Billy Bragg - Never Buy The Sun

[Maldini]

This was posted in the phone hacking thread but most won't see it in there and it deserves it's own thread

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1P6KUyOhBc

[Frosty Jack]

boss

[Scowler]

Made up he's put this out, never let's you down does Bill

[smithdown]

George wants to play it at the ground.

 

Good old George.

[Flight]

This needs releasing immediately.

[kingkenny77]

I have liked Billy for 20 odd years (he used to kip on me mates floor when gigging in Liverpool) funny how the 80s leftie is relevant today. Economic cycles and all that.

For you young guys get on to itunes and get educated.

[Spike]

Good stuff that

[Eiler99]

Great tune.

 

Well in!

[Rimbeux]

I have liked Billy for 20 odd years (he used to kip on me mates floor when gigging in Liverpool) funny how the 80s leftie is relevant today. Economic cycles and all that.

For you young guys get on to itunes and get educated.

 

 

I heard him speak the other week, often stop and listen to him, he said his big battle is not giving into cynicism, believing people still can get things done when so many give up.

[DecidedByPoll]

Met him at a Labour Party Conference a good number of years back and he was gracious, funny and intelligeny company, despite my intial splutterings about how he was one of my heroes. We talked about House of Lords reform for a little while and it was one of those very rare occasions when you get to meet someone who hold in hugely high esteem and your respect for them only heightens. A genuinely good man.

[John am Rhein]

good, good

[Redray]

A class act.

[Mike]

if im honest, i don't like the song but i adore the motivation and the sentiment.

[guernseygareth]

wonder if he'll 'proper' record and release it.

[Hector McDougal]

BBC witness podcast on Hillsborough and the Sun boycott.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00hpfqh/Witness_Boycott_of_The_Sun_newspaper/

[Ombudsam]

This was posted in the phone hacking thread but most won't see it in there and it deserves it's own thread

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1P6KUyOhBc

 

Not entirely related but do you think that tribalism in football is a major factor in the struggle for justice. For instance if Hillsborough had happened to Manchester United would The S*n have been greeted with ambivalence by us as opposed to the hatred it deserves.

 

I know that The S*n was in a way able to get away with it because of Liverpool specific issues and how the city was perceived so it's not easy to do a straight swap of circumstances.

 

If the whole football community had stood together consistently would that paper have shut down by now or am I actually doing the rest of the footballing community a disservice and they did indeed back us strongly.

[smithdown]

For the past 22 years, people in Liverpool have boycotted the Sun newspaper because of the lies that it printed about the behaviour of Liverpool FC fans at the Hillsborough disaster. Ninety-six people were crushed to death at a football match at Hillsborough in Sheffield on 15 April 1989. The Sun ran a front page story that accused Liverpool supporters of variously robbing and urinating on the dead bodies of the victims as they were laid along the touchline. The reports were totally unfounded. Since then, many people in Liverpool have refused to buy the Sun on principle.

 

As I listened to the unfolding reports of the phone-hacking story last week, it occurred to me that the scousers had been right about News International all along.

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jul/13/billy-bragg-never-buy-the-sun

[Falconhoof]

Not entirely related but do you think that tribalism in football is a major factor in the struggle for justice. For instance if Hillsborough had happened to Manchester United would The S*n have been greeted with ambivalence by us as opposed to the hatred it deserves.

 

I know that The S*n was in a way able to get away with it because of Liverpool specific issues and how the city was perceived so it's not easy to do a straight swap of circumstances.

 

If the whole football community had stood together consistently would that paper have shut down by now or am I actually doing the rest of the footballing community a disservice and they did indeed back us strongly.

 

I think It would be the same situation, different city. A boycott may have been set up in Manchester but I can't imagine it being widely supported elsewhere sadly. There isn't really a footballing community, just a load of local interests in the same league.

 

I just find it so sad that paper is widely accepted. I see people with it and just wonder how it can fit into a normal persons worldview.

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

if im honest, i don't like the song but i adore the motivation and the sentiment.

Agree, I don't really like his music, but I admire him all the same

[magic melia]

Just heard it on the radio , And its available as a free download on his website

[Woodsyla]

They played it on Absolute radio last night with a disclaimer that some people may find it offensive (swearing?), or may not agree with the lyrics.

 

f***ing hilarious

 

s*** tune, great sentiment.

[Behind Enemy Lines]

direct link for the more lazy amongst us -> ere

[Swan Red]

They played it on Absolute radio last night with a disclaimer that some people may find it offensive (swearing?), or may not agree with the lyrics.

 

f***ing hilarious

 

s*** tune, great sentiment.

 

Do you think that's really neccessary?

[kop205]

Do you think that's really neccessary?

 

Bit bizarre that people have felt any need to comment on its musical merit or otherwise really, but a few have done.

 

It should simply be unreservedly applauded.

[Gunga Din]

Bit bizarre that people have felt any need to comment on its musical merit or otherwise really, but a few have done.

 

It should simply be unreservedly applauded.

 

 

yep. he's has just been interview on American wireless and has mentioned the Liverpool boycott of the S*n and and how others have to follow our example. top lad is Billy Bragg