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Just 26-years old, singer-songwriter Grace Petrie has played the Leftfield stage at Glastonbury, sung on BBC Radio 4 and toured with the comedian Josie Long.
With the same kind of tough, impassioned eloquence as Billy Bragg, some would argue that she captures the spirit of struggle against Cameron's "broken Britain" better than anyone else and she's been called a "young folk rabble rouser" in the press.
But the Sheffield-based Petrie explains to me before the launch gig of her new album Love Is My Rebellions that she didn't start out as a political songwriter. "The change in government politicised me," she says about the formation of the Con-Dem coalition in 2010.
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