Tomorrow feels like the most important day this country has faced in many decades – more on that tomorrow – so for this week’s voyage to americanageddon, there couldn’t really be any other choice. Billy Bragg has adapted the song at live shows over the years to keep up with the times and whatever latest villain we’re having to endure, but some of the lyrics feel as apt now as they did 31 years ago when the song first featured on the classic ‘Workers Playtime’ album. “Jumble sales are organized and pamphlets have been posted, Even after closing time there’s still parties to be hosted. You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers while you’re waiting for the great leap forwards.” Here’s hoping the wait is over any day now.
A rainy night in Islington is the setting for this second appearance by Billy Bragg at the elegant Assembly Hall. This has been billed as the Bridges Not Walls Tour - and there's a new EP of the same name with a set of commentaries on today's political situation. It's a…
It's fair to say that there are few people around these parts who are as loved as Billy Bragg, partly for making consistently great music for all those years and partly for all the shit he has to put up with online, and who this very year is celebrating a…
Billy Bragg is out on his "1-step forward, 2-steps back" tour which sees him hit a town for a three night stand - a gig with his current mixed set, a gig drawing solely on his first three albums and a third gig taking its material from his fourth through…
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