There's been something missing on my blog lately. Have you felt it?
That's right— it's the absence of Billy Bragg material. There was that giddy spike of Braggomania in November:
The Blog's Gone Bragg
More Billy Bragg Goodness: Billy in Hamilton & Ottawa
Billy Bragg @ The Phoenix
and then it kind of faded away. Until now. Behold, the Christmas cover I would've wished for but didn't need to because somehow Santa just knew. Billy Bragg & Florence (of The Machines) play The Pogues' Fairytale of New York on The BBC's Radio One Rob Da Bank Campfire Christmas Special, December 19th:
And here's Shane MacGowan and Kirsty MacColl (God, I miss her voice!) singing it on Top of the Pops in 1992:
That's right— it's the absence of Billy Bragg material. There was that giddy spike of Braggomania in November:
The Blog's Gone Bragg
More Billy Bragg Goodness: Billy in Hamilton & Ottawa
Billy Bragg @ The Phoenix
and then it kind of faded away. Until now. Behold, the Christmas cover I would've wished for but didn't need to because somehow Santa just knew. Billy Bragg & Florence (of The Machines) play The Pogues' Fairytale of New York on The BBC's Radio One Rob Da Bank Campfire Christmas Special, December 19th:
And here's Shane MacGowan and Kirsty MacColl (God, I miss her voice!) singing it on Top of the Pops in 1992:
