Singer and activist Billy Bragg has posted a video for Pass It On, a track from his new album The Million Things That Never Happened, out on October 8th via Cooking Vinyl.
Bragg explains: "I read somewhere that the second most googled thing after pornography is ancestry. People want to know where they come from, why they were born, where they were born. You can get facts from the web, but details are priceless and can often only be learned orally from relatives. Yet too many of us rue the fact that we are left to piece together family stories from fragments we recall because we never asked our elders those questions".
A special online concert will be broadcasted on September 9th. He will be joined on stage by the musicians who play on the new album: Romeo Stodart (guitar), Michele Stodart (bass), Darren Beckett (drums), Nick Pynn (lap steel guitar, violin) and Jack Valero (guitar). The proceeds will be donated to the Music Venue Trust, an organisation that set up to save grass roots venues in the UK.
Live dates:- 10/21 Gateshead, UK @ Sage Gateshead
- 10/22 Dundee, UK @ Fat Sam's
- 10/23 Glasgow – Barrowland Ballroom
- 10/26 Liverpool, UK @ Philharmonic Hall
- 10/27 Oxford, UK @ New Theatre
- 10/28 Birmingham, UK @ Symphony Hall
- 10/30 Cardiff, UK @ St David’s Hall
- 10/31 Southampton, UK @ 02 Guildhall
- 11/02 Belfast, Northern Ireland @ Ulster Hall
- 11/04 Dublin, Ireland @ Vicar Street
- 11/06 Galway, Ireland @ Black Box Theatre
- 11/10 Reading, UK @ Hexagon
- 11/11 Exeter, UK @ University Great Hall
- 11/12 Bristol, UK @ 02 Academy
- 11/16 Guildford, UK @ G Live
- 11/18 Cambridge, UK @ Corn Exchange
- 11/19 Nottingham, UK @ Rock City
- 11/20 Manchester, UK @ Albert Hall
- 11/21 Sheffield, UK @ City Hall
- 11/23 Brighton, UK @ Dome
- 11/25 Southend-on-Sea, UK @ Cliffs Pavilion
- 11/26 Folkestone, UK @ Leas Cliff Hall
- 11/27 London, UK @ Roundhouse
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