“Take down the Union Jack It clashes with the sunset And put it in the attic with the emperor’s old clothes When did it fall apart? Sometime in the eighties When the great and the good […]
As part of his celebrations to mark 40 years in music, Billy Bragg has announced a tour of the UK and Ireland in the autumn. The full list of dates is below. Punk rocker, soldier, Essex […]
Oh, Songkick, you’re really treating us this time with your semi-random email header denoting a wondrous triple header of a gig that isn’t actually going to happen. But what if it did? How would the Queen […]
Punk rocker, folk singer, Skiffle aficionado, protest singers’ protest singer, lefty polemicist, author, singer and AUK favourite Billy Bragg will release a career-spanning compendium entitled ‘The Roaring Forty | 1983-2023‘ on 27th October on Cooking Vinyl. […]
Not an Essentials, well, maybe a little bit essential. We’d love to stop posting songs like these (sorry Billy), other than as historical curiosities. Not yet though, not yet.
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