

Sun, 16 Mar
|Golden Lion
Boff Whalley (Chumbawamba) - Live & Book Talk
Time & Location
16 Mar 2025, 14:30 – 17:00
Golden Lion, Fielden Square, Todmorden OL14 6LZ, UK
About the Event
'Right through March I'll be travelling around with a suitcase full of books (yes, a new book! See below) and an old guitar, visiting bookshops and venues.'
The idea is to base a sort of show around the ideas in the book, drawing on an assortment of songs from 1982 to the present, songs that echo the book's theme of disruption. This means having to re-learn songs I'd written decades ago (so that'll be fun).
It would be lovely to have you as an audience for these small events, since part of the thing will be having a conversation / Q & A about whatever you fancy talking about, be it Marcel Duchamp's Urinal, climate catastrophe, Burnley FC or Elon Musk. I've never done this before, – not like this, anyway. Should be fascinating. I've been to lots of book readings and I'm usually struck by the formality of…