Kim and I saw Beth Orton at The Shepherds Bush Empire last night. She was a her goofy charming self as usual (sample between song banter: “What’s ET short for?...... because he’s got lil legs”.
A Much bigger band that I’d seen her playing with before (I guess due to air fare costs – most Australian tours were either solo or very stripped back). Interestingly she had Leroy Bach from Wilco playing in her touring band – but I didn’t recognise many of the other players.
The show was good – the band seemed like they had only learnt the new album – so they played pretty much all of that – and she did a few acoustic sections where she took requests and played hits like ‘Stolen Car’ and ‘Sweetest Decline’. The best thing was Ted Barnes (guitarist / co-songwriter for some of the early records) had his new band Cahill play support – but then he did a couple of songs with her during the main set as a duo. They did ‘Feel To Believe’ which was probably the highlight for me.
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