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Author:  chumley [ Mon Dec 02, 2013 1:34 pm ]
Post subject:  I've been feeling short changed..Then Billy Bragg came along

Last four gigs.
Rudimental at Brixton, 1 hour 30 mins(very good).
Paul weller, 1 hour 35 mins Hammersmith (worst I've ever heard him).
Jake Bugg, 1 hour 20 mins Brixton (very good).
What happened to on at 9, blast 'till 10.30'sh, off for a fag/drink or whatever back for another 30 mins?

Last night in London Billy Bragg ..> ........2 hours 25 mins. At last.......some decent time spent on stage. That's more like it :Hoorah ...............Or is it me? :oops:

Author:  Poppy Dog [ Mon Dec 02, 2013 7:53 pm ]
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I'm happy with a footie type gig - 90 mins - little break then a 15 minute penalty shoot out.

Author:  maggie [ Tue Dec 03, 2013 10:16 am ]
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Billy is great live, saw him last Thursday. Loads of chat, very funny and warm, great songs. He was in stage from 8:30 til nearly 11 and it flew over.

Author:  Caroline 72 [ Thu Dec 05, 2013 2:06 am ]
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Oh man - am I excited now - got tickets for Billy in Sydney Opera House in March. :Hoorah
Feels like a lifetime away right now tho'

Author:  Richard Hawley [ Thu Dec 05, 2013 11:51 am ]
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Billy was great at the city hall in Sheffield,good band too,his banter as always is top drawer

Author:  helenwatson [ Thu Dec 05, 2013 2:19 pm ]
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Billy is great on-stage company, intelligent and funny and as H says, has a great band. And I think he's getting better as he gets older. Tooth and Nail is a great album and the album before it, Mr Love & Justice, is beautiful. He plays with Robert Wyatt on the opening track, I Keep Faith, and it's just lovely.

I always think of him as a soul singer – obviously he doesn't have the voice of Marvin or Otis but he has the soul of a soul singer, if that doesn't sound too up its own arse.

My all time favourite is Saturday Boy which, as a teenager, I always thought could've been written about me, although I am obviously not a boy. Contains what could arguably be one of the best lines from a British songwriter (discuss??):
She danced with me and I still hold that memory
Soft and sweet
And I stare up at her window
As I walk down her street
But I never made the first team,
I just made the first team laugh
And she never came to the phone
She was always in the bath

Genius. x

Author:  Caroline 72 [ Fri Dec 06, 2013 2:39 am ]
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Oh the heartbreak of the Saturday Boy.....

'In the end it took me a dictionary to find out the meaning of 'unrequited'
While she was giving herself for free at a party to which I was never invited'

Author:  gary#2 [ Fri Dec 06, 2013 11:57 pm ]
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maggie wrote:
Billy is great live, saw him last Thursday. Loads of chat, very funny and warm, great songs. He was in stage from 8:30 til nearly 11 and it flew over.



I was there too Maggie, well worth the money, the 'Byrds' cover was top draw, 'Between The Wars' always hits the spot ... :cry:

Author:  efsb [ Sat Dec 07, 2013 12:27 am ]
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Caroline 72 wrote:
Oh the heartbreak of the Saturday Boy.....

'In the end it took me a dictionary to find out the meaning of 'unrequited'
While she was giving herself for free at a party to which I was never invited'


:( :( :(

Author:  arne saknussen [ Sat Dec 07, 2013 4:01 pm ]
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This is one Billy Bragg gig I wished I'd seen (sorry, I can't do the You Tube paste either). Got tickets for Hammersmith Apollo though.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69s_ptJxx6E

Author:  helenwatson [ Mon Dec 09, 2013 10:23 am ]
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Billy on May Day! Might dig out my dungarees and come along too...x

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