 ClashMusic.com | Frank Turner - Live at the Hammersmith Apollo, London ClashMusic.com Mr Turner is set to headline London's Wembley Arena next year supported by his personal hero Billy Bragg, and has already sold out a few European venues. Judging by tonight's sold out show you'd definitely be a fool to miss him. ... |
 Westminster News Online | The great Christmas chart debate Westminster News Online Last year we saw musicians such as The Kooks, Pete Doherty and Billy Bragg get together to record John Cage's infamous 4'33″, consisting of 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence. The silent protest was recorded for the a charity campaign, Cage Against ... |
 Hackney Citizen | UBS squatters at 'Bank of Ideas' face eviction delay Hackney Citizen Billy Bragg and Mark Thomas have been among the 'Bank's' high profile performers. The building choice is a symbolic statement. Occupy spokesperson Jack Holburn said: “As banks repossess families' homes, empty bank property needs to be repossessed by ... |
Diary: Gove's persuasive ways of bringing people into line The Independent For two general elections, the singer Billy Bragg was the nation's foremost tactical voter. He lives in marginal West Dorset, and argued that voting for the Liberal Democrats was the only realistic way to remove the incumbent Tory MP, Oliver Letwin. ... |
 Paste Magazine (blog) | The 50 Best Albums of 2011 Paste Magazine (blog) It helps that at times Turner's voice brings to mind an oddly appropriate blend of Billy Bragg sincerity and NOFX leader Fat Mike's irreverence. Turner brings a compelling passion to his work (“no one gets remembered for the things they didn't do” is ... |
Hear and Now The Dartmouth The line “I never wanted to change the world, but I'm looking for a new New Jersey,” directly preceding the Springsteen reference, is a more obscure nod to English songwriter Billy Bragg's “A New England”: “I don't want to change the world/I'm not ... |
Musicians sign up to back Occupy Green Left Weekly ... said more names were being added, but updates are coming slowly because, the creators said, "volunteers are entering each and every name by hand". The Guardian concluded: "This is the only reasonable explanation for the current absence of Billy Bragg." |
Schoolboy errors made too frequently When Saturday Comes "New England" certainly throws a spanner in the works, but I'm going to argue that the line is about Billy Bragg and not the song he's writing. It's an essential line because it informs about the song-writer rather than the song you're actually ... |
 The Guardian | Radio review: The Band Behind Bars The Guardian Or the fact that Billy Bragg appeared, talking passionately about his charity, which gets guitars into prisons so that inmates can learn and change. "Music as a redemptive force is very powerful," he argued. It wasn't even the fact that in prisons ... |
Video: Billy Bragg plays at Occupy Bristol Bristol Evening Post Dozens of people turned up to see folk singer Billy Bragg play an al fresco gig at the Occupy Bristol camp today. The singer, known for his activism as well as his music, played a selection of protest songs and voiced his support for the Occupy Bristol ... |
Frank Turner, HMV Apollo Hammersmith - review Evening Standard Next year he headlines Wembley Arena, supported by his hero Billy Bragg, and last night he came to a packed HMV Hammersmith Apollo for the final date of his UK tour. His detractors take great joy in pointing out that his man-of-the-people image is at ... |
Bristol News Wire………… Monday, November 28, 2011 Bristol24-7 Billy Bragg to play at Occupy Bristol: Singer-songwriter Billy Bragg has promised to perform songs at the Occupy Bristol camp today. Mr Bragg, who is in the city for a gig at The Fleece this evening, put a message out on social media website Twitter ... |
 Left Foot Forward | What is patriotism in Britain today? Left Foot Forward But I was reminded of Billy Bragg's book length search for how, in his own words, “a rehabilitation of patriotism [can] help the progressive cause?” But while there is something noble about reclaiming patriotism from those who exploit it to secure a ... |
