Billy Bragg supports the UCU strike

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  • Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
  • Billy Bragg came along to our pickets and our rally today, to show his solidarity in song.
    00:35 The Times They Are A-Changing Back
    03:35 Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards
    06:59 Which Side Are You On?
    11:49 There Is Power in A Union
    15:39 Solidarity Forever

Комментарии • 94

  • @mattstiefel4806
    @mattstiefel4806 4 года назад +62

    Billy is firing on all cylinders here, it's beautiful to watch. He is an inspiration. The energy at this demonstration must have been incredible. Solidarity forever!

    • @rallyboy101
      @rallyboy101 2 месяца назад

      Firing from his mansion?

  • @jerrysmith2360
    @jerrysmith2360 Год назад +11

    I used to hate it when Billy updated the lyrics of songs I loved to sing (badly) when younger. I’ve come to appreciate this modification, it shows intelligence and an appreciation and love for his audience ❤

  • @Beemerboy324
    @Beemerboy324 3 года назад +22

    Billy is a world treasure! Plus he's playing my guitar!

  • @damienhunt4264
    @damienhunt4264 3 года назад +23

    "There is power in a union." YES, YES, YES.

  • @jeffburdick869
    @jeffburdick869 3 года назад +16

    Solidarity forever!!!!

  • @schrisdellopoulos9244
    @schrisdellopoulos9244 3 года назад +46

    Sounds great. Why aren't there more Billy Braggs in this sad world?

    • @rockmetalgoddess5009
      @rockmetalgoddess5009 3 года назад +1

      Because they're busy bragging.

    • @geyerbrad1
      @geyerbrad1 3 года назад +2

      They are all being brainwashed by Antifa. Like that Commie Tom Morello. Just kidding. Fuck fascism. Power to the people. Billy Bragg is brilliant.

    • @mrd3016
      @mrd3016 3 года назад

      @@rockmetalgoddess5009 is that a pun? Are puns funny in 2021? How did you come up with the dopey moniker? You're a rock metal goddess? Sure you are.

    • @mrd3016
      @mrd3016 3 года назад

      @@geyerbrad1 yes he is comrade.

  • @douglasparkinson4123
    @douglasparkinson4123 3 года назад +17

    one of my favourite bragg performances

  • @InParticularNobody
    @InParticularNobody 2 года назад +7

    Brilliant how there are two young women from the 1980s in the frame. Solidarity!

  •  2 года назад +6

    See the face of youth. Getting excited from his lyrics and energy. Power to you, Billy Bragg!

  • @andyc1139
    @andyc1139 5 лет назад +18

    Legend!

  • @tonystoakley5816
    @tonystoakley5816 3 года назад +5

    Fantastic Billy from a Cambridge resisdent love you always

  • @johnseeley514
    @johnseeley514 3 года назад +7

    Solidarity Forever

  • @Lyndanet
    @Lyndanet 3 года назад +6

    ❤️‍🔥 done so well in the beauty of a middle key

  • @markschamber6109
    @markschamber6109 2 года назад +3

    ,,,,” do what you do.”
    can’t be more relevant than that.
    Thank you sir.

  • @jeffburdick869
    @jeffburdick869 3 года назад +20

    one leap forwards, two leaps back, lets all just give the tories the sack!

  • @thomasito4491
    @thomasito4491 2 года назад +4

    Brilliant! Lovely! Wonderful!
    Great Update of Lyrics… Love the Man!
    Thanks for posting THIS!❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️💥❤️😝❤️‍🔥

  • @billhdowne2382
    @billhdowne2382 3 года назад +5

    Truth still Breaks a few of our hearts.

  • @krypton2k
    @krypton2k 3 года назад +7

    I love this man

  • @pathduck
    @pathduck 3 года назад +10

    I love how he removed the "boys" from Which Side Are You On here, to make it more inclusive :)

    • @bartkatastroof6150
      @bartkatastroof6150 3 года назад +1

      I mean yes its more inclusive, but i kinda liked how it filled the pause between "which side are you on"

    • @InParticularNobody
      @InParticularNobody 2 года назад

      Ours. He's always on ours. Viva Billy.

    • @rockgsxr
      @rockgsxr 2 года назад

      because that's what's important lol

    • @pathduck
      @pathduck 2 года назад +1

      @@rockgsxr It's not "important" but it's more **inclusive** and **that's** important.

    • @rockgsxr
      @rockgsxr 2 года назад

      @@pathduck i reckon your types are selectively inclusive, you won't give any time to anyone who doesn;t share your visions which doesn't make you inclusive at all ,that's why the left will eat itself

  • @jgdooley2003
    @jgdooley2003 2 года назад +2

    The real power of music and ballads is that it sparks off inquiry and enables people to read up on issues and events mentioned in songs. This is a powerful way of passing on a nations or a movements ideals and objectives. This is something that the Irish Republican movement, despite all its detractors, knows only too well.
    One has only to see the money spent by corporate advertisers and military formations to realise the sheer power of music to elicit passion and call to action in people.

  • @theboywithathorninhisside.4179
    @theboywithathorninhisside.4179 3 года назад +5

    I mean we all do our personal protests. Myself l, wrongly continued to call up the American Embassy on my private mobile line. Possibly Intoxicated. And.. Almost got Shot via SO19. It's the little things.

  • @douglasparkinson4123
    @douglasparkinson4123 3 года назад +5

    respect for changing which side are you on boys to which side are you on to #represent the female riot police officers and corrupt politicians.

