Bill Bailey and Billy Bragg sing 'Unisex Chipshop'

[obugger]

But this can't be right, Billy Bragg's a poe-faced leftie and a champagne socialist - I read it in the Daily Mail. How can he possibly have a sense of humour?

[jeanmc9]

Running naked through the woods round Rainham - so brilliant.  (I live in Rainham)!!!!

[Carlosfandango67]

I was in the front row for that... grinned through the rest of Glastonbury!

[busterabcat]

Bill Bailey is comedy GOD, Good on ole Billy B - that's BOTH Billy B's of course! Legends both of 'em!!!

[sarahkeedwell]

oi, I said what, I said nothing

[lolsnoopy1]

My two favorite BB's on stage together, what more could I want xxxxx

[OverheardProductions]

Pure gold. Makes me wish I was there.

[gloomyoutlook]

@tismlover , fucking well said mate.

[tribowx1976]

Brilliant. Shows he doesn't take himself too seriously and can have a laugh at himself. Bill Bailey is pure genius.

[tubtattoo]

Fekkin' genius :) Cheers

[FALLASLEEPworld]

This is heaven...and Bill Bailey looks wasted.

[toweronepower]

What is he talking shit about rain and morrissey the cunt

[IAINoodle]

hahahaaa

love the bragg accent he sings in XD

[MangaVally]

Thats Fan-fucking-tastic :D

[dominickearney]

Absolutely fucking brilliant

[sidbolero]

Billy Bragg displaying all the wit and charm of a British policeman in a stop and search.

[Paladin24987]

@sidbolero and thats why we love him :)

[theestever]

I love this! BB+BB... :D

[lol732]

Billy is one of the most down to earth singer/songwriter I've had the pleasure to meet! Vastly under rated lyrics!!! Excellent to see him here with Bill Bailey!

Love the Chris De Burgh comment. I was in Kilarney, Ireland to see The Beautiful South in 2006 & Chris De Burgh came out of the venue as we were about to watch The South sound check! Him & his minder carrying a brolley over him made a 600 or so yard detour around the carpark in the rain to avoid walking passed us oiks!

[urinalbushrat]

Billy Bragg came to New Zealand a few times way back when and I've had the pleasure to meet him twice now. I thought he was one of the most down to earth artists I've ever meet and I've meet some right pretentious bastards especially from the left field of politics who will never have a decimal of Billys talent, personality or success..

[mcs1hr]

Bill's back-catalogue will still be played in 50 years time. The best british songwriter of the last twenty five years.

[punx0000]

A long time ago, a British squaddie walked in2 his sergeants office and told him that he wanted out. When asked why, he replied " I wanna be a singer!"... the Sergeant told him "a singer?! You'll never be a singer as long as you've got a hole in ur arse!!".... Either Billy Bragg has had rectal reconstructive surgery and no longer requires food or substinece OR me dad doesn't understand music.... me thinks its the latter! Sorry if you were waiting for a punchline but this is a true story.

[SuperAntisocialite]

@punx0000 I thought it was a great punchline!

Me dad doesn't understand music...

Fookin' grand! Nice tale nicely told!

[salubrious]

Billy Bragg pretentious/self-righteous? Dude you're delusional!

[RandomSam189]

@salubrious Exactly, just because someone doesn't agree with everything the daily mail prints doesn't mean that person is pretentious or self-righteous.

[BROKENTHNOS]

lol!

[porno4menow]

@MrsLinfield Whats wrong with you?

[DC44101]

@MrsLinfield lol they must have really hated those chips :-P

[Fangsbbz]

@MrsLinfield thats, well, fucked up. my neighbourhood is just full of catholics and old people lol.

[Mike6SC]

Is there a version of this song where the skin-head gang makes a four-legged sausage toy or something like that?

[notjustahatrack]

"In came a skin-head gang,

the smashed the forks from my hand.

And with the forks and a saveloy,

they fashioned a dog-shaped sausage toy!"

Something like that.

[StChrissieboy]

Margaret Thatcher has gone on record as saying that she hates Billy Bragg for being a socialist who can write catchy tunes and for also showing that they can have a sense of humour.

[mangahead21]

@StChrissieboy

I hate Billy Bragg, because he's a pretentious and self righteous tosser; but each to their own...

[StChrissieboy]

But when you aren't reading manga you wank over a poster of Margaret Thatcher?

