BILLIE BOTTLE'S TEMPLE OF SHIBBOLETH: THE MENDING TOUR

While I am Billie Bottled-out after listening to three of her cds over this past week I have come away a fan much like Robert Wyatt, Richard Sinclair and other Canterbury alumni who praise Billie Bottle. The music for "The Mending Tour" is taken from "Temple Of Shibboleth" album both 2023 releases. In fact they ran 50 copies with both "Temple Of Shibboleth" and "The Mending Tour" in the same package and I own one of those.

The live version is played out like your listening to the studio album from track one to twelve and in the same order. I like the picture near the back of the liner notes of this live event. A small setting with these five ladies doing their thing. It was performed at Wiltshire Music Centre on April 28, 2023. And while they follow the album track by track this is 13 minutes longer as we get some banter and intros along with some extended bits.

I still feel the studio album "Temple Of Shibboleth" is the best of the three I own but this one helped unlock it so this is special and different. I like some aspects of it more but miss the distorted organ not that there was a lot of that anyways. Again such a talented band in so many ways. Bassoon is all over this.