Billy Bragg has been announced for R-Fest completing the line up. He will play as special guest of Squeeze on Sunday August 7th 2022. The event is an outdoor stage and a part of Rebellion Festival although tickets can be bought for just R-Fest as a stand alone. Billed as a festival within a festival day tickets will also be available.
Bragg said “”I haven’t played in Blackpool since the days when I was involved in a rebellion called the Miner’s Strike, so it will be great to be back there again as part of the Rebellion Festivals”
Billy Bragg enjoyed his only Number 1 hit single in May 1988, a cover of the Beatles’ ‘She’s Leaving Home’, a shared A-side with Wet Wet Wet’s ‘With a Little Help from My Friends’. Both were taken from a multi-artist re-recording of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band titled ‘Sgt. Pepper Knew My Father’ coordinated by the NME in aid of the charity Childline. Though never released as a Bragg single, album track and live favourite “A New England”, with an additional verse, became a Top 10 hit in the UK for Kirsty MacColl in January 1985. Since MacColl’s early death, Bragg always sings the extra verse live in her honour.
Billy will be sharing the Sunday stage with Squeeze, Tom Robinson Band, Hollie Cook, Buzzcocks, Altered Images and iDoris.
Ticket links:
R-FEST SUNDAY TICKETS HERE: https://rfest.keekmerch.com/
REBELLION TICKETS HERE: https://rebellion.keekmerch.com/