[mangahead21]

@StChrissieboy Not particularly true, and a bit of a jump to that conclusion i'm sure you'll admit, but like I said, each to their own, and if that image makes you feel better then good for you. Oh and the manga bit has nothing to do with the comic books etc. Have a nice day :)

[StChrissieboy]

Well I'll put Miss Sharp back in the knife drawer and just say that pretentious and self righteous people generally don't have a sense of humour especially when it comes to themselves. Billy Bragg is a decent man as well as a good songwriter and a man who tried to make a difference. He knows and tries to share a very simple fact that more people should know and that is that the working man of each country has more in common with each other than with the money men that rule us.

[batmansjinlun]

bragg got the lyrics wrong! weeey

[MrOffandonagain]

sexual fascism lurking around the gherkins anyone?

[grlzwillbegirlz]

Can any kind soul post the lyrics to this?

[ginger6789]

i used to buy my chips from an oppressive chip shop regime the girl who worked there she seemed happy but i knew it was not what it seemed do you want salt and vinegar was what they made her say but in the language of the ghetto that means help im a woman in chains. i used to see her in my dreams i would see her running naked through the woods round reinham if i had some tigers id train em to protect her from the sexual fascism that was lurking round the gherkins.

[ginger6789]

id lean across the counter and we would talk

id carve the name debbie

on a little wooden fork

then into the shop came a skin-head gang

they smashed the fork from my hand

debbie she looked at me

to assert my masculinity

i said oi

they said what

i said nothing

[FortifiedWineLover]

awesome duet, how cools billy bragg

[mermaidjkn]

if you'd paid attention you'd realise this isn't billy bragg's song but a creation of bill bailey

[notsh]

i guess he meant that bill bragg's singing a parody of himself. that's kinda cool

[lillith886]

brilliant. :)

[Kucingmatt]

thats brilliant

[duncmcrae]

Excellent, now let's see DE BURGH offer to do a duet.... the monobrowed purveyor of ultimate ...

[Christofides1]

FILTH

[mageoverload]

@duncmcrae Evil :D

[glowinggirl01]

I LOVE that Billy Bragg performed this song with Bill. Excellent.

[66GoodBye]

@TenStoryLoveSong wow.... your a dick... i couldnt wish that apon anyone..... even if i hated them :(

[tismlover]

@TenStoryLoveSong When parody of leftist rhetoric is greeted with your kind of bile, it's a reminder of the dangers of totalitarianism. It's good that Stalinists like you still exist. It's a reminder of what not to become. If critiques are disallowed then the moral high ground is lost.... dipshit piss-midget

[bachelorfox]

@TenStoryLoveSong i just took a look at your channel comments, seems maybe a number of people wouldn't care if you were wiped from the gene pool, bumhat

[woodie106]

@TenStoryLoveSong you bring a whole knew meaning to the word tosser................

[LacsiraxAriscal]

@TenStoryLoveSong Playing the "ridicuous YouTube comment game" by any chance? :P

It does amuse me how many people reply to this thinking you're serious...

[doctortehe]

@TenStoryLoveSong I bet you're only grumpy because Bill Bailey wrote his infamous love song about you :D

[Wiganmaher]

Quality......

[robgeorge87]

was this 2008????

[tombills20]

ha ha... he's using my vox AC30... I was playing in the next tent along and his died... he never did say thanks... what did i expect

[letswatchstuff2009]

OMFG I WAS THERE!!!!!

[glebber]

god i wish I was there! mmm.

[glebber]

were* (i wish i were there. sorry for my grammatical mistakednesses).

[feedmecoolshit]

I WISH I WISH I WISH THAT YOU CARED.. ;)

[robertverhey]

was there is right..right !!!!

[LacsiraxAriscal]

@glebber um... no, it's was.

[glebber]

@LacsiraxAriscal um... not it's "were".

[LacsiraxAriscal]

@glebber no, definitely "was"

[glebber]

@LacsiraxAriscal dude... since i am talking hypothetically, the correct word is "were". just go look it up and some freaking annoying me.

[LacsiraxAriscal]

@glebber Really? I'm unaware of this piece of grammar if it exists, but I'll take your word for it :P

[stratman06]

The opening guy is a poetic bastard lol.

[thesnoggingmollys]

thats alot of Bs

[bobthegirl90]

lool! good point!

[agressivemuffin]

totally fantastic - so much respect for both of them. Saw Billy Bragg in November - best gig of my life! x

[AlexSlams]

Legends!

