Dunstan Bruce
Biography
Dunstan Bruce is a British musician and filmmaker most famous for his role as the lead singer and founding member of the anarchist punk band Chumbawamba. He performed the lead vocals on the band's global 1997 smash hit, "Tubthumping," which became a defining anthem of the decade.
Known For & Full Filmography6 Titles
Drama Series - 1977, 16 episodes • as Self
The biggest night in the British music calendar, the BRIT Awards celebrate the biggest successes in music & promote new talent.
Movie - 2024, 2h 15m • as Caretaker / Man behind car
Aguska is an inspirational short film about a young girl called Melissa. Bullied at football, she and her family work together to not only overcome and unite the whole team together but also to ensure everyone wins.
Movie - 2014, 2h 15m • as Self - Interviewer
Borne out of the anarcho-squatting free-festival scene of the eighties the Levellers have survived over 25 years of music press vitriol, drink and drug addictions as well as many barren years in the wilderness. But the band had seven consecutive gold albums throughout the 90s, sold out their own festival for the last ten years and run their own creative centre, the Metway. Via the eccentric artist, archivist, whiskey loving bassist Jeremy Cunningham we are taken on a journey; how the band rose to fame and how they survived. A potted history of 25 years of subsidised dysfunctionalism. An uplifting tale of battling demons, that reminds us that behind every band there is always a story of struggle for expression, acceptance and survival.
Movie - 2000, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A potted and often hilarious history of Chumbawamba. Footage and interviews from the last two decades retrace the band's history through its early days of communal living, getting through the Thatchers years, and emerging in the nineties wiser and unrepentant. The story of how they surprised themselves and everybody else by selling 5 million albums in the USA. This is an ongoing punk saga in an age of manufactured bands.
Movie - 2013, 2h 15m • as Self (Vocals)
Filmed at Leeds City Varieties in December 2012 and released in 2013, “Going, Going” records the final gig of anarchist punk band Chumbawumba before they split up, bringing to an end a 30–year career.
Movie - 2023, 2h 15m • as Self
Part music documentary, part unflinching character study, part a punk version of ‘A Christmas Carol’ - I Get Knocked Down is the funny, surreal, and deeply human untold story of Chumbawamba and its ex-front man Dunstan Bruce.