“It’s been a long time coming, these shows,” muses Billy Bragg on the opening night of Womadelaide. “Those tickets had 2020 printed on them.”
For three years the cyclical rescheduling and postponement of Bragg’s Australian tour has been my personal way of marking time in the pandemic era. Now he’s here, his Womadelaide show capping a week-long run in Adelaide, it’s hard not to feel like an epoch has ended.