[Foxzorz]

Bill you are actually my hero. Saw you in London in October, you truly are an inspiration.

Long live BB, the man, the inspiration, the hero!

[flupmakintosh]

i saw him on a beach in combe martin, he was with his family so i dindn't5 ask him for an autograph :(

[cookieflower]

You're much more considerate than me!

I would have lept at the opportunity.

[MattsterGTofUK]

fuckin ell unisex chipshop??

[DresdenStarwing]

...It's a joke...Billy Bragg is a protest song singer...Bill Bailey is a comdian...

[QwertyBstard]

not really... Chipshop is a bit more silly than usual but Bragg did a few very silly songs, that's what makes it a good parody. "I am the milkman of human kindness; I will leave an extra pint".

[DresdenStarwing]

^Shrugs^ I was first introduced to Bragg via way of protest songs...and Bailey as a comedian...So, that's the way the association sits in my mind

[WolfKobold]

Wow! Bill's really getting his jam on!

[JapeUK]

Amazing, nice to see Bragg can poke fun at himself, funny how he just kept watching Bailey's impression, you would be wierded out a bit by it to be fair.

[kungfuasgaeilge]

LOAD DAMN YOU!!! 0_o

[Thecrimson08]

lol hehe

[JamesAG]

this is just fantastic

[Gerfodger]

Heh, that definately seemed like it was hastily put together XD

Pretty cool though

[benjive]

No its just the way we do things all raw in england

[MythofDemocracy]

Great clip, thanks for posting it.

[tin9uk]

That just about perfect, spot on. I've been a fan of Billy for the last 20 years and that hit the nail square on the head, and it looked like a lot of fun was being had ;)

[JoeParkerAndThePower]

fucking awesome!! their little faces lol they're so excited!!!

[TelfLad]

yeah communism isn't right wing atall... lol

[taxi90809080]

Please just wise up

[TelfLad]

no u?

[taxi90809080]

What wrong with comics?

[bigears115]

that. was FUCKING amazing!

[mukkaspec]

That's F**kin Ace !!

True Brits ............

[dowling1981]

mukka - Do you think that William Bragg's new albums will be up to par?

[mukkaspec]

I really hope so. I could do with seeing him live again. It's been years...........

As Weller recently said "Bragg for Prime Minister ".

He knows what this land is all about . Old Blighty hasn't got long left ...

[dowling1981]

Do you not think that Boris Johnson would make a better Prime Minister?

[mukkaspec]

Oh Christ no !

[dowling1981]

Yes but he has class, charisma, honour and dignity, no?

[mukkaspec]

I really don't think any of them have anymore !.

All a disguise .

[dowling1981]

Yes but surely his flighty hair and loveable clumsiness bear him in good stead, yes?

[mukkaspec]

No ! Never got me anywhere............

[dowling1981]

Yes but you shall be leader soon. Do you think that Boris Johnson will enjoy his premiership?

[TheNewSocialist]

the only job boris johnson is safe to perform is a door-stop, and if you left him there for the day by the time you got back he'd still have found someway to insult the scousers, have an affair (with a passing field mouse) and set the door on fire.

[dowling1981]

You dont think that the reactions to his comments were a bit hysterical?

[indiekid123]

LEGENDS.

[joebione]

I'll be seeing you this year Billy! (2008)

[simpleton7]

I love it how like much like everybody's dad, he doesn't quite know the words to the pop-cult thing.  Spot on.

[shaunamus]

yeah this is what we want billy bragg an bill bailey playing together to amazing artists together

[11SheldonWalker11]

this is one of bill baileys best ever things hes done, 

lol

[calidoniaismyhome]

bill bailey goes to glas. festival every year practicly...

what are the chances of him doing something like that again ?? cos i wanna be there :( psmfl

[dunkyboy77]

Billy TWAT!!

[embemz123]

cleverrrrrrr

not

if you are gonna insult some one come up with some thing better than that

[chippex27]

i walked past that tent! Cant believe i didnt go in! damn me!

[tom1burg]

why does billy bragg sing like a brummie if hes from dagenham? (he has a street there named after him)

[Smumps]

Billy Bragg is from Basildon

[TheGreatEckscape]

Don't think so. He ends his gigs with "my name's Billy Bragg, I'm from Barking, Essex"

What a legend! Met him in HMV last week :D

[Smumps]

No your right it is Barking, The Bard of Barking. I was being delusional when I typed that last response.

