Billy Bragg: Latest events, gigs, news, photos, videos, features & music reviews

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Billy Bragg, Amanda Palmer head BIGSOUND 2013

By Darren Levin 9th May, 2013

Billy Bragg, Amanda Palmer and Kasey Chambers head the first announcement of the BIGSOUND industry conference in Brisbane this September.

Billy Bragg's message for FL

By Sarah Smith 19th Apr, 2013

Billy Bragg has recorded a special message for FL, thanking Aussie fans for helping make his new album "Tooth and Nail" (out now) a possibility. He has even included a sneak peek of one of the band's rehearsals in Albuquerque.

Billy Bragg - Tooth and Nail

By Jeremy Elphick 12th Apr, 2013

Billy Bragg's latest record is a potent reminder that protest music is far from dead. Acerbic, poetic and tortured, yet at the same time refreshingly idealistic.

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Billy Bragg: “You need to go beyond just typin’ away at a keyboard”

By Doug Wallen 17th Oct, 2012

Outspoken UK singer Billy Bragg on Woody Guthrie, fatherhood and how he’s drawn to songs about chasin’ tail.

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Billy Bragg tour to celebrate the legacy of Woody Guthrie

By Tom Mann 1st Aug, 2012

Billy Bragg will bring his ‘Ain’t Nobody That Can Sing Like Me’ tour to Australia to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Woody Guthrie’s birth.

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Melbourne Festival 2012 lineup: Shellac, Thurston Moore, Antony

By Faster Louder 30th Jul, 2012

Shellac, Antony and the Johnsons, Billy Bragg, Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo head an incredible lineup of music at the Melbourne Festival in October.

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Pete Doherty, Billy Bragg rage in silence

By Tom Mann 7th Dec, 2010

Music stars are hoping fans will follow them for a silent night this Christmas by releasing a silent single.

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More acts sign on for Republican-baiting

By Jack Tregoning 8th Aug, 2008

While Rage Against The Machine have a go at disrupting the Republican National Convention, another festival will do its own political rabble-rousing.

Unlike artists buddy up for concerts

By Jack Tregoning 15th Feb, 2008

In the first of a series of iTunes live concerts promoting "unlikely collaborations", cabaret icon Tony Christie is set to share a stage with ex-Moloko frontwoman Roisin Murphy. There are a few more "how will that work?" pairings too...

Billy Bragg @ Prince Bandroom, Melbourne (30/01/2008)

By Andrew Worotniuk 4th Feb, 2008

By sticking to his guns and writing great song after song, Bragg has become a living legend. No need for gimmicks, no need for trends, Billy Bragg is a true musician and tonight - it showed.

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Big Day Out @ Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne (28/01/2008)

By Barbara Penn 4th Feb, 2008

Rage's triumphant return to Australia as part of the 2008 Big Day Out line up, accompanied by Bjork and Arcade Fire

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First Billy Bragg album in six years

By Jack Tregoning 4th Feb, 2008

Peruse the Big Day Out diary of FasterLouder's very own Sarah Smith and it's clear Billy Bragg was a standout on the national tour. Now the legendary songwriter is releasing an album of 12 new songs - his first in six years.

Billy Bragg @ The Metro (26/01/08)

By Paul Busch 30th Jan, 2008

Tonight, Australia Day 2008, Billy Bragg made a number of points. One of them was something that happened to him after he had left the SXSW Festival in Austin and headed to Minneapolis...