NORMALLY when acts visit Reading for a gig they check in and check out, but Billy Bragg had an extra reason for being here.
The singer was playing at The Hexagon on Wednesday, November 10, as part of his latest tour.
The show celebrates his new album, The Million Things That Never Happened.
On his website, he says: “It was always my intention to record a new album in 2021.
“I’d planned to spend most of 2020 on the road, where I could crank out ideas for new songs in soundchecks and maybe even try a few in the live set.
“Things didn’t quite work out that way, of course.”
He says that the album isn’t about the pandemic per se, but some of the “highs and lows” inform it.
His visit to Reading was part of a tour that continues until the end of the month, before he travels to Australia and New Zealand next month.
The singer enjoyed his visit to Reading, praising the audience.
Before leaving the town, he popped into Reading’s Broad Street Mall where he got his covid booster jab.
“It was always my intention to record a new album in 2021,” he wrote on Facebook.
“I’d planned to spend most of 2020 on the road, where I could crank out ideas for new songs in soundchecks and maybe even try a few in the live set.
“Things didn’t quite work out that way, of course.”
