Billy Bragg Announces Australian Tour Oct/Nov, 2012
Musical statesman Stephen William Bragg, more commonly known as Billy Bragg, is headed our way in a couple of months for the 2012 instalment of the Melboourne Festival. However, not content with just...
View ArticleBilly Bragg – No One Knows Nothing Anymore
Following his highly successful Australian tour in October 2012, Billy Bragg has released his first studio album in five years, titled Tooth & Nail. Drawing on personal rather than political...
View ArticleBilly Bragg Announces One-Off ‘Tooth And Nail’ Album Showcase For Sydney
Following the successful release of his latest LP Tooth And Nail, Billy Bragg has announced a super-special, super-intimate, one-off performance to take place in Sydney where the new tracks from the...
View ArticleBIGSOUND 2013 Adds Billy Bragg, Regurgitator And Robert Forster To Live Program
With just a few days to go until Australia’s biggest music industry conference, BIGSOUND, officially kicks off, the addition of Billy Brag, Robert Forster and Regurgitator to the event’s live music...
View ArticleBilly Bragg Pities Australia’s Lack Of Choice In The Federal Election
English folk-punk-poet Billy Bragg has said that we should “pity the Australian citizen”, who is having to choose between a Labor party which is “hotch-potch” and a Liberal party which is “decidedly...
View ArticleBilly Bragg Announces Australian ‘Tooth & Nail’ Tour Dates, March 2014
Billy Bragg has announced that he will be following up his whirlwind jaunt Down Under with a nationally encompassing run of headlining shows for March next year. Currently in town for BIGSOUND, Bragg...
View ArticleBilly Bragg: “It’s Up To The Audience To Change The World”
Essex’s own folk-punk-poet, activist icon Billy Bragg, still revels in a bit of political discourse. Only last week he expressed heartfelt pity for Australian voters required to vote in an election...
View ArticleBluesfest 2014 Lineup New Act Leaked, First Act For 2015 Confirmed
Festival promoters seem to be the only ones who can’t be trusted with their own lineup. Promoter Peter Nobel has let slip a previously unannounced artist set to perform at Bluesfest 2014, while another...
View ArticleWOMADelaide Festival Stage Destroyed By Fire
Fire has destroyed a stage at Botanic Park in Adelaide just hours after the iconic world music festival, WOMADelaide, came to a close, with English singer-songwriter Billy Bragg played the festival’s...
View ArticleBilly Bragg Will Perform During Anti-Abbott Rally
Incendiary British singer-songwriter and political activist Billy Bragg is set to speak and perform two songs at the Sydney March In March event, a protest rally organised on a parliamentary sitting...
View ArticleMusicians Petition To Keep Guitars In British Prisons
A group of musicians including Billy Bragg, the Smiths‘ Johnny Marr, Pink Floyd‘s Dave Gilmour, Seasick Steve and Radiohead‘s Ed O’Brien and Philip Selway have signed a petition contesting the banning...
View ArticleBilly Bragg Says Kasabian Are The Spinal Tap Of Today
English folk-punk hero and left-wing activist Billy Bragg has compared Leicester rock band Kasabian to the fictitious parody act Spinal Tap, who famously fronted the 1984 rock mockumentary This Is...
View ArticleBilly Bragg Calls Hypocrisy On Taylor Swift’s Spotify Snub
Outspoken activist musician and all-round legend Billy Bragg has publicly criticised pop star Taylor Swift, calling her recent decision to remove her entire catalogue from streaming service Spotify “a...
View ArticleBilly Bragg Apologises To Taylor Swift After Spotify “Power Play” Comments
Just days after he accused Taylor Swift of making “a corporate power play” and selling her soul to Google, outspoken activist musician Billy Bragg has issued an apology to the country-pop star. Earlier...
View ArticleBluesfest Reveals First 2017 Lineup Announcement
UPDATE 05/10/16: Bluesfest 2017 just got even bigger, with the addition of the legendary Neil Young act as the Byron Bay festival’s headline act. UPDATE 22/09/16: the lineup for Bluesfest 2017 has...
View ArticleBilly Bragg & Joe Henry Announce Joint Australian Tour
Two inimitable powers of music, Billy Bragg and Joe Henry, have announced a joint Australia tour for 2017, bringing to life their brand new collaborative album Shine a Light – Field Recordings from the...
View ArticleFairgrounds Festival 2018 Lineup Announced
One of our country’s best boutique festivals, Fairgrounds Festival, is returning to kick off the summer festival season, and some of Australia’s biggest names are coming home to headline. At the top of...
View ArticleBilly Bragg Announces Australian Tour Dates With Jen Cloher & Wil Wagner
Beloved English singer-songwriter Billy Bragg has announced a series of Australian headline shows for 2018, where he’ll be joined by some very special guests. Bragg, who is already scheduled to perform...
View ArticleWil Wagner Has Curated The Ultimate Fairgrounds Pump-Up Playlist For Your...
The countdown is ON til one of our country’s best boutique festivals Fairgrounds returns to kick off the summer festival season in spectacular style, with a blockbuster music lineup and oodles of cool...
View ArticleBilly Bragg On His Adventures Exploring Australia In The 80’s & Ambitious...
In 1983, Billy Bragg released his first album Life’s a Riot with Spy vs Spy, which contained hit single ‘A New England’. In 2013, NME named the album on their list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All...
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