Billy Bragg News

Today: Drummer Peter Criss is 64. Musician Alan Parsons is 61. Actress Blanche Baker is 53.

Folk musician Eliza Carthy is coming to St Helens - the singer, hailed as the one of the figureheads of the English folk revival, returns to the Water Street arts centre on Saturday, December 5. She will be performing songs from her latest album, the critically acclaimed Dreams of Breathing Underwater.

Billy Bragg gave a free solo, acoustic concert on the picket line outside the Museum of Civilization Friday.

Ewan MacColl, the celebrated folk musician and father of singer Kirsty, was tracked by the security services for more than 20 years on the grounds he was a dangerous radical.

I've just put p2pnet up for sale . I started it to share music - MIDI , not mp3, files - but ended up becoming a kind of online pamphleteer, joining the men and women who, mainly in the 18th and 19th centuries, saw injustices and did their best to try bring them to public attention.

Politics:- The outgoing British Labour government wants to leave as its legacy a law to victimise members of the P2P communities, including children, who share with each other online.

British folkie Billy Bragg has kept the faith for a quarter century, and it appears that his loyal fan base is still doing the same.

London-born Terry Disley's credits stretch from backing pop-rock giants to all manner of jazz.

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Politics:- The Pirate Party could be described as the world's first, and still the only, global political party.

Music:- There's a chance for two critical masses - those who make songs and those who enjoy them - to meet online, I posted in We are the walrus.

As part of the build up to this Friday's 'Day of Action', Unite the Union, invited legendary Trade Union leader Arthur Scargill to Ireland for a series of talks.

Called a2f2a.com , artists need to be paid, and fans want to pay them, it says, its stated goals being to: help each community better understand the other; help find a practical and workable system which offers artists fair remuneration in exchange for access to material by fans; and, help set the agenda for discussions about the role P2P can play ...

Music:- Rock 'n' roll legend Jack Ely has signed up to a2f2a.com , started by UK artist Billy Bragg and p2pnet founder Jon Newton to put musicians and their fans together.

A group of musicians are to launch a legal bid to discover if their songs were used in interrogations at Guantanamo Bay.

The slight, balding man in the pinstripe suit, wandering around bopping his head to the bands on stage blends in like any one of the hundreds of ex-punks who've made the trip from their city job to Camden tonight.

P2P:- Well, I've stayed out of the Billy Bragg mess so far : First, there was theA "corporate sockpuppets should just shut the fuck up" comment), which, despite any notions Mister Bragg might have, wasn't specifically directed at him, but at corporate sock-puppetry in general.

A rabble-rousing folk singer isn't the first person who comes to mind when drafting new lyrics for one of the most recognized pieces of classical music in the world.

Despite the fact that Hells Bells were ringing down the street there was some real rocking to be had at Sunday night the Egg, and a packed house savored every second.

Armed with an electric guitar and a sharp wit, Billy Bragg is a one-man punk band with a Woody Guthrie-sized heart.