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Billy Bragg

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FinallyPeakedNow · 27/08/2023 21:29

Just watched Billy Bragg live. I was cheering along with the political stuff, climate change etc and then he starts with TWAW and I had to leave. Fucksake

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Goodbookandcupoftea · 27/08/2023 21:30

He is such an arse of a man.

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FinallyPeakedNow · 27/08/2023 21:33

I was only vaguely aware of him. I thought he was quite entertaining and pretty much aligned with my own views (was slagging Morrissey off for example) but then he starts going, this election will be won and lost on trans rights and I was like, yeah maybe but not the way you think

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FinallyPeakedNow · 27/08/2023 21:36

He said he thought women should have the right to be safe from male violence. Then he clarifies, women, girls and transwomen need to be safe from male violence... I was like, yeah and so do men but what's that got to do with anything. He said it was like when we fought for gay rights, and as a lesbian I thought, no it isn't

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Woman2023 · 27/08/2023 21:52

Ooh, you must be at Shrewsbury festival. How is it? I've always gone to Towersey but it's got a bit less folky and more faded popstars.

Grace Petrie plays the same kind of festivals, also very pro male women.

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FinallyPeakedNow · 27/08/2023 21:56

Yes at Shrewsbury. Wish I was at Towersey because Billy Bragg is not there!! I am sad about Grace Petrie because I thought as a butch lesbian she might get it!? I thought her song about the prom dress was an anthem for rejection of gender norms? What's happened there then

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FinallyPeakedNow · 27/08/2023 21:59

It's very folky though loads of proper trad stuff and you can't move for Morris sides

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Viewfrommyhouse · 27/08/2023 22:00

He's a colossal prick.

AtrociousCircumstance · 27/08/2023 22:09

He’s a misogynistic wanker.

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FinallyPeakedNow · 27/08/2023 22:10

I honestly had no idea about him. I can see he's got form. I've not been paying attention

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BabyShaark · 27/08/2023 22:12

What an idiot

Morty12 · 27/08/2023 22:13

What was the reaction from the crowd?

lady69 · 27/08/2023 22:18

His political stuff is 6th form common room guff. Total champagne socialist misogynist twat.

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FinallyPeakedNow · 27/08/2023 22:21

Morty12 · 27/08/2023 22:13

What was the reaction from the crowd?

A lot of them cheered which I found worrying. The crowd is a lot of grey haired people, straight/white but no idea of politics. The folkies always surprise me in that area

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determinedtomakethiswork · 27/08/2023 22:23

Look, when will you realise that his opinion is more important than yours? He's told you often enough.

maltravers · 27/08/2023 22:40

You’re not a woman Billy, you know sweet FA about why we need the rights you’re so keen to give away for us.

AnSolas · 27/08/2023 23:09

If you see his twitter/ X feed on TWAW he has that oddness that some humans with a penis have as they tend to only reply to other humans with a penis.
There is a word for that .....

Judashascomeintosomemoney · 27/08/2023 23:12

He said all that? Blimey, did he actually manage to fit any singing in?

Judashascomeintosomemoney · 27/08/2023 23:12

But yeah, he’s a massive disappointment.

ArabeIIaScott · 27/08/2023 23:44

AnSolas · 27/08/2023 23:09

If you see his twitter/ X feed on TWAW he has that oddness that some humans with a penis have as they tend to only reply to other humans with a penis.
There is a word for that .....

100%

PorcelinaV · 27/08/2023 23:45

Judashascomeintosomemoney · 27/08/2023 23:12

He said all that? Blimey, did he actually manage to fit any singing in?

Hopefully not?

quantumbutterfly · 27/08/2023 23:51

I liked Levis Stubbs Tears, I guess it was just a crowd pleaser like Billy.

Woman2023 · 27/08/2023 23:54

FinallyPeakedNow · 27/08/2023 21:59

It's very folky though loads of proper trad stuff and you can't move for Morris sides

Sounds great!

Bragg is just a numpty.

NeighbourhoodWatchPotholeDivision · 27/08/2023 23:54

AnSolas · 27/08/2023 23:09

If you see his twitter/ X feed on TWAW he has that oddness that some humans with a penis have as they tend to only reply to other humans with a penis.
There is a word for that .....

These days, I wonder if Bragg's main political beef with Margaret Thatcher could have been that she was a Margaret.

He might not have made a peep if the Prime Minister had been a man called Marcus Thatcher.

quantumbutterfly · 28/08/2023 00:02

I often think Thatcher would not have been so villified if she'd carried out her policies as a man...maybe she was a man trapped in a womans body.

IwantToRetire · 28/08/2023 00:41

I often think Thatcher would not have been so villified if she'd carried out her policies as a man...maybe she was a man trapped in a womans body.

Ditto Theresa May.

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