The Internationale/live And Dubious - Billy Bragg

Billy Bragg - The boy done good. (590 words)
by mikeb - written on 16/11/00, updated on 20/12/00 (Very useful, 35 readings)
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get within a few yards of the stage and I would also recommend this venue to people. It is certainly true that you never see the same concert twice with B Billy Bragg because he frequently changes the words to his best known songs to make them more topical. Finally to all the people who remember Billy Bragg from the 1980's when it was frequently said that he couldn't sing, try any of his latest few album releases - you might well be very surprised. UPDATE 30TH NOVEMBER: Just heard Billy is playing at Liverpool in the middle of December and hope to go to see him again. UPDATE 18TH DECEMBER: Went to see Billy Bragg at the Royal Court in ...

Don't Try This At Home - Billy Bragg

Try This At Home (1513 words)
by Mauri - written on 01/04/04, updated on 01/04/04 (Very useful, 104 readings)
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Many years ago when I was at university I would happily spend my days with other likeminded people marching the street holding up banner shouting "Thatcher out!, Thatcher out!". Alternatively we were standing on street corners holding a bucket collecting money for the striking miners. To unwind after a hard day trying to change the world we might well go to see some live music at some local student venue and more often than not there would be Billy Bragg doing another miner's strike benefit gig. With songs such as 'The Milkman Of Human Kindness', A New England', and 'To Have and ...

Don't Try This At Home - Billy Bragg

DOO try this at home (325 words)
by cswann - written on 26/09/00, updated on 26/09/00 (Very useful, 65 readings)
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makes an appearance on "You woke up my neighbourhood", which is almost a country song, with its fiddle. My very favourite song (and I think my favourite Bragg song ever) is "Cindy of a thousand lives", it's just perfect - Johnny Marr's guitar and Kirsty McColl's wonderfully haunting backing vocals play their part, but Bragg's vocals are equally persuasive. Although Bragg seems to be thought of as a political songwriter, a minority of the songs on his albums are in fact 'political'. Here, you've got the uptempo "North Sea Bubble" (closing line "War! What is it good for? It's good for ...