Insiders against the rest of us in 'civil war' Irish Independent It may not come to flying columns and reprisals but a divide in Ireland is looming and the words of the Billy Bragg song, "Whose side are you on boys, whose side are you on?" will soon ring in our ears. There are two narratives about which "side" to ... |
 RTT News | Dylan Songs Featured On Massive Tribute Set RTT News Other contributors include Patti Smith (with "Drifter's Escape"), Pete Townshend (with "Corrina, Corrina"), Sting (with "Girl from the North Country"), Mark Knopfler (with "Restless Farewell"), Billy Bragg (with "Lay Down Your Weary Tune"), ... |
 Financial Times | A pop song for pensions DigitalJournal.com It is unlikely, once the campaign is over, that the song will stand up with the protest songs of Joe Hill, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan or Billy Bragg, but is sign that campaigning organisations are finding new and novel ways to reach out to the general ... Pensions pop song strikes wrong note |
CBA and Leahy win to lead NJ assault at Nike NE Regional The Star-Ledger - NJ.com (blog) 5 man, junior Billy Bragg, 18th in 16:37. In between Kelly and Bragg for CBA were jr. Jack Boyle sixth in 16:19.2, sr. Tim Gorman ninth in 16:23.4, and soph. Mike McClemens, 11th in 16:27.1. Sr. Conrad Lippert also had a strong race for the Colts, ... |
 RTT News | Sugarland, Dierks Bentley Added To Dylan Tribute Album RTT News Other contributors to the release include Steve Earle & Lucia Micarelli (with "One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below)"), Blake Mills (with "Heart Of Mine"), Miley Cyrus (with "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go"), Billy Bragg (with "Lay Down Your ... |
CBA, Westfield's Leahy earn titles at Nike Northeast Regional The Star-Ledger - NJ.com 5 Billy Bragg, 18th in 16:37. The Lincroft school will head to Portland as the favorite to win it all. This will be CBA's fourth trip to nationals, where it finished fifth last year. ``Anything less than first at nationals is unacceptable,'' Bragg said ... |
Chris Martin and Johnny Buckland, Church of St John at Hackney, London Frank ... The Independent White shirtsleeves rolled to the elbow, he and his band specialise in fist-pumping singalongs, many of which attempt the same combination of sentimental nationalism and socialism as William Blake and Billy Bragg. "Sons of Liberty" namechecks Wat Tyler, ... |
Bill Carmichael: Billy’s out of tune with reality Yorkshire Post SINGER Billy Bragg turned up at the Occupy camps in both Leeds and Sheffield in recent days to show solidarity with the anti-capitalist protesters. He sang a few out-of-tune songs to sparse audiences, including a slightly weird, politically correct ... |
 The Guardian | Heard the one about the leftwing comedians? The Guardian Billy Bragg says something similar: "I didn't get into politics myself until Margaret Thatcher narrowed down my options. She was such a complete package. Whereas Blair, I still don't know what he stood for." Bragg was in Leicester this week as part of ... |
US #1's CBA and Edward Cheserek lead lethal NJ attacks at both Regional races The Star-Ledger - NJ.com (blog) Russ DeSantis/For The Star-LedgerChristian Brothers Academy's boys cross-country team: Bottom row, from left: Sandy Liberatore, Jack Boyle, Billy Bragg and Mike McClemens. Top row, from left: Tim Gorman, George Kelly, Conrad Lippert and Jason Rexing. ... |
 Punknews.org | Billy Bragg to play with Frank Turner at Wembley Arena Punknews.org UK hardcore alumnus and singer songwriter Frank Turner has reported, via his Facebook status, that none other than Billy Bragg will be supporting him at London's Wembley Arena, on the 13th of April, 2012. Turner writes: "Absolutely over the moon to be ... |
 Mirror.co.uk | Pensions pop song strikes wrong note Mirror.co.uk In the 1970s, The Strawbs had a No 2 hit with Part Of The Union, and during the miners' strike Billy Bragg recorded a passionate version of Which Side Are You On? I love all this stuff and bore friends to tears with it. But I don't think a Soviet-style ... |
