Track: A New England
BILLY BRAGG & THE RED STARS
Albums
1995
No Pop, No Style, Strictly Roots (mail order live CD, BB5107)
Tracklisting:
To Have And To Have Not/Ontario, Quebec & Me/Rumours Of War/A Lover Sings/Sulk/Accident Waiting To Happen/Cindy Of A Thousand Lives/Body Of Water/Ship In My Harbour/North Sea Bubble/MBH/Sexuality/The Price I Pay/Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards/Levi Stubbs’ Tears/St Swithin’s Day/Greetings To The New Brunette (Recorded live at the Phoenix Festival, July 1993)
Tracks on various artists compilations
1992
Ruby Trax – NME 40 CD
Track: When Will I See You Again
In A Field Of Their Own – NME GLASTON 1 DCD
Track: Accident Waiting To Happen (Live)
BILLY BRAGG & WILCO
Albums
June 1998
Mermaid Avenue (Elektra 62204)
Tracklisting:
Walt Whitman’s Niece/California Stars/Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key/Birds And Ships/Hoodoo Voodoo/She Came Along To Me/At My Window Sad And Lonely/Ingrid Bergman/Christ For President/I Guess I Planted/One By One/Eisler On The Go/Hesitating Beauty/Another Man’s Done Gone/The Unwelcome Guest
May 2000
Mermaid Avenue Vol II (Elektra 7559-62522-2)
Tracklisting:
Airline To Heaven/My Flying Saucer/Feed Of Man/Hot Rod Hotel/I Was Born/Secret Of The Sea/Stetson Kennedy/Remember The Mountain Bed/Blood Of The Lamb/Aginst Th’ Law/All You Fascists/Joe DiMaggio Done It Again/Meanest Man/Black Wind Blowing/Someday Some Morning Sometime
Singles and promo items
1998
Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key/My Thirty Thousand/Bugeye Jim Elektra E3798 CD
She Came Along To Me EP/California Stars (Live From Late Night With Conan O’Brien)/My Thirty Thousand/Bugeye Jim/At My Window Sad And Lonely (Jeff Tweedy Guitar solo version)
Elektra 7559-63740-2
Australian release (import only)
California Stars/My Flying Saucer
Elektra promo only PR CD 1123-2
… A Conversation
Elektra promo only PR CD 1184-2
1999
Unconditionally Guaranteed – Uncut UG-17
Track: I Guess I Planted (‘Coolest Sounds From The Hottest Bands Of 1998’ compilation free with Uncut magazine)
2000
Secret Of The Sea/Aginst Th’ Law/Aginst Th’ Law (Live in Hamburg 6/6/2000)
Promo only
BILLY BRAGG & THE BLOKES
Albums
1999
Mermaid Avenue Tour (Billy Bragg, BB5108)
Tracklisting:
I Guess I Planted/My Flying Saucer/Eisler On The Go/The Milkman Of Human Kindness/She Came Along To Me/All You Fascists Bound To Lose/Must I Paint You A Picture?/Christ For President/California Stars/A New England/Hoodoo Ska Voodoo/Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key (Mail order only. Recorded live and in the studio, October–November 1998)
February 2002
England, Half English (Cooking Vinyl, COOK CD 222)
Tracklisting:
St Monday/Baby Farouk/Tears Of My Tracks/Mystery Shoes/Distant Shore/Jane Allen/NPWA/He’ll Go Down/England, Half English/You Pulled The Carpet Out/Take Down The Union Jack/Another Kind Of Judy/Some Days I See The Point/Dreadbelly/Yarra Song
October 2006
Re-released as Expanded Edition (Cooking Vinyl, COOK CD 309B)
Bonus disc tracklisting:
