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[ilovehoovering]

youtube video of 'waiting for the great leap forward' from the recent gig in Vicar Street

 

[u:m]

youtube video of 'waiting for the great leap forward' from the recent gig in Vicar Street

awesome!

 

[Jim A. Morrish]

first proper gig i ever went to was billy bragg, at the olympia around 85 or 86, a few months after he'd charted with 'between the wars' and kirsty mccoll charted with 'new england'

great show it was too.

 

[egg_]

His version of "Jerusalem" off The Internationale is astounding. Had it on a tape copied from a CD in Coventry Library (god bless English libraries), lost it years ago, must get it again. Would love to get a better version of Walk Away Renee too, I just have that taped off the radio

As an introduction to the man Back to Basics contains the first couple of albums I think and is amazing, also I second the "Talking with the taxman about poetry" recommendation

 

[Raudi Raus Schinkel]

BRAGG TO REVIVE MUSIC HALL GREATS

By Anthony Barnes, Press Association

Musician and campaigner Billy Bragg is to turn back the clock by reviving the
golden age of music hall.

The star is to perform bygone East End favourites and investigate their origins
for a programme on BBC Radio 3 later this year.

He said: ``Music hall was the great people's music of the early 20th century
and for me it's kind of like the folk music I learned as a kid off my parents
and grandparents.''

British music hall developed from a local working-class phenomenon into what
was probably the country's first entertainment industry for the masses. Writers
such as Rudyard Kipling, T.S. Eliot and Walter Sickert found inspiration in the
venues.

Bragg said of his family: ``They used to sing all these weird songs at
Christmas, like Knees Up Mother Brown. 'Under the table you must go/ee ai ee ai
ee ai oh/If I catch you bending, I'll saw your legs right off'. I mean, what's
all that?

``It's like some kind of Cockney death cult. I'm going to be looking at the
history of that and how music hall was the popular music of the first half of
the 20th century and fed into Sgt Pepper and Skiffle and stuff like that.''

Bragg, who has previously reinterpreted the music of Woody Guthrie, had also
been hoping to perform a live show of music hall hits at London's South Bank for
a one-off show - the first time he had lined up a set of music hall tunes. But
he now fears that scheduling difficulties may have stopped this.

``We were supposed to do that but I'm not sure I can do it. The window for that
might have passed.''

The programme - called The Good Old Days? - is pencilled in for broadcast on
November 29 at 10pm.

end

 

[Lili Marlene]

Billy Bragg - doing what blur did in 1993

 

[evil bandit]

Billy was my highlight from The Electric Picnic !

Sounds like he enjoyed it himself.

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[7 - No tomorrow]

Me and my close personal friend Billy Bragg having a chat about tea towels

 

[egg_]

Is that really you? You look different to how I expected

 

[therealjohnny]

Is that really you? You look different to how I expected

You need to see him in his clown costume

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Is that really you? You look different to how I expected

That's me on the right

I look like a cop (I am not a cop)

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

You need to see him in his clown costume

Society - the real criminal - has been mean to me, Johnny