Talk about the Billy Bragg music that you love here!| What do you think about Billy Bragg meeting The Queen | | and writing about for (very right wing) Daily Mail?She "charmed the pants off him" apprenttly
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=487796&in_page_id=1770Personally I think it's hilarious that he got them to donate his fee for the article to jail guitar doors - The Mail (who usually moan about prisons being holliday camps) accidentally buying prisoners guitars:-) | |
| | Bill Bailey does Billy Bragg | | this is hilarious - scarily accurate performance
http://muse.cream.org/bill/bewilder.html can't decide which lines are funnier - either
"if I had some tigers I'd train them....."
or "that was lurking,
round the gherkins."and Billy even sang it himself at Glasto!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lnWNg3Pax8
Unisex Chipshop:I used to buy my chips from an oppressive chip shop regime.
The girl who worked there, she seemed happy,
But I knew it was not what it seemed."Do you want salt and vinegar"
was what they made her say,
But in the language of the ghetto,
That means "help, I'm a woman in chains"I wanted to free her.
In my dreams I would see her.
Running naked through the woods round Rainham,
if I had some tigers I'd train them.....
to protect her,
from the sexual fascism that was lurking,
round the gherkins.I'd lean across the counter and we would talk,
I carved her name "Debbie" on a little wooden fork.
But into the shop came a skinhead gang,
and snatched the fork from my hand.Debbie, she looked at me,
to assert my masculinity.
I said "Oy!",
they said "What?",
I said "Nothing..." | |
| | billy bragg concert | | i am going to see billy bragg live in concert next weekend, has anyone on my lot seen him live before? i havent talk,
I carved her name "Debbie" on a little wooden fork.
But into the shop came a skinhead gang,
and snatched the fork from my hand.Debbie, she looked at me,
to assert my masculinity.
I said "Oy!",
they said "What?",
I said "Nothing..." | |
| | | RIP Kate McGarrigle | | Another music icon has passed. Kate McGarrigle (one half of the McGarrigle Sisters -[i]Heart Like a Wheel[/i]) has died at the age of 63, after a lengthy battle with a rare form of cancer. She and her sister Anna recorded 10 albums in French and English, and their songs have been covered by artists such as Linda Ronstadt, billy bragg and Emmylou Harris.
She was married for some time to Loudon Wainwright III -[i]Dead Skunk[/i] (in the Middle of the Road) and is the mother of Rufus Wainwright and Martha Wainwright, both of whom have followed in their parents' footsteps. talk,
I carved her name "Debbie" on a little wooden fork.
But into the shop came a skinhead gang,
and snatched the fork from my hand.Debbie, she looked at me,
to assert my masculinity.
I said "Oy!",
they said "What?",
I said "Nothing..." | |
| | Are you following (or being followed by) anyone famous on Twitter? | | or even sort-of-famous/just more known than your average random Internet person.Me I'm following:
Yoko Ono - not sure if it's her or her team, posts are a mix of promotional and more eccentric ones that probably did come from her.
http://twitter.com/yokoonoStephen Fry: he twitters a lot and very enthusiastically, especially about current projects.
http://twitter.com/stephenfryBilly Bragg - mostly promoting events
http://twitter.com/billybraggAlan Davies - from Jonathan Creek & QI (he's writing something apparently & pos more Johnathan Creek in future?)
http://twitter.com/alandavies1Robbert Llewelln - Kyten from Red Dwarf etc
lots of updates re various projects - leaked the news of Red Dwarf's comeback before it was offical.
http://twitter.com/bobbyllewCharlie Brooker - hilariously bitter, sarcastic and offensive writer and critic
Sometimes twitters extracts from early drafts of his column
Often replies to messages & his posts are sweeter than you'd expect
http://twitter.com/charltonbrooker
( tv reviewer and columnist for The Guardian, used to run/write the tvgohome/unovations websites, & also behind the Sweenwipe, Deadset(recent Big Brother... | |
| | Managers, Producers Lauded At MMF Gala | | Hot record producer Mark Ronson and former Pink Floyd managers Peter and Sumi Jenner were among the executives feted last night during the Music Managers Forum Roll of Honour gala, held at London's Hilton Hotel.A New York City-based Brit, Ronson was named producer of the year. His production skills can be heard on a flurry of recent chart successes, including Amy Winehouse's "Back To Black" (Island) album and Lily Allen's "Alright, Still" (Regal) and works by Christina Aguilera and Robbie Williams.Ronson has stepped out with his own album, "Version" (Columbia), from which three tracks are currently sitting in the top 75 of the Official U.K. Singles Chart. His soul-tinged cover of the Smiths' track "Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before" is currently No. 2 in Britain, and moves 21-11 on the Eurochart Hot 100 Singles.Melbourne, Australia-born singer Daniel Merriweather, who performs vocals on the single, was on hand to give present Ronson with his award, telling the audience: "he is the future for music."Twenty-First Artists' Todd Interland, the U.S. manager who has guided the careers of Elton John and James Blunt, was named manager of the year. Interland earned one of... | |
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