We have a special video premiere and Song of the Day for you from Thea Gilmore with ‘Coming Back To You’ from her 15th album ‘Ghosts & Graffiti’, an album which is part new, part retrospective. Watch it here.
The Radio Ballads legacy continues with ‘The Ballad of the Great War – 1914’ beginning tonight on BBC Radio 2 with songs written by John Tams, Billy Bragg, Julie Matthews, Jez Lowe and Sean Cooney.
Folk singer, songwriter, activist and muse, Peggy Seeger, is to be honoured by the UK music industry, receiving the inaugural Women In Music Award for ‘Creative Inspiration’.
Our Song of the Day is a moving live video of Lucy Ward performing Lion, a new WW1 themed song which was commissioned by Billy Bragg for 14-18 Now. Watch it here.
Levellers have announced the release of ‘Greatest Hits’ on 29th September – collaborations with Bellowhead, Billy Bragg and more. Plus UK Tour & Documentary.
David Eagle talks to FRUK about The Young’uns appearance at Glastonbury. Plus we have a new video from them – Jack Ironside is a song originally written by the late Graeme Miles.
Billy Bragg and his band played a milestone show last night at London’s Hammersmith Apollo along with special guest Seth Lakeman…warmth and comradeship washes over the Apollo.
Nonesuch have reissued the first two Mermaid Avenue volumes on vinyl and released, for the first time, the third volume on vinyl…watch Bragg and Wilco performing live.
Watch Billy Bragg performing an impromptu cover of Long Black Veil with Joe Purdy, plus a 1969 flashback to Johnny Cash performing the same song with Joni Mitchell.
Britain’s foremost political songwriter, and quintessential independent artist, Billy Bragg is to become the worthy recipient of the ‘Outstanding Contribution to Music’ award at this year’s AIM Independent Music Awards.
On Billy Bragg’s latest release ‘Tooth & Nail’ he got off the train to take stock and came up with a winner. He continues to embrace struggle, he just brings it down to a micro-level and shoots straight for the heart!
