BILLY BRAGG Announces ‘Bridges Not Walls’ Solo Tour

BILLY BRAGG Announces ‘Bridges Not Walls’ Solo Tour

Fresh from touring the world with Joe Henry and galvanised by ‘events’, not least the worrying rise of popularism, Billy Bragg is dealing with it in the best way he knows how, by strapping on his electric guitar and heading out on tour across the UK and Europe in November, under the title ‘Bridges Not Walls’. Billy, in one-man Clash mode, will perform songs from his 30+ year career, some pertinent covers by his heroes and mentors and some freshly minted songs about the state of the world.

Says Billy: “Music can’t change the world, but it does have the power to bring people together. In such divisive times, it seems a good place to start.”

The full list of shows is:

NOVEMBER

3 REYKJAVIK Iceland Airwaves

5 BEXHILL De La Warr Pavilion

6 LONDON Islington Assembly Hall

8 CAMBRIDGE Junction

10 OXFORD O2 Academy

11 BIRMINGHAM Town Hall

12 SHEFFIELD The Leadmill

14 LIVERPOOL Philharmonic Hall

15 EDINBURGH The Queen’s Hall

16 NEWCASTLE Wylam Brewery

18 NOTTINGHAM Rock City

19 CARDIFF Tramshed

21 SOUTHAMPTON The Brook

22 LONDON Clapham Grand

25 ANTWERP De Roma

27 COLOGNE Gloria Theatre

28 BERLIN Heimathafen

29 FRANKFURT Batschkapp

30 HAMBURG Fabrik

Tickets go on sale from 10am GMT on Friday 31st March from here: 

Billy Bragg and Joe Henry will play the final shows of their acclaimed ‘Shine A Light’ tour in Australia in April.

Billy Bragg has been a fearless recording artist, tireless live performer and peerless political campaigner for over 30 years. Among the former Saturday boy’s albums are his punk-charged debut Life’s a Riot With Spy Vs Spy, the more love-infused Workers Playtime, pop classic Don’t Try This At Home, the Queen’s Golden Jubilee-timed treatise on national identity England, Half-English, and his stripped-down tenth, Tooth & Nail, his most successful since the early 90s. The intervening three decades have been marked by a number one hit single, having a street named after him, being the subject of a South Bank Show, appearing onstage at Wembley Stadium, curating Left Field at Glastonbury, sharing spotted dick with a Cabinet minister in the House of Commons cafeteria, being mentioned in Bob Dylan’s memoir and meeting the Queen. At their best, Billy’s songs present ‘the perfect Venn diagram between the political and the personal’ (the Guardian).

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Mark Millar is the founder of XS Noize and looks after the daily running of the website as well as hosting interviews for the weekly XS Noize Podcast. Mark's favourite album is Achtung Baby by U2.

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