Pensions strike: Rallies at towns and cities across the country Mirror.co.uk The protests in Exeter culminated in a rally in the city's Belmont Park, where left-wing singer-songwriter Billy Bragg performed. Billy, who lives near Dorchester in Dorset, said the protests were vital to ensure that the best people continued to ... |
 USA Today | Hundreds of thousands walk out – but the real battle is yet to come The Independent The protests in Exeter culminated in a rally, where the singer-songwriter Billy Bragg performed. * 95 per cent of police communication staff in London went on strike, with an additional 200 officers being bought in to cover, the Met announced. ... Cornwall and Devon public sector workers return after strike |
 The Guardian | The readers' room: What you thought of G2 this week The Guardian "I once drove two hours through a blizzard to see Billy Bragg play," Tim recalled, "and meeting him would be very exciting, were it not alloyed with a sense of impending doom." As Bragg pointed out in rehearals, Tim is "not much of a musician'. ... |
 The Guardian | No Off Switch by Andy Kershaw – review The Guardian A stint at Radio Aire was followed by a period driving Billy Bragg around, and this by a job as a presenter of the Old Grey Whistle Test. When that old lady was axed, he went to Radio 1. People said he was John Peel's heir, but that wasn't how he saw ... |
theartsdesk at the Glastonbury Festival 2011 The Arts Desk I pass The Leftfield tent where Billy Bragg often holds court, rather unsurprisingly. In fact, I caught Billy Bragg's eye as he passed earlier. He gave me a nice smile. In the Leftfield Tent the excellent Sound of Rum are delivering rough-edged ... |
Where are the rock stars on these strikes? Evening Standard Paul Weller, Billy Bragg and Elvis Costello paid tribute to the struggle. The Albert Hall benefit concert for the striking miners featured Tom Robinson and the cream of thinking pop music. The Left had all the best tunes, while the Right had Wham! and ... |
 Bristol24-7 | Roger James: World needs Glastonbury to be about so much more than music Bristol24-7 More pure politics feature in the Left Field tent which was started around 10 years headed up by singer Billy Bragg along with the Trade Unions backed Workers Beer Company. This year featured activists such as Mark Thomas and Tony Benn, ... |
My Media World: Christopher Lockwood Media Week (registration) When we are not out and about, I can often be found in my studio shouting along to The Smiths or Billy Bragg while moonlighting as my primary love – a painter/illustrator. If I could do it all over again I would... Have moved around a lot less, ... |
Palestine hit song targets Westminster Ekklesia The song has also been endorsed by South African human rights activist Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and personalities including musicians Roger Waters, Billy Bragg, Robert del Naja (Massive Attack), Lowkey and Sami Yusuf, filmmaker Ken Loach, ... |
Stars in town for radio show broadcast This is Wiltshire.co.uk The panel will consist of musician Billy Bragg, Dragons' Den star Deborah Meaden, Pension Minister Steve Webb MP, Shaun Woodward MP and Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary at the event hosted by Jonathan Dimbleby which will broadcast at 8pm. ... Stars in town for radio show broadcast |
Dave Matthews Caravan a field of dreams Chicago Tribune The irony would be stronger if the music festival's headliner were a poet-of-the-working-class type, a Bruce Springsteen or a Billy Bragg. But even with Dave Matthews and his more personal songwriting concerns fronting the show, it's still a stark ... |
Which artist will dare break this deathly cultural silence? The Guardian Though you could hear voices of protest in the far-flung Green Fields and from the stage curated by Billy Bragg, the rest of the site was as it would have been during the boom years. As far as I could tell, on any of the main stages, ... |
Posted on 28 June 2011 by Joe Neon Filler Step forward Billy Bragg. This year Bragg was curating the tented Leftfield stage and his hour and a quarter headline set tonight in the dry was just the tonic. “If you want subtle political critique you are in the wrong place. ... |
