Today was pretty cool - got to hang out with #BillyBragg and do sound for #CarsieBlanton!

In the multiple years since Oct 7 (or about 600 shows), these artists were only the 3rd and 4th to speak up for Palestine at our venue.

In general I'm pretty disgusted with the silence and complicity of artists - tonight by contrast was cool, clear water.

#resist #FreePalestine

The news in Britain this week has been about war and violence: the defence budget and racist riots. Both brought about by austerity, to my mind.

And which pushed me towards this song by Billy Bragg - Between The Wars.

#BillyBragg #BetweenTheWars #UKpol

https://youtu.be/VVEf9NefHAo?is=C2gtiUq65FG9vpCJ

🇺🇦 Auf #radioeins läuft...

Billy Bragg:
🎵 Sexuality

#NowPlaying #BillyBragg

https://open.spotify.com/track/77ensXJo4BzuFHGQmrFj4Y

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix

Billy Bragg & Wilco:
🎵 California Stars

#BillyBragg #Wilco

https://theroundedsquares.bandcamp.com/track/the-rounded-squares-billy-bragg-wilco-california-stars

https://open.spotify.com/track/5B2mJIk8yso3ugyvfHR62A

🎶 show playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6G4PaS9BNkIuGqMo44rbfZ

🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg

Today in Labor History May 30, 1381: Tax collector John Bampton sparked the Peasants’ Revolt in Brentwood, Essex. The mass uprising, also known as Wat Tyler’s Rebellion, or the Great Rising, began because of attempts to collect a poll tax. However, tensions were already high because of the economic misery and hunger caused by the Black Death pandemic of the 1340s, and the Hundred Years’ War. During the uprising, rebels burned public records and freed prisoners. King Richard II, 14 years old, hid in the Tower of London. Rebels entered the Tower and killed the Lord Chancellor and the Lord High Treasurer, but not the king. It took nearly six months for the authorities to suppress the Peasants’ Revolt. They slaughtered over 1,400 rebels. Roughly 600 years later, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher tried again to impose a poll tax on Britain’s working class. It also sparked a revolt which brought an end both to the tax and Thatcher’s regime. Billy Bragg references Thatcher’s poll tax in his song, All You Fascists.

All You Fascists, by Billy Bragg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWBeGK96pVQ

#workingclass #LaborHistory #peasant #revolt #rebellion #polltax #thatcher #wattyler #pandemic #plague #massacre #execution #billybragg #fascism

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #MorningShow

Billy Bragg:
🎵 I Will Be Your Shield

#BillyBragg

https://open.spotify.com/track/08HX8X2mnt0nXyxmuI7lvj