Archive for June, 2009

Some In Music Biz Still Press For Economic Revolution; New Tool … – paidContent:UK

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

Some In Music Biz Still Press For Economic Revolution; New Tool ...
paidContent:UK
At MusExpo Europe '09 in London on Tuesday, Billy Bragg manager and International Music Managers' Forum president Peter Jenner repeated his earlier calls ...

and more »

Wilco's latest album is love letter to fans – Victoria Advocate

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

Wilco's latest album is love letter to fans
Victoria Advocate
... including songs in the "Mermaid Avenue" projects, in which Wilco and British political-folkie Billy Bragg wrote melodies for Woody Guthrie lyrics. ...

and more »

Swells: A Tribute – The Quietus

Monday, June 29th, 2009

The Quietus

Swells: A Tribute
The Quietus
He once suggested, in pitch-perfect Barking vowels, that Billy Bragg should release an album called More Songs About How I Neffer Git To 'Ave Any Sex. ...

and more »

Tony Nelson's photo exhibit immortalizes local 'Hootenanny … – MinnPost.com

Monday, June 29th, 2009

MinnPost.com

Tony Nelson's photo exhibit immortalizes local 'Hootenanny ...
MinnPost.com
Walsh's weekly "Hoot" draws fans and musicians of all stripes — artists like Dan Wilson, Billy Bragg and Ike Reilly stop by when they're in town, ...

and more »

A Radical History of Britain – Financial Times

Monday, June 29th, 2009

Financial Times

A Radical History of Britain
Financial Times
... liberty” when the rights it guarantees us are so meagre – and when it can be claimed as their own by both Billy Bragg and the British National party? ...

and more »

Jamie T: 'Sticks 'N' Stones' – Digital Spy

Sunday, June 28th, 2009

Jamie T: 'Sticks 'N' Stones'
Digital Spy
Described by one critic as the "bastard lovechild of Billy Bragg and Mike Skinner", Jamie T is the perfect ...

and more »

Have a life, willing to buy the T-shirt – Brisbane Times

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

Have a life, willing to buy the T-shirt
Brisbane Times
WHEN that old socialist softie Billy Bragg sang, "The revolution is just a T-shirt away," he was nearly right: he should have said "that revolutionary". ...

and more »

Have a life, willing to buy the T-shirt – The Age

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

Have a life, willing to buy the T-shirt
The Age
WHEN that old socialist softie Billy Bragg sang, "The revolution is just a T-shirt away," he was nearly right: he should have said "that revolutionary". ...

and more »

Paperback writers – The Age

Friday, June 26th, 2009

Paperback writers
The Age
Nick Cave does it, so do Ryan Adams, Steve Earle and Billy Bragg. Graeme Thomson investigates the urge to write books and how it differs from their usual ...

and more »

Now, About Those New Online Music Business Models… – Mashable

Friday, June 26th, 2009

Mashable

Now, About Those New Online Music Business Models…
Mashable
Take FAC for example, with board members including Dave Rowntree (Blur) Ed O'Brien (Radiohead), Kate Nash, Howard Jones, Billy Bragg, Hal Ritson (The Young ...

and more »

Funny guy, Colin Spring – Mail Tribune

Friday, June 26th, 2009

Funny guy, Colin Spring
Mail Tribune
... a performer who specializes in social commentary and likens his music to early Springsteen and Dylan with an edge of '80s punk rock a la Billy Bragg, ...

and more »

Colin Spring performs at Paschal – Ashland Daily Tidings

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

Colin Spring performs at Paschal
Ashland Daily Tidings
His music is in the vein of early Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan with an edge of '80s punk rock ala Billy Bragg. Spring has been described as a funny guy ...

and more »

Wickerman 2009 @ Dundrennan, 24-25 Jul – The Skinny

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

Wickerman 2009 @ Dundrennan, 24-25 Jul
The Skinny, UK
There are countless other pleasures to be had at the festival, of course, not least a Scottish festival exclusive by none other than Billy Bragg, and a DJ set by Hot Chip, before the climatic, and by now famous, burning of the 30ft hand-crafted ...

