In 1983, Billy Bragg released his first album Life’s a Riot with Spy vs Spy, which contained hit single ‘A New England’. In 2013, NME named the album on their list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. The 1998 album Mermaid Avenue, which Bragg co-wrote with Wilco, consists of songs constructed from previously unheard Woody Guthrie lyrics, and was a critical success,…
The festival landscape has undergone major upheaval in the last three years, and Covid’s long-term impact on the music industry…
