Billy Bragg by Jill Furmanovsky
It seems appropriate that, in a city with such a progressive outlook, the Bard Of Barking is among the first to perform at the Beacon (latterly Colston Hall), a £150m project that will welcome the likes of Paul …
Billy Bragg by Jill Furmanovsky
Billy Bragg will celebrate 40 years of ‘musical magic, socio-political protest & heartfelt empathy’ with the release of a career-spanning boxset later this year.
…It seems like just the other
Billy Bragg by Murdo McLeod
Billy Bragg has announced an extensive tour of the UK and Ireland during the autumn of 2021.
Murdo McLeod
Speaking politically is impossible to avoid when discussing Billy Bragg.He makes no bones about being a political songwriter and never has done, it’s enabled him to carve out a niche all for himself over his near forty-year career. Whilst the debate about politics and music rages on, …
Manchester’s Sounds Of The City series for 2017 had The Levellers as its co-headline act last Saturday night, topping the bill with The Waterboys. Live4ever’s Gary Mather brings this and much more in today’s gallery:
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Tom Meighan, Kasabian (Photo: Paul Bachmann for Live4ever)
Overnight Spinal Tap made what was already a cartoonish hard rock scene look utterly, irrevocably ridiculous. And according to Billy Bragg, its spirit unwittingly lives on to this day in the form of Kasabian.
Billy Bragg believes musicians should direct their ire regarding online streaming at the major record labels which have brokered the deals, rather than sites such as Spotify which are leading the new market.
Renowned UK songwriter and political activist Billy Bragg has hit out major record companies’ practise of seeking prosecution against those who download music from the internet, and has branded them the ‘biggest single threat to music’.
Various musicians have moved to condemn government plans to force ISP’s to cut the Internet access of people who download free music online.
Music stars, records producers and songwriters have formed a pressure group – the Featured Artists’ Coalition and have released a joint statement with the British Academy of …
