BUT, Life isn’t like that: songs & stories with boff whalley

But: Life Isn't Like That, Is It? 

Join us for an evening with Boff Whalley, musician, author, and a founding member of the anarcho-punk band Chumbawamba and Commoners Choir.

Part reading, part gig and part conversation, Boff will play songs from a lifetime of writing and making music, songs which chime with the book, and will draw from a personal history of creative activism.

Whalley's new book But is a collection of stories about real lives, real people, and real life: Stuttering, wayward, disjointed, funny, ridiculous, and unplanned.

We're thrilled the have a Radical Book Fair pit stop on Boff's tour, to talk about, and sing, the stories that make up the book.

The Speaker:

Boff Whalley is a former guitarist and songwriter with anarchist band Chumbawamba. He has written several touring plays and large-scale musicals, created projects at Manchester Museum, Somerset House and the Tate Gallery, and composed for Welsh National Opera. Boff has published three books (‘Footnote’, ‘Run Wild’ and ‘Faster! Louder!’) and continues to write songs for the situationist Commoners Choir as well as collaborating with a wide range of artists and activists. He once had a job building plywood grottos for supermarket Santas. When he isn't writing, it’s a good bet Boff is fell running across the hills of Northern England, where he lives in Yorkshire with his family and a very old cat.