Billy Bragg / Tavastia, Helsinki, Finland Nov. 26, 1987

Billy Bragg
Tavastia klubi
Helsinki, Finland
November 26, 1987

FM broadcast, unknown station

01 Billy Bragg - Station ID, The Milkman of Human Kindness
02 Billy Bragg - The Warmest Room
03 Billy Bragg - talk
04 Billy Bragg - Love Gets Dangerous
05 Billy Bragg - talk
06 Billy Bragg - Think Again
07 Billy Bragg - Help Save The Youth Of America
08 Billy Bragg - talk
09 Billy Bragg - Levi Stubb's Tears
10 Billy Bragg - Billy Bragg Station ID, Radio City
11 Theme Music - Street Beat
12 Billy Bragg - talk
13 Billy Bragg - Valentine's Day Is Over
14 Billy Bragg - talk
15 Billy Bragg - Greetings To The New Brunette
16 Billy Bragg - talk
17 Billy Bragg - The Saturday Boy
18 Billy Bragg - talk
19 Billy Bragg - Between The Wars
20 Billy Bragg - Encore applause
21 Billy Bragg - talk
22 Billy Bragg - A New England

Another tape that I received in trade back in the late 80s/early 1990s.

Generation is unknown.  There's bit of hiss but it's not too bad.

Mr. Bragg is in a chatty mood, offering his opinions on a wide range of topics.  At the start, he says he's got a bad accent and sore throat, "so I won't talk much, I'll dance more."  And the final tally is...25 minutes of this is "talk." 

I was unable to find any coverage telling me what Bragg was up to, but from his comments, it sounds like he was stopping in Finland for a concert, while on his way to play a show in the U.S.S.R.

The Tavastia Club is still open and booking rock acts, too.

UPDATED with corrected song titles supplied by our pal, HONEST ED, as of Friday, February 7, 2025

Thanks, Honest Ed!  We APPRECIATE you taking the time to point out the errors!

https://mega.nz/file/XdJX3IQT#AUoOW1R6n0jBXWlKU8Qm8tmAvFFTUkf05XEHZ5r3Y-o

Kirsty MacColl / BBC - June 26, 1991

Kirsty Macoll with Billy Bragg
BBC
June 26, 1991

01 Nicky Campbell - Intro
02 Kirsty MacColl - They Don't Know About Us (studio)
03 Nicky Campbell - Interview
04 Kirsty MacColl - There's A Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis
05 Nicky Campbell - Interview
06 Kirsty MacColl - Walk Right Back
07 Nicky Campbell - Interview
08 Kirsty MacColl - Darling Lets Have Another Baby
09 Nicky Campbell - Interview
10 Clash - snippet of Clash song
11 Nicky Campbell - Interview
12 Kirsty MacColl - A New England
13 Nicky Campbell - Outro

The band:
Kirsty MacColl
Phillip Rambow
Robert David "Lu" Edmonds
Billy Bragg
Guy Pratt

Tracks 4, 6, 8 and 12 were released on What Do Pretty Girls Do (1998, on Hux Records).  It's out of print but copies are available on Ebay; the shipping will cost you more than the CD. Presumably the CD sound is better than my old cassette, but here get you the INTERVIEW, too.  

The interview is fun; they're all clearly having a great time.

Do I have to tell you?  It's flac files of wavs, digitized from one o' my old cassettes I got in trade when we used to send this stuff in padded packages via international mail.

https://mega.nz/file/2YA0wbbS#1uqhE-x-nYXKosGdP1wWWsYW-DLXgCcTnTyyBNUx2Vw

Billy Bragg / BBC Radio One - October 27, 1984

Billy Bragg
BBC Radio One
October 27, 1984
with the Hank Wangford Band, and Wiggy

01 Billy Bragg - BBC Intro
02 Billy Bragg - The Busy Girl Buys Beauty
03 Billy Bragg - From A Vauxhall Velox
04 Billy Bragg - It Says Here
05 Billy Bragg - The Island of No Return
06 Billy Bragg - A Lover Sings
07 Billy Bragg - Bill talks about Subbuteo
08 Billy Bragg - Which Side Are You On
09 Billy Bragg - Between The Wars
10 Billy Bragg - A New England
11 Billy Bragg - Intro to A-13, Trunk Road To The Sea
12 Billy Bragg - A-13, Trunk Road To The Sea
13 Billy Bragg - BBC Outro

This is a tape I received in trade back in the 1980s.  Back then...before the release on LP of BBC sessions, before the internet...tracking this stuff down required typing lists of tapes for trade, paying for international postage, and mailing them off to addresses in England or Japan that were posted in the classified ads in the back of Goldmine.  You hoped they'd find something of interest on your list.  Communication took weeks, so you couldn't take the time to say "tell me about that Billy Bragg show, what's on it and how's it sound?"  The whole thing was a shot in the dark.