Billericay Dickie/Mansion On The Hill/Glad And Sorry/He’ll Go Down (Demo)/Yarra Song/You Pulled The Carpet Out/Mystery Shoes/Tears Of My Tracks (Demo)/Take Down The Union Jack (Band version)/England, Half English (12″ remix)/1 2 3 4/Dry Bed (Band version)/Danny Rose/She Smiled Sweetly
Singles
February 2002
England, Half English/St Monday
Cooking Vinyl CD FRY CD 120
May 2002
Take Down The Union Jack (Album version)/Mystery Shoes/England, Half English (7″ Remix)
Cooking Vinyl CD FRY CD 131
Take Down The Union Jack/Yarra Song/England, Half English (12″ Remix)
Cooking Vinyl CD FRY CD 131X
Take Down The Union Jack/You Pulled The Carpet Out/England, Half English (Ambient remix)/Take Down The Union Jack (Video)
Cooking Vinyl CD FRY CD 131XX
Tracks on various artist compilations
1999
Liberdade: Viva East Timor – Mushroom MUSH332632
Track: Accident Waiting To Happen (Live)
2000
Live At The World Café Vol II – World Café WC0011L
Track: Accident Waiting To Happen (Live)
2001
Daddy-O-Daddy! Rare Family Songs Of Woody Guthrie – Rounder Records ROU CD 8087
Track: Dry Bed
2002
Radio 107.1 KGSR Austin: Broadcasts Volume 10 – 107.1 KGSR/Radio Austin
Track: St Monday (Live on 107.1 KGSR)
Songs In The Key Of Cooking Vinyl – Cooking Vinyl GRILL CD 020
Track: Distant Shore
Track: Danny Rose
The Song Makers Project Volume One – Nesta Records CD
Track: The Milkman Of Human Kindness
New Music From Across The Sea Volume 2 – FilterMMM.com Promo CD only
Track: Distant Shore
Brand New Boots And Panties – East Central One Newboots 2CD
Track: Billericay Dickie
2003
Light Of Day – A Tribute To Bruce Springsteen – Schoolhouse Records SH20022 (US); reissued 2005, Revolver Records (UK)
Track 12: Mansion On The Hill
Born To Run 2003: The Best Of The Boss – Uncut 2003 04
Track: Mansion On The Hill
RIFF RAFF
Albums
December 2002
The Singles 1977–1980 (BB5200)
Tracklisting:
I Wanna Be a Cosmonaut/Romford Girls/What’s The Latest?/Sweet As Pie/Barking Park Lake/Richard/Fantocide/Every Girl/You Shaped House/She Don’t Matter/New Home Town/Little Girls Know/Kitten
Singles
1978
I Wanna Be A Cosmonaut/Romford Girls/What’s The Latest?/Sweet As Pie Chiswick SW34
1979
Sweet Narcissus (Credited to Ruan O’Lochlainn)/Barking Park Lake (Credited to Riff Raff)
Albion DEL 6
1980
Every Girl/You Shaped House
Geezer GZ1
Kitten/Fantocide
Geezer GZ2
Little Girls Know/She Don’t Matter
Geezer GZ3
New Home Town/Richard
Geezer GZ4
ROSETTA LIFE FEATURING BILLY BRAGG
Singles
October 2005
We Laughed (Maxine Eddington and Billy Bragg)/The Light Within (Lisa Payne and Billy Bragg)/My Guiding Star (Veronica Barfoot and Billy Bragg)
iTunes Music Store (UK) download single
Cooking Vinyl CD FRY CD 252
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND SOURCES
All The Rage, by Ian ‘Mac’ McLagan (Pan, 2000)
Back To Basics, by Billy Bragg (IMP, 1985)
British Hit Albums (Guinness, 1997)
British Hit Singles (Guinness, 1997)
British Politics Since The War, by Bill Coxall, Lynton Robins (Macmillan, 1998)
Bygone Barking, by Brian Evans (Phillimore, 1991)
Chronicle Of The 20th Century (Dorling Kindersley, 1997)
Danger Over Dagenham (Barking & Dagenham Libraries Department, 1995)
Downsize This!, by Michael Moore (Boxtree, 1997)
The Enemy Within, by Seumas Milne (Pan, 1994)