[tom1burg]

so... why does he sing like a brummie then?

[Smumps]

He doesn't!

[olemuckspreader]

Have you been to Birmingham in your life? He's a loyal Essex boy

[AABINVESTIGATIONS]

lol. no he's not

[aliencheesemaker]

That was a Glastonbury Legend, that gig. And I missed it

[jameslewisgd]

That was brilliant!

[hoggers2000]

LUV DIS SONG

[therealmrspwentz]

lmao

love both bill's

[H4rryF]

well posted.The bloke that introduced them sounds like michael palin's constitutional peasant in 'monty python and the holy grail' ("help help i'm being repressed")

[fezztink]

mint tune lol

[exproggo]

that was funny...both bb's are brill

[imthebest3101]

Why are all great comedians names start with a B?

[TalkingPixiesHeads]

elaborate..

[TalkingPixiesHeads]

lol ok didnt see billy braggs name

[horrorshowmalchick]

Billy Bragg isn't a comedian.

[053bss]

Maybe, but he has a better sense of humour than most so-called comedians.

[teenonator]

Bush George W?

[imthebest3101]

nah he just an ideot. but then again his desisions for his country are laughable

[LaPetiteMorte]

That's the best pairing ever! I was flat when I heard Unisex Chip Shop the first time, he's caught Billy's dialect so well ^_^. Makes me laugh everytime.

[indiekid209]

haha genius, they looked like they were having so much fun xD

[yoyodudess93]

BILL BAILEY ROCKS MY FURRY SOCKS!!! I saw him live on his tour "Tinselworm" on saturday!!!!!!!!! He rocks!!!

[Joestonline]

dont talk bout that! im seein him tomorrow in manchester...

[yellowbananas08]

why carnt he/she talk about it?

[Joestonline]

ive not seen him on tour yet have i! and dont take it so seriously lol, they can talk about it if they need to. I never threatened to shoot them or anythin pet

[lordofblackness]

fanastic : )

[dforcefan202]

Woot BB & BB Greatness!

[Tangoratsfan]

YAAY!! BBs ftw =D this is great, love 'em both xD tah for posting =]x

[vizzy14]

Bill Bailey id possibly the funniest man in existence...

[TommyBellingham]

Yep

[StonedJonesy]

lol the worrying thing is bill baily always sounds like that

[KrilaSounds]

bloody brilliant - a rather unusual pairing all the same. Bill does the Bragg vocal impersonation extremely well. So, no, he isn't drunk, just pretending to be the guy standing next to him on stage! ;-)

[Zer0nite]

Bill Bailey = legend

[QueenOfBaginthia]

OMG!

HOW AMAZING!!!!

:D

id love it if that happened at a festival.

oomph. i think id nearly collapse tbh!

<3 bill bailey! LEGEND.

[leapoffaith20]

Bill Bailey sounds drunk, or high :)

[mollycool1]

in all fairness he probably is one or the other...

[Raedan23]

well according to his previous exploits at glasto, i would say he is both.

"little bit buzzy, little bit buzzy...forms a N, forms a N, NNNNNNNN!"

[jewdo27]

yeah i agree

[AbbaGabbaHey]

Wonderful! Bill Bailey's Bragg pisstake is the most loving assassination I've ever seen. Huge credit to Billy B for getting it.

[boyler22]

lol i actually love bill bailey i just wanted to be odd...

[mrdan8191]

thus leading us to...GANDI,HITLER,LINDER MCARTNY(i cant spell lol) i saw billy brag at tolpuddle he was pritty good

[mizzeryguts]

Two chronic bolshie masturbaters.

[hakanozelguitarist]

awesome! I'm a huge B Bragg fan and never heard this song before! what a treat

[GideonF]

Great video.

People who don't love Bill Bailey are worse than Hitler.

[JackHaldean]

Statisicly speaking, people who hate Bill Bailey have 0.0001% of a sense of humour. You can't argue with science my friends.

[DaisyDarling]

here here! Bill is i think, the only comedian to make me kill myself laughing out loud. anyone who says he's rubbish obviously hasn't seen enough of him/have an IQ of around 48

[Kevjin]

Yes man! That was top.

[workman1427]

Bill Bailey is Legend!

[rukia2rukia]

Barrrstad! BILL RULES!

[Albran]

Legend!