But – Life’s Not Like That, Is It?, With Boff Whalley

Boff Whalley is one of the founding members of the band Chumbawamba. In recent times he has written several touring plays for large-scale theatre and has worked on  community-based projects in situations as diverse as Manchester Museum, Somerset House and the Tate Gallery.

Boff has published three books (‘Footnote’, ‘Run Wild’ and ‘Faster! Louder!’), writes for various magazines, and continues to write songs for the situationist Commoners Choir. Over the past four years he has composed modern operas for Welsh National Opera in collaboration with a Cardiff-based centre for refugees and asylum seekers, and recent collaborators include West Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra, Harmony Refugee Choir and, as part of the 2024 Fete of Britain, with musician Brian Eno.

‘But’ is a celebration of life’s disruptions and digressions – a collection of stories about real lives, real people, and real life. Stuttering, disjointed, funny, ridiculous, and unplanned.

Boff weaves these wayward stories together by travelling around the country to meet up with people who, knowingly or unknowingly, altered the course of his own life, to retrace the pin-ball route his life has taken along the way, and to say a simple ‘thank you’.

This – the Nottingham leg of a national tour – will include reading, songs and conversation

Refreshments included