connexions (Free subscription) | 01/08/2009
I’ve just discovered that Billy Bragg is doing a tour of Wales next summer and will be in Wrexham on June 12th. Hurrah! I’ll be there!
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Electric Roulette (Free subscription) | 01/08/2009
Country music. Still a dirty word in many-a-household. With that, Country has been redubbed things like 'Americana', 'Alt.Country', 'Roots' or 'Folk', none of which really fit the bill, as 'country' is the only thing to capture that wild prairie sound....
Bicyclemark's Communique (Free subscription) | 01/07/2009
He has traveled around the world showing the Al Gore film and speaking about climate change. But Stuart Scott isn’t satisfied with the results and he’s got a new task in his climate change education mission. After a disappointing conference in Poland, Stuart explains how the governments of the world are still thinking small, and [...]
Newspost Online (Free subscription) | 01/07/2009
London, January 7 (ANI): With a view to promoting a project by English singer Billy Bragg to help prisoners learn to play musical instruments, organisers of the Left Field area of Glastonbury will stage an event in Texas. The South By South West music event will take place in Austin in March. The idea is to promote [...]
Appellation Beer (Free subscription) | 01/05/2009
Well I used to run from the past But the world got to spinnin’ so fast I run from the future now I run as fast as I can Tryin’ to be a simple man I just want to slow down. - Chris Knight Best recording of 2008? I spoke too soon. When Sean Lilly Wilson asked for a few sentences for the [...]
Home of the Green Arrow (Free subscription) | 01/05/2009
I see that Billy Bragg as been dragged from his luxury retirement home to take a pop at the British National Party via the comments section of the Guardian. Billy has spend so long in that luxury ivory tower of his, that he has lost the plot completely and does not see a problem with the large numbers of colonisers taking over Our Land and fails to understand the concerns of the True British people....
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 01/05/2009
Hazel Blears' sudden concern for what she refers to as "the ignored poor" is a little hard to stomach, given that New Labour has continually taken its traditional voters for granted, believing they had nowhere else to go. Now, with a resurgent Conservative party and an election less than 18 months away, they are suddenly in need of core support. The Labour party was founded 100 years ago to represent...
Pretending Life Is Like A Song (Free subscription) | 01/01/2009
I’ve written about this or things from this so often that the only way to do it again now is to find an alternative take on one of the songs. This is perfect - the original album version of the song is so quiet and resigned, terribly sad but what else is there to do? [...]
zed equals zee (Free subscription) | 01/01/2009
Now that 2008 is actually over, time for a quick round-up of some music highlights. This is a highly idiosyncratic list: it’s not comprehensive, it’s not definitive, and it’s not scientific. It’s really just about what I liked enough to spend a lot of time listening to this year. I hope that there’s some stuff [...]
Apartment Therapy (Free subscription) | 12/27/2008
Music at home is a crucial ingredient for a good party, whether it's a small dinner party or grinding dance party, and you need to be prepared. I have seen many lovely parties break down as guests
Cllr Ian Lewis (Free subscription) | 12/27/2008
From a shell. Lisa Germano A New England. Billy Bragg Stand by me. Ben E King Insomnia. Tiesto In a big country. Big Country Wonderwall. Oasis E=MC2. Big Audio Dynamite What if. Coldplay Run Away. Bronski Beat Stan. Eminem
The Auditorium (Free subscription) | 12/23/2008
Top 10 Albums of 2009 9. Mr Love and Justice - Billy Bragg (Swiss Toni) Bragg's twelfth studio album is very much along the lines of his others: for a man renowned for being the missing link between Woody Guthrie and Joe Strummer, far more of Bragg's songs are about love than they are about politics. "I Keep Faith", "I Almost Killed You", "M For Me", "You Make Me Brave", "Something Happened", "If You...
The Red Wombat Hole (Free subscription) | 12/21/2008
... courtesy of Alistair Hulett ( currently touring Oz and NZ with David Rovics ). .. ... the great Billy Bragg... ... and the Manic Street Preachers...
IndieMuse.com (Free subscription) | 12/18/2008
The 1960’s “baroque-pop” group The Left Banke is one of those bands that gets some recognition, but for the most part is underexposed. Although their music isn’t nearly as groundbreaking as the Beatles and Beach Boys, there are definitely similarities in their sound. Their hit song “Walk Away Renée” is ranked #220 on Rolling Stones [...]
