songs written and produced by Chumbawamba
Chumbawamba on this record are:
- Alice Nutter - vocals
- Loo - guitar, vocals
- Dunst - bass, vocals
- Boffo - guitar, vocals
- Danbert Nobacon - vocals
- Harry Hammer - drums, guitar
- Simon Lanzon - keyboards, voice
References
- ^ Thompson, Dave (2000). Alternative Rock: Third Ear - The Essential Listening Companion. Miller Freeman Books. p. 265. ISBN 9780879306076.
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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)