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Billy Bragg

Billy Bragg is a person from the UK, active since 1957.

Person GB since 1957 alternative rock folk british
TOTAL PLAYS
1,686
SONGS PLAYED
234
STATIONS
3
FIRST PLAYED
2005-02-16 13:49 · 6 Music — "Accident Waiting To Happen"
LAST PLAYED
1 month ago · 6 Music — "A New England"
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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2005 — 2026
200 150 100 50 0
'05 '08 '11 '14 '17 '20 '23 '26
◦ WHERE

By station

6 Music 1,487 88%
Radio 2 191 11%
Radio 1 8 0%
1Xtra 0 0%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 02:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 A New England 263 2026-07-31
2 Sexuality 173 2025-06-04
3 Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards 122 2025-07-29
4 You Woke Up My Neighbourhood 106 2022-06-27
5 Greetings To The New Brunette 85 2011-11-02
6 Greetings to the New Brunette 69 2025-01-06
7 Accident Waiting To Happen 50 2025-06-12
8 Levi Stubbs' Tears 46 2016-09-04
9 The Milkman Of Human Kindness 43 2026-05-09
10 Levi Stubb's Tears 28 2025-06-28
11 Between The Wars 28 2023-08-20
12 Tank Park Salute 26 2025-03-31
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-07-31 01:00 A New England 6 Music
2026-05-09 23:16 The Milkman Of Human Kindness Radio 2
2025-11-21 13:15 A New England 6 Music
2025-10-17 13:13 A New England 6 Music
2025-09-17 20:32 Walk Away Renee (Version) 6 Music
2025-08-22 04:51 A New England 6 Music
2025-07-29 18:55 Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards Radio 2
2025-07-27 00:09 'A New England (Version Blend) Radio 1
2025-06-28 19:38 Won't talk about it Radio 2
2025-06-28 19:35 Levi Stubb's Tears Radio 2
2025-06-25 20:50 Love Gets Dangerous (BBC Session, 27 Jul 1983) 6 Music
2025-06-24 20:52 This Guitar Says Sorry (BBC Session, 27 Jul 1983) 6 Music
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

234 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
▶
'A New England (Version Blend) — 1 ▶
A Lover Sings — 2 ▶
A Lover SIngs - Dublin Castle, Camden Crawl 2009 — 6 ▶
A Lover Sings - Glastonbury 1995 — 2 ▶
A Lover Sings 1995 — 2 ▶
A New England — 263 ▶
A New England (6 Music Live Recording, Camden Crawl, 2009) — 7 ▶
A New England (live at the Union Chapel) — 1 ▶
A New England - BBC Session 27/07/83 — 3 ▶
A New England - Dublin Castle, Camden Crawl 2009 — 3 ▶
A New England - Live From The Camden Crawl 2009 — 2 ▶
A New England BBC session 27/07/83 — 1 ▶
A13 — 1 ▶
A13 - BBC Session 27/07/1983 — 12 ▶
A13 Trunk Road to the Sea — 5 ▶
A13 Trunk Road to the Sea - Radio 2 session 23/11/2011 — 2 ▶
A13, Trunk Road To the Sea — 7 ▶
A13, Trunk Road To The Sea (Cambridge Folk Festival 1988) — 1 ▶
A13, Trunk Road To The Sea (CH 100 Club) — 1 ▶
A13, Trunk Road To The Sea (Live at 6 Music - 14/6/19) — 1 ▶
