 Thame Today | Free time Thame Today Organiser Joe Heap said: “It is a great honour for Towersey to have Mercury nominees like King Creosote and legendary artists like Billy Bragg play this year. “Interest has been huge and people can buy tickets for both those shows or for the whole ... |
 DigitalProductionME.com | DAS Road Series monitors make world debut DigitalProductionME.com Artists using the system included Billy Bragg, Paul Heaton, Reverend & The Makers and Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly. “We'd done a gig with Newton Faulkner in Bath the week before Glastonbury and the Sennheiser guys had come down to demo the DAS system,” ... |
 VillageSoup Belfast (blog) | Unlocking 'Source Code' is thrilling VillageSoup Belfast (blog) Among the musicians interviewed are Joan Baez, Billy Bragg, Pete Seeger, Van Dyke Parks and Peter Yarrow. His wife, daughter and brother are interviewed, as well. It is postulated that once President Richard Nixon was driven out of office, ... |
Number's up: The end of the little black book The Independent Here's a quartet that would make a good mixed doubles: Joan Bakewell, Camila Batmanghelidjh, Mike Brearley and Billy Bragg. My friends and family are also in there, rubbing up alongside names that others might think are more notable, and of course ... |
 Daily Mail | A micro skirt, bondage heels, a 'footlight'... Sandie Shaw on why, at 64, she ... Daily Mail 'My mate Billy Bragg calls me Lady Saga — I quite like that.' She made it clear that she was done with the fickle, often painful world of celebrity, and settled down into a quiet life. She retrained as a psychotherapist, concluding that her desire for ... |
 Brooklyn Vegan | Billy Bragg did his Busk, Lincoln Center Out Of Doors continues (Ponderosa ... Brooklyn Vegan "numb fingertips from the guitar playing last night. .. worth it coz I get to tell people I played Lincoln Center with Billy Bragg!!" - Marsha Burnett Billy Bragg kicked off the FREE Lincoln Center Out Of Doors 2011 season on Wednesday (7/27) with his ... |
Preview: Sixty-Six Books @ Bush Theatre / Westminster Abbey Londonist Looking at the list of people involved – Stewart Lee, Jeanette Winterson, Stella Duffy, Billy Bragg, Laura Dockrill, Neil LaBute, Toby Litt, Kate Mosse, the Archbishop of Canterbury to name a small handful – this is going to be an eclectic and ... |
The strange life and turbulent times of Andy Kershaw Spiked After a spell in local radio, Kershaw's big break came not from hooking up with an established big-name act or mega-promoter but from landing the job of being Billy Bragg's driver and tour manager. The Bard of Barking was just breaking through, ... |
 The Guardian | The Concert for Bangladesh and its charity pop legacy The Guardian Billy Bragg, whom one might expect to be suspicious of rock star noblesse oblige, agrees: "When pop stars recognise that there's a world beyond the end of their leotard, we should give them the benefit of the doubt. If you start attacking that, ... |
New DVDs due for release Aug. 2 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel With interviews with Tom Hayden, Billy Bragg, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Peter Yarrow, Christopher Hitchens, Sean Penn, others. (Not rated) Not reviewed. PEEP WORLD. A writer gets in trouble with his family when his autobiographical novel becomes a ... |
 BBC News | Westminster Abbey to host Bush theatre's Bible show BBC News Kwame Kwei-Armah, Billy Bragg, Carol Ann Duffy and Jeanette Winterson are some of the many talents involved. The event starts at 1900 on 21 October and runs until 0700 the following day. Sixty-Six Books will be the first production to be staged at the ... London's Bush Theatre to Present Sixty-Six Books, Including Overnight ... Preview: Sixty-Six Books @ Bush Theatre / Westminster Abbey |
London's Bush Theatre to Present Sixty-Six Books, Including Overnight ... Playbill.com From Jeanette Winterson to Jack Thorne, Carol Ann Duffy to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Billy Bragg to Wole Soyinka, 66 playwrights, poets, songwriters and novelists from all faiths and none, from over a dozen countries and across five continents, ... |
