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What's OnSinger-songwriter Jake Bugg to return to Coventry to perform at HMV EmpireJake Bugg will be back in the city on September 11coventrytelegraphBookmarkShareCommentsWhat's OnByPriyanka
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Show MeNo thanks, closeSee ourPrivacy NoticeSinger-songwriter Jake Bugg will be returning to Coventry to perform this year. He will perform at HMV Empire on Thursday, September 11, as part of his 'Your Town' Tour.
Jake will return to the city after his sellout 2023 show at HMV Empire and will perform two sets, one acoustic and one electric. His first self-titled album reached number 1 in the UK album
charts in 2012 and has since had four top-selling albums.
Jake is now back with a rock-driven album 'A Modern Day Distraction', which was released in September 2024, a record that 'turns up the noise' while shining a light on
the injustices he's seen dealt with family and friends he grew up with, organisers say.
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His previous album 'Saturday Night, Sunday Morning' saw Jake looking to the dancefloor for 'escapism' but with his new album he added: "The last record was fun, but it
showed me more of what I should be doing, and that’s going back to the things I love and enjoy the most. I feel like I’m more in my element on this record."
His new album took inspiration from Green Day's 2004 pop-punk opus 'American Idiot' in how it magnified ordinary frustrations into the extraordinary: "It might have seemed
ridiculous when Billie Joe Armstrong wrote it, but he told the truth and people believed him,” recalls Bugg. "I watched that Milton Keynes live film Bullet in a Bible recently and I
realised: they were honest, showed humility, and it became massive for a reason."
Organisers added that the new album needs to be about 'purpose and togetherness'. Songs such as 'All That I Needed Was You' are about finding your centre when you're
spinning out of control, while 'Never Said Goodbye' looks back on a 'tough year' when Bugg lost two people very close to him.
Jake continued: "Whatever’s thrown at you, you’re going to have things you regret, you’re going to have demons following you around, you’ve just gotta run with it. You can’t let it hold you
back. There has to be something reborn, otherwise you’re just telling people what they know. You have to give people hope."
Tickets will go on sale on Friday, June 6 at 10am, with tickets available via the HMV Empire website.
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