England: An Elegy, by Roger Scruton (Pimlico, 2000)
England’s Dreaming, by Jon Savage (Faber and Faber, 1991)
Faces Of Labour, by Andy McSmit
h (Verso, 1997)
40 Years Of NME Charts, compiled by Dafydd Rees, Barry Lazell, Roger Osborne (Boxtree, 1992)
Full Metal Jacket, by Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr, Gustav Hasford (Secker & Warburg, 1987)
Genesis: A Biography, by Dave Bowler, Bryan Dray (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1992)
‘A Genuine Expression of the Will of the People’, by Billy Bragg (votedorset.net, 2001)
Hope And Glory: Britain, 1900–90, by Peter Clarke (Penguin, 1996)
The King’s England Northamptonshire, by Arthur Mee (Hodder & Stoughton, 1945)
The Last Election, by Pete Davies (Penguin, 1986)
Midnights In Moscow, by Chris Salewicz (Omnibus, 1989)
Morrissey & Marr: The Severed Alliance, by Johnny Rogan (Omnibus, 1992)
Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell (Penguin, 1987)
Nor Shall My Sword, by Simon Heffer (Phoenix, 1999)
Now That’s What I Call Quite Good, by Nick Swift (Tales From Humberside, 1988)
Paul Weller, by Steve Malins (Virgin, 1997)
The Progressive Patriot, by Billy Bragg (Bantam Press, 2006)
Q Encyclopedia Of Rock Stars, by Dafydd Rees, Luke Crampton (Dorling Kindersley, 1996)
Recording The Past, edited by Alan Hill, Susan Curtis (Barking & Dagenham Libraries Department, 1996)
Residents And Visitors, by Tony Clifford, Kathryn Abnett, Mark Watson (Barking & Dagenham Libraries, 1992)
Richard Thompson: Strange Affair, by Patrick Humphries (Virgin, 1996)
The Rolling Stones Chronicle, by Massimo Bonanno (Plexus, 1990)
Rudyard Kipling: Selected Poems, edited by Peter Keating (Penguin, 1993)
The Smiths: The Visual Documentary, by Johnny Rogan (Omnibus, 1994)
Thatcher And Thatcherism, by Eric J Evans (Routledge, 1997)
Victim Of Geography, by Billy Bragg (IMP, 1991)
The Wee Rock Discography, compiled by MC Strong (Canongate, 1996)
When The Music’s Over, by Robin Denselow (Faber and Faber, 1989)
William Blake: Selected Poetry, edited by WH Stevenson (Penguin, 1988)
Most of the material comes from interviews with Billy Bragg, Juliet de Valero Wills, Tiny Fennimore, Paul Heaton, Peter Jenner, Phill Jupitus, Andy Kershaw, Neil Kinnock, Andy Macdonald, Ian McLagan, Neil Spencer, Andrew Spurrell, Steven Wells and Philip Wigg, and conversations with Marie Bragg, Robert Handley, Joe MacColl, Steven Rice, Karen Walter and Brenda Woods.
Research material taken from articles by John Aizlewood, Ian Anderson, Stuart Bailie, Paul Barker, Laura Burton, Billy Bragg, Mick Brown, Julie Burchill, Martin Burr, Garry Bushell, Robert Christgau, Gary Crowley, Robin Denselow, Paul Du Noyer, Hugh Fielder, Tony Fletcher, David Fricke, Sheryl Garratt, Rene Gerry-ts, John Gill, Paolo Hewitt, Tom Hibbert, Dave Hill, Colin Irwin, Dave Jennings, Danny Kelly, Michelle Kirsch, Steve Lamacq, Eleanor Levy, Richard Lowe, Vici MacDonald, Stuart Maconie, Greil Marcus, Gavin Martin, Quentin McDermott, Mick Mercer, Ted Mico, Sean O’Hagan, Betty Page, Chris Paul, Ian Pye, David Quantick, Joanna Quinn, Jim Reid, Will Smith, Karen Swayne, Adam Sweeting, Adrian Thrills, Steve Turner and Steven Wells.