Rock 'n' roller still swinging Bristol Evening Post The musician's staggering stage and session career includes working as a backing artist for The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Browne, Joe Cocker, Billy Bragg, Bob Dylan and Chuck Berry, to name but a few. But ultimately, McLagan will ... |
 Open File | United Churches play host to Calgary arts and culture scene Open File Knox United Church has made a name for itself bringing in bigger name artists such as Billy Bragg, Harry Manx and The Sadies to play in its impressive space. The church also boasts a strong in-house music program. In addition, Knox has its own resident ... |
Gigs of the Week: Wanda Jackson, Mad Decent Block Party, Lykke Li DNAinfo It's been a quarter century since Billy Bragg took the stage for his first solo gig at North London Polytechnic and he's still as relevant as ever. He returns to New York's City Winery for the series "At Home In the City" where he'll perform an ... |
Mass killer Anders Breivik had Billy Bragg on target list Dorset Echo He proposed sending a lethal dose of anthrax to 62000 British 'traitors', including teachers, politicians, journalists – and singer and left-wing activist Billy Bragg, who lives at Burton Bradstock. Breivik – who claims links with British right-wing ... |
Mass Norwegian killer's sinister list of Dorset targets Bournemouth Echo He also proposes sending a lethal dose of anthrax to 62000 British “traitors”, including teachers, politicians, journalists – and Dorset-based musician Billy Bragg. The manifesto refers to two other cells in his network, a claim now under investigation ... |
Billy Bragg keeps faith, urges fans to follow Cliffviewpilot.com Billy Bragg playfully scolded the sold-out City Winery crowd, which welcomed the warm ballads that leavened his urgent calls to action. His latest campaign: Making those who exploit the defenseless more accountable – from fascists to financial crooks ... |
Four Artists Who Died Before Playing Houston Houston Press (blog) To give you an idea what a tough time we had, while we were researching this article, we were able to cross off two more from the "maybe" list: Minutemen bassist D.Boon, who played with agit-folkie Billy Bragg at Lawndale before the December 1985 van ... |
 Los Angeles Times | Is The 27 Club A Statistical Quirk? Wall Street Journal (blog) Winehouse, Hendrix, Cobain, Morrison, and Joplin were all drug users, and, as singer Billy Bragg suggested on Twitter, that fact may be more relevant to their early deaths than any mystical club. Aside from the numbers, what makes the 27 Club so eerie ... Forever 27 Club: Amy Winehouse Joins Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, and Janis Joplin Singer Winehouse joins tragic '27 Club' |
 Brooklyn Vegan | Billy Bragg is here, Lincoln Center Out of Doors too Brooklyn Vegan On Wednesday, Richard Robbins will take his two daughters, Ava, who is 5 years old, and Ella, who is 3, to the Damrosch Park Bandshell, where they will join the British singer-songwriter Billy Bragg and an anticipated crowd of 5000 in a giant ... |
Billy Bragg "Never Buy The Sun" Live on Soundcheck wnycradio http://www.wnyc.org/shows/soundcheck/2011/jul/25/studio-billy-bragg/ Since the late 70s, Billy Bragg has been the folk-punk conscience of the UK. If you need the phone-hacking scandal explained in song, he's your man. He wrote and posted the song ... |
 Limerick Leader | Villagers for Big Top gig in Limerick Limerick Leader Among those are 'Bressie' and Billy Bragg, who will both play in the Warehouse in October. “We have a lot lined up over the next few months, stuff to be announced. With Electric Picnic finished all of the bands are freeing up from the festival circuit, ... |
 Hartford Courant | Stars Pay Tribute to Troubled Singer Amy Winehouse Hartford Courant English folk singer Billy Bragg put the 27 thing in perspective over the weekend, noting on Twitter that it's not age they had in common, “it's drug abuse, sadly.” He's right, though Winehouse had the additional misfortune of chasing her addictions in ... Is The 27 Club A Statistical Quirk? |
Movies, shows, music to chill by Tulsa World Bonus: Billy Bragg and Wilco, "Mermaid Avenue": Modernized takes on a collection of heretofore unfinished Woody Guthrie greats. Crank up your stereo or iPod and cool down with these classic tunes. 1. Kool & the Gang, "Summer Love": Experience the ... |
