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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    For the first time on CD, we release the eponymous debut from Billie Bottle's Temple of Shibboleth alongside The Mending Tour, live from Wiltshire Music Centre.

    Comes in a 6-panel digisleeve with 28-page booklet plus audio/video download. Upon release, you will also receive a separate email with a download code for the digital audio of the eponymous debut album.

    First 50 copies sold include a copy of the original Mending Tour programme with notes by Billie Bottle.

    Includes unlimited streaming of The Mending Tour via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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The Mending (Bottle/Darke)

Here comes another chapter
It’s kind of Homespun but we don’t care
Witness how all is broken
Another rerun so let’s repair

<A thread is found>

Here’s where Valborga appears
When something needs Mending
She pricks up her ears
Perching until she can climb
And so we are taking a thread at a time

<A thread is cast>

Culture
Is not a mirror
It is a hammer
With which to shape

<Hammer time>

How do the other half live?
There’s one side that takes if the other will give
There are two sides to a hem
So let us inhabit the us and the them

<Incantation of Mercurial Mending>

To what do we say yes and to whom?
Inheritance by sword or by loom?
Discovering that we must accept
What will not be Mended?
When will be Mended?
How can we be Mended?

Homespun
Without our bodies
In supernature
We will repair

<There goes another chapter...>

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from The Mending Tour, released August 11, 2023

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Billie Bottle Devon, UK

Welcome to the world of Billie Bottle, singer, multi-instrumentalist, composer and band leader.

"vigorous and unequivocally hip" - All About Jazz

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