Just listened to Billy's song about joining a Union. Definitely needed under the Tories. Becoming a union steward was the best thing I ever did. Billy talks a lot of sense

I’ve seen BB about 50 times. Part of my life.

Billy Bragg is great. A fantastic songwriter and a great campaigner. We need more like him, if that were possible. Magic.

Great set. Need to see you live 😊

@davidhodgson3901

4 күн бұрын

Well worth it. I’ve seen him over 50 times.

These Woody Guthrie Songs are so great, so great!

Great set.

Still got it comrade

Outstanding. My number one influence.

I saw him in London in December. He was absolutely inspirational, he is a great musician but is also a powerful political orator. Everyone in that crowd left at the end of the night fired up to fight Facism and do good for their fellow man. If he can convert people one audience at a time then that’s more than most politicians will ever do. National treasure.

For those who would like to know. Billy Bragg is one of the most insightful, introspective, concerning of our world and the things that live on it....and the things that are happening to it. As well as us.

@TheJewellian

4 ай бұрын

he also believes women have penises

How sad the comments on here are! If you don't like him what are you doing searching him out on KZread?

@baddogmaine

3 ай бұрын

Hard to know, they might be expressing genuine personal taste, but likely these are "professional" trolls who seek out or are sent to lefty posts to slag them.

dude sold out. 150 tickets? capitalism sucks

Yawn...🥱

how dare he pontificate about women

@davidhodgson3901

Ай бұрын

Could you just explain what you mean by that?

poncing on working class struggles from years gone by could only appeal to champagne socialists

@daveprodrick-gk2ge

6 ай бұрын

Well that’s complete b****cks but then you know that Billy has proved his chops over and over again.

@user-fr9wq1ed8z

5 ай бұрын

Oh yeah working class struggles just don’t exist anymore……..that’s right cheers for that!

the problem with this DEI direction in Billy Bragg's work is that it deploys identity antagonisms and loses sight of the unversalist perspective that alone makes emancipatory politics real - it's of a piece with postmodern micropolitics and pseudo-Gramscian hegemony contests - victim politics - which is why there's so much the fist-shaking. this is a liberal-left politics of the petty-bourgeois professional-managerial class

@fredvan6043

4 ай бұрын

🥱 yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn

@baddogmaine

3 ай бұрын

And what true socialist has an audience of more than a dozen? Who gets national and international media coverage that you approve of?. Change under best of circumstances is unlikely, Bragg has been trying anyway. If we have to wait for people you approve of to reach an audience it is a 100% guarantee that there will never be change.

@davidhodgson3901

Ай бұрын

What a tit

@suegroves6633

10 күн бұрын

Billy sings about things that are relevant . Billy's politics are definitely not petty or bourgeois.

@mjleger

10 күн бұрын

@@suegroves6633 Thank you. I love Billy Bragg's music and he's one of my favourites, along with The Clash and Richard Dawson. I know what he sings about and I've seen him in concert a few times. He can sing about whatever he wants, and I support that fully, but, politics wise, the relation between class and identity that he's on about fits in the petty-bourgeois and professional-managerial class zone of thought. If you want to know what I mean by that, you can find online the c.1983 essay by Ellen Meiksins Wood titled "Why Class Is Central." Petty bourgeois means the intermediary class between proletarian and bourgeois, or small bourgeois, as in the French petit. You can be very poor or very rich and also be petty-bourgeois in ideological terms. This is the class category in which you tend to find people who are in the creative class as well as the activist class, academia, the media, etc, and all of these, since the development of the New Left, are more or less agreed about the importance of identity politics, which is not the same thing as identity struggles. This has led the left down the path of anti-universal postmodern paradigms like privilege theory, intersectionality, decoloniality, critical race theory, left populism, and so on, which are anti-socialist and anti-liberal at the same time. Don't be fooled by Republican anti-wokeism and look to the best left thinkers on these issues, including Alain Badiou, Slavoj Zizek, Nancy Fraser, Cedric Johnson, Norman Finkelstein, Jodi Dean, Greg Meyerson, Richard Wolin, Vivek Chibber, Susan Neiman, Terry Eagleton, Ellen Meiksins Wood, and you could look up also my last four books on the subject. You can also learn a lot from the exchange between Zizek, Judith Butler and Ernesto Laclau in the 2000 book Contingency, Hegemony, Universality, where, IMO, Zizek wins the gold, Laclau the silver and Butler the bronze. I would add that as much as I'm a labour-oriented Marxist, I'm not a social democrat - though I am in solidarity with all brothers and sisters struggling for a better world beyond capitalist relations and beyond identitarian units, nationalism, religion, etc. And for that to be possible, the left needs to have a better grasp of the ways in which new postmodern identity paradigms weaken the left. The right grasps this better than the left, whose identity politics, like Bragg's, reinforces what Nancy Fraser refers to as "progressive neoliberalism" - the politics of people like Hillary, Obama, Kamala, and this includes the so-called Squad, Sanders and Corbyn-type politicians in some respects. I find it sad to see Billy Bragg doubling down on wokeism. To understand this better, see also the recent book by Walter Benn Michaels and Adolph Reed, No Politics But Class Politics. cheers

Billy you never were pretty or relevant

@larrylegs6012

6 ай бұрын

talentless in my opinion jumpimg on the woodie guthrie bandwagon

@clamman27

6 ай бұрын

@@larrylegs6012 LMAO.

@fredvan6043

4 ай бұрын

@@larrylegs6012 I reckon you ar a connoisseur of Woody's work?

@davidhodgson3901

Ай бұрын

@@larrylegs6012 🔔 end

My cringeometer is off scale, I'm sure after Billy's set things got better..😅

I had no idea who he is. The first 16 min is full of blah, blah, blah. The music is full of blah, blah, blah. What a waste of time.

@fredvan6043

4 ай бұрын

That says a lot more about you than about BB's music, really...

Plastic politician with a guitar every so called song the same boring fart imagine paying to see him 😂

@fredvan6043

4 ай бұрын

I'm really curious who YOU would pay to see then... A spoof band like Imagine Dragons? That said, I must say I've seen better shows of him, but his songs still stand the test of time...

@mac-vl4ib

4 ай бұрын

@@fredvan6043 seen loads in my time from stones bowie Dylan Floyd Metallica stevie wonder u2 oasis and many more if Bragg was playing in my garden a would shut my shutters and go to the pub

@fredvan6043

4 ай бұрын

@@mac-vl4ib Actually the question was purely rhetorical, but anyway: whatever.

@mac-vl4ib

4 ай бұрын

@@fredvan6043 nothing obvious about that dear boy

@baddogmaine

3 ай бұрын

@@mac-vl4ib Then don't pay to see him. But many many many do pay to see him and feel we got a bargain. Your likes and dislikes mean nothing to anyone else. But by all means comes to a Billy Bragg concert video and tell us all we're wrong.

Too much politics not enough music

@dbradx

5 ай бұрын

Lol - new to Billy, are you?

@idkitten9148

23 күн бұрын

music is political

Boring.