Accident Waiting To Happen — 50 ▶
Accident Waiting To Happen (Radio 1 Session, 12 May 1991) — 3 ▶
Accident Waiting To Happen - BBC Session 12/05/1991 — 1 ▶
Accident Waiting To Happen - Town And Country Club 1991 — 2 ▶
Accident Waiting To Happen 1991 — 7 ▶
Between The Wars — 28 ▶
Between The Wars (Live at 6 Music 14/6/19) — 1 ▶
Between The Wars - BBC Session 18/09/1984 — 5 ▶
Blake's Jerusalem — 9 ▶
Body Of Water - Town And Country Club 1991 — 2 ▶
Body Of Water 1991 — 1 ▶
Boy Done Good — 1 ▶
Brickbat — 1 ▶
Can't Be There Today — 1 ▶
Christmas with The Hun — 2 ▶
Cindy of a Thousand Lives — 2 ▶
Cindy Of A Thousand Lives - Town And Country Club 1991 — 2 ▶
Cindy Of A Thousand Lives 1991 — 1 ▶
Dolphins - Glastonbury 1995 — 4 ▶
Dolphins - Town And Country Club 1991 — 2 ▶
Dolphins 1991 — 7 ▶
England Half English - Dublin Castle, Camden Crawl 2009 — 4 ▶
Farm Boy — 1 ▶
Fear Is a Man's Best Friend (BBC Session, 27 Jul 1983) — 2 ▶
Fear Is A Man's Best Friend - BBC Session 27/07/83 — 1 ▶
Fear Is Man's Best Friend - BBC Session 27/07/1983 — 7 ▶
Few (Radio 1 Session, 12 May 1991) — 2 ▶
Few - BBC Session 12/05/1991 — 1 ▶
Freedom Doesn't Come for Free — 2 ▶
From A Vauxhall Velox — 2 ▶
God's Footballer — 3 ▶
God's Footballer (Glastonbury 1995) — 1 ▶
God's Footballer - Glastonbury 1995 — 3 ▶
Good Days & Bad Days — 1 ▶
Goodbye, Goodbye — 1 ▶
Greetings to the New Brunette — 69 ▶
Greetings To The New Brunette — 85 ▶
Greetings To The New Brunette (6 Music Session, 13 Dec 2019) — 2 ▶
Greetings To The New Brunette (BBC session) — 3 ▶
Greetings To The New Brunette - Dublin Castle, Camden Crawl 2009 — 8 ▶
Handyman Blues — 10 ▶
Handyman Blues (6 Music Session, 13 Dec 19) — 2 ▶
Handyman Blues (Radio 2 Folk Awards, 22 Apr 2015) — 1 ▶
Handyman Blues - Glastonbury - 29/06/2013 — 1 ▶
Handyman Blues - Radio 2 Session - 22/09/2013 — 1 ▶
Handyman Blues Live from Latitude 2014 — 1 ▶
Heatherns All - Glastonbury 1995 — 2 ▶
Help Save the Youth of America — 2 ▶
Honey I'm a Big Boy Now (Glastonbury 1995) — 1 ▶
Honey I'm A Big Boy Now - Glastonbury 1995 — 2 ▶
Honey, I'm A Big Boy Now (Live at 6 Music - 14/6/19) — 1 ▶
I Ain't Got No Home In This World Anymore - Dublin Castle, Camden Crawl 2009 — 4 ▶
I Almost Killed You — 1 ▶
I Almost Killed You - Dublin Castle, Camden Crawl 2009 — 3 ▶
I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night — 2 ▶
I Keep Faith — 6 ▶
I Keep Faith (6 Music Session, 13 Dec 2019) — 2 ▶
I Keep Faith (Manchester International Festival, 29 Jun 2017) — 1 ▶
I Will Be Your Shield — 1 ▶
Iceberg — 1 ▶
Iceberg Song — 1 ▶
Ideology — 1 ▶
If You Ever Leave — 1 ▶
Ingrid Bergman — 2 ▶
Ingrid Bergman (Live at 6 Music - 14/6/19) — 1 ▶
Island Of No Return — 2 ▶
It Says Here — 3 ▶
January Song — 2 ▶
Jeane — 1 ▶
Jerusalem — 1 ▶
Joe Hill — 1 ▶
Levi Stubb's Tears — 28 ▶
