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In this documentary the late Biggie Tembo (of Zimbabwean band The Bhundu Boys) does a fascinating inversion of the staid reporter goes t...

Thanks to BarrieB for donating this rip and scan which this re-up is built around. Not Just Mandela is a 1986 anti-apartheid benefit...

Listening to the new box set, from Billy Bragg & Wilco, Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions got me thinking about what are the ...

So three years after Sergeant Pepper Knew My Father (see HERE ) raised the profile of UK indie-pop in 1988, someone must've decided th...

Discount were 2nd tier members of the hard-touring, wildly-prolific indie-punk underground of the nineties but by now they are just the fir...

Sergeant Pepper Knew My Father was a benefit album for Childline that included a load of late eighties British alterna-rockers covering Th...

While I'm not YET prepared to go right down the Robyn Hitchcock rabbit hole, his best songs ("I Wanna Destroy You", "Have...

While former Clash-man Joe Strummer seemed to visibly struggle with his agitator personae as he aged, Billy Bragg never has. Perhaps it'...

As someone who once compiled a bootleg collection of Billy Bragg doing Bob Dylan covers (see HERE ) I was excited to see this collection Bri...

I was wrong. I said that all Bragg's BBC recording would be another five CD box set. In fact, just Braggy's sessions for Peely requi...

So, , according to the wonderful site Keepin' it Peel , Billy Bragg's The Peel Sessions album (MRML's inaugural post) doesn'...

Perhaps Billy Bragg's punk era band, Riff Raff left, as Andrew Collins, author of Bragg's biography, believes, "a prevailing se...

More from the "Don't Try This at Home" tour of 1991 and from the Canadian leg of the tour that yours truly witnessed, albeit i...

Wince-inducing cover art aside, this is a BIG one. It`s a New Year's Eve concert broadcast live by the BBC this includes lots of Bragg-i...

By 1987, Bragg's records were no longer one-man affairs. While Bragg layered on piano, backing vocals, pretty guitar, and other assorted...

Yup another radio show (and yes another German radio show despite the shwo taking place in Scotland). While this includes an inordinate amou...

Braggy sure spent a lot of the eighties either on TV or the radio! Today's boot is a great-sounding 19 song radio broadcast from Germany...

Both the sound quality and the performance on this 1986 Swedish radio show are furious. Do yourself a favour and give it a listen. Speaking ...

Lots more to say about Billy Bragg but for now let's continue to observe the man's evolution with this BBC concert from back in 1984...

Billy Bragg started this blog. Well, not him personally but my first upload, nigh-on four years ago, was Bragg's criminally out-of-prin...