  • @fatsoulcrew
    @fatsoulcrew 3 года назад +5

    Great video, excellent stuff

  • @davidgriffin3477
    @davidgriffin3477 Год назад

    That was Great, I saw you in the states well because that's the only place I've ever been other than Canada, Which worked out for me that time had I been off galavanting around the World I would have missed him when he came by. It really is the best system for catching live music. to have the band or artist do the traveling around and we just sit on our asses and fuss about how long it took to get to us. I'm actually very impressed with Your personal music. I only learned about you from Mermaid Ave. Which you were great on and I actually meant to get some of your music as I usually do. But I really think you up there with so many greats.

  • @davidthomas450
    @davidthomas450 Год назад +1

    Top man billy 🙏🙏🙏

  • @murdiekennedysongs9192
    @murdiekennedysongs9192 Год назад +1

    LA LUTA CONTINUA!!

  • @deansopp7560
    @deansopp7560 3 года назад +3

    Brilliant

  • @billhdowne2382
    @billhdowne2382 3 года назад +2

    Where’s Bob? Crickets. Sad.
    But Thank you, Bill.

  • @infoscholar5221
    @infoscholar5221 10 месяцев назад

    Closest thing to Woodie we have out there.

    • @MichaelHoare-bh5pg
      @MichaelHoare-bh5pg 6 месяцев назад

      Billy Bragg's music is obviously influenced by both Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie and he is the only protest singer around at the present moment.

  • @esp522
    @esp522 2 года назад +1

    I love those looks from behind

  • @damienholden2132
    @damienholden2132 5 месяцев назад

    Up the minners❤

  • @mwspireite5713
    @mwspireite5713 2 месяца назад

    I wonder if he’ll be updating any of his songs to compliment todays government

  • @1davidcampbell
    @1davidcampbell 5 лет назад +4

    👏

  • @ade1963
    @ade1963 3 года назад +4

    which side are you on [boys]?

    • @douglasparkinson4123
      @douglasparkinson4123 3 года назад

      hes removed it because the police force is now gender mixed.

  • @jamesbashford1693
    @jamesbashford1693 3 года назад +4

    Sad this only has so few views

  • @malcolmjamieson658
    @malcolmjamieson658 3 года назад +1

    thanks i needed that

  • @acoustically9201
    @acoustically9201 2 года назад +2

    After 40 yrs still peddling the notion that activism occurs at the ballot box. ...hope you can all see how ridiculous this looks after the last 2.5 yrs. No doubt he's still at it. The penalty for the big house out in the country is that one's work for the establishment is never done.

  • @mfpendle
    @mfpendle 2 года назад

    The best!

  • @damienholden2132
    @damienholden2132 5 месяцев назад

    U get wate u get with Trump

  • @ariakiss
    @ariakiss Год назад

    Good on ya Billy. Pity guitar went out of tune. Good man yourself.

  • @alessiobolmidaoliveri6938
    @alessiobolmidaoliveri6938 2 года назад

    Do you sing something against Putin now!?

  • @jamessawyer3830
    @jamessawyer3830 7 месяцев назад

    Little England is what we should be if we hadn't become an Islamic country our lives we be so much better. So as much as i like BB's music he's wrong

  • @midjehunt7424
    @midjehunt7424 2 года назад

    I think you need to see the lifestyle Billy preaches, and the lifestyle he leads.

    • @curmudgeon1933
      @curmudgeon1933 2 года назад +1

      Where is the conflict? Or are you a spokesman for the ruling class?

  • @damienholden2132
    @damienholden2132 5 месяцев назад

    Palestine

  • @JS-tm1gq
    @JS-tm1gq 2 месяца назад

    Never heard a more out of tune guitar than in Power In A Union here

  • @damienholden2132
    @damienholden2132 5 месяцев назад

    1981 sands

  • @FattyMateo
    @FattyMateo 3 года назад +2

    Damn so sad that geet was so out of tune towards the end

  • @concordmilitia3471
    @concordmilitia3471 3 года назад +1

    Billy Bragg. Real Estate mogul. Sold his beachfront mansion for a two million pound profit.

    • @willwoodward9542
      @willwoodward9542 3 года назад +5

      And your point is?

    • @complications.
      @complications. 3 года назад +4

      The man is allowed to be successful
      What's your point?
      It doesn't make him any less of a man of the people.

  • @dcweber1
    @dcweber1 3 года назад +3

    Billy truly irrelevant in 2021

  • @SeanD808
    @SeanD808 4 года назад +2

    Billy should get a job :)

  • @fuzzy1237
    @fuzzy1237 3 года назад +1

    Do you support medical apartheid billy?

  • @lloydjames1787
    @lloydjames1787 3 года назад +3

    Awful stuff. This politics is less popular than ever.

    • @winnywin
      @winnywin 2 года назад

      Yet here you were - watching this video and commenting! Sad Twat.

    • @lloydjames1787
      @lloydjames1787 2 года назад

      @@winnywin not wrong though am I?

    • @winnywin
      @winnywin 2 года назад +1

      @@lloydjames1787 Capitalism is at an all time low. So you are completely wrong. Marx was right.

    • @lloydjames1787
      @lloydjames1787 2 года назад

      @@winnywin 😂😂👍

  • @johnnyconnelly7278
    @johnnyconnelly7278 Год назад

    Well there's a shock!! .. Billy Bragg at a strike! Something I thought I'd never see.