This one was pretty good.  A bit hissy, so it's not from a master, but it's close.  It's a fun show, with my favorite being Bragg's rewriting "Route 66" for an English road. Some of it was baffling: what the heck was Subbuteo?

https://mega.nz/file/mcAkwTrS#S2Yb8IwYnjcMoNBm1CDhAJs6a806918kF5DiSb71oP8

Billy Bragg - Live At The Ritz 9-15-1990

 *THANKS TO THE ORIGINAL POSTER

This is a radio broadcast it sounds GREAT. We really need Mr. Bragg now. No covers

                                                                         Songs

                                                                         1.The Milkman Of Human Kindness

                                                                         2. Like Soldiers Do

                                                                         3. Banter

                                                                         4. Little Time Bomb

                                                                         5. St. Swithin's Day

                                                                         6. Levi Stubbs Tears

                                                                         7. Banter

                                                                         8. Marching Song Of The Covert Battalions

                                                                         9. Tank Part Salute

                                                                        10. Banter

                                                                        11. Everywhere

                                                                        12. The World Turned Upside Down

                                                                        13. The Saturday Boy

                                                                        14. There Is Power In The Union

                                                                        15. Intro/Enter Wiggy

                                                                        16. North Sea Bubble

                                                                        17. Banter

                                                                        18. Island Of No Return

                                                                        19. Help Save The Youth Of America

                                                                        20. Greetings To The New Brunette

                                                                        21. A New England

                                                                        22. Banter

                                                                        23. Trust

                                                                        24. Accident Waiting to Happen

                                                                        25. Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards

                                                                        26. Intro Of Guests

                                                                        27.  Dallas

                                                                        28. Hello In There

THEY'RE PLAYING IN THE SUN HAVING FUN FUN FUN TILL DADDY TAKES THE GUNS AWAY

                   YOU'RE MY REASON FOR GETTING OUT OF BED BEFORE NOON

Billy Bragg - Rudolstadt, GER, July 5, 2008

Billy Bragg
Innenhof der Heidexburg

Rudolstadt, Germany
July 5, 2008

FM Broadcast

01 The World Turned Upside Down
02 Greetings To The New Brunette (Shirley)
03 Farm Boy
04 To Have And To Have Not
05 Sexuality
06 -talking-
07 Ingrid Bergman
08 Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key
09 I Ain't Got No Home
10 O Freedom
11 I Almost Killed You
12 Accident Waiting To Happen
13 I Keep Faith
14 There Is Power In A Union

192kbps/mp3
http://rapidshare.com/files/384970896/bbger.rar

Billy Bragg - Penn's Landing, Philadelphia, PA, July 19, 1992

Billy Bragg
(with Cara and Wiggy)
Penn's Landing
Philadelphia PA
July 18, 1992

Soundboard

01.  "soundcheck"/Osibisa cover
02.  The World turned Upside Down (1 dropout)
03.  The Milkman of Human Kindness
04.  The Myth of Trust
05.  The Wallpaper Story
06.  The Saturday Boy
07.  Woody Guthrie talk
08.  Pretty Boy Floyd
09.  Dolphins
10.  The Price I Pay
11.  Intro to....
12.  The Marching Song of Covert Batallions
13.  Levi Stubbs' Tears

01.  Must I Paint You a Picture
02.  Intro to....

03.  Accident Waiting To Happen
04.  Cindy of a Thousand Lives
05.  Onstage Chaos/Intro to....

06.  Waiting For the Great Leap Forwards
07.  Definition of 'Socialism'
08.  The Internationale
09.  Tank Park Salute
10.  Medley:  People Get Ready/
            Tupelo Honey/ Girl From the North Country/
             Let's Get It On

192kbps
http://rapidshare.com/files/378283019/bilebrag.rar