Levi Stubb's Tears - Dublin Castle, Camden Crawl 2009 — 6 ▶
Levi Stubb's Tears - Town And Country Club 1991 — 2 ▶
Levi Stubb's Tears 1991 — 7 ▶
Levi Stubbs Tears - Live From The Camden Crawl 2009 — 1 ▶
Levi Stubbs' Tears — 46 ▶
Life With The Lions (Radio 1 Session, 12 May 1991) — 1 ▶
Life With The Lions - BBC Session 12/05/1991 — 1 ▶
Little Time Bomb — 3 ▶
Lonesome Ocean — 1 ▶
Love Gets Dangerous (BBC Session, 27 Jul 1983) — 6 ▶
Love Gets Dangerous - BBC Session 27/07/1983 — 6 ▶
Love Gets Dangerous - BBC Session 27/07/83 — 3 ▶
Lover's Town - BBC Session 21/02/1984 — 4 ▶
Lover's Town Revisited — 1 ▶
Lovers Town (BBC Session, 21 Feb 1984) — 4 ▶
Lovers Town Revisited — 12 ▶
M For Me - 6Music Session 20/04/2008 — 2 ▶
Marching - Town And Country Club 1991 — 2 ▶
Marching 1991 — 3 ▶
Midnight Special (Manchester International Festival, 29 Jun 2017) — 1 ▶
Milk Of Human Kindness Glastonbury 1997 — 1 ▶
Milk Of Human Kindness - Glastonbury 1997 — 1 ▶
Milkman Of Human Kindess - Dublin Castle, Camden Crawl 2009 — 6 ▶
Milkman Of Human Kindness — 1 ▶
Milkman Of Human Kindness - Live From The Camden Crawl 2009 — 1 ▶
Milkman of Human Knidness — 1 ▶
Mother Of The Bride — 3 ▶
Moving The Goalposts — 2 ▶
Must I Paint You A Picture — 3 ▶
MUST I PAINT YOU A PICTURE — 5 ▶
Must I Paint You A Picture (Radio 2 Session, 15th Sept 2016) — 2 ▶
Must I Paint You A Picture? — 2 ▶
Myth Of Trust - BBC Session 21/02/1984 — 2 ▶
N.P.W.A. (No Power Without Accountability) - Dublin Castle, Camden Crawl 2009 — 2 ▶
New England (6 Music Session, 13 Dec 2019) — 1 ▶
New England - Live At The Camden Crawl 2009 — 1 ▶
No One Knows Anymore — 1 ▶
No One Knows Nothing Anymore — 5 ▶
North Sea Bubble — 3 ▶
North Sea Bubble - Town And Country Club 1991 — 2 ▶
North Sea Bubble 1991 — 2 ▶
Northern Industrial Town — 1 ▶
Ode to Joy — 3 ▶
Old Clash Fan Fight Song — 1 ▶
Pass It On — 2 ▶
Passion — 1 ▶
Pict Song - Glastonbury 1995 — 1 ▶
Pretty Boy Floyd (Radio 2 Session, 05 Apr 2017) — 1 ▶
Reflections Of The Mirth Of Creativity — 1 ▶
Revolution — 1 ▶
Richard — 4 ▶
Saturday Boy 1995 — 1 ▶
Saturday Boy (Glastonbury 1995) — 1 ▶
Saturday Boy - Glastonbury 1986 — 3 ▶
Saturday Boy - Glastonbury 1995 — 3 ▶
Sexuality — 173 ▶
Sexuality (6 Music Session, 13 Dec 2019) — 2 ▶
Sexuality (Live At Camden Crawl 2009) — 2 ▶
Sexuality - Dublin Castle, Camden Crawl 2009 — 5 ▶
Sexuality - Glastonbury 1995 — 4 ▶
Sexuality - Live From The Camden Crawl 2009 — 1 ▶
Sexuality - Town And Country Club 1991 — 2 ▶
Sexuality 1991 — 6 ▶
She's Got A New Spell — 24 ▶
She's Got A New Spell - Town And Country Club 1991 — 2 ▶
She's Got A New Spell 1991 — 4 ▶
Shirley — 5 ▶
Something Happened — 1 ▶
St Swithin's Day — 5 ▶
St Swithin's Day (Live at 6 Music 14/16/19) — 1 ▶
St Swithin's Day - BBC Session 18/09/1984 — 1 ▶
St Swithin's Day - BBC Session 21/02/1984 — 9 ▶
