Billy Bragg

Billy Bragg “Bridges Not Walls” (Cooking Vinyl, 2017)

January 2, 2018 Paul Kerr 0

2017 was a tumultuous year, Brexit and Trump providing an endless spectacle of rancour and discord, right wingers on the march, reason stifled by media barons (aside from those accused of printing “fake news”). Billy Bragg, […]

Billy Bragg, Islington Assembly Hall, London, 7th November 2017

November 14, 2017 Jonathan Aird 0

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 […]

Billy Bragg: “music can make connections in these divisive times”

November 3, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

A really nice comment piece in the i newspaper today from Billy Bragg in which he talks about music having the power to heal the wounds of Brexit. He writes: “Although the Leave campaign was victorious […]

Billy Bragg builds bridges not walls – new album out next month

October 12, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

Billy Bragg, currently in North America for the first leg of his ‘Bridges Not Walls’ tour, has released his new single Saffiyah Smiles which you can see the video to below. The song is a rousing Hammond-drenched country soul shuffle […]

Van Morrison joins Americana Awards 2017 line-up

August 29, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

If we could afford to cover this in person we would, although you do avoid Van on a bad day biting your head off (sorry, lazy journalism there). Rolling Stone Country reports: “Eclectic UK rock legends Van […]