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"ENTER PROMO CODE" Billy Bragg has been a fearless recording artist,
tireless live performer and peerless political campaigner for over 35
years. Politicised by a Tory government operating without love or
justice, this previously adrift young man from Barking, England, whose
failure at national exams had reduced his career opportunities to two,
eventually bought himself out of the British Army in 1981 (‘the best
£175 I ever spent’), determined to make a living out of song.
Governments rise and fall, fashions come and go, pop stars are built
up and knocked down by a fickle media, and Billy Bragg adapts to
survive: the one-time Luddite and failed handyman has embraced New
Media and engages with fans directly via Facebook and Twitter,
uploading songs when a headline strikes. His enemies remain
essentially the same: craven politicians, inhumane corporations, plus
assorted racists, fascists, bullies, reactionaries and people with
floppy fringes. Don’t miss the orator, entertainer, rabble-rouser,
negotiator, pamphleteer, the fabled ‘Bard of Barking’, Billy
Bragg, across three extraordinary evenings. About Billy Bragg: Billy
Bragg has been a fearless recording artist, tireless live performer
and peerless political campaigner for over 35 years. Among the former
Saturday boy’s albums are his punk-charged debut Life’s a Riot
With Spy Vs Spy, the more love-infused Workers Playtime, pop classic
Don’t Try This At Home, the Queen’s Golden Jubilee-timed treatise
on national identity England, Half-English, and his stripped-down
tenth, Tooth & Nail, his most successful since the early 90s. The
intervening three decades have been marked by a number one hit single,
having a street named after him, being the subject of a South Bank
Show, appearing onstage at Wembley Stadium, curating Left Field at
Glastonbury, sharing spotted dick with a Cabinet minister in the House
of Commons cafeteria, being mentioned in Bob Dylan’s memoir and
meeting the Queen. At their best, Billy’s songs present ‘the
perfect Venn diagram between the political and the personal’ (the
Guardian). Bragg has recently added best-selling author/musicologist
to his CV with the success of his acclaimed 2017 book ‘Roots,
Radicals & Rockers – How Skiffle Changed The World’.
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