Billy Bragg - Never Buy The Sun

[david747]

Hi, I went to see Billy Bragg at Garforth Arts Festival last night where he debuted a new song he's just written.

Thought you might like it.

www.billybragg.co.uk/blog/?p=183

For those of you that don't know the people of Liverpool pretty much closed the Sun down as a newspaper there after the Hillsborough disaster and the disgusting slurs they placed on the Liverpool fans. (See section 6.1 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsborough_disaster#The_Sun_newspaper).

If Mr Murdoch intends to quietly re-open the NOTW as the Sunday Sun he needs to know that is not an option.

[reelingintheyears]

Fantastic..i've just put it on my FB.

[chipstick10]

I totally agree that the phone hacking of Milly Dowler was reprehensible, however i cant stand campaigns and being told what i can and cant read. I will continue to buy the sun and will continue to watch sky.

[BitOfFun]

I never buy the Sun, on principle, after Hillsborough. But its still very much on sale here, so somebody must be buying it.

[SybilBeddows]

excellent, I've Facebooked it (though tbh I don't think any of my FB friends DO buy the Sun, but still.....)

I like the simplicity of just saying 'The Scousers never buy The Sun' as a way of saying that actually there is some point in boycotts.

[lovecorrie]

Good old Billy Bragg - so true to his 'beliefs' <a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=newsserve.net/i/20110106/1027-Billy-Bragg-Is-the-Big-House-Boy-From.jpg&imgrefurl=www.onenewspage.co.uk/news/Celebrities/20110106/18489022/Billy-Bragg-Is-the-Big-House-Boy-From.htm&usg=__IDmgBcL1Mx4MsX1akjnTnxN7YAU=&h=146&w=240&sz=5&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=vTiSQXZRdLkskM:&tbnh=110&tbnw=181&ei=cO8ZTp3vGOb50gGd8O2XBQ&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dbilly%2Bbragg%2527s%2Bhouse%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26biw%3D1024%26bih%3D555%26tbm%3Disch&um=1&itbs=1&iact=rc&dur=603&page=1&ndsp=16&ved=1t:429,r:6,s:0&tx=83&ty=52.People" rel="nofollow noindex" target="_blank">like him make me quite quite sick

[lovecorrie]

'People like him' that should say - too angry to write properly.

[reelingintheyears]

What?...
So he has to live in a small house because he has a social consience.?

[HedleyLamarr]

One of my brothers and several of my friends have decided to boycott The Sun and NOTW after I posted a link about the Milly Dowler hacking to my Facebook. Especially as I posted a rant alongside it using a few choice MNisms, namely "fuck off, and when you get there fuck off some more" and "ticket to the far side of fuck". Whoever made those up deserves a knighthood.

[TheFalcon]

I think this song is more likely to make me buy the Sun to piss the likes of Bragg off.

[lovecorrie]

nice one TheFalcon I expect Bonio will come out with something terribly deep about NOTW next!

[islawhiter]

Billy bragg is a capatalist, he lives in a massive house in dorset and tows the party line and prob buys the daily mail

[SybilBeddows]

is the fact that the house is in Dorset a problem as well as its size?

[BitOfFun]

Billy Bragg is a very successful musician. What do you expect him to do? Donate all his earnings to the miners and live in a shed?

[BitOfFun]

Isla, do you even know what a capitalist is? Because it doesn't sound like it.

[reelingintheyears]

BOF...maybe he's a catapaulist.


Yeah,though seriously...

We should all live in huts until the whole world has a nice house.

[OpusProSerenus]

It is very clear that the only way the likes of Murdoch and his cronies will ever take our disgust into consideration is if we hit them in the pocket.

As a Liverpudlian I wouldn't use the Sun to wipe my bum and never cease to be horrified that some scousers will buy it. I have cancelled the Times until I see if News International plan to learn anything from this.

[reelingintheyears]

He's a well known Tory activist is Billy Bragg....

[katkitya]

To be honest, Billy annoys me. As do all those popstars/celebs that get all political. I don't know why, I'm sure he means well. It's like when they act all hardcore labour whilst enjoying their six bedroomed morgage free house that they paid for by being on top of the pops once or twice. It's hardly hard work, is it?

[katkitya]

Mortgage

[islawhiter]

billybragg is a conman, his not johnny rotten, his not arthur scargill, he books saga hols in his barn conversion in Dorset

[islawhiter]

Tell me a good song hes ever had in the charts, I know all about pop music, I listen to it all the time in my car, Ive never heard Billy effing Bragg

[usualsuspect]

Good music doesn't tend to get into the charts

[katkitya]

A New England is a bloody classic, I'm afraid. It went downhill from there, for me.

[Geordieminx]

Good on him.

Tbh I couldn't give a rats' arse where he lives, but any attention to the JFT 96 campaign is all good in my eyes.

YNWA

[BitOfFun]

Billy Bragg works a lot harder than just going on TOTP- iirc he was a bit shit when he went on it actually, and never got invited back after forgetting his words . He does a lot of live work, writes his own songs and has done loads of benefit gigs for strikers and families facing deportation etc. etc. He is generous with his time and talents for anti-racist and gay rights campaigns, and manages to do it mostly modestly and without fanfare, unlike that wanker Bonio. I think he's a pretty decent sort.