BRITISH TOUR '75

This archival live release captures Soft Machine at a curious time - specifically, it's after Allan Holdsworth departed the group and was replaced by John Etheridge, but whilst the group's setlist was still highly dependent on material from Bundles, an album that was largely built around Holdsworth's guitar work and the transformative effect it had on the group's sound. Naturally, this means Etheridge is in a really tight spot, being a newcomer to the group performing material he had no hand in composing but needing to fill Holdsworth's boots.

He does a more than credible job! Although the subsequent Softs and Alive and Well In Paris albums aren't exactly widely celebrated, you can see from material like this why the band considered it worth continuing to soldier on under these circumstances, though in the long run this era of the group would not be particularly fruitful.