Billy Bragg - Lovers Town Revisited (Live)

[robertgrundy]

@jujuUK68. Sorry to persist, the guitar is an Arbiter Les Paul junior. He stripped the paint off it himself. He told me!

[jeanmc9]

I so wish he was still like this - instead of the politician that he's turned into!

[Oxmix64]

Thanks for posting! Completely forgot about this gem of a song

[TheLastFraudster]

there just aren't any singer songwriters like billy anymore.

[robertgrundy]

The guitar is an Arbiter Les Paul copy ( I think!). This one only has a bridge pick up, a single coil pick up is your best bet, a cheap telecaster copy would work fine. Billy used to use a Roland cube 60 amp, just turn it all the way up and you're away! The double stop playing style works really well. The classic BB guitar is a Burns Steer in green sunburst.

[jujuUK68]

@robertgrundy Sorry, I'ts almost certainly his Gordon Smith GS1 he's playing, not an "Arbeiter Les Paul Copy". Gordon Smith is a small, virtually one man business, based near Manchester, who hand builds (he doesn't claim hand made, despite the fact thats virtually what they are). The pickup would be I guess, logically. a Gordon Smith pickup. Fairly flat necks, and bodies shaped on a les paul junior shape. 1 3/4 thick bodies of whatever wood is available and a simple wraparound bridge.

[2bad4elmo]

Hi everyone,

i want to buy this guitar he is using in this vid.

can anyone tell me how it call?

[Ready2SurfGuitar]

it looks like a gibson les paul jr. with the paint stripped off. I could be wrong though.

Billy also plays "Burns" guitars. But that does not look like one.

[2bad4elmo]

@Ready2SurfGuitar

thank you

[laksenfranorge]

Bloody fantastic, this gets me in a lighter mood :)...Billy Bragg...father of punk!

[usmclown420]

bill bragg rules

[dunzaman]

Thnks so much Sevin1! just gave Ted Hawkins a listen, I'll be getting everything of his I can.

[MRMUG24]

Wow.... so punk!

[agressivemuffin]

Hey Sevin1,

Thanks for that - I have had a listen to the Ted and Billy track - beautiful. Have just booked tickets to Strummercamp to see Billy too!

will have a listen to Dan Wilson aswell,

take care xxx

[agressivemuffin]

never have I seen someone sing with such sincerity and conviction as Billy Bragg.

[BloodOrange0000]

And ray, I'm American, but I still know enough about the BNP to realize that you should take a look around yourself. You are no different than the conservative Americans who have ruined numerous international relationships among many other things; Americans who are outraged by "forced racial intergration on sesame street"! For Christ's sake, wake up! Stop thinking about race and find the real world.

[YALLSOMEWHORES410]

hell yea

[BloodOrange0000]

I don't know if you'll even read this again, but the fact that you use the word "fag" pretty much discredits any point you have made. You should never express your view on racial intergration if you can't get beyond your own hatred. Educate yourself. There's no harm in it.

[kateiskrazee]

this takes me back to being sixteen years old ! i loved Billy then and i love him still xxx

[Vaughan69420]

What kind of guitar is that?

[bakopotato]

redwedge me up.............

[a1212]

G hey man. im naked!! M

[nickclass5]

I know most of his stuff but this was a new one on me, thanks for posting it. No doubt BB is the the greatest living Englishman. I challenge anyone to come up with a better example of anyone who encompasses everything great about being English. Music and politics are spot on. No one else comes close.

[ray25620]

I challenge anyone to come up with a bigger hypocrite!!! He goes on about the joys of diversity and multiculturalism and attacks the white working class for their voting BNP, yet he chooses to live in Burton Bradstock, which is the whitest part of England it is possible to find. His own children attend an all white school, he made sure of that! He believes "diverse" schools are for the white working class children, not for his children.

[Behan90]

um.. no. i'm sure his choice wasn't anything to do with how many white people lived nearby. i would put forward that he is less racist for not caring to check how many ethnic minorities were living nearby so that he could maintain his reputation. if he consciously made sure he lived near every ethnic minority, it would just be.. patronizing, i guess.

[ray25620]

Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. By sending his own children to an all white school that proves how un-racist he is. Glad you've cleared that up for me.

[autobiography112]

Children need the best education there is and if the school he sends them to offers exactly what they need then it doesn't exactly matter of the ratio of race or the percentage of colour it just matters about the learning...

[ray25620]

I used to live and work in the education industry in London. White liberal Guardian readers always, ALWAYS send their own children to the whitest schools they can, even if it means the children have to commute long distances. Then these hypocritical nation wrecking maggots (like Billy Bragg) would criticise working class whites for voting BNP.

[YALLSOMEWHORES410]

thats b.s try going to my school everyday dickhead you have no idea... its all about the race and lifestyle you come from not about learning... get your facts straight fag

[autobiography112]

I simply don't know how your school functions but it's funny really because you're "angry" comment has obviously been influenced by your school and surroundings so I guess my point may have been proven by saying that Education is the main priority of the school really?hmm?

[YALLSOMEWHORES410]

no not really im not angry im just speakin the truth about the school district and how it runs around my way pal

[autobiography112]

oooo pal:)

We're friends now, glad to hear that you agree with me

thanks:)

[ray25620]

How can anyone possibly give this a thumbs down? I mean, someone thinks its okay that Bragg wants to prevent something for his own children (diversity) that he wants to inflict on other (working) people's children? It's okay that Bragg believes that some people are more important than other people?

[glastonburysong]

fucking arseholes...no BB - no Weller rebirth, no Artic Spunkeys...No Proclaimers, no PJ Harvey, no poetry politics (small c) of life; no white stripes wank. BB will have his flyover (ala queen mumble)...in the meantime he has changed the lives of millions...for the better...through sound, passion, poetry and knowledge...WHICH WE ALL KNOW IS.... Stop. keep on keepin on...LIKE TONY BENN...Bragg is an uncrowned, unaknowledged prince...time and humanity will out...

[54spiritedwill54]

this is brilliant !!

[boyleb1]

if he had died after 'talking to the taxman....' he would have been one of the biggest legends ever. but now, he`s just irrelevant

[zemechanism]

best song he ever did. now hes waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa­aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa­aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa­aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa­aaaaaaaaaaaaaaank

[surfergirl216]

great... thanks

[snakehissken]

When Billy talks about being an old punk rocker, it's songs like this that I think of

[kateiskrazee]

this takes me back to me to being sweet sixteen ! lol

[Wrapped4]

I fuckin love this man and his idol Joe Strummer

[potatoisyellow2]

Superb- this is my favourite song on Billy Braggs first album, along with New England of course.

[kamelrov]

Haven't seen this one before, thanks! Great song by the way.

[onezan]

it's never the same after the first time

That doesn't stop them coming back for more.

punk rock folk brilliance!

[harrisond1]

Amazing lyrics.

[helen4morrissey]

Ta.

[RobustSaunders]

this is brilliant....thanks!!

[Manos99]

This is great. Thanks.