Bonus: Jamie Cullum and Billy Bragg (Live)

Sodajerker On Songwriting

Sodajerker

Music, Music Interviews

4.8 • 912 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

At Anti Social Camp in November 2025, we recorded two special live conversations with music greats Jamie Cullum and Billy Bragg. It's a rare chance to hear a pair of brilliant and very different songwriters reflect on their craft in front of an audience of songwriters and musicians.

Jamie talks about working with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the creative discipline of working to a brief, and how collaboration can unlock ideas you would never find alone. Billy shares his belief in songwriting as a way of building connection and empathy, drawing on a career shaped by honesty, community, and lived experience.

Together, these conversations offer a warm, generous look at how songs are made, why voice matters, and how music continues to bring people together.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back, everyone.
0:22.6	Our next antisocial icon is an Ivan Novella winning singer, songwriter, piano player,
0:27.6	award-winning radio presenter, and one of the most successful UK jazz artists of all time.
0:32.0	Not to mention a former guest on our show.
0:34.3	Perhaps his highest honour.
0:35.8	We met with him back in 2019.
0:38.3	Correct, yeah.
0:39.3	One of our only interviewees to serve us tea and biscuits.
0:42.3	Quality biscuits too.
0:43.3	None of the Tesco Garibaldi's from this guy.
0:46.3	Yeah.
0:47.3	High end for sure.
0:48.3	Since his breakthrough, a little over two decades ago with his 20-something LP, he sold over 10 million records,
0:53.3	become a staple of British
0:55.0	broadcasting via his long-running jazz show on BBC Radio 2, and collaborated with the likes
0:59.3	of Pharrell Williams, Ferro Sanders, Lang Lang, Jacob Collier and even Clint Eastwood.
1:04.7	Well, these two punks feel very lucky to welcome the brilliant Jamie Cullum.
1:18.2	Thank you so much, everybody.
1:19.8	It's a real pleasure to be here.
1:21.6	So we last saw you around the release of Tola,
1:24.9	which we loved, we absolutely loved that record.
1:27.8	And we know since then, and quite recently you've been writing music for the theatre.
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