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| Headline | Simon attends Billy Bragg concert at BBC 26th Oct? |
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JohnC
Nov-16-2006, 23:02 GMT
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United Kingdom
 | I´m a Billy Bragg fan so I´m rather pleased to read this entry in the Billy Bragg forum at http://www.billybragg.co.uk
Just back from the Roundhouse!
Got the call on Sunday to say I`d got two tickets but when the e-mail came through i was a bit disappointed as it said he was only doing an hour and that was with Seth Lakeman as well. Seemed a long way to drag all the way up to the roundhouse for (i live in SW london)
BUT...
All I can say is Wow!
There were only about 100 people there in a room just about big enough and about a third of those were invited guests, so no wonder hardly anyone got tickets. Paul Simon was in the front row (Stuart Maconie in the back row)
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JohnC
Nov-16-2006, 23:13 GMT
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United Kingdom
| Just found this further comment:
He certainly seemed to sit transfixed throughout the gig and smiled at a lot of the anti bush content.
Well..was it Paul? Would he have been in London on the 26th Oct - just two days after his Tower Theatre concert in the US? |
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johnboy
Nov-17-2006, 01:53 GMT
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United Kingdom
| Hi, i was at the bbc concert earlier in the year by winning one of the radio 2 tickets and sitting alone watching at the back of the hall was billy bragg , they must be friends |
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Han Roffelsen
Nov-17-2006, 15:54 GMT
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Netherlands
 | Billy Bragg copied one of Paul´s famous lines: "I was 21 years when I wrote this song, I´m 22 now but I won´t be for long" (Leaves That Are Green) in ´New England´.
Did Bragg play that song?
Han Roffelsen
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Simon Dooker
Nov-17-2006, 17:23 GMT
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United Kingdom
| Whether they are friends i do not know ,but if Billy Braggs recent memoir on the meaning of Englishness is anything to go by, he is a profound admirer of Paul Simon. There is a whole chapter on PS in the book.
Curiously it was S+G who unlocked Braggs English sensibility, when he first heard them sing "Scarborough Fair"....."these two Jewish boys from New York taught me how to be English". Hailing from Barking in Essex, he goes on to muse About Kathy Chitty who came from nearby Hornchurch. Borrowing the lines from "Leaves That Are Green" was a form of homage to PS.
I am now going to find my dancing shoes. |
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