 iBerkshires.com (blog) | Saturday at Solid Sound Schenectady Gazette (blog) ... What You Said,” but the highlight occurred during the encore, when the band performed three Woody Guthrie songs from their 1998 album “Mermaid Avenue,” a collaboration with British singer Billy Bragg featuring previously unrecorded Guthrie lyrics. ... Solid Sound Festival Saturday Includes Rock, Soul And a Lot of Guthrie A Second Helping of Wilco's Solid Sounds |
 Boston Globe | A Second Helping of Wilco's Solid Sounds jambands.com As a treat, Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion sang on “California Stars,” which was started by Sarah's grandfather Woody Guthrie and completed by Wilco and Billy Bragg. Though not scheduled to perform yesterday, all six members of Wilco emerged during ... Saturday at Solid Sound Solid Sound Festival Saturday Includes Rock, Soul And a Lot of Guthrie |
 Paste Magazine (blog) | The 20 Best Albums of 2011 (So Far) - Josh Jackson Paste Magazine (blog) The former punk frontman believes, as Woody Guthrie, Joe Strummer and Billy Bragg before him, that his guitar is the best weapon against fascism, classism, hipsterism—really any “ism” west of anarchy or south of rock 'n' roll. But where the platitudes ... |
 Hartford Courant | Solid Sound Festival Saturday Includes Rock, Soul And a Lot of Guthrie Hartford Courant Guthrie's grandfather, the iconic folk singer Woody Guthrie, wrote the words to the song, which Wilco and Billy Bragg set to music on their 1998 collaboration “Mermaid Avenue.” The song was one of three tunes from a pair of “Mermaid Avenue” albums in ... A Second Helping of Wilco's Solid Sounds Saturday at Solid Sound |
 The Independent (blog) | "I hate the Coalition so much right now" The Independent (blog) So obviously they're going for Billy Bragg, Paul Weller and Tracy Chapman tracks from the 1980s – that great decade of trade union advance. Plus the Manic Street Preachers' “If you tolerate this, then your children will be next” – because a one day ... |
 The Guardian | I played banjo with Billy Bragg at Glastonbury festival The Guardian Step forward Billy Bragg . . . 'Don't forget that A chord' . . . Billy Bragg guides Tim Dowling through a song at Glastonbury. Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian On the train I tell myself I won't write about the mud. There's always mud, I think ... |
 The Guardian | Achtung Bono! Glastonbury gets political The Guardian At the Left Field tent – reintroduced last year as a reaction to the Tory government and curated by socialist singer Billy Bragg – attendance numbers were up. And while the programme mostly focused firmly on British politics, a debate about Palestine ... |
 This Is Fake DIY | Glastonbury 2011: Hard-Fi This Is Fake DIY So it's Billy Bragg's stage, did he get in touch with you personally, or…? Rich: We go back a little bit with Billy Bragg, because we asked him to be our special guest on a tour we did in May 2006. We did five Brixton Academies, which was a lot, ... |
Music Weekly podcast: Glastonbury 2011 – day two The Guardian (blog) Billy Bragg discusses the power of protest at the festival. Plus Guy Garvey from Elbow tells us about Michael Eavis's denim gloves and his favourite breakfast fruit. Plus: a track from Oh Land When Billy Bragg first came to Glastonbury in 1984, ... |
 The Guardian (blog) | Glastonbury 2011 live: Saturday 25 June, daytime The Guardian (blog) There's chat from Billy Bragg, Guy Garvey and our own Rosie and Alexis. Apparently. I've not actually listened to it, so if it's really a Jimmy Eat World "Special", apologies. 11.58am: Meanwhile, other papers report that "violence [broke] out in the ... |
Glastonbury - U2 Day RTE.ie And Bono maybe doesn't instantly fit the traditional Glasto bill in the way Billy Bragg or Morrissey do. So they're will be some expectation when the Dubliners step onto to the Pyramid Stage in a couple of hours. |
 Cincinnati CityBeat | The Topp Twins (Review) Cincinnati CityBeat They also are political activists who have been active in support of gay rights and against apartheid and nuclear proliferation, and their admirers include Billy Bragg (also interviewed). This film by Leanne Pooley benefits from access to lots of old ... |
