| Main Performers | Billy Bragg - speaker, vocal, guitar |
| Performance Notes | As part of Summer of Love: Revisited, Classic Album Sundays Colleen Murphy and Billy Bragg will take to the Elgar Room stage to discuss the history, impact and legacy of skiffle, Britains first indigenous pop movement, and how it inspired the British artists who would later steer Sixties counter-culture.
Featured artists will include Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie, Lonnie Donegan, Ewan MacColl, Alan Lomax, Chas McDevitt and Peggy Seeger. Music from these revolutionary artists will be played on vinyl on the CAS audiophile hi-fi, featuring Audio Note UK and Klipschorns.
Billy Braggs most famous song claims he doesnt want to change the world and hes not looking for a new England, yet he has spent the past 35 years doing exactly that. Songwriter, activist, commentator, author he has taken every opportunity to put his ideas across to a wider audience.
His most recent book, Roots, Radicals and Rockers sets out to put 50s DIY roots music phenomenon skiffle into its proper cultural context, arguing that that it should be given the same respect as the punk rock that flourished in the same Soho clubs twenty years later. Billy will be signing copies, which will also be available to buy on the night, after the talk.
Classic Album Sundays is one of the most popular and respected music listening experiences, allowing music fans to get as close as possible to the artists original intent. Attendees hear the intriguing story behind an album or song that was a cultural milestone, before kicking back to listen to the record on a world-class audiophile hi-fi system. These immersive listening sessions are a transformative and inspirational shared experience, reminding people what they love about music.
Booksigning at the end.
The event was filmed by Classic Albums for their archive. |
| Related Archival Material | Handbill (RAHE/6/2017/14),
Digital Photographs |