Publications used for reviews, reference and vibe include (deep breath): Artforum, Barking & Dagenham Advertiser, Barking & Dagenham Post, Billboard, Boston Globe, Bridport News, City Life, City Limits, Daily Express, Daily Mirror, Daily Telegraph, Dorset Echo, Downtown, Express, The Face, Financial Times, Folk Roots, Gay News, GQ, Guardian, Ham & High, Hot Press, Independent, Independent On Sunday, Issue, Jamming!, Kettering Evening Telegraph, London Evening Standard, Mad, Making Music, Mayfair, Melody Maker, Mojo, The Monkey’s Face, More Music, Morning Star, Music And Video, Musicians Only, Music Week, New Musical Express, New Route, New Socialist, New Statesman, New York Times, Nicaragua Today, No. 1, Observer, Parliamentery IT Briefing, Peterborough Advertiser, Peterborough Evening Telegraph, Private Eye, Q, Radio Times, Rage, Rebel Youth, Record Mirror, Rolling Stone, Sanity, Select, Smash Hits, Socialist Youth, Sounds, Southern Rag, Spin, The Spire, Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Times, Sydney Morning Herald, Time Out, The Times, Total Guitar, Uncut, Village Voice, Vox, Wake Up, Well Red and Zig Zag.
INDEX
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A13 (road) 1, 4, 8, 25, 29, 87 148, 184
‘A13 Trunk Road To The Sea’ 4, 64, 91, 254
ABC 85
Absolute Beginners (MacInnes) 300
‘Accident Waiting To Happen’ 224
Adam & The Ants 79, 83
Adams, Gerry 255
Afrika 183
After Dark 189
Ain’t Nobody Who Can Sing Like Me tour 297
Aizlewood, John 218
Albion Records 58
Allen, Woody 114
Allum, Rob 226
Amandla 181
‘Another Man’s Done Gone’ 258
Anti Records 292
Anti-Nazi League 149, 161, 241, 282
Carnival 241–2
Armstrong, Roger 46
Army, British xix, 69, 70–81, 149, 162
Apathy Into Action 287
Artists Against Apartheid 190
Atilla the Stockbroker 116, 175
AVM (Audio Visual Movies) 67, 82, 138
‘Bad Penny’ 222
Baez, Joan 285
Bailey, Bill 316
Bailey, Roy 147
Bailie, Stuart 242
Baker, Ginger 41
‘Ballad Of A Spycatcher’ 195
Band Aid 155–6, 160
see also Live Aid
banks, bailout of 304
Barenaked Ladies 243
Barker, Martyn 265
Barking viii, xix, 1, 2, 5–8, 14, 19, 35–7, 39, 51, 65–6, 71, 73, 76–7, 82, 148–9, 175, 180, 236, 270, 290, 293, 306, 307, 316, 317
Abbey 7
Assembly Hall 24, 163
and BNP 306, 107
Creek 2, 11–12
Polytechnic 274
Barking Abbey Comprehensive School 15–16, 20, 22–3, 27
Barking Abbey Grammar School 15, 50
Barking & Dagenham Advertiser 47
Barking & Dagenham Post 48
Barking Park 8, 10–11, 18
lake 10–11, 18, 48, 175
Barnbrook, Richard 290, 306, 307, 310, 315
Barnes, William 263, 273
Barton, Laura 300
Barton Olivers, Dorset 270, 272, 274, 278, 282, 308
Bauhaus 83
BBC:
Maida Vale studios 103, 137
Radio 1 58, 101–2, 126, 137, 188, 194, 218, 289, 316
Radio 2 280
