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Three months into the new millennium, I got offered an interview with Jude Abbott, one-eighth of the English rock band Chumbawamba. Of course, I jumped at the opportunity to discover how they intended to replicate or surpass the success of their previous album, Tubthumper.

Their eighth album, WYSIWYG (an abbreviation of What You See Is What You Get), and its 22 tracks, sadly did not chart anywhere in the world. Still, they did get to land their multi-layered, overtly politically driven messages. A year after capturing this recording, the band left EMI and headed off to blaze new trails for the rest of the decade.

It\u2019s an interview that contextualises their sudden global appeal after having been around for some 15 years before that. Enjoy.