Boff Whalley
Overview
Boff Whalley was born in Lancashire, where he worked as a postman and supermarket shelf-stacker before starting a band with friends in the Thatcher era. After 25 years of recording and touring with Chumbawamba, Boff started to write – he has written several touring plays and musicals for Red Ladder Theatre and has written large-scale community musicals with residents of two East Leeds estates, performed at West Yorkshire Playhouse. He is currently working with Cardboard Citizens Theatre and Welsh National Opera (both with writer Sarah Woods), and with Edinburgh Fringe winner Daniel Bye. A lifelong anarchist and Burnley FC supporter, he has published two books (‘Footnote’ and ‘Run Wild’), writes for various magazines, and has just finished writing a biography of notorious punk.