St. Swithin's Day — 4 ▶
Strange Things Happen (BBC Session, 27 Jul 1983) — 4 ▶
Strange Things Happen - BBC Session 27/07/1983 — 7 ▶
Strange Things Happen - BBC Session 27/07/83 — 1 ▶
Sulk — 1 ▶
Tank Park Salute — 26 ▶
Tank Park Salute BBC Session 12/05/1991 — 1 ▶
Tank Park Salute (BBC Session, 12 May 1991) — 1 ▶
Tank Park Salute (Live at 6 Music - 14/6/19) — 1 ▶
Tank Park Salute (Radio 1 Session, 12 May 1991) — 1 ▶
Tank Park Salute - BBC Session 12/05/1991 — 8 ▶
Ten Mysterious Photos That Can't Be Explained — 10 ▶
That's Entertainment — 1 ▶
Thatcherites - Glastonbury 1995 — 1 ▶
The Beach Is Free — 2 ▶
The Boy Done Good — 10 ▶
The Busy Girl Buys Beauty — 6 ▶
The Few (Demo) — 1 ▶
The Few (Live Session - 12th May 1991) — 1 ▶
The Fourteenth of February — 5 ▶
The Fourteenth Of February — 1 ▶
The Internationale — 1 ▶
The Johnny Carcinogenic Show — 1 ▶
The Man in the Iron Mask — 4 ▶
The Man In The Iron Mask — 1 ▶
The Milkman Of Human Kindness — 43 ▶
The Only One — 1 ▶
The Passion — 3 ▶
The Price I Pay — 2 ▶
The Price I Pay - 6Music Session 20/04/2008 — 1 ▶
The Red Flag — 1 ▶
The Saturday Boy — 13 ▶
The Space Race Is Over — 5 ▶
The Times They Are A Changing - Glastonbury - 29/06/2013 — 1 ▶
The Warmest Room — 6 ▶
The World Turned Upside Down — 3 ▶
The World Turned Upside Down - Dublin Castle, Camden Crawl 2009 — 5 ▶
There Is Power in a Union — 2 ▶
This Guitar Says Sorry (BBC Session, 27 Jul 1983) — 6 ▶
This Guitar Says Sorry - BBC Session 27/07/1983 — 4 ▶
This Guitar Says Sorry - BBC Session 27/07/83 — 3 ▶
To Have And Have Not — 3 ▶
To Have and to Have Not — 10 ▶
To Have And To Have Not — 4 ▶
To Have and to Have Not (BBC Session, 21 Feb 1984) — 4 ▶
To Have And To Have Not - BBC Session 21/02/1984 — 1 ▶
To Have And To Have Not 1995 — 1 ▶
To Have and to Have Not (Glastonbury 1995) — 2 ▶
To Have And To Have Not - BBC Session 21/02/1984 — 5 ▶
To Have And To Have Not - Glastonbury 1995 — 4 ▶
Tomorrow's Going To Be a Better Day - Radio 2 session 04/12/2011 — 1 ▶
Valentine's Day Is Over — 8 ▶
Valentine's Day Is Over - Town And Country Club 1991 — 2 ▶
Valentine's Day Is Over 1991 — 6 ▶
Waiting For The Great Leap Forward - Electric Proms 2006 — 1 ▶
Waiting For The Great Leap Forward - Town And Country Club 1991 — 2 ▶
Waiting For The Great Leap Forward 1991 — 4 ▶
Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards — 122 ▶
Walk Away Renee — 12 ▶
Walk Away Renee (Version) — 3 ▶
Warmest Room - Town And Country Club 1991 — 2 ▶
Warmest Room 1991 — 1 ▶
We Build The Wall (Glastonbury 2015) — 1 ▶
Why Do We Build The Walls? (Glastonbury 2015) — 1 ▶
Won't talk about it — 1 ▶
World Turned Upside Down - Glastonbury 1995 — 4 ▶
World Turned Upside Down 1995 — 1 ▶
You Woke Up My Neighbourhood — 106 ▶
You Woke Up My Neighbourhood - Town And Country Club 1991 — 2 ▶
Your Name On My Tongue — 1 ▶