Andrew Mycock: Beware of the future in a Disunited Kingdom – Yorkshire Post

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

Andrew Mycock: Beware of the future in a Disunited Kingdom
Yorkshire Post, UK
Musician Billy Bragg recently suggested that England needs to be "freed from this unhappy Union", thus appearing to agree with Scottish National Party leader, Alex Salmond, that Scottish and English independence is the only way to solve the ...

Breaking Up Britain: Four Nations – New Statesman

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

Breaking Up Britain: Four Nations
New Statesman, UK
But he argues for the total dissolution of the UK, and a rescue of English national pride from the irresponsible clutches of the far right, invoking Billy Bragg on this recurring, uplifting theme: “Englishness has more to do with space than race. ...

Winter brings singer-songwriter extravaganza – Winnipeg Free Press

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

Winter brings singer-songwriter extravaganza
Winnipeg Free Press, Canada
The following month will see one of Britain's greatest singer-songwriters hit the city when folk legend Billy Bragg plays the Burton Cummings Theatre Nov. 28 in support of his latest release, Mr. Love & Justice. Tickets for the show go on sale Saturday ...

Concert announcements, including John Prine – Winnipeg Free Press

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

Concert announcements, including John Prine
Winnipeg Free Press, Canada
The following month will see one of Britain's greatest singer-songwriters hit the city when folk legend Billy Bragg plays the Burton Cummings Theatre Nov. 28 in support of his latest release, Mr. Love & Justice. Tickets for the show go on sale Saturday ...

NME Radio: – NME.com

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

NME.com

NME Radio:
NME.com, UK
At 12.30pm, Billy Bragg talks to NME Radio about his very special Glastonbury performance at the Joe Strummer Memorial Stone on Saturday. Plus Peaches joins the station from 4.30pm for an exclusive interview. To tune in, head to Sky Channel 0184, ...

Remembering the Tolpuddle Martyrs – Yeovil Express

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

Remembering the Tolpuddle Martyrs
Yeovil Express, UK
Among many others, Tolpuddle regulars Tony Benn and Billy Bragg will be entertaining the crowds as usual. Full details of what's on can be found by clicking on the link in our "related articles" section on this page of our website. ...

Keep it in the bank – News & Star

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

Keep it in the bank
News & Star
In the 1980s, left-wing singer-songwriter Billy Bragg used to assert his socialist credentials by having maximum prices printed on his albums. ...

Andrew Mycock: eware of the future in a Disunited Kingdom – Yorkshire Post

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

Andrew Mycock: eware of the future in a Disunited Kingdom
Yorkshire Post, UK
Musician Billy Bragg recently suggested that England needs to be "freed from this unhappy Union", thus appearing to agree with Scottish National Party leader, Alex Salmond, that Scottish and English independence is the only way to solve the ...

Levellers – A Weapon Called the Word – Punknews.org

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

Punknews.org

Levellers - A Weapon Called the Word
Punknews.org
Yet Billy Bragg and the Pogues, both direct influences on the Levs and their music, are reviewed on here without issue, as is Frank Turner, who admits to being hugely influenced by them. Maybe it's that their green-anarchist political messages, ...

Radio review: Radio 4 takes a music-hall trip down memory lane – Telegraph.co.uk

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

Telegraph.co.uk

Radio review: Radio 4 takes a music-hall trip down memory lane
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom
So he asked Denis Norden, who knew a lot, and Roy Hudd, who knew even more, and Billy Bragg, who you wouldn't expect, being much younger, to know much at all but did because his grandmother was still bashing out old Weston and Lee songs on her piano ...

Guide to festival telly-making – guardian.co.uk

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

guardian.co.uk

Guide to festival telly-making
guardian.co.uk, UK
8) Billy Bragg is to be interviewed about the time in 1985 when Andy Kershaw's Opal Manta got stuck in the mud and they had to be towed out by the Bhundu Boys. 9) One camera must be constantly trained on Keith Flint from the Prodigy in the knowledge ...

Former Lags To Play Glastonbury – The Quietus

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

The Quietus

Former Lags To Play Glastonbury
The Quietus, UK
Former prison inmates turned singer-songwriters thanks to Billy Bragg's Jail Guitar Doors scheme will play at this year's Glastonbury festival. Jonny Neesom and Leon Walker both learnt the guitar as part of the project fronted by Bragg which tries to ...