Billy Bragg touring Wales in 2009

Music News | Nov 24th, 2008

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Billy Bragg is continuing his extensive touring throughout 2009, in support of his latest album Mr Love and Justic. His website announced that he will be hitting up Wales in 2009.

Twenty five years on, Billy arrives in Wales on a special eight-date solo tour in June 2009 to remember the Miners Strike and its legacy on the communities across Wales. Tickets are going on sale this week.

Ex-punk, ex-soldier, and ex-member of the Labour Party, Billy rose from working class origins in the 1980s to become one of the UK s foremost pop and protest singers and left-wing icons. It was Margaret Thatcher who propelled the bard of Barking into action; Bragg s defining political moment came with the Miners Strike of 1984-5, when the Conservative government set out to lay waste to Britain s industrial heartlands, crippling communities and livelihoods in the process.

TOUR DATES JUNE 2009
Friday June 5 – BLAENAVON – Workmens Hall – 01239 621200
Saturday 6 – PORTHCAWL – Grand Pavilion – 01656 815995
Sunday 7 – CARDIGAN – Theatr Mwldan – 01239 621200
Tuesday 9 – PONTARDAWE – Arts Centre – 01792 863722
Wednesday 10 – BRECON – Theatr Brycheiniog – 01874 611622
Thursday 11 – CAERNARFON – Galeri – 01286 685222
Friday 12 – WREXHAM – William Aston Hall – 01978 316780
Sunday 14 – ABERYSTWYTH Arts Centre – 01970 623232
Monday 15 – BLACKWOOD – Miners Institute – 01495 227206

Also confirmed for 2009:
Billy Bragg at Big Session Festival – June 19-21
Specific date to be confirmed.

Plus you can catch Billy Bragg here:
24 November – Exeter, England – Lemon Grove *MOVED FROM GREAT HALL – STANDING ONLY*
25 November – Manchester, England – Bridgewater Hall
26 November – Ipswich, England – Corn Exchange *SOLD OUT*
28 November – St Albans, England – Arena
29 November – Hastings, England – White Rock Theatre
30 November – Southampton, England – Guildhall
03 December – Belfast, Northern Ireland – Empire Music Hall
04 December – Dublin, Ireland – Vicar Street
05 December – Cork, Ireland – Cyprus Avenue *SOLD OUT*
08 December – London, England – Shepherds Bush Empire