Archive for October, 2006

13th October - On the road again

Sunday, October 15th, 2006 Posted in Road Blog | 2 Comments »

Arriving home on Monday afternoon, I had just enough time to kiss the missus, hug the boy, walk the dog and change my underwear before heading out on the road again. As I was whisked off to Birmingham to start ...

Episode 5: Brewing Up with political pop

Saturday, October 14th, 2006 Posted in Podcasts | 2 Comments »

Billy and Wiggy return from America to discover not glamour, but the grim battle of the Miners' Strike, and Billy is forced to think about his political ideals and articulate them in his writing and performing. RSS feed The songs on ...

Bush War Blues (updated)

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006 Posted in Free downloads | 1 Comment »

Billy has recorded a new version of Bush War Blues with updated lyrics. You are free to download the song, and play it on radio shows, provided writing and publishing are credited to Lead Belly. The song is based on Lead Belly's ...

8th/9th October - Flying Home

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006 Posted in Road Blog | 15 Comments »

Hit the ground running in Los Angeles – straight from the airport to the CBS TV studios to record a couple of songs on the Late Late Show hosted by Craig Ferguson which goes out at half past midnight on ...

3 October - Los Angeles

Friday, October 6th, 2006 Posted in Road Blog | 4 Comments »

Flying over the Hollywood Hills into Los Angeles, what better music to be listening to than that of local boys Little Feat? Lowell George’s classic road ballad Willin’ is playing on my headphones as we swoop low over a sprawling ...