Archive for June, 2009
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
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Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
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Monday, June 29th, 2009
 The Quietus |
Swells: A TributeThe QuietusHe 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 » |
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Monday, June 29th, 2009
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Monday, June 29th, 2009
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Sunday, June 28th, 2009
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Saturday, June 27th, 2009
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Saturday, June 27th, 2009
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Friday, June 26th, 2009
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Paperback writersThe AgeNick 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 » |
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Friday, June 26th, 2009
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Friday, June 26th, 2009
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Funny guy, Colin SpringMail 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 » |
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Thursday, June 25th, 2009
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Colin Spring performs at PaschalAshland Daily TidingsHis 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 » |
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Thursday, June 25th, 2009
Wickerman 2009 @ Dundrennan, 24-25 JulThe Skinny, UKThere 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 ... |
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Thursday, June 25th, 2009
Andrew Mycock: Beware of the future in a Disunited KingdomYorkshire Post, UKMusician 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 ... |
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Thursday, June 25th, 2009
Breaking Up Britain: Four NationsNew Statesman, UKBut 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. ... |
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Thursday, June 25th, 2009
Winter brings singer-songwriter extravaganzaWinnipeg Free Press, CanadaThe 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 ... |
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Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
Concert announcements, including John PrineWinnipeg Free Press, CanadaThe 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 ... |
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Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
 NME.com |
NME Radio:NME.com, UKAt 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, ... |
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Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
Remembering the Tolpuddle MartyrsYeovil Express, UKAmong 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. ... |
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Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
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Keep it in the bankNews & StarIn the 1980s, left-wing singer-songwriter Billy Bragg used to assert his socialist credentials by having maximum prices printed on his albums. ... |
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Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
Andrew Mycock: eware of the future in a Disunited KingdomYorkshire Post, UKMusician 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 ... |
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
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Levellers - A Weapon Called the WordPunknews.orgYet 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, ... |
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Monday, June 22nd, 2009
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Monday, June 22nd, 2009
 guardian.co.uk |
Guide to festival telly-makingguardian.co.uk, UK8) 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 ... |
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Monday, June 22nd, 2009
 The Quietus |
Former Lags To Play GlastonburyThe Quietus, UKFormer 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 ... |
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