THE PERFORMER I'VE SEEN PLAY LIVE MORE THAN ANYONE ELSE

I've lost count how many times since way back when Billy Bragg played on a bill at the Edinburgh Fringe on a bill with at least three others, one of whom was Craig Charles - then a punk-poet in a sort of John Cooper Clarke mould, but later to find fame in the TV series Red Dwarf.In Glasgow alone, I've caught him at about 10 or 12 different venues. and probably the same again in Edinburgh if you count the times I've been at a 'leftie' fundraising show during the Festival and Fringe that he's bee...

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