Category Archives: billy bragg

Vote For The Peel Party

Posted on May 6, 2010 by

Given the lack of any outstanding candidates available to you at the polls on Thursday, may I put myself forward as a late entrant? My manifesto is simple. *All available tapes of Peel shows to be digitised immediately and made … Continue reading →

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Something For The Weekend, Sir?

Posted on May 10, 2008 by

As if I haven’t spoilt you enough this week, three tracks with a common theme that is pretty damn obvious appear today.Just to show that he was not a spent force by the time the nineties rolled around, Billy Bragg … Continue reading →

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Better Red Than Dead

Posted on March 11, 2008 by

I was a miner I was a docker I was a railway man Between the wars I raised a family In times of austerity With sweat at the foundry Between the wars I paid the union and as times got … Continue reading →

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The Price Of Folk Immortality: One Mushroom Biryani

Posted on July 5, 2007 by

We all know the story. Stephen William Bragg, former leader of punk band Riff-Raff (whose song I Wanna Be A Cosmonaut conspicuously fails to turn up in Channel 4′s 100 best-selling singles list), bought himself out of the army (calling … Continue reading →

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