Radio 4 130, 236, 273, 295
World Service 101, 212
Beackon, Derek 241
Bearshank Lodge (Bearshanks) 42–8, 50–52, 195
Beatles 27, 123, 161, 197
Beats International 213
Beautiful South 115, 213
Bebo 295
Beckton, Essex 2, 11, 16, 73
Beech, Kevin (Little Kevin) 36, 50, 52–4, 56, 60, 62
Bees Make Honey 43
Behan, Jeff ‘Jago’ 301
Bell, Jason 281
Bellerose, Jay 309
Bennett, Jay 258
see also Wilco
Berry, Chuck 26, 29, 105, 313
‘Between The Wars’ 95, 147, 150, 157–8, 166, 172, 182, 198–9, 281, 316, 317
Bic 110
Bieber, Justin 312
Billboard 138
Björk 247
Black, Pauline 136–7
Black and White Minstrel Show, The 15
Blackwell, Chris 232
Blair, Tony 244–6, 252–5, 267, 279, 284, 287, 306
Blake, William 181, 244, 249, 254, 320
Blokes 265–8, 273, 278, 282, 299, 309
Bloomberg 308
Blow Monkeys 188, 193
Blue Peter 19
Blur 219, 244
Bogart, Humphrey 9
Book of Lists, The 323
Bollingbroke, Mary 186–7, 193, 199, 200, 222
Boothill Foot Tappers 126, 132
Bower, Paul 167
Bowie, David 20, 83, 122, 192
Bow Wow Wow 85
Box 110
‘Boy Done Good, The’ 250
Boyd, Joe 195, 289
Boyle, Dougie 34
Boys From the Black Stuff, The xviii
Bragg, Billy:
appendicitis 228, 229–30, 235
army, time in 65, 69–81
banana story 119–20
Battle of Portaloo 269
Bragg Close 270
Braggmania, first 123
Captain’s Cabin residency 124
Clash at Rainbow, seeing xvi, 37–9
Dorset home 270, 272–8
Dudley’s letter to 301
drugs 22, 41, 59–60, 128, 141
Englishness 272 274, 278–9, 282
first US tour 138–42, 146
40th birthday of 317
50th birthday of 298–9, 323
Go! Discs shares 207–9, 251, 318
Grammy nominations 268, 273
Guardian contributions of 303–4
guitars donated to prison by 301–2
Henry V songs 274
honorary degree 274
honorary doctorate 295
House of Lords reform 271–2, 286–8, 289
Kim, crush on 24, 32, 151, 163 187
Labour Party xviii, 130, 145, 149, 159–63, 166–9, 171–2, 186, 188–91, 200, 204, 245–6, 252–5, 274, 275–8
and MySpace account 294–5
new ‘Ode to Joy’ lyric of 316
NME cover, appearance on 124, 198, 223
Oundle, living in 48–64
parenthood 236–7, 246, 248–50, 320, 323
police, trouble with 59–62, 63, 66, 175, 185
politics 17–18, 76–7, 128, 129–30, 143–50, 157, 159–63, 166–9, 171–5, 176–8, 185–91, 200, 205, 227, 237, 241–2, 245, 252–5, 262, 267, 271–2
pop music, early love of 18–23
Portastack 139
in Pressure Drop 305–6
prison visits by 301, 302, 303
relationship with father 10, 12, 30–31, 69–70, 127, 155, 237
relationship with Juliet 230–37, 248–50, 268, 270, 308, 318, 320, 323
relationship with Katy 51–3, 59, 63, 79, 84, 90, 95, 99, 103, 105, 111, 235
relationship with Mary 186–7, 193, 199, 200, 222
religion and spirituality 10, 249, 319–20
school 5, 15–16, 23–5
at Speakers’ Corner 304–5
as Spy Vs Spy 84–7, 89, 98
and stage intruder 297–8
tax temporarily withheld by 304–5